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Hey friends!!

I have been editing and re-editing this reaction ALL WEEK trying to get it past YouTube copyrights and it just has not worked. I dunno whyyyyyy (I've seen other channels post their reactions and tried to basically copy what they did... no luck).

SO, posting it here for you all to see!

Ms. Jennie Kim is giving us her full artistry in this solo era and I am HERE FOR IT.

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blackeyedpea b

Yeah Jennie really feels like a complete artist who's found her sound and has a clear vision for her career even as she experiments, I used to be Lisa biased simply because she is the best performer on stage but Jennie's solo music really stole my heart, she may not be the best singer or the best dancer of her group but she truly makes the best music imo. She said she will talk about what the mv means to her eventually but wants fans to enjoy it themselves and draw their own conclusions first! And the creepiness was probably intentional since she's mentioned being inspired by horror movies like Weapons and Frankenstein lately for her solo music visuals! But she also said she always tears up when she re-watches the scene with the children so it was also meant to be emotionally moving as well as unsettling, I'd say. As for my own analysis of the MV, it is going to be LOOOOOONG so let me post a second comment with it lol.

blackeyedpea b

My analysis of the MV/song: The song itself and the lyrics, I think clearly represent being "fallen" from "heaven" after a breakup. In the MV those black and white film scenes that were played in reverse were all breakup scenes, so she is trying to reverse them ("Hey, can't you stay?"). And as you can see, in the MV she personifies a literal angel fallen from heaven, looking for a home and love, but her desire for freedom ends up burning/destroying the homes she finds. The butterflies she followed (and burned down the house in the process) representing metamorphosis and freedom for me. We see butterflies in the TV screen or pinned butterflies in frames, but she is following the real, alive ones instead of the artificial. The frozen blue roses are also super personal to her, I don't know if you know but they are Jennie's favorite flowers that her mother gives her every year on her birthday, so I see it as her trying to keep them frozen to preserve the innocent idealistic dreams and love of her childhood, that feeling of "home". But eventually we see the child, who represents Jennie's inner child to me, lead her right into the fire and they reunite, showing Jennie that the savior and the love and the home that she is searching for and trying to preserve is already within herself. She might be "fallen" but she can "turn wherever she landed into a home" and be free enough to "fly" again even under the watchful eyes of the public (which to me is represented by the houses with the eyes surrounding Jennie's inner child in the beginning, it can be read as a critique of fame/idol industry as well). The images at the very beginning of her falling into water also give me further rebirth and transformation imagery as water can represent that just as fire does, of changing through hardships and blooming despite them, tying into the words spoken at the end about the most beautiful roses blooming from sharp thorns. The MV ends with both Jennie and her inner child finding solace within the fire and the nest of thorns, in red, representing the roses just as the little girl says. When the camera POV switches to Jennie looking at us and gently closing the eyes of her inner child and ours too in the process, it feels like both Jennie bidding farewell to her past to embark on her next chapter, and Jennie telling us, the audience, that we too can and should be our own home, our own savior, and even in fire, even among the thorns, we will bloom.

Sofaking6

I keep going back to Lucifer the fallen angel and that one quote about all the devils being here on earth. I love art that pushes us to think and feel and gawd Jennie is doing that.