Let's talk about Indigo
I absolutely loved Indigo by Kim Namjoon a.k.a RM-- the poet who speaks of dreams and personalities and philosophies that I never hear of until it comes from him.
Bear in mind, this will absolutely be long and full of unbridled love for Namjoon.
Track no 1-- Yun
This feels like Namjoon's thoughts on being an artist that comes at the crossroads of being purely artist with no obligations to humanity, and an artist that is flawed-- yet does not let go of humanity. A sleek, slow rap song with the gorgeous vocals of Erykah Badu's chorus that breathes spirituality into the lyrics. A song of beige visuals-- a color that is meek in presentation, but bare in its beliefs.
Track no 2-- Still Life.
First of all, the MV is a refreshing feat. The use of Liminal spaces without too many tacky or glittery decorations, gives more breathing space to the groove of this song. It's a song where Namjoon screams to the screen that one thing he'll never be is a passive person. A canvas can't contain, his own reflection cannot contain his actions-- he hops along and dances and vibes. The song has the potential to be a party song, or a hang-out song-- it's a song that makes you and your friends feel invincible. Anderson Paak's vocals give a lighter contrast to Namjoon's deep voice, and helps adding onto what Namjoon is trying to say. Oh Namjoon, you sure know how to pick 'em.
Track no 3-- All day
Namjoon and Tablo speak on two parallel enemies here-- but largely it's the bad faith media. According to doolsetbangtan, "They show cool people dancing in cool clothes, when in real life there are more people with two left feet" is a translation of one of the lines in Namjoon's verse. To Namjoon, misrepresentation annoys him. To Tablo, the subjugation to what is popularised annoys him. Both are valid reasons why they are annoyed with the media.From Namjoon's words and work being misrepresented on the media, to Tablo facing the massive hate train due to online haters because they felt he was lying about his education. The electric song however, stays strong above from getting too angry. Namjoon and Tablo realises that they see things through, and as a result, they must keep their heads above the water from muddling their music. And just like that, we get a bop ya'll.
Track no 4- Forg_tful
This might be a bit of a TMI (I'm honestly so embarrassed even saying this out loud just in case no one actually reads this)-- but sometimes my anxiety and my depressive thoughts do make me forget a lot of things. This song feels a representation of that. It's a song that asks for forgiveness because the speaker is trying-- they are trying so hard but demons still persist. Memory is a frighteningly becoming a privilege. First thing Namjoon does is re-affirm his age-- he's still young, and yet he feels so guilty. The simple acoustic of the song can make it sound light and not as memorable as its previous tracks, but it's a moment for Namjoon to acknowledge certain aspects of his life. And by god, I cannot tell enough how validated I feel by this track.
Track no 5-- Closer
Visual representation of this track-- fingers clawing at sheets with yearning. The smooth track sounds sensuous but it's also the speaker getting frustrated. They are at wit's end on how to get closer to their lover. How in hell can they show how much love overflows in them? Mahalia and Paul Blanco work as great collaborators on this as they help Namjoon weave an atmosphere to this story. It's a slight cheeky song at times, but underneath it all, is the simmering coals on the speaker's desire to feel the overflow of love from their lover too.
Track no 6-- Change pt 2
A sardonic hyper-pop track. Namjoon hates being boxed. He's not the same person he was a while ago, and he hates that nobody lets him change. Towards the end of the song, there's a slight indication of him condemning another person-- basically challenging them that they would have to live a life knowing that they never would love someone like how Namjoon does. Again TMI, but this sort of reminds me of my friendship with someone during my teenager years The friendship wasn't on basis of mutual respect, and became toxic. Once I left, and I changed for the better, my ex-best friend, even though she got the friends she always wanted, loved to remind me how different I was when I was with her. It was a sarcastic and bitter jab. I of course, can't assume the nature of the relationship between Namjoon and the person he is addressing, but I love how I understood this song from a personal angle.
Track no 7-- Lonely
This song was written in Vegas this year, when Namjoon felt lonely in his hotel. I love the neon-lights this song emanates. It's full of clicks and whistles-- the sound of someone just making sounds for the sake of making sounds cuz they can't stand the silence. I can almost hear Namjoon fidgeting just for the sake of passing the time. The line-- "and now I hate the cities I don't belong"-- makes me feel the speaker used to enjoy visiting cities purely as a tourist, but now, he feels the lack of belonging even more and abhors it.
Track no 8- Hectic
This sort of feels like a shout out to his previous song from mono-- Seoul. Namjoon claims his busy life isn't romantic, but the city pop rhythm of the song confuses the listeners into thinking he's singing something magical-- a trap he leaves to show much of a victim we could be to the idea that life of a busybody is more fun than a life of someone who's quiet. This song reminds of late night drives through the busiest parts of the city, where you are stuck in traffic and can't help but observe the people around you who are impatient to get where time dictates them to go.
Track no 9- Wildflower
this song is an allegory to a certain kind of life that Namjoon wants to live as for years. He's explosive in his exhales here, and those exhales get pumped up more thanks to the power vocals of Youjeen who belts into the mic the need to scatter into the sky. The song having the same intro and outdo signifies a full circle that rests as a crown on Namjoon's vision and plans for himself. The song makes me feel emotional (almost every single track from this album does tbh), but this one is the cathartic track. It's Namjoon finally leaving behind the guilt and pursuing for a better health of his mind, his career, and his self.
Track no 10- No 2
Funny thing, but this song sounds like a lullaby being sung by two parents sshvhsdvh. It's a slow acoustic again, but unlike forg_tful, it has a lot more strobe. After wildflower, it's the calmer end, a wistful end. "My felony" rhyming with "melody". This is a song where Namjoon tells to himself that yeah you are regretful of your interviews, of the boxes you have been caged in, of all the commitments you may have forgotten, but you have survived. You maybe cringing or embarrassed by your younger self, but that was because the young you was just trying to survive. It's best to no look back, and just acknowledge that those were the steps that you needed to take to get where you are today.
In all, Indigo feels like a very fully realised album made with care and discretion. I love the sound of it, the colors it exudes, the exciting new artists it introduced me to-- everything. Namjoon bared his soul for this, and yet, does not look back. I don't think anyone will read this extra long ramble piece, I am after all still new to Tumblr, but hey! No looking back, remember?
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[KOR/ENG LYRICS]ย ๋ค๊ฝ๋์ด*(Wild Flower) by RM (with ์กฐ์ ์ง / youjeen)
Flower field, thatโs where Iโm at
Open land, thatโs where Iโm at
No name, thatโs what I have
No shame, Iโm on my grave
๋ ๋ฐ์ด ๋
์ ๋ฟ์ง ์์ ๋
When your feet donโt touch the ground
๋น์ ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋น์ ์ ๋๋ณผ ๋
When your own heart underestimates you
๊ฟ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ์ง์ด์ผํฌ ๋
When my dreams devour me
๋ด๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๋
When I donโt feel like myself
๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋ ๋
During all those times
๋ถ๊ฝ์ ๋๋ ๋๊ฒฝํ์๋ค
I longed for flames
๊ทธ์ ํ๋ คํ๊ฒ ์ง๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค
I wanted to go down beautifully
์์์ ์ ๋ถํฐ ๋ ์์ํ์์ง
Iโd imagined it before the start
๋์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์ ์ณ ์ค ์ ์๊ธธ
Smiling applause at the end
๋ ์์ํ์๋ค
I wished for that
๋ฏฟ์๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค ๋ฉ์ด์ง๋ ๋
When everything I believed in was far away
์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ช
์๊ฐ ์ด์ ๋ฉ์๊ฐ ๋์ ๋
Now, when all this fame has become shackles
์ด ์์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ฌ๊ฐ์์
Please take this greed away from me
์ด๋ค ์ผ์ด ์์ด๋
No matter what happens
์ค ๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ํ์์
Oh please, let me be me
Oh every day and every night
Persistinโ pain and criminal mind
๋ด ์ฌ์ฅ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ ๋ชป ๋ค๋ ๋ฐค
Nights I couldnโt sleep because of the sound of my heart
์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ์ฒญ์น๋ง์ ์ด์น๋ฌ
The sorrowful crescent moon hung outside the window
I do wish me a lovely night
๋ด ๋ถ์๋ณด๋ค ๋น๋ํด์ง life
A life that grew much bigger than what I was meant for
์ ๊ธฐ ๋ ์์ค๋ฅด๋ ํ์ ์ ์ ์จ ์ฅ๊ณ
I try desperately to hold on to that balloon drifting by
๋ฐ์ ธ ๋ฌผ์ด ๋์ฒด ์ง๊ธ ๋ ์ด๋์
Interrogate, ask yourself where you are right now
Where you go, whereโs your soul
Yo whereโs your dream?
์ ํ๋์ ํฉ์ด์ง๋
I want to scatter into the sky
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
์ ํ๋์ ๋๋ถ์๊ฒ
In the sky, shining so bright
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
๊ทธ ์ด๋๊น์ง๊ฐ ๋ด ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๊น
Where will my end be?
์ ๋ถ ์ง์ ๋ฆฌ ๋, ํ๋ ์ด๊น์ง ๋ค
Iโm so sick of it all, from 1 to 10
์ด ์ง๊ธ์ง๊ธํ ๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ธ์ ๋ฒ๊ฒจ์ง๊น
When will this horrid mask come off?
Yeah me no hero, me no villain
์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์๋ ๋
Iโm nothing
๊ณตํ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ณต๋ผ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ค์ ๋ํญํด
My engine keeps running even while I stay idle, my memories turn violent
๋ ๋์ ๋คํ ์์ ์์ ์ ๋์ ธ ํ๋ ์์
I lie in a field and turn my eyes to the sky
๋ญ ์ํ์๋ ๊ฑด์ง ์ด์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ์ ๋
I canโt remember what I wanted anymore
์ป์๋ค ๋ฏฟ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ํ๋ณต์ ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์ฐฐ๋
All happiness that I gained, I believed in, was momentary in the end
Yeah I been goinโ, no matter whatโs in front
๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋๊ฑด
No matter what happens
์๋ฒฝ์ ์ท์๋ฝ์ ๋ถ์ก๊ณ ๋ญ๊ฐ ํ ํด๋ด๋ ๊ธฐ์ต
I remember grabbing onto the dawnโs hem and spitting something out
๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ง ํฐ ์๋ค์ ์ฌํ
Societyโs for those who are the loudest
๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ๋งํด
I still speak silence, as always
์ด๊ฑด ๋ฐฉ๋ฐฑ, ์์ํ ๋๋จ๋ฐฐ
This is an aside, a fully mature sailboat
๋ชจ๋ ์คํด ํธ๊ฒฌ๋ค์ ๋ฟ๊ฒ
To come into contact with all the misunderstandings, the prejudice
๋ฐ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ๋์ ํน๊ฐ๋
Iโm not glad to see you lift me into the air
๋ด ๋ ๋ฐ์ด ์ฌ๊ธฐ ๋
์์
My two feet stand on the ground
์ด๋ฆ๋ ์๋ ๊ฝ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป
With nameless flowers
๋ค์ ๋ณ์ ๊ฐ ์ ์์ด I canโt
I canโt go to the stars again, I canโt
๋ฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก I just go
Underfoot, I just go
๋ชฉ์ ์๋ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ก
To a destination with no purpose
์ฌํ ์ค๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ
Without even knowing my sadness
๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๋ง์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ก
Even making friends with shadows
I be gone
์ ํ๋์ ํฉ์ด์ง๋
I want to scatter into the sky
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
์ ํ๋์ ๋๋ถ์๊ฒ
In the sky, shining so bright
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
๋ฌธ๋ ๋ฉ์ถฐ๋ณด๋ ์ฐฌ๋ํ ๋งจ๋ฐ
I suddenly stop, and my feet are resplendently bare
์๋ ๋ด ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์์์ง
Nothing was ever mine to begin with
And donโt tell me like you gotta be someone
๋ ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋
Because I can never be like them
(Light a flower)
๊ทธ๋ ๋ด ์์์ ์
Thatโs right, I started with poems
์ฌํ๊ป ๋ ์ง์ผ์จ ๋จ ํ๋์ ํ๊ณผ dream
My one and only strength and dream that protected me till now
(Light a flower)
ํ๋ ๋ถ๊ฝ์์ ๋ค๊ฝ์ผ๋ก
From a burning flame to a wild flower
์๋
์์ ์์์ผ๋ก
From a boy to eternity
๋ ์ด ํฉ๋ํ ๋ค์ ๋จ์ผ๋ฆฌ
I will remain in these desolate fields
์ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ ๋๋์๊ฐ๋ฆฌ
Ah, someday I will go back
์ ํ๋์ ํฉ์ด์ง๋
I want to scatter into the sky
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
์ ํ๋์ ๋๋ถ์๊ฒ
In the sky, shining so bright
Light a flower, flowerwork
Flower flowerwork
Flower field, thatโs where Iโm at
Open land, thatโs where Iโm at
No name, thatโs what I have
No shame, Iโm on my grave
๋ ๋ฐ์ด ๋
์ ๋ฟ์ง ์์ ๋
When your feet donโt touch the ground
๋น์ ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋น์ ์ ๋๋ณผ ๋
When your own heart underestimates you
๊ฟ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ์ง์ด์ผํฌ ๋
When my dreams devour me
๋ด๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๋
When I donโt feel like myself
๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋ ๋
During all those times
Translatorsโ Notes:
*A combination of the words โ๋ค๊ฝ/deul-kkotโ, โwildflowerโ, and โ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด/bul-kkot-nor-eeโ, โfireworkโ. Aptly referred to in the song as โflowerworkโ.
Trans cr; Aditi & Faith | Spot Check cr; Annie @ bts-trans
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