The camera angles are not better but the resolution certainly is.
My Jeon-Park house elf status is hopefully now assured. I can chill, secure in the knowledge that the Jeon Jungkook 2016 chin-jerk shoulder drop is captured for eternity in full screen 1080p, safe in the arms of my hard drive (and yours should you choose to save it AND I SUGGEST YOU DO)
ALSO CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT HOW PRETTY THE JEON-PARKS ARE BECAUSE OMGGGG SOOOO PRETTY
Coming of Age Jikook is possibly my personal favorite of all the Pre-Jeon-Park-Household-Status Jikooks. They are a highly superior jikook. That is all.
The Festa is the celebration of BTS’ debut on the 13 June 2013. It takes place in the first half of June, with something being released almost every day. There are usually dance practices, songs, photo albums, and members’ profiles.
Here’s the program for the 2016 Festa:
The constellations fit with the boys’ zodiac signs. From top to bottom, left to right:
Gemini (BTS)
Virgo (RM and Jung Kook)
Libra (Jimin)
Pisces (SUGA)
Capricorn (V)
Sagittarius (Jin)
Aquarius (j-hope)
Opening Ceremony: 알아요 (I know) By RM & JK
Lyrics
'뱁새' (Baepsae) Dance Practice (흥 ver.)
Photo Album : '3rd June'
가족사진 'Real Family Picture'
Episode
The pictures with the Capsule T-shirts were taken in Chicago in July 2015 while the boys were shooting the NOW 3 Dreaming Days. @GetOnSwag identified the model of shirt they’re wearing (tweet #1, tweet #2, tweet #3) and Jin’s watch
The pictures with uniforms are actually references to the shows made by the boys on Vlive:
Hello! Did you ever talk about Festa 2016 BTS spanking each other? What do you think about Jungkook’s reactions? Not Jikook, but in general? Because he doesn’t give me the straight vibe at all. Not in a creepy way. It’s just that everyone except Jungkook seems rather chill? And he’s a little bit too much excited? But trying not to let it show? Or I am wrong and his reactions seemed awkward because he was the youngest and shy? The link: https://youtu.be/NGR30ZDzN-w
Your link, anon :)
And it is cute. But since we watch original content in this house, here is the longer version. And it is long - so by all means enjoy the edit of the spanky spanky part. THIS BEAST IS AN HOUR+ but it's totally worth it BECAUSE
We get to see a lot of what went on right at FESTA 2016. This was actually filmed on June 12 that year.
And there are some amazing moments. At 23:30-25:00 Yoongi starts talking about a guy he knows who was talking to him about Jimin, for example, and we get this.
A bit of a half-pleased, half really shy/ embarrassed JeiKei. And why not when his hyungs are all basically talking about how Jimin is so sexy that guys in other groups can’t stop talking about him.
We do get a camera cut-off moment around 44:00 as well:
Personally? I don't think Jungkook is being overly gay about the spanking. First off for most of us spanking games are just super gay in and of themselves, but it is kinda locker room humor and I really think the guys were viewing it that way. Okay maybe not Yoongi. That dude just … hung out there for a minute.
I never paid that much attention to YoonMin but damn, Yoongi. Wanna talk about nothing straight going on here, that boy was a mess for Jimin this whole video. And if you watch that’s really where you see Jungkook’s shy come out. He’s a mess, this guy.
Jungkook does seem to be a little shy about the sheer magnificence of Jimin's ass but really? Can't blame him. JeiKei was rather interested in Jimin doing the spanking:
I think there was a combo platter of feelings going on for Jungkook that whole FESTA season. He wanted so much to prove he was an adult. And at 20 Korean age, almost 19 international? He was. But he spent so much of his formative time working that he really didn't get to grow up normally.
I mean if you think about it, by 2016 Jungkook had been working and living with all those guys for years. The only person he was still shy around was Jimin. And that, for obvious reasons.
When you've been taught your whole life that your basic attraction to people is built wrong, that makes you doubt your whole self.
Along comes Jimin who upended every idea about traditional beauty, masculinity, and sexuality he'd ever been taught. And the kid fought it, he tried, but by 2016 it was a done deal. He was head over feet, as Alanis would say, and he was DONE. Done and in love and very much NOT heterosexual.
That's a lot for any kid to handle. Then you add the need for secrecy while he figured things out, uncertainty about what a relationship would mean for him, for Jimin, for the group, whether there should even be a relationship, what constitutes boyfriends vs just friends, an entire gay and also sexual awakening... that is a LOT a lot.
Queer kids don't get enough credit, IMO. Straight kids are given a lot of romantic leeway while they go through these early stages of crushes and loves and sex - but queer kids are so busy trying NOT TO BE QUEER that they don't get that.
Especially not Korean idols who live with six other guys and only a few of them maybe know who he is. Maybe up until 2015-2016 he wasn’t even sure who he was. And I don’t think Jimin was experienced enough to be a lot of help. After all, he was going through the same damn thing.
So I vote we give Kookie a bit of a pass on this one. His life was looking very different to him in the summer of 2016.
ONCE MORE FOR EMPHASIS AND COMMENTARY ... BECAUSE I SAID SO THAT'S WHY
Buckle in this is a long one with a read more linky and everything.
I AM AWARE I JUST POSTED THIS HANG ON and come along for the ride or don't it is totally your call. Because I bitch about the camera angles and the cutoffs and how WE BARELY SEE THEIR FEET WTF CAMERA PEOPLE but really it's all jealousy that I don't own this performance in 4K high definition from a full body perspective, is all.
So we are gonna bust out the Bangtan Bomb and the original video and the lyrics and the influences. We are gonna take this baby out to a nice dinner and buy her some wine and chocolate and let her get a nice buzz on and ask her nicely if she'll whisper her naughty little secrets go over rhythms and backbeats and Why Jimin Is A Damn Genius and What Happened With Rehearsal and Own It (in the next post, probably) and
just go clicky and read on if you've a mind to do so.
Are you still there? (/portalturret)
Oh thank God because here's me posting the Bangtan Sub link that I keep around for just such purposes:
WHEN I TELL YOU I BOUGHT TIMBERLANDS OVER THIS I AM NOT JOKING OKAY and me a grown ass woman adult it is embarrassing. How emotionally invested I got. Such the Jeon-Park house elf I became. Call me a joker I will not even argue the point you are probably not wrong in any event. Because kids. This is dance.
It is not perfect dance. It's not. It's... kind of a mess, in places. JeiKei's got his balls out for Jimin-ssi in the rehearsal and nukes 'em for performance, like he doesn't even look up half the time for stylistic or shy reasons I don't know. Jimin can't focus. Things Went On after rehearsal on Day One but we'll get to that... in the next post probably so this one doesn't get too long.
Y'all know this is a Park Ji Yoon cover right? You do okay. Good. But if you need a refresher course here is the original - not the music video because it's long, but the Y2K Music Bank performance because it's (a) shorter and (2) the choreo Jiminie wa Jungkookie used, mostly:
I've been a Park Ji-yoon fan since, well, forever, and this song is great and she is great and HERE ARE THE ENGLISH LYRICS:
https://lyricstranslate.com
Adult Ceremony
Hey you, why are you hesitating? I know you want me
Right now in front of you, I know what you want,
What you’re waiting for, just come here
I’m not that little girl,
You used to know anymore,
I’m a woman now
I’m thankful that you’ve waited for me
Now I’ll become a woman at your kiss
(Chorus) I’m not a little girl anymore
Don’t hesitate any longer
As much as you waited, I’ve waited for this day too
Give me twenty stems of roses, so I can feel your love
As I wait for you, I close my eyes
Hey you, I want to give you permission to give me your love
Teach me how love is so sweet and fragrant
It was hard looking at you suffering and waiting
My heart even hurt
But now came the day
where there is no reason
to wait anymore
(Repeat Chorus)
AND HOLY SHIT PEOPLE WHAT IN THE WHAT WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE JEON-PARKS EVEN DID THIS I WAS LIKE WHAT THE HELL WHO AUTHORIZED THIS? ISN'T ONE OF THEM STILL A MINOR (he wasn't but give me credit for asking okay) AND
My brain exploded, y'all. It did. And they DID THE CHOREO, mostly. With Jungkook POPPING HIS GUM and WEARING THAT HAT and THOSE PANTS MY GOD no wonder. Jimin was his own strongest soldier that day in rehearsal the boy's SHIRT WAS SEE THROUGH HE SHOWED UP ALMOST NAKED Jiminie could barely BREATHE.
And y'all don't think Jungkook showed up that day LOOKING TO GET LAID? Yes he did. He was gonna prove he was grown, thank you. And if Own It is any indication he may well have BUT AGAIN NEXT POST ANYWAY
That wasn't even the best part of the choreography. NAH. The off-beats were great. I still think Jimin put most of this together but Jungkook seemed very happy to participate. The best part of the choreo was from the second half of the performance after they just abandoned Park Ji Yoon and went straight for Billie Jean and Dangerous/Smooth Criminal via Michael Jackson's 1995 VMA performance.
Which: I think they had help since neither of them were dancing well in 1995. But maybe they didn't. Michael Jackson, personal life aside, was an absolute GOD of pop choreography. I was taught the entire 1984 tour at a classical ballet company in Texas. Not one song not five songs THE WHOLE SET LIST. Can perform the shit to this day which is HOW I KNEW that well hell, they were just doing Billie Jean right out the gate for the second half. And IT LOOKS GOOD.
(ETA for nerd reasons the very cool leg sweep battement to half-turn head pop thing and the crotch grabs are straight from the Dangerous stage at about 8:00. It was never performed exactly that way anywhere else so this is canon choreo anywayyyyy…)
If you care at all give this a watch, the good part is right after Slash so about 3:40. Not that Slash isn't great we're just not doing him today. And Dangerous/Smooth Criminal is at 8:00 and yes you have to click through to YouTube to see it because copyrights.
So yes. We have a bizarre but brilliant pairing of Park Ji-yoon and MJ by way of horny gay Jikook out there jikooking the jikookery and it plays wonderfully, actually.
Jungkook in particular has a specific jerk to his shoulders and neck that thrusts his head forward a little bit, and downward. It's less apparent now he's older but back in 2016 it was a hallmark of his dance style.
You can still see it in the My Time choreo, though - just kind of a jerk of the chin, almost. It's usually followed by him dropping his shoulders down deliberately - going into a turn is a good place to spot it, or into a transition right before a jump or drop.
Jimin can do the exact same turn choreo and shoulder drop but it doesn't have the angular, sharp look you see when Jungkook jars that shit at you. I actually like it, it's distinctive.
Kookie’s lines are also very languid for as sharp as they are... it looks like he takes extra time to unfold his limbs. He doesn't, it's an illusion that is specific to him due to his limb length. Kook is not in a hurry to get anywhere, he just shows up finished on the beat, and it's part of what makes him a great dancer. If you get a still shot mid-move his lines are nearly perfect no matter what position he's in. And it seems, although maybe isn't, entirely innate. Like, he was born with it.
Jimin OTOH is a sex dancer but we all knew this. And it's somewhat embarrassing to refer to a 20 year old Jimin as a sex dancer but let's be honest, his isolations combined with the legato of his movement... well sex plus technique equals one hell of a body roll at any given time.
He is also exceptionally precise in both his timing and his angles of movement in relation to the air and the floor. His math maths, basically, but it does so in a way that makes it look like breathing. Jimin is, to my eye, one of the most beautiful dancers ever on the planet. You can totally see why Jungkook might feel the need to prove some things.
ANYWAY I AM APPARENTLY WRITING A DAMN NOVEL ABOUT THIS OVER HERE and I am sorry, it's personal and my own problem. I'll be continuing this post (probably tomorrow) with the timeline of rehearsal to performance, plus Own It, and all that stuff. My brain hurts now. See you when I get back!
And it is About. Damn. Time.
So let's get it. Just a little reminder of this rehearsal right here:
Which was at least partly filmed on the same day as this (credit for superior work ethic, gentlemen):
And then, assuming wardrobe and timing are correct (they are I'm just being a snot) WE HAVE:
AND OH MY STARS AND GARTERS Y'ALL. This was uploaded later, in a really weird little "oops we're gonna just sliiiide this right past official channels" kind of way. Eyeball the credits of all the linked Bangtan videos and you tell me. But it's my theory that someone - likely Jungkook - wanted this video seen.
And that's NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT WHATEVER IS GOING ON WITH JIMIN, uhhhh.... sir. Young man. Get that *motions vaguely* whole zipper area thing under control. Or turn off the camera... oh. OKAY THEN.
Y'all can call that a wardrobe problem if it makes you feel less cringey about it. Random Acts of Anatomy exist, though. Still, I kept the sizes small, we don't need stuff getting bigger up in here on today.
As if that wasn't even enough we also have the FESTA performance of COAC itself within the next 24-48 hours (credit to me please steal it you are welcome):
AND then, roughly the same time frame give or take a day or two depending on the shooting schedule, we have this:
I had paragraphs written on all this. I had essays and dissertations, kids. I SPENT A WEEK OR SO FILLING PAGES WITH THOUGHTS AND NOTES ON THE CHOREO OKAY. Brian Puspos would have been so proud. Drake himself would have sent me a gift basket.
BUT. After looking and reading all my bullshit and looking some more, I decided that sometimes we just need to let the Jeon-Parks speak for themselves. We don't do that enough, just sit back and observe and go "huh" and come up with conclusions that aren't being fed to us. I trust that your eyes work as well as mine.
Sometimes we don't pick up what the boys are putting down. Sometimes the camera cuts away.
And sometimes they put it to filthy, filthy Drake lyrics and dance it out and then UPLOAD IT LIKE THEY'RE TELLING US SECRETS.
That's my opinion. You're more than welcome to form your own.
Ft. Hobi getting tiddy-poked, Yoongi looking pleased and proud as all hell, the baby Jeon-Parks breathing hard and trying not to occupy the same sweaty post-COAC space at the same time, Namjoon killing it and TAEHYUNG EATING THIS THING ALIVE DAMN SON
OR: DAMMIT Jungkook STOP POPPING YOUR GUM; ALSO Why You Drop Like That Park Jimin?
My GOODNESS Y'ALL these kids out here making me clutch my pearls. Good LORD.
We have a rapping Taehyung, dancing Kims, Jikooks just jikooking the jikookery (nbd), there's always a Hobi and even Yoongi is in here like "please steal this VCR when it comes out on paid VOD in FIVE YEARS and do something productive with it" AND WHO AM I TO ARGUE WITH MY CAT SO HERE YOU GO
And seriously, what in the gum popping slut dropping mutual seduction was all that, because the Jeon-Parks were FEELING THEMSELVES that day. And possibly each other. LORD HAVE MERCY.
