So I saw this picture and wondered what member of the crew it was...
Tanu Muino
Music Video Director
It seems as though her signature pose is sitting on the ground by her music video artist.
Muino has worked with a number of pop artists and been consistently nominated for her MV direction especially in the past two years, though directing for over ten.
It was when looking at her Instagram that I spotted the confirmation that some of us had been wondering about…
Yes! Dancing on the stage of what looks like a decrepit theatre, the MV, not only an ode to the King of Pop Michael Jackson, but the the OG love story of Romeo & Juliet (Baz Lurhman style).
Once you see it, you can’t un-see it
Jungkook’s MV & Lurhman’s Romeo and Juliet (1996)
I feel old😭 The film came out BEFORE JK was born!!
House of JK?
Nice little treat for the eyes, the reverse fighting
Our Jungkookie the modern, modern day Romeo, or with the black wings, opposite to Danes' white wings…the modern, modern day Kookliet 😏
**UPDATE**
Director of Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Baz Lurhman
recognises Muino & Jungkook’s MV!
11/10/2023
“Twenty-seven years later, it’s great to see a new generation or artists, like the gifted JK, still influenced by Romeo + Juliet #jungkook #standingnexttoyou”
So please let that be the end of asinine discussions about his sexuality or if he's trying to talk about an actual breakup.
JK also said this:
He told me that, for a long time, he thought it was important for artists to write their own records (as some BTS members elected to do for their solo albums). Jungkook has written and produced songs for BTS, including quiet ballads and electropop anthems; at least two tracks that he wrote for his solo project ended up being recorded by the group instead. “As I grew up, I came to terms with reality and started accepting what I’m not good at or what I don’t have to do,” he said. “At this moment, there’s nothing I want to write about. So I was thinking, Do I really need to invest my time into creating a song from the beginning to the end?” With Golden, the urgent desire wasn’t there, and the timing didn’t make sense.
Which saddens me, but I applaud his honesty. Someday, when he's rested and recovered and has done some living outside of a studio, I'm sure he'll have things he will want to write about, or work with a songwriter to put in. I shall look forward to that time with hope.
It’s a really good watch for those that may not have seen this, or may have but have forgotten about it.
His thoughts on songs with no relation to him personally.
His music process, how he can do songs within a day or work on a song over and over, delete and never release.
Watch full video here
🐰“From now on, although songs with sincerity is also important, but…there are so many different types of people, who think differently and come from different backgrounds.
I want to become an artist who can create various different stories by creating imaginary scenarios and situations and coming up with imaginary characters.
That’s my ultimate motive.”
🐿️ “It’s very unique. I usually find it much easier to write about my own experiences, but what you’re trying to do is putting yourself in an imaginary scenario, which is actually very difficult.”
🐰 “Right, it’s difficult. So, although it’s very difficult, like how I want to try new things but unable to express it right now. If I keep doing it I’ll get accustomed to it, so I should keep challenging myself.”
🐿️ “I think it’s wonderful and I believe all challenges are good. I hope you could try out as much as possible”
Weverse Live
July 2023
What really stuck out to me:
🐰“but there's still this idea called image. And many people love that. Let's say that people love it, and so I keep following only that path. In that case, what is it that I can change? With my own hands? When this is my own life. I've gotta be the one to make change, you know. I have to tell the people who love me "this is how I am," and I have to-- not coerce them, but I have to make it so that they can accept/recognize me.”
When will he be allowed to control his image? When will he be allowed to not fit the idea that has been created by fans from content that doesn’t reflect his stage in life anymore? When can he expand on that image, add dimension, flaws, normal human traits to it?
🐰“I mean, like, there are so many things. How should I say it, so... Even if I were to figure out [the audience's] needs and satisfy those... Would ARMYS and I be truly happy? Till the end. When there's nothing that changes.”
You can’t please everyone all of the time. To please the majority he has to sacrifice himself? His change from the image people hold of him can never be? Who is that fair to? Is it fair to him? Is it fair to the fans who want to love him for him?
🐰“Ok, if I'm being honest: that's right, before, I used to have a lot of fears, including fear of trying something new. And I used to not really feel up to doing things that are new. But this is something that you guys created for me as well. It is from you all. Because I gained so much courage from you guys. Truly. (drinks water)
& I said this in a recent live, too. Asking why you guys give your support and love to me. Because even back then, I didn't know the answer, which is why I kept asking again and again. But now, I don't want to show that vulnerable side of me to you guys. I gained confidence, and using this as a foundation, I want to keep building myself.”
Army time and time again showed him they loved all of him and trusts what he wants to do, so they gave him the confidence to try new things.
Trusting that he wants to do it and he’s spoken before about the want for these types of songs, these challenges.
They aren’t army’s challenges but his challenges.
I don’t know about you, but being a singer from a 7 piece group who for years has worked with the same people in their mother tongue, to now work with an array of people from a different country, to sing a full album in a different language and do each song with different musical genres, phew! I’m tired just *thinking about it*!