Peyton: If the beat were a pickup truck,
P: He's like hanging out in the like, trailer just like [this] Charlotte: Yup.
P: But he's still on the truck.
[Rossini's Semiramide]
Umu: So today we are reacting to a BTS member.
U: So they - recently BTS has been releasing solo tracks as teaser(s) for their comebacks.
U: So J-hope the rapper would - had a(n) intro single to their Wings album,
U: And then Jimin had an intro single for their Love Yourself album,
U: Then Jungkook had kind of a single for a concept sum-up video thing,
U: And then now we have Taehyung, or V, for their next concept.
U: So the lyrics for this song were written by RM, and the song was produced by Charlie J. Perry.
U: And this one there are a bunch of fan theories going around,
U: Talking about maybe this video being related to Ophelia, Phantom of the Opera, or Narcissus.
U: And Korean fans think that the whole message of the song was about two conflicting egos within yourself,
U: One being the facade, which is how we desire ourselves to be presented on the outside, like a mask;
U: Or the other one being your real self who is struggling and drowning in a lake to show itself.
U: A layer of thick ice on the lake is preventing the real self to be revealed,
U: But when spring comes, the song is saying that, the ice will melt you, and you'll be able to accept yourself within time.
U: And that BTS is trying to promote the idea of loving yourself, and so fans believe that this is the perfect concept for learning to love yourself.
Katie: That's awesome.
K: 3, 2, 1!
Fiona: OMG, it's BTS because they have this opener.
Lindsey: Oh, yeah, this is the BTS opener. F: It is.
Henry: I miss seeing that all the time, the "blink".
Elizabeth: Ooh.
E: Very breathy.
Katie: Wooaaah.
Jarod: What the f -
Isaac: Ohhh.
I: You think he's holding hands with someone, and someone stroking him, but it's just himself.
[MINDBLOWN]
Kevin: Oh, and that voice.
Lindsey: This is very like, slow, smooth R&B kind of -
Fiona: I like that dancing.
L: It's like soul, but not.
Henry: Oh my god, this is actually incredible.
H: Hold on a minute.
H: This is like blowing my mind right now.
Peyton: Ohhhh! Yeah!
P: I like that, it's like, so far back on the beat, like - Charlotte: Yeah.
Peyton: If the beat were a pickup truck,
P: He's like hanging out in the like, trailer just like [this] Charlotte: Yup.
P: But he's still on the truck.
Fiona: He kinda sounds like The Weeknd, has Weeknd vibes. Like the ballad-y, echo-y resonance of the voice.
F: Ooh.
Lindsey: Woah, the way the bass just reflected what was going on.
Elizabeth: This is - the other one we listened to was harmonically minimalist.
E: This one is rhythmically minimalist.
Peyton: Mm. Nothing like a....
P: Well placed Major seventh chord.
Isaac: Oh, that vibrato.
Kevin: Yeah.
K: What mood.
K: Mood piece.
Fiona: This is really cool.
F: The dancing is so cool because it's like a little more active than the - Lindsey: it's so minimal
F: The vo - the vocal line and like what's actually going on. It's like really fun to watch. L: The visuals are awesome.
F: Looks like a modern dance more. Yeah. Ya know. L: Yeah.
F: I think that's why.
F: It's the speed of it.
Henry: I like that so many of the movements are so sharp,
H: And nothing about the music is sharp.
H: It all sounds like it's underwater, drowning in reverb.
H: None of the moves are angular, all round edges and; yet the choreography is just not that way.
Kevin: The things they do to make picardy thirds sound special.
K: This one they add the "wah-wah-wah" only on the picketing third.
K: Like it's a mom - like it's a momentous event.
Lindsey: Like, this is in like a very slow three, and sometimes there's only a sound on the downbeat.
Fiona: Ooh.
F: His thick was so re - his voice was so resonant and thick, what?
L: His thick was so voice and resonant. F: Like down there.
Katie: It's like super laid back.
K: But their movements aren't.
K: Oh! It's the conflicting thing, maybe.
K: Between like what you're - wanna look like and what you actually are.
K: Maybe that's what that was
K: Like he's trying to act all cool, but in the inside he's like [silly]
Henry: Yeah. Elizabeth: That's really effective. H: Again, with the sharp images. E: Oh that's such good lighting. Oh my god.
H: Wow. Oh my god. This is incredible.
Peyton: That was interesting.
Charlotte: I'm trying to like, form my thoughts.
C: I think it's interesting that you mentioned like Ophelia and Narcissus, and like referencing to all of these.
C: You know, characters that are supposed to teach and messages and stuff like that.
C: But like, the interesting, like, comparison of Ophelia, who has drowned herself in a river for the love of somebody else,
C: Versus Narcissus, that's so in love with himself that he can't stop staring at his own reflection.
C: And so it's just weird to have that comparison in, in one.
Umu: Are you leaning towards a specific theory?
C: I don't know, because I don't get that the message of the song is narcissism.
C: Because Narcissus is more about like "Hey, you know, like, you can't fall in love with yourself. That's kind of ridiculous."
C: But like, you can love yourself.
C: So I'm so confused, cause both of them are not a message of loving yourself.
C: They're kind of warnings like, you shouldn't fall like Head over heels for the wrong person, and think that they're the only thing for you.
C: But like, also, don't fall in love with yourself to the point that it's like - it's like two extremes of love.
C: But they're totally on opposite ends of the spectrum. Because one is completely forgetting about yourself, and another is just thinking about yourself.
C: And it seems like the message of this song is like, "Find the happy medium".
C: It's just like, weird to have those two conflicting messages in the same thing.
Umu: Other than the concept, what do you think about the music, and how it went with the visuals and maybe the atmosphere they're trying to create with the sounds?
Lindsey: The backgrounds being so simple but like - and spaced out. Everyone was very spaced out. Fiona: Yeah.
L: It was just relaxed and it would just - F: It was about the voice. So sensual. Cause his voice was. L: Yeah. And his voice was so smooth, and like, just.
L: Mm.
Umu: Yeah, and you talked a lot about how you felt like the choreography was moving much faster.
U: Do you think it supported the music brought out? F: Oh, yeah. I thought it did it like - L: I think it definitely did.
F: Made it about the mood of the music.
F: It wasn't like, really about like what except emotions that you're doing.
F: It was like, it was like the flow of it, and whenever they add the props and the masks like moving around (L: Yeah.)
F: That was just so cool. L: Yeah, it reflected it.
Peyton: I thought that they were setting up for pretty clear contrast, between their movements and what was actually happening aurally.
P: I don't know, like a lot of music videos like, aren't really supposed to kind of portray like a live performance,
P: But like, it was just very stark as like he was like kind of lightly singing with a lot of air in his voice
P: But he was like doing these like, really complicated fast movements and the dances.
P: And so that's just like, it was like, man, you first thought it was like
P: "How does he sound like that while he's moving so fast?"
P: And then you realize like, you know, very quickly, obviously it's like,
P: Oh.
P; You know, they're totally different worlds, you know.
P: Like, I mean, just because also how like slow their music was going.
P: It was, I mean - C: Everything sat on the back of the beat.
P: Yeah, and the movements were so like, fast. C: But it wasn't, it wasn't all the time that they were -
C: Like double timing for the dance aspect.
C: There's times that they definitely move to fill the space between like the bigger beats, rather than moving faster.
C: So it was just, again, another interesting mix of two opposites coming together.
Kevin: I really like it.
K: Aw man, the way it ends, it does not ruin the end that the ethos of the song
Isaac: Yeah! Like the chorus, like it would just pick up a little bit.
I: And just like hit you with a really heavy bass, as to accentuate that,
I: "This is the chorus".
I: But then you're just still going to that really smooth -
I: Like for some reason. I couldn't get a sense of like anything, like the form of the song.
I: Unless, there was a good downbeat to it,
I: It was like "This is it".
I: And then, yeah. It's because the way it just continuously flows.
I: And it just keeps going.
K: This is the least radio-friendly song I've heard, just in terms of mixing.
K: And that gives me a lot of faith.
K: Especially because one of the biggest things I dislike about a lot of BTS songs,
K: Is their sound is just so radio-friendly.
K: Everything's always popping out at you.
K: Even for a song like I I Need U. It's catchy. It's great.
K: But everything just is straight up in your face, and I feel like there could be more nuance, and then out comes this.
K: I'm like, guys.
K: Solo is where life is.
K: If you could put this in your group,
K: BTS could really musically live up to their their status
Hemry: Okay, everything about BTS is so concept driven.
H: And I am a bitch for concept driven music.
H: Like, It's just true.
H: It didn't really come across when we were reacting to the Wings thing with BTS. But like, concept music.
H: This just feels like, it's so much about something, and yet it's like a fragment.
H: You feel like you understand so much.
H: But the thing that you understand is that you want to know more.
H: Ah.
H: So smart.
H: I also liked that it never got too dynamically huge.
H: It's very clear that that was an intentional decision.
H: It didn't feel rushed in any way. It super took its time.
H: It left so much space for you to understand what was going on.
H: I just, oh my god. It was genius construction
H: It was really excellent.
Elizabeth: It was rhythmically very simple, so you were just like waiting there on the edge of your seat for the chord to change.
E: Which is really - kind of felt like I was floating the whole time.
E: Which is - especially with the visuals.
E: With the very, very colorful lighting, but very stark lines in the video.
E: And the close-ups of like, ice and ripples on water, like it was definitely an aesthetic they were going for.
E: And musically they really made it work.
E: And I really appreciated how all of the like, you know, quick changes, and music in the harmony, like they reflected that in the video.
E: That's, that's my shit.
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