Not-so-deep analysis of the best MV ever.

After watching and re-watching what I shall continue to refer to as the best music video (MV) ever, I really wanted to write about it. Now before I start--- my opinions are solely my own and if you don't agree with them, it is not required that you follow my words as divine truth (though I wish you would). 

Here's the video again, if you missed it.

I guess I'll begin from my initial reactions to the video. Like I said yesterday, I thought it was some stupid generic sweet love song. Within the opening seconds, my opinion changed--- the tune was rather catchy, and  the casual whistling sound was really cool. Guy 1, dressed in black and sitting in the car, appears rather uninterested while the girl beside him is smiling. I thought they were a couple, and that the girl was teasing him. I was really distracted by how cute the girl was--- and when she teased him I was like, "gaaawww she's adorable."

Then when Guy 1 yelled back, I thought "oh maybe she went too far. Her actions did seem a little... brutal." Except I still thought they were a couple, and they were sorta like, play-fighting. But she laughed and ran into the arms of Guy 2. I immediately caught on that she was in a relationship with Guy 2 from the way she was acting, so I was like, "ohhhh, this is like Taeyang's Wedding Dress MV all over again, where the girl he loves marries his good friend." With that notion in mind, I failed to see the story play out any other way. 

I started feeling really bad at the point where the girl and Guy 2 flashed their engagement ring, and the girl came downstairs in her beautiful wedding dress, showing off her ring to Guy 1. It's like pouring acid on an open wound. Then Guy 1 got all emotional, and his acting was quite touching and very convincing. That's what I'm referring to when I say I can understand his heartbreak. 

Then the wedding photo scene--- getting dragged back by your best friend, and you can't refuse. Except it's a horrible, awkward situation that causes you pain, but you can't escape from. I think we can all empathize with that to a certain degree, and sad to say, I can understand all too well. When Guy 1 tore up the wedding photo, I did notice how he ripped right through the girl's image. At first I imagined to be bad tearing skills, then I thought it was symbolic of him destroying what he can't have, or he was so pained that he can't stand to see her beautiful figure. At least I got the last part right.

The ending was a shocker, eh? I guess that's what marks this video out from the rest. I had already felt bad for the guy before hand, but after realizing that he liked the guy instead of the girl, I felt even worse. Like, shit, this isn't even something you can openly mourn for. If you've ever heard Avril Lavigne's song, Girlfriend, she bashes out some guy's girlfriend and says that she's so much better.  I don't think there's any chance in hell that an ordinary guy can find enough courage to say that to the one he likes. I can only imagine how awful it'd be, being gay and loving someone who's straight.

I felt rather guilty for being surprised by the ending. I understand its function as a twist, but I feel as if it shouldn't be a twist. Why did I never consider that he might have liked the guy? Sure, the video is deliberately misleading, showing so much footage of Guy 1 and the girl together--- then there's that scene where he makes a move to touch the girl, but then she disappears, suggesting that he only imagined her. Still, there were so many hints which I just chose not to see, because I had the notion of a guy-girl relationship in mind the whole time.

After I re-watched the video, everything just became blatantly obvious. Like, of course he doesn't like her! Look how miserable he is! It was then that I start to notice how deeply the idea of a heterosexual relationship is ingrained into my mind. Even though I have nothing against (and is even supportive of) homosexual relationships, when I watched the MV, it just never came to mind. I didn't consider the possibility. 

Now I'm bashing myself for being that way, because I used to pride myself in being able to consider different options and alternatives. I had failed completely in that exercise, it seems. I didn't consider, didn't even think to consider that it could've been any other way. Argh, that's embarrassing.

Though it's okay in the end, right? I mean, I've obviously been taught to associate love and relationship with heterosexual couples, but there's no reason I can't teach myself otherwise. I believe our subconsciousness are only a level deeper than our consciousness, and if I learn from this experience, then it'll make me a better thinker.

And this is why I refer to this MV as the best MV ever.