Unleash the theories! The way I see it, the story in this music video is simple (finally). And yet complex, as all things are with BTS. I've gone through the music video frame by frame, and analysed everything, to come up with a conclusion as to what it's all about. I hereby present you with my results. They're running up the mountain with hooded figures in black following behind them. Although I think this music video is more a continuation of the 'Dope' (work hard to achiev

Long theory ahead! I'd say that this entire era, since the Most Beautiful Moment in Life (HYYH) until You Never Walk Alone, carries the overall theme of letting go and moving on. Death in storytelling is often a way to express the act of letting go, of something, or of someone. But this is a theory post and we want specifics; we want to know what every scene means, and every detail. So let's start at the beginning. The Most Beautiful Moment in Life As a theorist, I was please

When I first saw the track list, I had a feeling that Spring Day would be a sad song. I was writing a post about the Sewol Ferry Incident and what it means that BTS donated to the families, and when I saw that title 'Spring Day' all I could think was: this is going to be a sad and possibly quite political song. Warning If you a sensitive to topics such as death and tragedy do not read on as this post will use examples from the real tragedy of the Sewol Ferry sinking. And then

Aka: Why it's all a dream and Jin is the dreamer. In recent MVs BTS have made a lot of pop culture references to various films; Chatroom, Silence of the Lambs, Peter and Wendy, Lost River, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and many others I have not yet had the time to dwell into and talk about. Well, there is yet another pop culture reference that has been hiding in plain sight..! (Same Suga, same...) The references are so obvious to me that for ages I didn't even think about

Let's swing right into it! What a familiar scene: Jungkook on a swing, just like in the Blood, Sweat & Tears MV. And then the swing comes back burning. FLYING & FIRE In my Blood, Sweat & Tears symbolism blog I aligned Jungkook on the swing with a desire to fly, both because of a passage in Herman Hesse's 'Demian' and the constant references to the story of Icarus. Sum up: Icarus and his father were trapped on island. To escape his father fashioned wings for them to fly away b

Today I'll be looking at some correlations between the BTS MVs and short films, and Lewis Carroll's novel: 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There'. The novel is a sequel to Alice in Wonderland written in 1871. The novel starts with Alice sitting in an armchair and playing with Kitty, a black cat. Alice pretends that Kitty talks back to her and that Kitty is in fact the Red Queen in a game of chess. Kitty, however, doesn't play along and Alice lifts the cat and

After BigHint : Begins and BigHint : Neverland, it's time to wrap up this trilogy with one final BigHint! HINT 3: PSIQUE and CUPID Like the hint in Neverland theory, this hint was also shared as a hashtag on BigHit's official instagram at the release of the concept photos for 화양연화 pt.1. The hashtags on most of their photos are standard ones like #butterfly (in three different languages) and #DREAM but on the photo of this hand, they added one other hashtag: #Psique The hand b

I'll be assessing some early hints by BigHit (also known as BigHint). Earlier I looked at the first of three hints: BTS Begins. Here I'll look at the second one. HINT 2: NEVERLAND BigHit gifted us the next hint through their instagram page where they revealed the concept photos for 화양연화 pt.1 While writing my theory for the complete HYYH and Wings era (still working on it) I went through old concept photos and something strange stuck out to me in their hashtags on instagram. I

​It seems that BigHit has been trolling us since way before what we thought was the beginning of theories! After an in depth analysis and theory of the Blood, Sweat and Tears MV and a theory on Chatroom I'm back with more! This time my theory concerns three early hints that BigHit gave us about the 화양연화 (HYYH) and Wings era. It'll be in three parts, one for each hint. Here's the first! HINT 1: BTS BEGINS Let's start at the beginning, exactly one month before the release of 화양

We really need to talk about how this film connects with the Blood, Sweat and Tears music video, Army! For those of you who don't know it, 'Chatroom' is a British film from 2010, directed by Hideo Nakata (a Japanese filmmaker perhaps best known for his horror film 'The Ring', and it was referenced in the Blood, Sweat and Tears MV. The film is about five troubled and partially suicidal friends teens who meet up in an online chatroom and talk about their problems. Nothing stran

I hereby present all the symbolism I've found in the BTS music video for Blood, Sweat & Tears. I've analysed statues, artworks, 'Demian' quo