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byeoltan

DID YOU KNOW?

that 뱁새 (baebsae) are birds called crow tits, which are any of various small birds of paradoxornis or related genera that resemble tits found especially in korea. its these little guys right here ^^

cute, aren’t they? ;DD

now, there’s a korean proverb that goes like this, “뱁새가 황새 걸음을 걸으면 가랑이 가 찢어진다” which translates to, if a crow-tit walks like a stork, it will break its legs, meaning if you overdo something or try to imitate someone better than you to make yourself look more/better than you are, you will just bring more hardship upon yourself.

so when rapmon and suga starts the song with

they call me baebsae we were cursed at, this generation quickly, chase ’em thanks to the stork, my legs spread so call me baebsae we were cursed at, this generation quickly, chase ’em my teachers who were born with a gold spoon and chopsticks

they mean

the society calls us a try hard we had a hell of a hard time, our generation so quickly, chase ‘em away cos thanks to the storks’ societal boundaries, our legs are bruised so call us a try hard we had a hell of a hard time, our generation quickly, chase ’em away our teachers who were born with it all

because in korean society, crow tits refer to normal people/lower class or the younger generation while storks refer to the ‘better’ higher class people, or supposedly, the older generation.

and i like how j-hope voices his concern by pressing on this issue further and mention the stuff normal people face everyday like

if you go to a part-time job, it’s “passion pay” if you go to school, it’s the teachers the superiors who use violence/abuse their authorities and the media that go on about every day about “the forsaken generation”

i thought people should know that “열정페이” or “passion pay” is a term koreans refer to the extremely low wage that companies pay to young people where these workers get paid much less than they should be getting (often less than minimum wage) for a job in hopes that the workers’ “passion” will somehow compensate for the lack of a livable wage. its terrible.

as for “포 세대” or “the forsaken generation”, when IMF crisis happened in the late 90s, a lot of countries suffer from economical depression, including south korea. and because of the social pressures and economical problems such as rocketing prices, tuition, housing prices, and so on, a lot of people in this generation are said to easily give up on few things central to what is normally considered a complete life, like, love, marriage, and raising children. and it’s precisely because of this term used in the song is why i think ‘stork’ is also referred to the older generation, in addition to the higher class people ^^

i also thought it was brilliant how suga just single handedly pointed out why the societal boundaries set by the storks are ridiculous and not fair because

i have the legs of a crow tit, you have the legs of a stork they say, my legs are worth a million dollars but mine are short, so how can we play/do the same events? they say, if it’s the same meadow, it’s okay Never Never Never

he is saying that his generation are at a disadvantage compared to the storks because crow tits and storks are obviously DIFFERENT species so they are playing in a different meadow, its poles apart, which is NEVER OKAY

and rapmon made it clear when he said he wanted to

change the rules, change change. the rules that the storks want to, want to maintain. but we can’t do that now, can we? BANG BANG. (cos) this isn’t normal. (cos) this isn’t normal.

to which v and jin replied in the storks pov

ah, stop singing on about effort, effort ah, it makes me cringe (viscerally disgusted). ah, effort effort, ah, effort effort (whatever) ah, you don’t really stand a chance~

that had all of them yelled out

as expected of the storks!

at the last line, because of f course you higher class/older generation would say such things, do you even care..

fyi they use 싹수가 노랗다 in the song that literally means “your chances are yellow”, a common saying in korea to indicate that there is no hope at all because metaphorically speaking, there is a chance for a tree to grow tall if it stems from a green shoot but if you grow from a yellow shoot, there is almost no chance. its sort of a harsh thing to say to someone tbh

which is why when jimin and jungkooks’ part came i died because first of all, jimin and jungkookss voice, second of all jimin and junskooks voice, and third of all jimin and jungkooks voice they’re actually teasing the storks like

as expected of storks, they don’t disappoint as expected of storks, they earn their name as expected of storks, they eat/take it all as expected of storks, of the storks~~~~

and that part where jungkook’s voice goes off

saying that it’s my fault, you’re joking, right? saying that it’s fair, oh are you crazy saying that this is justice you must be kiddin’ me you must be kiddin’ me you you must be kiddin’ me

he is basically saying that it is outrightly insane for the society to blame them for their supposedly failures when they didn’t have a chance in the first place!

which is why the ending chorus gets me every time because instead of putting down the storks, they end up humbly BUT resonantly stating that, okay,

we are crow tits, we don’t disappoint we are crow tits, we’ve earned our name we are crow tits, let’s live together we are crow tits, crow tits

like, despite everything though, isn’t it best to just live equally and get along well together?

i guess what bangtan is trying to say is that even if they were born without gold spoon and chopsticks, they will still work hard to overcome societal boundaries, like, despite coming from a relatively small company, despite being aware of the rigid social expectations of being an idol as well as having to face media favoritism on big companies, knowing they will get hurt a lot, they will still try hard to achieve success, and ‘chase’ away the storks in the entertainment industry.

also i think its important to know that while crow tits are active, noisy, and social birds, they are also highly adaptable, and are amongst the most intelligent of all birds after parrots and the corvids (crows and jays) <33

on a rather irrelevant note,

how can they be dorkS

and gorgeous at the same time??

I MEAN

byeoltan

Let me tell you what’s going on in South Korea right now and why K-netz are critcizing idols partying and uploading selcas on Halloween/active on SNS, they have legitimate reasons because

i just saw i-nets bashing k-netz left and right when they don’t know the gravity of the situation, so first of all, please read this article, and about this mass protest in Seoul against South Korean President Park Geun-hye just yesterday, calling the president to step down over allegations that allowed a close personal friend to meddle in state affairs. also, this wonderful explanation

the girl’s mother, choi soon-sil, who is currently in germany (she said she couldnt return to seoul yet for official interrogation due to nervous breakdown and heart issues, like lady, please), is said to have influenced president park in private on everything from her wardrobe to her strategy on tackling the north korean regime. and THAT IS SCARY because her dad, choi tae min, was well known in south korea as the head of a cult-like religious group until his death in 1994. he even went as far as to allegedly had helped the-before-president park contact her late mother in the afterlife and has been known to enjoy considerable influence over ms park as a young politician, prompting diplomats to refer to him in private as “korea’s rasputin.”

now rasputin is a russian peasant, mystical faith healer, and trusted friend of the family of nicholas II, the last tsar of russia.

Rasputin (as put out by MiMo, i couldnt have said it better bby i hope youre okay with me putting your comment out here <3) is a hobo who claimed to be a spirit doctor. He gained influence when he was hired to “heal” Tsar Nicholas II’s wife edit: son, eventually coming to rule the country. His fine work as a de facto ruler was the last straw in an already declining Tsarist Russia, triggering the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that gave rise to the Soviet Union. That’s why people are calling out those who are partying right now. 99 years ago, a controversy like this caused a country to self-destruct.

now can you imagine why koreans are freaking out???

i also wanna add here that during a comeback, artists are usually allowed to perform more than one song in their first week of comeback and proceed with just one song for the following weeks of promotion, but just yesterday (on the same day of teh mass protest), we have bangtan performing ‘am i wrong’ on mbc’s music core in their third week promotion, like seriously, how?? what a perfect? timing?? imean, you can read all about what theyre saying here but

LOOK AT THE CHOREO??

UM???

edit: apparently some of you guys didnt get the choreo bit, thats okay ^^ lemme just reiterate what ive already written here, the first gif of suga, v, and jimin, is referencing to ppl just scrolling through the news/comments and not give a damn about whats happening in the country (or around the world), the bystanders are thought to be teh crazier ones hvg able to just live like that in this crazy world. the second gif is the members ‘enacting’ like dogs and pigs, an indirect jab towards their government official who not long ago, during an interview, had made disparaging remarks towards the south koreans, saying that 99% of his country’s people are “like dogs and pigs.”