SPOILERS YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED IT YET!!!!!
HOLLOW MV IS OUT AND I HAVE THOUGHTS
Okay so first let’s just get the basic fan girl out. THE OUTFITS ARE SO FUCKING GOOD! The simple footwork and choreography is so goood i might actually try to learn this dance. The track and vocals work in such a seductive manner that of course has that mermaid like quality.
Now into the actual MV so this is based only on visual as i’m not fluent in korean or Japanese and the mv doesn’t have english subs nor have i gone to try and translate.
But does anyone else get this feeling that this song is about chasing the limelight.
I mean well yeah obviously it has those themes but the dark side of the chase. How at first theirs joy with in and the lights are everywhere they’re cheering and accepting flowers and trophies. As soon as they get the necklaces on, the light is still somewhat bright, but it’s now been associated that they need these lights to keep it at the top.
The light is now curated and materialized rather than what’s always been around them. For them to then start reaching for any source from lamps to shinny objects and it works filling up their cups (buckets but i’m using tarot terms) and yet as they fill it up the light dims again. Now they’re desperate for that joy taking it from literally everything even reaching into each other and going so far to reach for the sun but like incarus they fall leading to their death.
It reminds me of how i described my depression to my therapist once that my joy was like a flashlight full of batteries and i was wondering in the dark. Every so often i would have enough i could see my path and felt less lonely my thoughts weren’t swirling in my mind. But when i would run out of batteries id be stumbling in the forest tripping wondering if the thoughts that surround me would find me and get me. Enticing this anxiety of loosing to the feeling.
And i’m not saying the boys are depressed but referencing a feeling that i can relate to with the themes of the song. But with the english i do get i get this feeling this song is about how much they’re pouring themselves out to be at the top and how desperate they are to stay but with doing so it’s pulling them to a inevitable doom if they keep going at this rate.
But they can’t stop the joy of winning the lights they’re bright and the thrill of the chase is endless that it hollows out them mindless trapped in the the cycle.
Ahhhh it’s so good and i maybe never stop listening to this song when it comes out. Granted i do hope they find new healthy ways to fill their buckets but with the ending with Felix grabbing the freshly lit lights i think they have. I think this is an expression that no matter how desperate they get they’ll find a way.
So fucking poetic so experimental for them and AHHHHHHHHHHH I ULTED THE RIGHT GROUP.
STRAYS KIDS EVERYWHERE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
let me know if you agree or disagree just had to get my thoughts out