Is “Still With You” About Jimin?
Disclaimer: This is just a theory and it can be right or wrong. I have no intention to devaluate JK’s work and his love and appreciation for ARMY.
In Festa 2020 JK with a song named “Still with you” blessed our ears and hearts. This song was dedicated to ARMY and the lyrics were showing how much he misses us (due to this situation) and wants to be on stage and meet us again. But a few days later when “Festa Birthday Party” came out, we witnessed something very interesting about Jikook:
First Jimin seemed not to remember anything but then he started to tell us (and the members who apparently had no idea about it) the story with all the details. JK was looking excited about the memory of the fight he had four or five years ago with Jimin on a rainy day in the practice room. According to Jimin, he got lost looking for him but in the end, they found each other and their fight ended with a tight hug under the rain.
Well, we didn’t find out what was the reason for their fight and I’m not here to analyze that because the subject of this post is “Still with you”. Before going for the subject, I need to represent the events’ chronology (Not all of these are related to the theory but I think it’s better to mention them). Let’s start from April 6th when JK posted a selca on weverse after a pretty long time. The caption was just a purple heart:
After that, he became more active on social media and 10 days later posted two selcas and an instrumental music suggestion for fans on twitter. The music’s name was “Wednesday afternoon” by Fair Game.
Next week he tweeted a video of himself boxing, showing how he spends his time having fun and living a normal life:
But two days later, on April 25th he posted another tweet without any hashtags, and based on the style of it we found out that it’s JK’s. He suggested a song named “The Reason for spring” by Paul Kim. Take a mental note because I’m gonna mention this song again.
And the last thing, happened on May 3rd. JK tweeted a video of himself covering “Never Not” by Lauv which broke the records of twitter for likes and views in a very short amount of time.
Now that we have all the evidence, we can go back to our theory. Is “Still With You” About Jimin?
First of all, let’s look at the lyrics:
The highlighted parts which are the chorus of the song, undeniably resemble the memory of the rainy day. He sings about a rapturous memory when he dances in the rain alone and runs with wet feet to “someone” to hug him, it’s familiar, isn’t it?
This song is released in early June but made and recorded earlier for sure. They have recorded Festa Birthday Party in late April and most likely, he had made the song by that time (or he had the idea of it in his mind or he found the idea that day, we can’t say for sure).
But it doesn’t end here. The song he suggested on April 25th has another story. The timestamp is at 2:18 and if you listen to it, the part in 2:18 repeats exactly at 1:23, his favorite timestamp.
Based on the 123 theory for Jikook this song has to be related to Jikook but this is not the only evidence. The part which repeats on 1:23 and 2:18 refers to “coincidence” which is a keyword in “Serendipity” and JK literally wrote this part as the caption for his tweet. Also, the “flower” and the way it is used in the song is relatable to Serendipity.
Surprise! It’s not over yet. The last thing I’m going to discuss is “Never not”. Jikook had a little bit of history with this song:
In an interview in October 2019 they mentioned that this song is their favorite one. Also earlier this year they did a collab with Lauv and “Who” was released in March. But the thing that caught my attention about this cover wasn’t the collab or prerecord sayings but the lyrics of the song. Talking about being tragic, getting lost at age of 17 (JK was 17 in rainy day incident), and “someone” coming and finding him and not forgetting anything is very much like the memory of the rainy day.
So is “Still with you” about Jimin? Did JK make it for Jimin and because of their memory of the rainy day? I can never say that and no one can because JK made it clear that this song is dedicated to ARMY. It’s a gift for Festa and no one can make it about ships.
But I have to make something clear. I’m an artist myself and I know that no artist can make their art out of nowhere. Every artist needs a muse and memories of the past which trigger certain emotions, are the best sources of inspiration.
JK used the memory of that rainy day to make a touching song and he perfectly succeeded because that memory was a big deal for him and even though he hadn’t talk about it with anyone all these years (even with Jimin himself) he had never forget about it and we can tell that incident (whatever it was) had a huge impact on him.
Some of you might ask “what about the other things he suggested or covered those days? Why was he so much in mood for throwing hints? How are those hints related to Jimin?” I mentioned that this is a theory and it can be wrong. All these songs and hints might be only about ARMY or just coincidences but don’t forget that the rainy day incident is directly about Jimin and this part has need no analysis. So if these are relatable to the rainy day then we can somehow connect them to Jimin.
Let’s pay attention to the fact that JK threw lots of hints before releasing the song (or after making it) because in my opinion he had an aim, he wanted to show us that Jimin is his muse, the memories they made together, good or bad, are one of the most important parts of his life and for JK, Jimin is a big source of inspiration to make songs and videos. He knows ARMY analyze everything and that was the reason for him to bring up the rainy day memory on that specific time. But it wasn’t just that, he made two other hints to make everything more clear and leave no question behind.
