‘Draw me a sheep’ ◕
2020 BTS FeSta As we all know’ the theme this year is a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; The Little Prince. The book categorised as a children book, however, even the author offers his book for adults. And with a good reason. But as it is a children book, it somehow a tale, too, and this is very important aspect.
After the 2020 festa schedule got released my attention went to the pictures first The only picture what is actually a ‘real’place is the king statue. It’s Saint Stephen the first Hungarian king. The psychical statue is in Budapest, Hungary at the castle near the Mathias Church and the Fisherman’s Bastion.
Every planet is also represented by a door. Pink- The King Orange - The Conceited man White - The Businessman Red - The Lamplighter Turquoise - The Drunkard Black&Gold - The Geographer Double door - Earth/Magic Shop
These are all connections to ‘The Little Prince book’. To make the reference even stronger BTS’s official Twitter page just posted a tweet asking us what he should draw for us: https://twitter.com/bts_bighit/status/1268497749256761347?s=20 This is reference to the 2nd chapter of the book;
Can it be possible that the pink, The King’s door is the other verison of the door in Jin’s Wings concept photo?
The portrait photos also hiding other references to last year’s family portrait and 5th Muster -> Magic Shop. It also indicates that we are inside the magic shop now. I didn’t pointed out on a picture but that chandelier gives so must BST vibe. During the 5th muster the boys entered the magic shop and now they are looking out from it’s window. I’m really curious to find out where the window looking at.
2020 Festa can hide other reference to Wings not just the BST vibe chandelier:
As doors are opening into different eooms, in our case we can say even opening to a different universe each time, I feel a need to mention that BST korean version is borrowing from a film called ‘Chatroom’ !! TW!! DO NOT WATCH IT IF YOU HAVE DEPRESSION OR CAN'T HANDLE RELATED TOPICS!
Their outfits are also a reference for their solo staged during Love Yourself era. Especially from the tour but mostly from 2018 KBS song festival. Thanks to Alex we have this picture: https://twitter.com/iIlejeons
When I looked again at the poster the font they used for ‘FESTA’ got my attention. Each letter has it’s own font and reminded me of an initial.
What is an initial? Initials indicates a new chapter or helps to navigate within a chapter/paragraph in a book. They canalso take on a describing ‘duty’ as a sort of preview what the paragraph is about indicated by motives or figures. Back in the days they were included in Codices and important writings (This is the first edition title page of Giuseppe Verdi-Messe Requiem, what was used during Jungkook’s visit to Jin’s room in 5th Muster)
Later, as time passed by initials become an important symbol of fairytale books. I believe this is the form how we all met them first. (Well, not in the Shrek movie but its a good example)
Why fairytales? As we could all see, the theme of this year's festa is connected to last year's Magic Shop. Apart from many other things there were a hints of tale in it. - The second VCR- animation/tail like - The Nutcracker-Sugar Plum Fairy reference
https://twitter.com/i/status/1266090193347588098
Fairytales are usually coming from folklore tales, what are mostly based on dreams and happenings people told to each other for centuries/decades. This folklore stories usually contained many symbols and images borrowed from the relevant century. Their symbolism are always a representation of a deeper meaning. For example; forest in a dream->a place where fears /demons live. Tales and folklore stories are usually, but not always, a form of describing our unconscious message.
If we look at 2020 Festa logo we can see 5 different style. All a bit different than the rest, what makes me think they represent 5 different chapter or book.
As of the schedule this year: -Every day from 601-614 has a schedule apart from 606. Now we all know that the YT graduation ceremony is on that day BUT! I’m going to focus on the fact that it been left open for Yoongi and his 0613 Honey FM. The fact that yoongi is the ‘DJ’ of Honey FM is also a reference to 5th muster. Do you remember How during the ‘Tea time’ Yoongi was the Dj? (Mots7 V3 concept photo is also a reference to that tea party)
Honey FM was part of; Festa 2014 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGoxbU_T-g Festa 2015 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT-hatnFpMo Festa 2016 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9xEr2Nxvl4&t=65s Festa 2017 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWA6f7g7NUQ&t=1s
This year festa might have started a bit earlier than we thought when on April 15th Yoongi started a series of DJ Suga’s Hiney FM. Every week he had a different member as a guest. Joon, Jin, Tae, Hobi, Jimin and Jungkook should be the next one on 6th of June. During this radio sessions with the boys they read tales for us. What perfectly fits into this year’s theme.
I also have to mention the 4th Muster where BTS took on a role as army bomb fairies! Even the name of the Muster was called Happe Ever After. One of the most symbolical sentence what indicates to a fairytale.
More at: https://twitter.com/inner_peace0613
