hi i'm josh
i'm ollie i'm rev chris and today we're
going to be taking a jolly little look
at blackpink's new music video
obviously big deal on blackpink release
a song yes and
this time bigger than any of the other
times on their premiere they had 1.66
million live viewers watching their
premiere of a new music video
first video to ever reach 100 million
views in 32 hours
what is that it's like angel
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nice colors
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that look like snow piercer for a second
so much going on this scene here
is that oils koreans just do music
videos on the next level
it's different crazy like hanbok now
modern hanbok yeah oh i want some modern
hamburgers
how you like that josh well chris that's
why you're here when i think of pop
music now i just think of
k-pop they're in their own league that's
crazy isn't it isn't it that is nice and
i feel like it feels quite new to me
that feels like the last
five years it's kind of like a thousand
music videos rolled into one as well
yeah
so much going on yeah you could play it
at 20th of the speed and it'd still be
quite interesting
they all seem like they're trapped
somewhat right somehow
yeah they're all kind of like looking up
at the sky
underground buried she's looking up
through her fingers
so that looks like a funeral scene okay
you know being buried
and putting flowers around you
representing life but also the fragility
of life
are they flipping it back onto the world
that is crushing them is that what this
is about
you've been looking at me i've been down
here but now
yeah flip reverse what about you yeah
look at me how do you like that how do
you like it
black pink all up in your grill check
yourself before you break yourself
okay oh that's good you've reckoned
you've wrecked yourself already check
yourself
and this is like a modern translation of
jesus saying
stop looking at the stick in my eye and
check out the plank in your own life
i see you sell five very good very good
all right
now they're in an ice oil field
wow yeah okay i'm lost now oh my gosh
there's so much
i don't know if we're doing this video
justice yeah there is
so much going on well it's funny you say
that chris i actually have a bit of a
surprise
for you this morning when i was
researching this i was like how the heck
are we going to do this video justice
there's so much going on yeah so i gave
your sister a call
oh you gave victoria a call
you guys don't know tori but she is a
classicist a lawyer
and i think it's fair to say a literal
genius she is she's very and she's very
she's probably the smartest person i
know
oh she'd go deep she would go deep
really i can't believe you talked to
victoria these are the notes from our
conversation
it's like a thesis oh my gosh it's a lot
she was like i need to get into k-pop
there's so much
music the opening scene is reminiscent
of the greek style theater with
a zeus x machina this is where a greek
god was lowered
from above the stage then characters
would pronounce the moral of the play
from it and look it is a state
greek style theaters i got the goddess
nike of others
why why do you just get taurian
it was too late noticed maybe next time
maybe next time
oh my gosh in this case the nike statue
would provide the moral that
victory however to tory it seems like
the video
conflates the imagery of nike of
samothrace with the furies
fuhrers with the female gods of
vengeance they're winged creatures that
sought revenge on men
aerys the goddess of strife is their
mistress
oh my gosh this does open up a bit more
yeah my days
all you need is a double first from
cambridge to understand
black pink's video in greek theater and
literature there's huge links between
weddings and deaths and bridges of hades
early on in the video there are
allusions to this there are obvious
symbolic and lyrical references to hell
in hades
but side by side with the ladies
surrounded by the flowers and one
character
falling back into a coffin of flowers
while in a wedding dress
this is possibly a reference to
persephone who is taken to hades when
she's picking flowers and brought
down to be his wife in hell the story is
that an agreement was reached that could
return to earth for six months of the
year where she brings
spring and summer with her there are
obvious references throughout the video
to the changing seasons
with the girls being trapped but dancing
their way through it my goodness
i like it they are changing this is
literally
like spring that explains the snow
piercer
a frozen world it gets crazier while
she's in hell with hades persephone is
the queen of hell
but ultimately her destiny isn't decided
by her she's trapped by an arrangement
made for her by others
it was persephone who was so moved by
orpheus's music
that she convinces hades to let office's
wife go back to the surface
perhaps blackpink are trying to do the
same thing through their music
to bring joy and freedom to others even
though so many things are outside of
their control
oh my gosh this makes so much sense
okay lisa is seen next to a bird and
then is later wearing a falconry glove
this alongside other imagery of wings
may be a reference to famer
zeus's winged messenger the roman
goddess of rumor fame and infamy
wow virgil describes her as being small
and fearful at first
then growing larger and stronger as
rumors aren't enough until she fills the
sky
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this is maybe stretching things a little
bit but it looks to me
like there are themes of spiders jenny's
dancers move their fingers around her
face
like spiders another thing i notice
afterwards there's four dancers
so eight arms arms okay okay their
costumes look like webs
and jesus sits on a chair that looks
like a giant spider
oh that's what that chair is if this is
deliberate
yeah or if uh an allusion to spiders
would be significant
ovid recounts how the talented mortal
arachne
challenged minerva goddess of wisdom and
crafts to a weaving contest
when minerva could find no flaws in the
tapestry or acne had woven for the
contest the goddess became enraged and
beat the girl with her shuttle
after arachne hanged herself out of
shame
she was transformed into a spider
wow that i mean
given everything that's happened in the
k-pop world in the last year
there's been a spate of suicides among
k-pop stars
uh largely owing to online bullying
and to unrealistic expectations of them
yes a lot wow i
it's mean of that's really deep
obviously there are some pretty dark
themes there
like it's about overcoming haters
and shame being piled upon people and
the pressures that that has
from a priest perspective is it okay to
punch back it depends if you're meaning
metaphorically
or physically i think most of us when we
face bullies
initially we're scared of what they can
do to us we're scared of physical or
emotional damage but when you recognize
it's actually the insecurities of the
bully that you can overcome them
and it doesn't mean you become stronger
and you're able to beat them up it means
that
you understand that they were actually
quite a fragile person you take away
their monster power
being out there as a k-pop star you know
we've talked about this before and the
amount of people there are online that
are just like
criticizing everything about their
appearance about everything they say
about every way they
act what i would say try and have a soft
heart but a hard skin
because as soon as you allow it to hit
your heart it affects your
sense of self-esteem and it can turn you
bitter and angry and you do not want
that
and also remember we talked about with
billy eilish a similar thing you know
find your phineas
find those that circle around you of
encouragement of support
i remember actually once i was in a
classroom and this kid said in front of
all the whole class
he said no one likes you lee and he
looked to the whole class and he said
does anyone like him there's anyone like
lee
and all these people were just like
quiet but one guy who's
still a good friend of mine today his
name's charlie
uh he said i like him he's a good guy
i still remember that we're like 12
years old wow
there'll be a lot of people here who who
potentially aren't being bullied
yeah but they may see people being
bullied right and if you do do that it
is your
place to say something well i mean
speaking of calling out hey
kpop has made the news in the last few
weeks by
hijacking far-right hashtags this is
true like
white lives matter massive like white
supremacist yeah
really they just tweet fan counts with
like white lives matter
and then like literally that entire
hashtag is ruined because it's
so many fans isn't that great
i'm really proud of the younger
generations coming up i think they're
good they got it sorted they're like
looking at the world and they're saying
we can do better we can do better than
this and let's do better
they're caring about the environment
more they're caring about equality
more and they're actually doing
something about it i'm excited for what
the future brings with this generation
this has been a priest and a classicist
reviewing blackpink's how you like that
i think blackpink are pretty cool and i
think k-pop is
a really exciting genre that yeah you
know maybe it should just be called pop
i don't know
because it is literally the only pop
worth watching
from groups nowadays isn't it there are
leagues ahead maybe blackpink need a
chaplain
i'm right here
all right all right well guys we'll see
you jolly soon
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