Rapline's perfectly placed for style in this song. HS's rap at the end is the climax of the song, and it comes after a kind of self-rebuke that TH sings in the bridge, that 활활 mimetic feels so great and fits so well with the swell on the music and talking about a blaze. +
And then all NJ's -어지네 constructions. So NJ sometimes does this thing where the kludges grammar that doesn't usually go together, and you know what it means, but it's not how you'd normally say it and it's interesting. +
The fade feels like things are getting further away or disappearing or crumbling away One of my favorite, and I think the funniest text painting bits in Bangtan discography is during Namjoon's rap in this song. There's something very sweet about this line (~2:03) +
These kinds of little repetitions repeat throughout the song, to different effect. The 더 더 더 along with the string of short-duration, faster notes before it give it a bit more of a driving feeling. In the next two lines, there's another repetition in YG's rap where there's a fading repeated 같아서 +
There's a buncha text painting in this song that I really like. JK's line: 더 더 더 잡을 수 없어 난 I c-c-can't hold you anymore That little 더 더 더 really feels like something is tumbling out of your hands and you're making a bit of an desperate, unsuccessful, barely coordinated grab at it +
저희는 올해 그래미에 출품하지 않기로 했습니다. We decided not to submit for the Grammys this year. 음악이 지역이나 언어로 구분되기보다 음악 그 자체로 들리고 사랑 받을 수 있기를 바랍니다. We hope that rather than being sorted by region or language, music can be heard and loved just as itself. +
This gremlin Yoongi giving that little gremlin dog the best head scritches and giving his little snaggletooth gremlin void kitty the best butt pats Best gremlin life all around
Been in the forest for the past three days and already miss being outside continuously..
I got to see so many flowers (and very cute marmots eating flowers) because it's the beginning of the summer bloom here!
Saw a buncha v. pretty flowers yesterday, but Bsky wouldn't let me post them so trying again
I made this kind of janky card for my Korean study buddy and good friend's upcoming wedding. It's going in this ridiculously cute bread bag being used as an envelope
I kinda love it this XTEink x4 eReader, and (in the US anyway) it comes unlocked. So flash some firmware onto it, and it renders Korean ebooks like a champ! Also hooray for escaping locked ecosystems!! It's super light and tiny. Nice lil' medium tech, minimalist device
This undoctored/unfiltered picture shows the color of the water better. It's this beautiful blue-green from the water itself and the reflection off the leaves from the trees
Blue Hold State Park in Texas. The loveliest swimming hole surrounded by cypress trees
Context: Arirang is a 민요 (folk song) that has been passed down through oral tradition with possibly thousands of regional variations. What they sampled in B2B is maybe the most well-known verse from 경기도 (the province with Seoul in it). Screenshots are from a kids history book called 우리 문화 첫발 +
I took this photo. It's the 월정규 in 경주. It's a recreation of the longest wooden bridge in SK originally built during the Unified Silla period. Absolutely beautiful lit up at night and you can walk across it in the covered area, and it feels like magic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woljeon...
Also enjoying this Weverse example for 만연 (rampant, very prevalent, endemic/epidemic) [완전 신났어] [만연한 보조개] 줘봐! [So excited] [Look at his dimples] Give it to me! Dimples can be rampant?
Incredible Naver dict example sentence: Starbucks infest the planet like corporate locusts that quietly but steadily eat away at local cultural foliage. 스타벅스는 조용하지만 꾸준하게 지역 문화를 갉아먹는 기업 사냥꾼들처럼 지구촌에 만연하고 있다. #studyingKorean
Yeah, probably, but it's things like YG's line in 2.0: 10년은 말야 어림 반 푼어치 어림 반 푼어치 has this wealth of cultural context around it that makes the beginning of the 2.0 mv extra funny, but I don't think I've seen anyone explain it...idk. It's just always gonna be a lot to convey and take in, I guess
Not exactly the same, but Ursula Le Guin's line comes to mind. So songs like Magic Shop and Mikrokosmos are for us, not for critics or GP because snobs don't consider that kind of music as art
To totally brag, my organic-shaped vegetable packing estimation skills are very good. I apportioned exactly The right amount to pack this jar lol