[SPEAKER_00]: Consequence Podcast Network Bora, hey, iconic army
[SPEAKER_01]: BTS has officially finished with their tour in Europe and I just got to say all of army and me included are just like so heartbroken seeing Jungkook cry at the end of the European tour in Paris night two.
[SPEAKER_01]: he cried because he had just had such a good time in Europe and he was just so sad that the European like was over and then it had come to an end and he was talking about how he just really enjoyed his time there and especially being with European army like he just didn't want it to end.
[SPEAKER_01]: And though it's just...
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I feel like Jungkook, you know, when he cries, there's something about it that just makes you just, oh, you're hard to talk to your heart so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just honestly doesn't happen that much, like where Jungkook is crying on stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's very rare, you know, like, we're more likely to see, like, Jimin crying or, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: And for him to just be so overwhelmed with emotion about, like, how amazing the European leg of the tour was and how incredible it was to see all of these armies again for the first time in seven or eight years depending on where they were at such a long time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure that it was just like really sinking in for him at that moment and like thinking like dang now we have to say goodbye to them again but like oh gosh like what a job well done they absolutely fucking killed it in Europe yeah it looks like from all of the clips that we've seen that they continued to put on incredible performances there and like they brought so much energy
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the new looks and outfits, yeah, like the blush.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going up with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They absolutely deserve it.
[SPEAKER_02]: They did deserve it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about Jimin's outfits in Paris.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the black trench coat that's like military style jacket like buttons down the front.
[SPEAKER_02]: with the collar, like the high neck, stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it looks, and the gloves go up his forearm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, long gloves.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks like a member of the Vultory from Twilight.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, he does.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also looks like a Samurai to me, especially this particular photo that you chose of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he looks like he's about to come, like his microphone could be like a handle of a big katana
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, he already was like killing it with that look.
[SPEAKER_02]: It reminded me so much of his Dior look from like the Dior fashion show where he was wearing the blue like military style code that was like an antique coat for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like he saw that he wore that.
[SPEAKER_02]: He loved it and was like make that for me for the stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: but then the next night he comes out for like the main chunk of the concert and he's wearing like a silver like gun metal gray like fish net crocheted shirt so it literally looks like he's shirtless it's like it looks like he's so thin there's nothing there you know and then he just has like this like brown swayed vest just open over it
[SPEAKER_02]: Bethany, when I saw this, I just was like, stop the tour, cancel the rest, like, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't go in like this, like, I just could not believe as if the hair was like, God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he decided to pretty much come out, sure it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty much for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was eating it out truly.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love that you said as if the hair wasn't enough because like today we're going to start by talking about them at the FIFA World Cup.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to talk about the performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: One thing I just want to mention about his hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: After the performance, one of my friends that I was with was like, Who was the one with the long blonde hair and like the ponytail?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh yeah, that's German.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was like, oh, I really liked the ponytail.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, yes, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: the park gym and the park gym and a fact so anyways just dying over them always yeah dying over him too yeah but they're here back in the States because they came for the FIFA World Cup final half time show so we're gonna talk about that here and then we're also gonna talk about the new normal music videos we got a music video guys so excited welcome back where you're hosts I'm Kayla
[SPEAKER_01]: And I am Bethany, and this is Standing Beach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, like we said today, we're gonna hang out for about an hour.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about the FIFA World Cup, 2021, half time show performance of Dynamite that BTS did.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're gonna talk all about this normal music video, all of the references that we see from past era's,
[SPEAKER_01]: current era, story line, best moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going to be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a blast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Before we get too far into the episode, we do want to say things iconic so much for being here and for all of your support.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, thanks for being here for all of your support and of course for listening.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're just going to start off by sharing our experiences with watching the FIFA World Cup.
[SPEAKER_01]: Half-time show, so yeah, we've been, we both have been following all of the games really, and so I felt like I was so invested at this point, how could I not watch the final?
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was actually just Cory Millian, I all watching together, and I
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly kind of started to fall asleep like I just want to like Spain was really showing up for that game and they just like I call it shots on goal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it looks like.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just think hockey But I just feel like they were getting so many shots on goal and then like Argentina really did not have much possession of the ball at all And so I was just like, oh, like I think I was getting kind of frustrated like oh, just
[SPEAKER_01]: It was this goalies and saying how like let them have a goalie, they're working so hard for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I would be upset if they didn't win at this point because they worked so hard, but I did kind of fall asleep and then right when half time I'm choking on, Corey was like, babe, you got to get out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like BTS, I was like, oh god, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I freaking loved this performance of Dynamite.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I cannot describe how I felt going into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I was nervous.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like my nerves were there just because it's so much exposure for BTS, like worldwide.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that a lot of my friends and family were watching just because, again, it was a lot of the games were here in North America.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people who've been following here when I feel like normally, most of America, particularly, does not watch soccer, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, this is such a big moment for them, like, everyone's watching them right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know, like, I don't feel like I felt nervous like this since, like, an AMA performance, or when they appeared at the Grammys for the first time, like, those, like, those life performances really still make me nervous.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this one, I felt that, like, on the edge of my seat,
[SPEAKER_01]: And the second that jungle came out, all of my nerves gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I mean, he just came out right on beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tey on came in after him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was already feeling loose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yes, like dynamite, like they know this song so well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just seeing all the members, I felt like they were out there having come so much fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like they're charisma and their energy really came through and that performance.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my,
[SPEAKER_01]: Only complaint was that it was just too short.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my god, I want them to keep going.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I totally agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: I loved it as well and had a great time watching it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, we had both been kind of following the World Cup and Jeremy and I had watched a bunch of games together.
[SPEAKER_02]: We even got to go to a game, which was incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we felt like very invested in watching this final game.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we were invited over to a watch party with some friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when they invited us I said, we can come as long as you know when the halftime show happens like I'm going to need everybody to like be quiet and be watching and so I can watch BTS and they're like, oh, it's that serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, it is that serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we got to do just that everybody watched it and like even turned up the TV to max volume.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just so fun to see them on that stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, in, you know, for me, also thinking about, like, Jungkook had the dreamer song in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup, so it's like his return to performing there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: The only other person to do that ever, Shakira.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just so proud of him for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And on top of that, like thinking about when they kick off their next leg of their North American tour, they're going to start at the stadium in like two weeks.
[SPEAKER_02]: And going to have like two or three nights completely sold out at the stadium that here they are, you know, right now performing for the World Cup there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, I just was thinking about all of that and how cool it was and it was just really fun to watch it with a room full of people where the only other person there that really knows BTS is Jeremy and everybody else was like really appreciative thought that they did a great job and like like I said and at the beginning like
[SPEAKER_02]: was even asking like, oh, who was that one?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, um, yes, I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have a great time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm super proud of them for this performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so proud of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just going to talk a little bit about like the overall
[SPEAKER_02]: Performance and like how BTS fit into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like we said on last week's episode there was quite a few people performing here So it opened up with Madonna performing her song music and she was kind of like in the tunnels of the stadium
[SPEAKER_02]: and like writing like a buggy, and then she came out, and it was very epic, you know, very Madonna, and then we switched to like the middle of the field where Gustavo Dutamel had been conducting the New York Philharmonic, along with the Simone Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with the Muppets.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was cool to have the Muppets in there too, so I was just like unexpected like
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't unexpected feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not the Muppets we're going to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, but I was thinking, like, for kids, you know, kids who like the Muppets, like, probably cool to get them, like, in tuned or excited about the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then what was cool about the end of the orchestra performance, they started to do, like, the Norway rowing chant.
[SPEAKER_02]: And made the beat of it match up to the beat of dynamite.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so then it just perfectly transitioned into BTS doing dynamite.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course with Bethany said, like, Junkuk's starting at the beginning popping out from like, in between the rows of the musicians was incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nailed that entrance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he could not have been more on beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: He never missed his beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was telling you this Kayla, like I feel like he's never made a mistake in his life or his career.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he just like knows what to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's always perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he is just understands the assignment every time and man, he's such a performer and yeah, like
[SPEAKER_01]: truthfully, I was just thinking so, I like I kind of got my head about it about just like all of my friends and family watching.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, they all know, I love BTS and they're all probably about to see BTS like do a performance for the first time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like maybe some of them have seen like a Grammy performance or a Jimmy Fallon performance, but I don't even know if that's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this I knew that they were watching and so I felt the pressure and
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, especially like, I don't know if you guys know this, but Kansas City was one of the cities to host the World Cup and so like people in KC like really really were like paying attention to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, with this being the final and I just think it was such a moment for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was incredible like what visibility, like I don't really feel like they need any more visibility at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's reaching a totally different crowd.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really felt proud.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, wow, they really nailed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did an excellent job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I felt like their energy was high and exciting and engaging.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like their charisma really came through.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, definitely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sure just like you were nervous for your family to tune in and because it was like such a high-pressure moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think BTS were feeling a lot of the pressure too, especially like they had just flown in.
[SPEAKER_02]: only hours prior from their performances in Paris, like literally performed night two in Paris like the day before and immediately hopped on a plane and came here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I had seen like tweets about when BTS arrived at the stadium four hours before kickoff time for the game.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they probably just had that time for like a brief quick rehearsal and like run through and then they just had to nail it live Like I can't imagine that they had very much time there and thankfully, it's I mean, it's a song that they know very well that they've performed hundreds of times But even to like get the, you know, like where you're supposed to be and when right on such a big scale like that In a live performance, you know low on sleep
[SPEAKER_02]: having just come off of a concert like I think it's like incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like of course they know this song and they're well-seasoned because of the tour like you were saying, but yeah, like the actual like being in the stadium and knowing where to be in the lines and all that yeah, like
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the way that jungle came out, I was like, man, this man's rehearsed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just so incredible to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think they like, you said they fucking, they just nailed the performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: They really did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we got to talk about jungle cooks, vocal.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he absolutely like his vocals were so on point and he looked so hot in that outfit with the sunglasses of the sunglasses just killed me But like his vocals were I think like a major highlight of the entire performance like hearing him right there at the beginning Come through super strong super clear like perfect vocals and then like even towards the end of the song when he's like doing harmonies and ad libbing in an ad libbing
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and saying that he was doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He changed the lyrics at the beginning too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Normally it's King Kong kicked the drum, but he said King Kong kicked the ball.
[SPEAKER_02]: So very like apt on point for the, you know, if you for World Cup loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Taehyung also changed his lyrics and he said, and the game of football instead of and a game of ping pong, which was perfect and he did like the kicking motion to like he was kicking a soccer ball and that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could appreciate too that the back track was lowered and even more so you could hear it during Taehyung's part.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a kind of a break in the
[SPEAKER_01]: that they were singing live, and my coworker, even today, when I saw her, she was like, hey, you know, like BTS, they did pretty well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, she's like, I also feel like they were singing live.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, yeah, they are definitely singing live.
[SPEAKER_01]: They sound fantastic live, they have incredible vocals, and I just can appreciate that someone who doesn't know them very well could be watching and be like, oh, yeah,
[SPEAKER_02]: Like when you told me that I was like one thing BTS are gonna do is sing live.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like not singing live is not really an option for them They're like, you know, I think they're too proud of what they can do Absolutely not I also loved nomgi together walking down and but like in the middle of like the row of dancers created for them during their lines I just any nomgi pairing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I already love like they're just so
[SPEAKER_02]: iconic, and I love powerful, like, two very powerful men walking at us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I just, like, seen them side by side always makes me think of, like, their full history.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it makes me think of respect.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes me think of, like, strange.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, it just makes you think of everything that they have together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, just so powerful in iconic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love to, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's really truly when you're like, this is
[SPEAKER_01]: fucking BT's right here coming at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, those two.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jay Hope comes in and he literally is like the disco emoji like that man with thing you know doing like that is him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes in looking just like that and he's so full of life and energy and he's so fun and like of course radiating his true sunshine for all of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: the camera here you really start to get to see all of them and you can see the entire stadium behind them and there's these jumbo trunks that have like the lyrics up while they're performing as well, which I just thought was kind of a cool thing to make it even more dynamic the performance.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't feel like they needed a whole whole lot going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they had a lot of backup dancers.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had some fireworks in the background shooting off towards the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I felt like the majority of their performance was just them having fun and pulling us in through the camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it was, they did fantastic camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, especially because it's just a quick liner too from each member.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it switches to the next one, like they don't have to do a lot on top of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to say, too, Jin eats his vocals as well, like, vocal thing always every time.
[SPEAKER_02]: He just had very, very strong and clear vocals.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love that on his red jacket, he had like BTS on the, on the, the lapel of the jacket, because it's,
[SPEAKER_02]: for anybody who's like, oh, who is this?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, all right, here's who it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just in case you don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was funny because during the show, my sister texted me and she was like, is this BTS performing dynamite right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, actually like what did it's fucking, of course it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like right after that text came through this moment with Jen and I'm like she just hopefully she's still watching answered her own question, you know, yeah, like who else would be.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy that she texted you that like come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she just like she should know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Didn't know that they were going to be performing.
[SPEAKER_02]: at all, so she was surprised by it, but yeah, like, to need the confirmation of like, is that like, of course it is?
[SPEAKER_01]: Who else?
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course it is, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Going back to the vocals, yet, Jen absolutely vocal king always.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jim and two, I love that he had a like, worth singing live moment where he, the music kind of,
[SPEAKER_01]: well he drops the mic and you can kind of hear a little bit of the backtrack and then you hear him go into his second bar and he brings the mic to his mouth and you can hear clearly the difference between the backtrack and the live vocals.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like conforming like yeah, obviously we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're in case it wasn't there's a difference here.
[SPEAKER_02]: for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just love the moment with all of them at the end, like they're finishing up and kind of the, you know, they're celebrating together and, um, you know, kind of getting all over each other and having a good time like waving at the camera coming closer to the camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought was so cute and so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, it's the BTS charisma, like just there.
[SPEAKER_01]: energy and dynamic with each other like really came through in this super short song slightly that they got at this performance yeah I love how jungle comes to the front of the cameras like the school there's going to be like it's in the school so jungle yeah I just again have to give major props to jungle like I don't know they all definitely did a fantastic job like jungle really showed the fuck up I feel like he was like this is the moment
[SPEAKER_02]: Like anyone who's listening should know that like of course we always think all of the members did an incredible job like we're not going to hate on any member so for a particular really giving like love to one member over another, it's not like we're ignoring the others, but like I just so agree with you so much like John Gook was such a focal point of this performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could not stop lucky nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does have a lot of lines and dynamite and like his energy was just like next level.
[SPEAKER_02]: He just really, really did an incredible job.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so yeah, can't sing his song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the shades.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's him and Aaron.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like some of the shades.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So just a little just around out the halftime show here a little bit right after BTS' performance, Jason Sudakis and Brendan Hunts characters from Ted Lasso introduced Justin Bieber, which I just thought, oh my gosh, we got like a Ted Lasso reference.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like so perfect, soccer, you know, they introduced Justin Bieber and he performed Hallelujah, which honestly, like he did a great job, but I felt like it really slowed down though.
[SPEAKER_02]: the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: It brought the vibe down, like it's not necessarily a sad song, but he just played like acoustic guitar.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was super chill.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, this is not the hype song that you want for a sporting event half-time show.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, it was fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you also, this is random, but did you know that Ted Lazo that some of the show was filmed here in Kansas City as well?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the season
[SPEAKER_01]: I've watched some of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you should finish it at the first two seasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I watched and then I've a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know if I want to say what I want to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then because it's going to like spoil by, you know, season four that are about to come out with it's going to be like a women's soccer team that he coaches.
[SPEAKER_02]: And because like season three is definitely like the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you are like this is the end of the series, you know, so them coming back.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like rehashing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, they did perform like or sorry not perform record the beginning of season four and can't sit so I'm excited to see that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, super fitting, Shakira then closed the half-time show with the official tournament song DyeDye that she performed with, Bernaboy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And to me, the first of all, Shakira looked beautiful as always.
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't age.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the major highlight of the performance for me were the kids that were dancing.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were so excited and charismatic and like looking into the camera and like just confident even as kids like on such this like global scale it was really cool to see I was really proud of them and they just looked so happy and you know they absolutely did such a great job too so
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great halftime show performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was again curated by Chris Martin, which is very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one of the reasons why BTS was in there because of that connection.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, we're excited to see the FIFA World Cup halftime performance continue to grow in years to come because they really have never done something like this on this scale.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: Masala thing for anyone who is questioning the song choice of dynamite, like why they perform dynamite, I think every army could tell you that dynamite is not their best song, but it definitely is one of their most like crowd pleasing, well known, so a good song, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So like dynamite statistics,
[SPEAKER_01]: It has 2.1 billion views on YouTube, 2.2 billion streams on Spotify.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the number 34 most listen to song and Apple music history.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it truly is a crowd-pleasing, well-received song for people who are not army.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like people just know this song.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it makes total sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't upset with it, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, dang, if I come out with who again, that'd be like,
[SPEAKER_01]: She, you know, just really shake up the world, but now it makes sense that they came out of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do something like more accessible.
[SPEAKER_01]: As long as it wasn't permission to dance, I was happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So literally, because like global citizen had tweeted something about like, we give you, quote, permission to dance.
[SPEAKER_02]: BTS was performing at the, and I sent it to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh my god, I swear to God if they perform permission to dance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm gonna be not only so sad for us, but like, so sad for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I just feel like they, that song at this point and like never wanted to perform it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, so.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad they didn't dynamite's wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad they had a great performance and then they got to watch the game and meet some other celebrities and just had a great time So super cool Well should we talk about the normal music?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like other major news this week, like we talked so much about this in our last episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Normal music video.
[SPEAKER_01]: We weren't even sure it was going to be a music video.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can we just hold space for the fact that this is a five music video era?
[SPEAKER_02]: Five whole music videos like I don't even think they've ever done this many.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah No, they've never done that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they said we're coming back with our biggest album Our best album to date and by the way, here's five music videos and Oh, by the way months after the album's been out We're gonna drop normal as a second single and promote it on the radio love it Love the promotion love the marketing
[SPEAKER_02]: So, of course, just to recap a little bit about normal coming out, around Thursday, July 8th, one of that day or the day before, all of the members change their Instagram bios to Lamron in all caps.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember sending you a screenshot and I had to go check it for myself and be like, okay, this is real, this isn't like AI or whatever, and I said Bethany, oh my god, are we getting a normal music video?
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, I don't know, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, yeah, it was very mischievous.
[SPEAKER_01]: It rooms like, ooh, you know, what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they released this tabloid like ad that said BTS member, seen in bathroom event, mysterious late night gathering.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a bunch of little things that it says, but at the very bottom in all red, it says, more information will be revealed on July 17.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're like, and I believe that's the day, the music video actually came out, but we were speculating, oh, is it going to be music video?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it going to be like a high-light real?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just because we had seen a lot of like photos of them, so we really didn't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But of course, not only with this tabloid, they released the...
[SPEAKER_01]: normal day playlist with Spotify.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked a little bit about that in the last episode too.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could go and vote for each member song like what song you would want to listen to with them or remind you of them the most.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there was this like normal day playlist for each member that you could do on Spotify as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: The great thing about this like tabloid ad that they released, like they actually got it printed in a couple different
[SPEAKER_02]: and they put like shocking photo revealed on it and like it's the photo of them all standing at the urinal.
[SPEAKER_02]: When this came out you and I were like never did we ever think that we would get an OT7 photo of them like standing at urinal saying what you would never be a concept that we would have even thought of and we were just like I love it too because it's just so awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think
[SPEAKER_01]: Call me weird, but I think it's artistic, I think it's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, frame it, hang up on my wall as a piece of artwork.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, bathroom artwork.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, literally.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need it, I should do that now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like, it's so great, and I love, like, you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: tabloid sensationalized things so much, especially about BTS.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so for them to like take that and use it as like a marketing tool, just that was very smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was announced that the normal music video would really would be released on Spotify and then on YouTube two days later.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what we got.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got the Spotify version on Spotify.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had two of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have like an explicit and a clean version.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the YouTube one is the clean version where they say we called this thing normal instead of shit normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then of course we got a little teaser video on YouTube little 20 seconds long.
[SPEAKER_02]: It consisted of RM walking into the bathroom and the rest of BTS are kind of spread out around the urinals.
[SPEAKER_02]: He makes eye contact with Jimin who's like over to the right side.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jimin looks his way.
[SPEAKER_02]: RM kind of looks back at him and then he semi awkwardly chooses urinal to go to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, and that's how you get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then got to wait for the video the next day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of teasing, lots of just very cryptic stuff coming at us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're trying to figure out, what is it going to be?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is it going to be?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I love that we got to find out that it was a music video and a teaser and all the whole things.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, they did the whole thing for another music video for BTS.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you were saying killer like five music videos.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one era, one album is unheard of.
[SPEAKER_01]: The way it was worth it for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's talk about the music video meaning and all of these era parallels.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is one of the big topic points in terms of this music video as all of the era parallels that we see.
[SPEAKER_01]: So at the very beginning, it says normal, but it's spoke backwards at us, letter by letter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So L, A, M, R, O, N. And so that goes along with a lot of the reels that we saw at the beginning, all of the pictures we talked about,
[SPEAKER_01]: And that they're usually played backwards and whatnot in order to be put through like the film is right backwards and so it just makes sense It's really cool that we got to see the Lamron I guess president present in the music video.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this video feels very classic BTS and that we see them
[SPEAKER_01]: Separated in different rooms all of them are going through something and then we see them all together very happy Like it is truly just the blueprint of like run like just run and I need you Where you see them struggling on their own and then coming together having a
[SPEAKER_01]: absolutely timetable.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that component is so nostalgic and so fantastic to see because it's also modern day BTS that you're seeing in this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well also being fresh and new, like it's not like blaringly like, oh yeah this is I need you or this is wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like a carbon copy of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really cool to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it feels very smart to roll out this style of music video now coming off of the merry-go-round music video And considering the topic of this song and so again guys if you haven't seen the merry-go-round music video It's only on Spotify We were just talking about how it's gonna get lost in time like people are gonna totally forget about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So There is there's so much to unpack with that music video.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can go listen to our episode about it, too Because we really get in depth yet back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean honestly like the Spotify releases is such an interesting part about this era of like the Spotify exclusives and I do think that way we go around in like three years we're gonna be like
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, they did do a merry-go-round music video, but yeah, like in that music video, if you had it hurt our discussion about it, one of the things we talked about really was like that it was representing kind of their experience in their careers and
[SPEAKER_02]: how you know one of them is always leaving and the other one's going and coming in going out like it's hard to find the time together but like they're happiest when they are together but they deal with so much as individuals going through like this life in the limelight and normal I think also echoes a lot of those feelings I also think like that's why they're back to back on the album though they flow into each other of like
[SPEAKER_02]: This is this cycle that we can't get out of, we don't really want to, but like we know how hard it is, and then normal is, well, this is our normal, you know, like this is what we go through this kind of like chaos and, you know, like the beauty and the pain all at the same time, and this is our normal, and I think that this video just such a great job representing it, like,
[SPEAKER_02]: You know from our album reviews like at the beginning of this era normal was an instant favorite for me And then I listened to it so much that I kind of like burnt myself out on it after like the first two weeks And so I kind of cooled off on it a little bit like I still loved it But I started listening to other songs on Ariana a lot more But this video coming out and like seeing what they did with it just really like reignites my absolute love of this song
[SPEAKER_02]: and like what it means for the members, you know, and what it can mean for a listener, like how it can help us to, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, how you can relate to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll kind of just go through the music video and we'll talk about just like,
[SPEAKER_01]: some of some more meanings of the music video and just the parallels as we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So at the very beginning we see this woman holding all of these polar roads.
[SPEAKER_01]: And honestly she kind of reminds me of like a fortune teller or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The way that she throws these polar rides in the air almost comes off of like
[SPEAKER_01]: where your feet lies or something of that sort, but there's a lot of parallels with these polaroids to the epilogue young forever polaroids that we see that eventually you see them like burning on the ground and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So
[SPEAKER_01]: We made that reference, and then shortly after we see this white swan sitting at the bottom of a staircase, which makes me think of this staircase in black swan, obviously everyone immediately thought of black swan too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, literally a swan here, and just being at the foot of these this staircase, too, just makes me think of the balconies staircase that we see, and the theater of the black swan music video.
[SPEAKER_01]: So lots of parallels there, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do love in these polaroids.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can see that these are polaroids like from this set of this music video.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that the original ones are from like, epilogue young forever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what that song is about, it's kind of like them being like, like referencing their youth again, or like, you know, they're 2.0 youth.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what this journey is now, and then yes, of course, like that white swan and media media.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is them in the future.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is them now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and of course the media.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the immediate reference to Black Swan at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think it's it's very Super stark you can't miss it high contrast shot to like where the swan is really standing out And I think every army immediately thought of that song in that music video
[SPEAKER_02]: And like that song too is one of those like we are like kind of singing our swans song of like putting everything into our art and our work and like when are we going to get like a break or like summer preview you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So then like the video continues to open up with John Gugg, we get the shot of him in a mirror and then it pans around to show him straight on and he's standing in a shower.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's standing fully clothed, waters on, pouring all over him as he's delivering his verse.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this, to me, just immediately we think about like being overwhelmed, you know, like not even taking the time to like disrobe before going in the shower like you just need to let like the water run over you like you can be really anxious or depressed or just overwhelmed in general and like need this, you know, very like passionate moment from him here at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, super sexy shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Super sexy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he looks incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then we get a shot of Jim and which is, oh my god, they gave us like no time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's the beginning of the music video and here we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're shirtless.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jim and shirtless on the bed laying on a bed with leather pants.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some pretty shoes and like leather pants or maybe they're leather pants velvety.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're leather and like never mind
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, abs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: The whole nine yards.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also looks like he's going through a lot here too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this shot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he just looks like he's either like really tired or depressed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he can get out of bed and kind of situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_01]: It can't seem to like summon himself on his head.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the energy to get up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, and then we get a shot of Jen where he's outside and he looks like he's in this really lovely garden area sitting at this red like iron picnic table and he's just drinking a cup of tea by himself
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the shot that I told you reminded me very much of rubber souls, which makes it like it looks like he's could be in London like drinking a cup of tea in a little garden, but the thing is, he looks kind of lonely.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks very sad and by himself like he wish he could, there's the chair sitting across from him that's empty, there's no one there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It kind of looks like he wishes he was having a cup of tea with someone but also like you know when he's delivering his lines too He's like wish I had a minute just to turn me off.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a complete solitude here and I think about drinking tea as opposed to like coffee or something as being more relaxing
[SPEAKER_02]: And like soothing, you know, and so maybe this is him like finding that time or like, you know, to really like get away, but I agree like that empty chair across from him is very stark.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like facing him.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no one there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just kind of like enjoying this tea by himself and looking a little bit somber about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me see it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taehyung and gosh, this Taehyung immediately makes me think of him in the run music video because he has all beat up, you know, like broken nose, tape across it, bruised and wounded, cheek and like lips and like he has just gone through a fight and it was not pretty.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this makes us think of like the run music video in the, you know, the BTS storyline alternate universe where like he has to defend his sister and himself from like his dad who's like an alcoholic and he beats him up and he like kills his dad and you know this shot is almost identical to the shot of like him laying his head down.
[SPEAKER_02]: in that video, so it's like, I mean, if, if seeing like the previous members going through things like mentally wasn't enough, now we're seeing like physical wounds on one of the members to show like how tough, you know, this life can be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so much easier to see like the physical.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: beat up, and then we get our first real big group shot of all of them, and they're sitting in this living room space.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, it looks very old-timey.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like wings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tried and prejudiced.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like Era.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yes, wings, Era.
[SPEAKER_01]: From a different time, and they all look
[SPEAKER_01]: beat up, tired, defeated like, yeah, cut down and spread out and around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not interested in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see an arm drum straight up, like laying across the couch, like head hanging off the side of the couch.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can look like the sun is like too bright in his eyes, like, oh, they just are kind of struggling in this room, but very much of flashback to where we see all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: and the blood sweat and tears like very like old-timey we're gonna be on that we see yeah yeah yeah I have to talk about this like random shot that we get I shouldn't even call it random but like out of place like everyone's like looking like beat up tired whatever and then they pan over to Tae Young and he has this moment where he's just like seducing us on the couch like and he's like he has like
[SPEAKER_01]: a cheetah print like robe leather pants beat up nose you know just looking a little edgy staring into our souls with his leg propped up like he really is like
[SPEAKER_01]: I was angly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it looks like a...
[SPEAKER_01]: So, like, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like an editorial magazine spread from like a photo shoot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it looks like it could be like a GQ magazine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, I love... You said random shot because another thing that I love about this music video is that in with a member delivering their lines, they might cut in a shot of another member.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just purely like them looking hot as fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're looking super handsome.
[SPEAKER_02]: like them literally literally aren't doing anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like here for the visuals and this video does that so well So yes, I loved it because you want to talk about this moment because he looks so fine and then we cut to like a party scene and this feels this is also the element that feels like classic BTS this feels like fire this feels like you know run this feels like like when they're all together and they're
[SPEAKER_02]: Partying and having a good time and the, you know, it's like clear like a night time high contrast lighting There's drinking, there's cake and this is like during like the chorus and this is when we get to see like Those highlights the high moments of their lives that just feel incredible and you know the joy is just tangible
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I think in this video too, it's showing that those moments are so fleeting there's so it's so quick And then it's back to you know the normal which is the you're dealing with this stuff and like the aftermath kind of on your own
[SPEAKER_02]: And like, who are you when the lights turn off and when all of your friends go home?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, but I love that they get on the other side of that When they're all together, that's when they are the happiest and I think it's such a good symbolism for
[SPEAKER_02]: Every person has the support of their friends and of their family and loved ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like when you are struggling with whatever you're going on internally, if you lean on those people for support, then things can get so much better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The best shots for sure were there the happiest is where they're all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So then we go back to some of these more solo shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: John Gook, we had to talk about how after he comes out of the shower, he leans over the sink to look in the mirror as he's like, uh, belting his heart out and you can see it the steam coming off of his hot body like I just
[SPEAKER_01]: We can, the detail here is, and I have so much appreciation for them putting that in there because damn, like, absolutely smoking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Literally smoking hot, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get some really great shots, then like, you were kind of saying, Caleb, just like,
[SPEAKER_01]: them at the party but then also like solo shot too and we have to have a moment for Jen because out in the party scene they have him in this like really gorgeous like perfectly his color palette pink to the point where his lips match the shirt color he has like these gold necklaces chest is out like this like
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost like bargaining a kind of color like pink like a pink burgundy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even have explained it But like it suits his skin color so well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got these shades on and I'm just reminded again of how he is Worldwide handsome and he has this whole shot outside where now he's no longer at the picnic table and now he's on this like lawn chair
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe Moave, Moave is the- Yeah, more Moave, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as he's sitting on this chair, it kind of reminded us of Epiphany, a little bit like our content couch gin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Epiphany and just how- I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like it could be a callback to that solo track for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just him sitting there and being reflective.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think is what really made us think of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's like what it seems like he's doing in his solo shots here when he's kind of out in the the woods here by himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: After that, we like cut back to Jim and in the bedroom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love that you also laughed at this because we both just found it funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: That he's like he's had been laying there on the bed like with his shirt open and he's like buttoning up his shirt like and then I have to show the shots like he's like all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm getting out of bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm I'm mustering the strength for the day and like got a buttoned my shirt up I just also just found that like a little bit cute and
[SPEAKER_02]: Funny and adorable like not necessary at this point, you know, but I guess he's got to go hang out with the rest of the members He's got to button up his shirt here, but I appreciate the shot, you know Yeah, and then we finally get some really great Jay Hope moments here for his verse and so he is outside He's in this kind of like wooded area.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some theories that like for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks a little lost He looks like he's trying to find his wife
[SPEAKER_01]: way that maybe he lost someone in the woods.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's also like pictures of him standing beside like a bathtub that happens to be outside and holding like a gardening hose and the bathtub really makes me think of I need you and all of that era too.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, I think it's just hard getting back to most beautiful moment in life, era, but he
[SPEAKER_01]: Something about this turtleneck brown sweater.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks so handsome.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got like a leather like longer jacket on the way that he's like squinting around looking for this person.
[SPEAKER_01]: He just looks so handsome.
[SPEAKER_01]: So handsome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I feel like that man would look out for you at all costs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he would keep you protected.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like
[SPEAKER_01]: I just like fall in love with him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's stunning.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just like serving face the whole time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just looked incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I totally agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then one of the party shots of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of leaning back against the table and he's got his arms out.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks like he could be dance and like having some arms and circles out in front of him doing like a little groovy dance with these.
[SPEAKER_02]: cool like orange tinted shades on and I don't even think that'd be any more like hope world funky groovy would be like at this party like I I want to party with him he also like in the shots of him in the woods too he looks so much her he looks so does like matured and like older in all of the best ways
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm just totally fan-girling over how attractive he looks here, you know, and then like, this is, you know, for me in the normal song itself, my favorite part of the song is like the rap line where J-Hope, then Jungi, then RM's versus all back to back, I just feel like they're so meaningful and impactful and like speak to me personally so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: and so like this part of the video is also so good, like with those three, like all visuals all like we love them all so much and so like then we get Yungi's part afterwards and Yungi is just like, first of all, his shots, he looks
[SPEAKER_02]: Beautiful and stunning, but his hair is kind of like tussled and his bangs are kind of down and they look very like light and fluffy as opposed to like more like a PC pulled we've seen a lot of like pulled back looks for him this era that looks more edgy
[SPEAKER_02]: And his makeup is also very, very light here, you know, almost just looks like he has like foundation on like there's nothing around his eyes and so he looks very vulnerable and raw here, which I think to really goes along with the lyrics that he's delivering and like the energy that he's bringing and he's kind of like singing to us through this raw iron fence.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's casting shadows on his face as he walks through which like makes him look even more stunning and hot and just incredible and like super artistic, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: He also puts his foot up and starts to act like he's going to climb over the fence, which obviously is referencing the fire music video where he is behind the chain length fence and climbs over at the beginning immediately any of him behind the fence is like giving that vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, I'm just thinking about how much he's grown and changed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, like you picked
[SPEAKER_02]: I am crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I just, I love the energy that he's delivering with this look.
[SPEAKER_02]: We also get to see him like plopping down on a couch, and that is obviously referencing boy with love where they have like that big couch.
[SPEAKER_02]: They all crowd around in that music video.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the same thing that we've noticed with the other members is six out with Yimgi that he's alone, and people also have been maybe saying, because he's behind this fence like he's potentially trapped.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which I do think also goes along with the themes like from Mary go around and from normal of being like trapped in this cycle or like in this kind of like game like you can't really get out of it if you want to keep being a performer or keep like living this lifestyle but like it does come with its drawbacks you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: but in the same like literally mirroring these like super kind of somber shots of him walking behind this gate we also see him at the party big gummy smile like having a great time with his members and then another shot of him
[SPEAKER_02]: even bigger gummy smile holding up a like a phone to a statue head like the bust of a like Julius Caesar which obviously makes us think of wings also like all of the museum vibe that blood sweat and tears had going on and so like bringing a happiness and like it makes me think of like
[SPEAKER_02]: that he can think back on even some of their hardest times as a group where they were working really hard and had no breaks but like with fondness because of where they are now and like how much they've learned and grown from it, you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I just love it so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that takeaway because, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, looking back on it with fondness, even though it's difficult.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like calling wings, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, hey, at 2016.
[SPEAKER_01]: So cute, and then he'll get me smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's holding the phone to the statue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So iconic to me already, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it is rare that we get to see his smile like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, oh yeah, so after that we get shots of Norm June and his whole shot and scene really throws us all the way back to I need you especially and run but like Norm June at the gas station, you know filling up cars gas tanks and sucking on that sucker like kind of hanging and leaning against like
[SPEAKER_01]: The stores like concrete walls and so here he is by this car and he also is like walking around the car He stands up against like the concrete wall for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets inside the car.
[SPEAKER_01]: He lays on top of the car And he too also looks like he's just like
[SPEAKER_01]: either waiting for something or someone or like doesn't know where to go or what to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like again, like, looks in despair or just extra.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, yeah, that's a good way to put it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so again, he's also going through something.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then we see shots of him at the party.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the one who cuts the cake, which we try to decipher what this cake is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like on top of the cake, it's like a Victorian woman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, we have no idea who she is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's what I'm deciding is that it's supposed to be Marie and Tornette and that, you know, she was known for like her lavish lifestyle and like very like wasteful type of lifestyle and that this party is also representing like absolute hedonism just like
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, letting loose being free doing whatever you want to do, and so I feel like like this cake kind of furthers that message of like when they can really lean into just like being free and doing whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: The huge slice and he's got it in his whole like palm of his hand and he goes and throws the cake in front of this like stranger space and you just see all of the the BTS members and friends around them going crazy having a good time but this is a direct
[SPEAKER_01]: parallel to spring day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the cake in spring day where this exact thing happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he looks so happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks so happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know these expressions look real.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it looks like he's actually having a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's like, hey, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use it though, this case.
[SPEAKER_02]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get some extra little shots here of all of the members that have some throwbacks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Teyang, you see him wake up in that room raised by himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes a drink and what's kind of cool about this scene is there's an actual guitarist for that's playing or maybe it's a, yeah, it's a guitarist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: that is actually playing the normal instrument all, which is kind of cool to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: We see, don't go, then, with like, a lighter and this flame, which is also a direct correlation to spring day where we see him sitting with, like, I think it's a candle, maybe in spring day where it's lit in front of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I also think about the lighter that we can make a reference back to.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need you with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think in spring day jungle does have a lighter too.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a lighter?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you see him like snuff it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like him snuff you that here too is like very.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you, you know, Tae Young when he's like waking up in this room to he like takes a little lock it out of his pocket and not to rhyme there, but he opens it and then when he closes it you can see that the outside of it says swim
[SPEAKER_02]: and I love this because it's like he's obviously going through a hard time right now and he looks at whatever inside is like giving him strength and then that reminder of swim which of course is from this era but Beastcast was talking about how like just keep swimming like just keep going through it like you know let things just pass over you and keep going and
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I love that like through everything like this swim motto and idea that they've given us like it feels like they also use it themselves Yeah, yeah, I love it too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you see Jim and do that too When Jim and finally summons himself from this bed and he's walking around the room There's a boat model that's inside the room right he goes over and kind of Caresses and looks at like kind of hopefully like it's taking him somewhere else like it's it's helping him somehow kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: move on and carry on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I just love that like what they're going through like difficult times and what's getting them through is that motto of like just keeps swimming.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're using like today's era to motivate them to keep going, which is just
[SPEAKER_02]: cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's full circle for the era.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm certain that this will be the last music video, the last major promotion of the Auditon era.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so for them to start with swim.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like the last video, they release like Harkens back to it in such a like obvious way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Super full circle very like well planned out and thought.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I just love that they're like, you know, hey, like remember the song that like it can help carry you through too.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then of course we see like all of we see the shot in the video of all of them standing at the urinals in the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're all next to each other, you know, side by side.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we just love this so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: At first we were like, what the, like, we've never seen them like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Bethany were like, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: And boy and love, what a throwback, deep cut, boy and love from their, oh gosh, school love affair album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jim and checks out, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: John good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Black hair, Jim and checks out.
[SPEAKER_02]: John goes dick.
[SPEAKER_02]: They walk up to the ear and he looks down.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks him up and down, kind of smiles and giggles.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're like even bringing that back here for this music video.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just normal for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just this close.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just normal for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we get some more party shots and there's like a really specific party shot in this moment towards the end of the music video where like it just screams the fire scene where they're all around the like burners.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, yeah, they're like, well, fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that is almost exactly like the same image only modern day at this party.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, seeing them at these urinals is so funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of turn around to the camera, like, oh, someone's here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when they turn, they all pull up their flies.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we talked a lot about how Taeyang is, I mean, he's right in the middle, but like he went into full acting mode here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And was like really given it all, like, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: pushing his hips back and lean in his trunk forwards so you get really get that fly up and what cracks me up is you and he off to the side looks like he just like got caught like doing something he shouldn't yeah he's like oh you know like kind of embarrassed love it so much
[SPEAKER_02]: And we get like these group shots of them as they like come close to the camera and like, you know, kind of put their hands around each other, you know, arms on each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get some shots like a solo shot of each of them with a dog and then like a group shot with all of them with the dogs that they were with and it just made me think like very regal with the dogs like.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like very Victorian arrows to like get a portrait with your dog definitely, but they look very old for sure definitely and then I also have to mention if you watch the Spotify explicit video it is the same thing besides one shot and that one shot is at like three minutes and five seconds where it's the very end of the video everything is already happened
[SPEAKER_02]: But then you get like this kind of blurry shot of Taeyang with his pants down standing in front of a urinal So we have underwear is on his underwear is on yeah, but like yeah Yeah, his pants are down in case you haven't seen that if you have a explicit version on Spotify Right, yes, only the explicit version.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did not know that it existed until Kayla said it so
[SPEAKER_02]: And so there it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we just we loved this video.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had to talk through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just I think we really appreciate all of the references to their previous arrows.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of the symbolism of like this is their normal and kind of how that affects them but also how they find strength in each other through all of it and can still find you know beauty and peace and harmony
[SPEAKER_02]: I just love this song so much, so I'm so glad I got a music video and now it's being like promoted, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to hear it on the radio!
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hope I hear it on the radio too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: all right well we hope you guys enjoyed this episode we are at two hundred and ninety episodes so we are approaching three hundred we'll have to do something special so if you guys have any requests or ideas like send it our way I can't believe it holy crap it's crazy
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but yeah, we will definitely start taking recommendations for what we should do for episode 300.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, send us DM us or whatever your ideas because we are quickly approaching.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I hope that you enjoyed this episode, little recap of their iconic incredible historic FIFA World Cup performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also our thoughts on the normal music video, as always you can find links for all of the things in the description.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.