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Our award finally came in!  #BestAndBrightest2017

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I've always seen Seungri as the thread to BB's dress. You can try to wrap the fabric around you, but everyone knows that what truly makes a dress durable is a qualitative thread and without it you'll end up with the fabric pooling at your feet. Seungri molds himself into each member's personality and matches each of hyungs' voices. Just like The Guardian said, he brings a little bit of everything and IMO he manages to make it complete.

Beautifully put, anon. Early on in my first encounter with bigbang I wondered if they would have been successful without him - and I realized they wouldn’t. His voice is what makes bigbang bigbang, not just in the sense that the five members are all indispensable but because his voice has this beautiful quality in supporting and magnifying any member’s voice. It is subtlety and sweetness, honesty and pain. It adds depth to voices and melodies where previously there was not. All of bigbang are perfect the way they are - but nobody else can convey inherent, accepted pain as well as seungri can. Just listen to love box, to blue, to bad boy. He acts with his voice, and so his voice suits everything.

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Cassiopeia: favorite book? and Gemini: favorite song?

I answered Cassiopeia here.

Gemini: favorite song?

I’m going to have to say more than one because one isn’t enough. My favourite BIGBANG song is Bad Boy. Perhaps not the most lyrical of their songs, but my favourite for feel alone. Calm enough to give me rest. Fast enough to make me feel like a queen. Close on its heels would be Monster, Blue, and Lies, but really my second favourite song is Wings. There is something heart-rendingly beautiful about Daesung singing about how he found his wings in a time of despair. He sang that song after a time so dark he considered leaving. My favourite lyric of all is Trust in me, and I will become your wings. That song embodies Daesung. It is him because it is happiness in suffering and freedom in imprisonment.

@substantiallysizedbang thanks for this <3

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Hey there, I'm a new VIP and I'm wondering what happened to Daesung because I always see something about an accident. Thank you for helping!

Sorry I took so much time to respond to this…I came upon this rather late at night and I didn’t want to go through the emotional strain of writing something that would take a long time and is so serious.

I’ll put it under a cut because this is really heavy stuff.

Basically what happened was that in 2011, Daesung was driving in the early hours of the morning when the visibility wasn’t good, and suddenly came upon a taxi that had stopped right in the middle of the road. He later said because he was so shocked and wasn’t expecting it, he slammed on the brakes instead of swerving like he could have, and bumped into the back of the taxi. But when he got out to ask the taxi driver if he was okay, the taxi driver told him there had been a downed motorcylist behind the taxi, and the reason the taxi had stopped was that the motorcylist had crashed into the back of the taxi a little while earlier.

The motorcyclist died. Now what had to be determined was whether the motorcyclist had died from the crash or from Daesung’s car. The public opinion flared up and even though nothing had been confirmed yet - the fault of the death or Dae’s speed or anything, people had already begun to call him a killer. Later on it was confirmed that the motorcyclist, though injured in the initial crash with the taxi, had indeed died because of Daesung’s car. However, in the end the court cleared him of all charges of speeding, drunk driving, everything except a failure to properly assess the road and what was ahead of him, so he had his driving license suspended for a while, and that was it.

But the public opinion had completely turned against Daesung. He kept himself locked up in his parent’s house, only leaving for church. With his personality he was very hurt and in a cycle of questioning whether he was at fault - even though everyone close to him, the taxi driver, and even some of the victim’s family told him it was something that happened, could barely be avoided, and he should move on. He even stated later on that if it wasn’t for his faith, he might have followed all the bad thoughts that reading the online comments made him think.

It took a long while for him to come back out of his shell - In the latter part of that year, he went to the EMAs with the rest of bigbang to pick up their Best Worldwide Act award, and shot Extraordinary 20′s with them, but he was still very much affected by what had happened. To make it worse, around the same time GD was hit with a very serious scandal. The fact the first time bigbang managed to get together as a group after these two incidents was at the EMAs helped, but it was a very difficult time for all of them.

The incident effectively killed off Daesung’s variety career, and he was very quiet about it for a long time after it happened, until the middle of the Alive era when he and GD went on Healing Camp to explain the incident and the aftermath. It was a very emotional episode…but you could see how all of BIGBANG stuck together as family through it all.

TOP grew closer to Daesung after the incident. He started showing his affection for his dongseng more publicly. GD grew quieter, showed less of happy bouncy Jiyong. But they all supported each other. Look at Daesung and Jiyong’s smiles, now - they look no different to their younger days.

Wings was in a way a response to it all, for Daesung. It showed how he dealt with it all. I couldn’t be more proud of him.

I hope this answered your question, anon. I would advise to watch Healing Camp for more info.

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Our song is: Who you, G-Dragon

“A pair of dirty flowers bloomed by the street

Instead of the expensive purse that I couldn’t get you

Instead of shoes I bought a pillow, wet with tears.”

“Baby I hate you baby I loved you

Ma baby hate you

Baby love you du du du du du who you?”

jiyongpng I’m starting to notice a pattern in Jiyong’s songs. Nearly all the ones with happy, bubbly melodies are actually supremely depressing in terms of lyrics. It makes sense in the way that they all apply to a singer who is confused; the singer/main character of Who You is just such an example. The girl he loves is so horrible to him that he begins to be confused; her image is beginning to be corrupted in his eyes but he does not know how to equate this with the love he has for her. He sobs himself to sleep on a pillow soaked with tears. He sees filth where he should see beauty in flowers.

So…who is this girl he sings to? He doesn’t know. The beautiful part of her, or the girl who hurts him? The person he hates or the person he loves, or a combination of the two? Who? Who you?

Send me a “♪” and I’ll shuffle my iPod, tell you our song and my favourite line from it~

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Our song is: Bad Boy, BIGBANG

“Baby, I can’t, I’m so bad that I want to be good to you but it’s hard

Every day and night I’m so mean.”

“The bride in my dreams is just a friend now

Upset over the breakup, we are silent.”

“Don’t say a thing

I act tough but I’m not inside

Don’t abandon me

You know that there’s no one who will understand me like you, baby.”

daeseungie Bad Boy is my favourite BB song simply for the vibe. It’s chill but fast enough to be energising. The lyrics, however, are as usual much sadder than the melody. I’m thinking that Bad Boy is sort of like a toned-down version of Monster? There is no indication that the singer of Bad Boy has a mental illness - simply personality issues. But as always there are deeper nuances. At first the singer seems to be exactly what the chorus suggests: a bad boy who cannot change. But he begs his girlfriend to understand that he tries to be different - he’s just bad at being good. And within him there’s a fear of abandonment that no amount of external toughness will dissolve.

And actually, my favourite line is the one I quoted in the middle there: how the bride of his dreams becomes just a friend. The feelings they had for each other faded away until it couldn’t be called romantic love anymore. This isn’t a violent breakup. It just…is. This is something little explored in mainstream kpop and I applaud the subtlety of it in this song.

Send me a “♪” and I’ll shuffle my iPod, tell you our song and my favourite line from it~

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Our song is: Monster, BIGBANG

“Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go, don’t leave me

Don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, it’s not like you

Getting farther away, love is breaking apart

Don’t find me, don’t find me, don’t find me, don’t look for me

The last, last, last image

of me in front of you, remember that, don’t forget me.”

lostinbigbangwonderland this section is part of the reason Monster is one of my very favourite BIGBANG songs. The contradictory commands show the breakdown of the mind, and it sounds great when read in English. In Korean, it’s kajima kajima kajima, quickly followed by hajima hajima hajima, and then chajjima chajjima chajjima, and majimag majimag majimang. By the end of this section, all five members are singing together but discordantly and in varying levels of volume. I’ve always loved how Monster could be interpreted as a person having split-personality disorder and each member being a representation of that, but this is really what turns Monster into an auditory magnum opus, in my opinion, of BIGBANG’s work.

Send me a “♪” and I’ll shuffle my iPod, tell you our song and my favourite line from it~

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Our song is: This isn’t it, Taeyang

“I worry throughout the day

the medicine of time has passed

but this isn’t it, this isn’t it, this isn’t it.”

“I tried emptying out my heart that’s filled with you

hoping something movie-like would happen to me.”

stseungri I feel that dissecting this song won’t be a simple matter. The title itself is a phrase that I think has a specific connotation in Korean, often said to express how something shouldn’t be done/can’t be done/isn’t right. For example, a hyung will tell a dongseng that “This isn’t it,” if they do something wrong. I’m probably not explaining this anywhere near its full potential but this is a start. There is reference to how time is supposed to heal all - but it hasn’t worked. So when he repeats “this isn’t it” he really is berating himself, telling himself all of this is wrong and isn’t right and won’t fix anything.

As for the second section of lyrics…I don’t really need to explain it. It’s beautifully sad.

Send me a “♪” and I’ll shuffle my iPod, tell you our song and my favourite line from it~