#mollywaddle

[explosionofdisbelief]

OKAY so molly @mollywaddle asked me for my thoughts on wings, and i am v honored bc no one ever asks me my thoughts on music (which might be good bc they’re usually incoherent) so i am going to Try My Best

here we go (this got super long and out of control, hence the cut)

(disclaimer: this is prob my first time writing out my thoughts about an album so i hope it all makes sense. and also i didn’t look up any of the lyrics to these songs. i almost never look up lyrics to songs, kpop or not. i’m basing these reviews purely on the music)

(also i literally JUST watched the short films because for some reason i didn’t do that before. those were CREEPY btw)

1. intro: boy meets evil - i can’t hear the intro without thinking of hobi’s awesome dancing, and i love that it’s basically a solo for him (i heard some other voices at the end there but it’s mostly him throughout)

2. blood sweat & tears - i LOVE this one. it sounds super different from what bts usually does and it was really unexpected the first time i heard it. i like that they're going with this for their promoting track because lately they’ve been doing a lot of bangers, and while this still has their standard super-hard choreo, it’s a lot different from their previous singles

3. begin - kookie solo!!! this one surprised me too because it started off like your typical slow jam, but then the beat and the instrumentals in the chorus changed it up nicely

4. lies - jiminnie time~~ this one is nice and dramatic, and i expect nothing less from jimin. this song shows off his range nicely, i think. i like the switch from a minor key at the beginning to a major key for a bit of the chorus, and the instrumentals for some reason are reminding me of the phantom of the opera????? i literally don’t know. maybe it’s the organ and the dramatic strings. anyway, another good one

5. stigma - my baby taehyung!!!!! i love love LOVE that he gets a solo because he doesn’t get a ton of lines usually and he used to be so insecure about his voice. and that falsetto! i just love his voice, it’s so rich and he can get super deep as well as killing the falsetto. i have too many feelings to assess this one properly. AND he helped write it!!!!!!!!!!! omg

6. first love - yo sugaaa! i mean we all know he’s an awesome rapper and writer. go listen to his solo stuff if you need to be convinced. i like this one because it starts out super low key and builds slowly. and i have no idea what he’s saying but i love that you can hear his attitude and his personality when he raps

7. reflection - namjoon’s turn now. interesting to hear him (sorta) singing. he usually gets so intense and fast when he raps and goes all squeaky all the time (intentionally) and this is a nice change of pace. def getting 80′s vibes with that synth. but like also props for having writing/producing credits on 10 out of the 15 tracks?? nice job dude

8. mama - hobiiiiiiii okay so lyric-wise this chorus is not the most exciting, but the song is upbeat and very hobi-like (obvi since he helped write it) and i think it fits his personality. notttttt my fave on the album, but not bad either. just a smidge generic i think

9. awake - jin’s song is very jin. a slow, emotional ballad. i can picture him reaching out to the camera and grabbing the front of his shirt while singing this. possibly also falling to his knees in despair. also kinda generic, i think. there’s nothing that really makes it stand out to me (SORRY JINNIE)

10. lost - ahhh everyone back together again. i like this one and tbh i think they sound the best when they’re all together. i love that they all got solo songs but really they are unstoppable as a unit. there isn’t anything super WOW about this song but after the 7 solo songs it’s just really nice to hear all of them together again.

11. bts cypher 4 - CYPHER. man, i’m with taehyung. cyphers are some of my favorite parts of their albums and i’m glad they finally did #4 after not having one on the last album. like it’s literally been TWO YEARS since the last cypher. this one is interesting. sounds very trap-inspired to me (i mean like i can’t say that for sure because i don’t really listen to trap music, but that’s what it reminds me of). i can imagine bambam dabbing to this.......... (seriously someone stop him) HONESTLY this was cool, but i feel like it’s not really their style. other cyphers were better but this was an interesting experiment

12. am i wrong - okay so the sample in this one is cool! i like this one. it sounds a bit different from their usual stuff. like the combo of the instrumentation, the sample and the beat reminds me of bubba sparxxx which i was not at all expecting from bts??? but it works

13. 21st century girl - this one is a bop. i like it. i see it’s following the trend of having few/no lyrics in the chorus. i’m not sure how i feel about that trend in general, but it works here with rapmon yelling in the background...

14. still wishing there will be better days - apparently this is their first official fan song? idk like i said before i didn’t look at the lyrics. this is just my first listen. so i’m sure some of the sentiment is lost on me. but i like this one. usually fan songs annoy me because they get super cheesy and emotional. although tbh this one could too. i just can’t understand it. ANYWAY this is a good one. suga’s parts are my fave. could do without the large chorus of people at the end tho...

15. interlude: wings - okay first question why is the interlude at the END. unless they’re making this a part 1 of another album set. but i’m pretty sure not because this is a full album on its own (not like hyyh). i REALLY like the beat of this song. and the beat behind the rapping is really cool as well. it was a bit unexpected. they could def play this one in a club. like this is one of those kpop songs you could put on at a party of people who don’t normally listen to kpop and they wouldn’t notice it wasn’t in english because they’d be too busy dancing

so overall this album is GREAT. i love that each member got a solo song, but that the rest of the songs highlighted how well they work together. the title track is one of my faves and i’ll definitely be playing that one a lot. i want to do another run-through of the whole album again so maybe i’ll have some more fully-formed opinions then. but as usual, bts delivered. i haven’t been disappointed by them yet. i mean yeah, there are a few songs i’m not crazy about but overall a really awesome album.

WHEW well that was fun :D

also apparently i’m the only person who wasn’t super stoked about jin’s solo song (i read some other people’s opinions about it...) who knows i may change my mind when i listen to it again

molly, i hope you enjoyed my long-winded opinions and i would LOVE to hear your thoughts on the album too :D

edit: also i Do Not Get the video for blood sweat & tears so if someone does, please explain it to me because i am totally Lost

[space-bakery]

mollywaddle replied to your photo “What is he thinking so hard about”

How much he loves you

MOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you :)

lochofness replied to your photo “What is he thinking so hard about”

Now I need to know what's in that (supposed) Pyrex... seems suspect. Seems potentially Witchy.

Hahahahaha it is the small batch of granola I made last night that I’ve already half polished off. VERY TYPICAL, VERY ANTICLIMACTIC. I do have some dried roses and rosemary lying around which would fit the bill better but unfortunately they were not pictured.

gotochelm replied to your photo “What is he thinking so hard about”

looks like he's plotting tbh?

This seems about right. He is thinking very hard about new and novel ways to wake me up at 3 AM

[birdofthesummer]

30, 25, 22

30. One book everyone should read? This is impossible to answer, to be honest! I have no idea! I feel like that book, the one book everyone should read, is different for everyone. Maybe the one that kickstarts their appetite for more, or answers a question they’ve been asking for a long time, or is the one they can keep reading no matter what. I think by now I have a small collection of books that I couldn’t bear to think of never reading, y’know? And it’s hard to narrow it down to the Number One Most Important. Maybe I haven’t read that book yet, even. I don’t know. I’m gonna just. I’m gonna go ahead and say Peter Pan, because it is a classic, and because the first time I remember really reading it, all the way through, I sat down on the floor in the middle of my nighttime bedroom and cried. Alternatively, The Secret Garden, because it is one of the first books I ever loved, and because I think it is buried so deeply in my subconscious that I don’t even realize how heavily it influences me anymore. BUT THAT’S MORE THAN ONE BOOK AND IS BREAKING THE RULES SO I’M CUTTING MYSELF OFF!!

25. A book that you think about and cringe because of how terrible it was? I’ve not read so many books that are so awful as to make me cringe? Maybe Gulliver’s Travels, which, okay, is “not an awful book” according to like, the Western canon, or whatever. Literature professors. But look here, okay, look: I fucking hated Gulliver’s Travels. I read the whole thing and I think I’ve blocked it out most of the way. The idea that I might have to read it again at any point makes me wince a bit, so. There’s that.

22. A movie or TV show you wish would have been a book? There are so many options here, okay, and I refuse to believe that they aren’t possibilities. I’ll say the number ones are Graceling, the film rights for which were acquired fifty million years ago (read: April 2013), and The Scorpio Races, which was picked back up, I think, sometime last year. I think the likelihood for Scorpio Races is much higher than it is for Graceling but I’m gonna hold out for both because I’m an optimist.

[hockeyvirgos]

Where is Molly's post about Zayn and Harry feeding her cake because she's very sad. I need to reblog it again.

[carlyraejepsen69]

mollywaddle replied to your post “mollywaddle replied to your post “i remember a time last year when i...”

NO NEVER I AM SIMPLY APPALLED THAT U WERE ABLE TO SAY THAT EVEN AS A LIE

omg i’m so relieved and also I KNOW I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME... truly a low point but i think it made me a better person so <3 

[1demise]

mollywaddle replied to your post “mollywaddle replied to your post: ok OKAY i’m here i am hERE. I’m...”

UR MURDERING ME. I KEPT ON YELLING 'HOLD HANDS!!!!!! HOLD HANDS!!!!!!!!!!' AT MY SCREEN I CANT WAIT TO DOGSIT

WE WILL BE THE BEST DOG SITTERS AND THEY WILL HOLD HANDS FOREVER AND WEAR SO MANY COLORS AT ONCE WHILE ALSO WEARING A LOT OF NOTHING (except for the DUMBEST GOOFIEST FUCKING SMILES UGH)

[hariboo]

mollywaddle ha respondido a tu set de fotos:OH LOOK. they’re ~~~fighting~~~ again i love it.

so IF i would PERHAPS like to watch ALL of these clips, what am i googling for?

GOOGLE? today YOU DON’T NEED IT! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtDE6HTJY8&list=PLl_5ovbNaOAc6mzPjryDvqt3KlVcZi6Q6&index=1

tho it’s all in spanish bc finding this with subs is really hard i’m sorry!

[hockeyvirgos]

birdofthesummer reblogged your post and added:

Molly I demand a breakdown of why Catie is Zarry immediately on my desk in ten minutes thank you that is all Catie the same goes for you as to why Molly is Narry

MY THESIS ON WHY MOLLY IS NARRY IS AS FOLLOWS:

firstly let me say that i briefly considered LILO and LIRRY for molly, but ultimately i settled on NARRY.  and when i think about molly i think of her singing to merlin while cuddled in bed and making everyone in the world laugh. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THIS IS EVOCATIVE OF QUINTESSENTIAL NARRY. but it goes DEEPER, HOPE. WAY DEEPER. molly is, i feel, BOTH NIALL AND HARRY AT THE SAME TIME, BUT ONLY THE NIALL AND HARRY THAT EXIST WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NARRY. this is a very important distinction. niall and harry bring out a specific, unique best in each other, just like all the pairings in the band bring out different bests in each other. the best harry with niall is the harry that full-out belly laughs! the harry that lets his flowing blouse weirdo flag fly high! the harry that is at his loving, protective, mother hen-ing best. LIKEWISE, the best niall when he’s with harry is the niall that tells harry he’s an idiot while laughing so hard he is basically about to throw up! the niall that takes harry home to meet his family after knowing him for two weeks! the niall that lets harry chew on his sweatshirt with a kind of fond disgust! the niall that lets harry be his most harry. the harry that lets niall be his most niall. THESE ARE ALL MOLLY. MOLLY IS ALL OF THESE HARRYS AND NIALLS IN HER OWN WAY. i think molly is one of the kindest most loving people in the world, but she is also hilarious and sharp and so fun. she’s not afraid to tell people when they’re being a weirdo sweatshirt-chewer. but she loves them anyway.

this is abstract but i feel in my heart that it is true.