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[ANALYSIS] BTS ‘ON’

The start shows the remaining of a massacre. It’s the remaining of a war. The survivors are the ones appearing in the video including BTS. All of these events that will occur are symbolism of what occurred in BTS’ minds and lives for the last 7 years. It’s basically their mental state and struggles. It’s their journey towards success.

Generally, a dead body is a sign of depression. Remember that it is a body without life and can denote lack of motivation or loss of enthusiasm for a certain aspect of life. The video do not show a good memory but people who are tired, depressed, willing to leave it all and seem to have lost a big battle against themselves and the public.

Jin appears first looking at how even animals didn’t survive. The white pigeon is dead. It usually symbolizes peace, love and honor. But BTS at that time got none. It got slayed all.

Some people say when you find a dead bird the meaning is someone you loved passed away. Their past selves are dead and they will never be the same. This dead bird marks the end to their search and struggle. A new beginning is just around the corner. More specifically, it symbolizes the end of something and the start of something else.

We have next Jungkook running away from a prison. A prison represents feelings of confinement or restriction. You can’t do what you want or feel held back. You may feel forced to do something or to give up something. Feeling trapped in a situation you can’t get out of. Feeling repressed. “Don’t say this. Don’t do that. Don’t date. Don’t talk this way. Don’t look like this. Don’t and don’t and don’t”. Isn’t idols told more not to do than what to do? BTS have had enough, so they decide to run away from a public that is not forgiving and that will not be pleased no matter the price paid with their blood, sweat and tears.

Jimin is the third to appear and there are many drums behind him. Drums are symbols of the rhythm of life. Their beat can be equated to the beating of a heart. Since the heart is central to our survival, its beating indicates that we are alive and once it stops, we die. So many drums but no one is touching them. BTS’ life become dull. They are as good as dead. Just bodies movies like a puppet worked by strings.

Namjoon is standing in front of a boat with various animals. It’s the story of Noah. Noah was an obedient servant of God in the Old Testament who found favor with God amidst a sinful world. He is most well-known for building an ark that preserved himself and his family, as well as representatives of every land animal, from a great flood that God unleashed in judgement upon the earth. RM is the leader of BTS. It’s well known that he carried more burden than anyone from many years and a very young age. All for the goal to protect BTS against the sinful world that represents hate, prejudice, failure and more. But what at which price? They survived but their world is dead.

The sinful world is represented by how in that world BTS lived. Trees had no leaves and people had no compassion. If you fall, it’s so competitive they will feed of your flesh (The bird trying to eat Jungkook). Leafless tree with broken branches represents depression. And many members if not all were from sad to very depressed. Some didn’t just consider ending this career but their lives.

They say in the middle of agonies and ends there is still hope. Suga is in a religious place. Even if their world seems to be in an apocalyptic state and everyone’s clothes are torn. People here stand in unison holding candles and keeping fate. The people here might be the fans. The candles symbolize light in the darkness of life especially in an individual life. BTS always said taht ARMY were their smiles in days full of tears.

When BTS thought there was no hope left and there was no way they could survive this non-forgiving industry. A miracle occurred. At least that’s how it’s described here. The dove that was dead and that Jin brought back…moved. It’s alive. It survived. Or it was brought back to life. The prayers of the ones mentioned above (the hard work of the fans) made a change. The dove represents peace of the deepest kind. It soothes and quiets our worried or troubled thoughts, enabling us to find renewal in the silence of the mind. The dove’s roles as spirit messenger, maternal symbol and liaison impart an inner peace that helps us to go about our lives calmly and with purpose

The drums that were just kept there in piles started making sounds too. It might be faint because it was only one boy playing the drums. But that was enough to start a new life. Their dying hearts danced a new beat in hope for better days.

The girl who was not allowed to see. She wasn’t born blind but the piece of cloth made her so. She could have taken it off herself. But ignorance can make you blind and you will never see a human saying he is ignorant himself. Changing ideas and perspective ain’t easy. The girl is given back her sight by a BTS member V. It symbolizes how the boys bring to light many social issues and important subjects. It’s also the proof that they changed many people’s point of view about what a group of a small company can do, of what seven Asian guys from a small country can achieve and so on. It also can be portrayed by how Taehyung kept the girl blindfolded not looking at the atrocities of BTS’ world until it became safe. The girl is the young ARMY when the fandom wasn’t as big? Also, eyes are probably the most important symbolic sensory organ. They can represent clairvoyance, omniscience, and/or a gateway into the soul. Other qualities that eyes are commonly associated with are: intelligence, light, vigilance, moral conscience, and truth.

Something else happens in this scene, the huge wall opens up and becomes a door to a new horizon. People who were given back their sight will become key in changing the destiny of the boys. They are new allies.

The survivors will all come in front of the opened wall. It can be seen as how only very few idols and artists that debut make it in the show business industry. BTS are after all the only active group to this day that debuted in 2013 in Korea.

Jin frees the dove and it flies. Releasing a dove means peace. The war against themselves and everyone is finally over. They accepted their shadows and won people over.

Jungkook who was nowhere to be seen, is elsewhere blowing on a conch shell. Thorns that were on his wrists tying him up became this shell once submerged in water (Water symbolizes The most obvious are life, being born, purity, cleansing, or the washing away of sins). In the Mahabharata, Arjuna uses a conch shell to call his troops into battle. The shell is therefore associated with courage, power and sovereignty. According to mainstream Buddhism and Hinduism, the conch shell is also associated with truthful speech and strength.

The next scene will show a volcano eruption. This is an ancient Greek explanation of volcanic activity: a volcanic eruption represents the thwarted efforts of a divine being. The meaning of a volcano while it may indicate deep emotions coming out after being suppressed, volcanoes might also indicate an important new knowledge that is becoming clear, or developing profound new depths of self-awareness.

BTS are seen after these events in a gathering carrying the conch. This object is the most ancient musical instrument known to man. … In Buddhism the conch shell’s call is meant to awaken one from ignorance, and is a sign of victory over suffering. In Chinese Buddhism, the conch shell signifies a prosperous journey.

The earth (their world) that had nothing will start to change…

and trees will grow beyond the wall. It will become a paradise.

The survivors will stand in front of the wall looking but not moving. Just because there is an open door, doesn’t mean that people will walk through it. No one knows what is beyond there. And fear is a human vice and uncertainty is a whisperer to the mind. (Jungkook is amongst them now)

RM gives the signal to march towards this new land. He believes that outside the wall is somewhere that can be reached and life is better there.

But only 7 individuals get to go beyond that wall. They are teh chosen ones or may I say The brave ones. Because they believed in a dream where that new land will bring better life to them. That somehow that will make them reach a common dream.

Jungkook who seemed like a prisoner to this world. A slave in a prison with no light, is now smiling and moving forward. He is running again but this time, he is not running away. he is running towards a dream.

The video will end showing how BTS ere close to the peak of the mountain. But even that is no more the limit. Because the sky is vast and heavens might be nearer than many think.

The irony of how they started with a song called “No More Dream” that showed how this generation lost hope and stopped dreaming of achieving big things…

Just so they will be the chosen seven to reach incredible places all because of a one common dream. The video ends with the words “No more dream”. The “No more” fades and “Dream” is left. It’s their way of saying “We survived hell. There is a way out from the non ending darkness to heaven” or more simply, it’s their way of spreading hope and becoming an example to the people who believe in them.

If you research the meaning of the number seven, there is something endearing and harmonious about the vibration of the number 7, which is characteristic for someone feeling the urge to inspect the profoundness of some things in life. This is a perfectionist who is very exigent, someone with an inclination to analyze any situation and who sometimes may appear distant and hesitant. The goal behind the energy of number 7 is to encounter spiritual growth and enrich the lives of others with the results.

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simichan · 4 years

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[ANALYSIS] BTS’ SUGA Interlude: Shadow | Map Of The Soul: 7

This is an analysis of the Music Video and the lyrics to help you understand the song better.

The song starts by Yoongi standing in a hallway. This hallway can symbolize his debut and the start of his career. No one is looking at him or cares about him. He is a nobody. Yoongi raps how he wants to achieve all these big things “ I wanna be a rap star. I wanna be the top. I wanna be a rockstar. I want it all mine. I wanna be rich. I wanna be the king. I wanna go win. I wanna be … ”. AT this moment of the video in the video, we have a young person who didn’t know stardom yet. He had nothing but big dreams.

If you look closely there is the word ‘EXIT’ next to the door behind Yoongi. At that moment he could have left the entertainment world and no one would have noticed. But what did Yoongi do?

Yoongi took the decision to go on this path even if no one cared and RUN in full speed. He repeated encouraging words to himself “” I wanna be a rap star. I wanna be the top. I wanna be a rockstar. I want it all mine. I wanna be rich. I wanna be the king. I wanna be me. I want a big thing”. He didn’t look left or right. He was determined to keep pushing through.

The red things around the doors and the walls can remind us of Anish Kapoor a British Indian Artist’s work. The art name is ‘Svayambh’ which is in sanskrit. When the body crossed the spaces the wax layer is moulded and shaped by the archways as to give the impression that the form was extruded through the gallery. ‘Svayambh’ is a Sanskrit word, meaning something that is “created out of itself”. And just like we all know, Yoongi is self made. (Cr to BangtanINDIA on twitter for pointing that out)

“At 3m tall and 2.5m wide, the block is too big to fit through the doors, so it will deposit wax on the frames as it squeezes through. “It’s as if it’s skinning itself as it goes through the doors,” Kapoor said. The title is a Sanskrit word which translates roughly as “self-generated” and, rather than attempt to manoeuvre a vast block into the gallery, it will be assembled in situ from smaller lumps of wax.“ This means that every door they open, every goal they reach, they’re losing a piece of themselves in the process. (Cr to kkookiekoo on Twitter for pointing this out)

When he stopped running. He found himself on a higher level than the people who once ignored him. These same people are holding up phones and recording his every move.

He had always the same dreams and each day kept himself thinking of how far he could go. One time he realized he was in a place that only a few reaches“ I wondered every day how far I’d go. I came to my senses and I find myself here Yeah,”. So how does it look at the top? Is it as beautiful as the world makes it seem?

You know when the light is brighter the shadow becomes darker. At the top, Yoongi found that issues that he never experienced started appearing. In the photo below we see Yoongi alone in the middle in a very enlighted place. However, underneath him are shadows that can represent monsters or the prejudice and talks the world projects in him. They can’t touch him but if he just looked around for a second he can see them, and that alone is pretty traumatizing. Look at it like the criticism and hatred he receives just because he is famous. People say words do not affect celebrities but they do and the times proved that to be sharper than a knife. Suga raps “ shadow at my feet Look down, it’s gotten even bigger. I run but the shadow follows. As dark as the light’s intense. I’m afraid, flying high is terrifying ” Yoongi is scared of his shadow and the dark side of stardom.

“No one told me How lonely it is up here I can leap in the air but also plunge Now I know running away could be an option too, pause People say, there’s splendor in that bright light But my growing shadow swallows me and becomes a monster”

Suga ow is very popular. But he is suffering the downhills of stardom. Like in the photo below people are on his door trying to get in brutally. He has NO privacy.If you follow BTS a little bit you would have heard of “stalker fans”, They buy information about them like their flights, whereabouts and so on and stalk them everywhere and anywhere. This could also be the media that always tries to find a scandal about the BTS members. Now he breathes and the world need to know he did.

The doors that led to him at the start that were well closed are now wide open. There is nowhere to hide. Only one door is left closed and it’s the door that only Yoongi can open. The door to quit being an artist and leave this career.

“I run but the shadow follows. As dark as the light’s intense”. We have now a sad and depressed Yoongi that has reached the top and for the first time he stopped wishing all the things he wanted before and considered the option of leaving it all. He might have his members but he is still lonely. Because aside from them he has so little real friends. People see him as ‘Suga the worldwide star’ not ‘Yoongi the human’ “ I’m afraid, flying high is terrifying. No one told me. How lonely it is up here. I can leap in the air but also plunge. Now I know running away could be an option too, pause “. Also in this scene, the people in black are running around trying to find him and reach him. They are not giving him space or the choice to choose who he can deal with. They are all throwing their thoughts, belives and bodies on him.

Yoongi who once wanted to reach the top. Screams now into a mic in front of a sea of people that only looks at him wishing to no more shine or fly. Imagine having these beautiful dreams for years but people make them turn into nightmares. So you just wish to wake up but the dream is now a reality, so what to do? Where to run? How to go back in time and erase it all?

In the next scene, if you look closely, time goes backward and so are his thoughts. The guy who once only pushed forward is going backward and the doors that opened wide are now closing one by one. The words “I wanna be a star. I wanna be the top…” He is rapping them now in a lower less confident tone. He questions himself and his path.

As he raps the same words he started with. He for the first time leaves the him on the stage and another yoongi who is part of the crowd (normal people) but facing the stardom with his back appears. What does he want? He just wants in the middle of all this drama to be himself.

And this yoongi who is part of the crowd is no other than his shadow (Cr to hanavmin on Twitter for pointing this part out)

They say that people come at peace with their good side when they acknowledge their dark side. Suga says to his shadow “I am you, you are me”. We see now a Suga that came down of the stage to his most frightening place: The middle of the attention and crowd, yet he raps confidently. One thing to take more into account is that the camera shows not just ONE Suga but many personas.

Even if there is a sad part of it. How Yoongi walks in the middle of the crowd and no one cares about him and they all look up to Suga. Yoongi will still try to tell us all that even if can’t all relate to his situation of being a megastar known by many and who has suffered from stardom. We can all relate to the fact of having a dark side. Of being scared of what people think and will say. Of being afraid of what path we choose. Of being frightened by something called judgment. Yoongi tells us all that once we accept our shadow and know that it’s there, it will be easier to cope with it and we will feel more at ease.

Now that Yoongi acknowledges all of this. He is is more at ease with who he is and becomes. he doesn’t even care about the phones/cameras/attention around him.

The last scene is very baffling. You know how many said that “Stardom is a bubble that eventually pops”. Yoongi knows that there will come a day he will no more be as popular and the public will move on. So he just disappears in the last clip and the phones turn into the front to shoot someone else, someone new, someone who is not him. This last scene can also mean that this same attention that he suffers from, you might be suffering from it. You might not be a celebrity but with the growth of social media and such, no one is safe.

Many artists and rappers especially rap about their fame and wealth, but it’s rare for someone to talk about the dark side of it and the insecurities it brings. BTS always meant to bring a change and bring light on topics many ignore. I hope this analysis made you love this song more.

One more thing I would like to add is that O!RUL82? was seen many times on the video. O!RUL82? was an era where BTs wished to be famous. But they now tasted the fame and it’s not as sweet as they thought.

Wow!! I love this song sooo much and I hope you learned one thing or two reading this analysis. I hope you liked it. And if you repost it outside of Tumblr pls credit me properly ( a mere Cr mimibtsghost on Tumblr will be enough. Thanks). By @mimibtsghost

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