Hi dears. Your favorite 68yo Army here. Did you guys notice that the lyrics rhymed in English and Korean at the same time? Just a little thing Suga does.
Suga is a complicated guy. He creates some of the most interesting original sounding music he produces and his story boards for his MVs are next level story telling. In the two you’ve seen he is struggling against his inner greedy self that wants power/status/money and his rebel self the man of the people has to keep battling that part that wants to be corrupted. Like damn.
Okay... so this is my interpretation based on things SUGA has said. He stated that the King version is his past more greedy selfish self while the peasant version is his current (at that time) more grateful and humble self. "Haegeum" is the second part of the trilogy and both characters once again represent differing stages of SUGA's life and self-acceptance. "Amygdala" is part three of the trilogy and it expresses SUGA's current understanding and acceptance of who is and his past truamas. If you notice, the scar on the King in "Daechwita" looks pretty fresh while it looks to be more healed on the peasant version. In "Haegeum" the corrupt cop/mob boss still has the scar, but it is completely healed, yet still visible while the gangster SUGA has no scar at all... BUT at the very end of the MV, it shows gangster SUGA, now in charge, and his hair falls over his right eye in the exact same location as the scar on his previous versions. SUGA has said that he needed to learn to deal with his past traumas and understand them to grow and evolve. He has done this and the increasingly healing wound on his face is a physical representation of that healing. Yet, just has he and BTS have stated multiple times, your past is what makes you who you are today, so even though he has healed/recovered/understands his past traumas, they will always be a part of him, even if he no longer wears them on his sleeve (face
Amygdala is the beginning; although it's the final mv, it shows what the scar represents, and the dual of Min Yoongi vs AgustD. There's a clear separation in one's personality to cope with life hardships. From your Ego, mental and emotional pain, self-love, and one's dreams. He's an amazing artist in his own right.
Daechwita is a traditional Korean march, played for political events at the time of kings, army or king movements, etc. The two characters are Suga Rei and Sugar from the lower class. Ruler Suga is a tyrant who kills people who have grievances or are considered opponents. Suga from the lower class, at 06:44 minutes, appears with six friends (BTS mention) and there is also a woman sitting in the tent, who gives him the car keys (Army mention). Poor Sugar starts the revolution by going with the car to face the tyrant Suga. We also see the drawing of Bang Si-hyuk, ('creator' of BTS), at the moment that poor Suga arrives by car to face the tyrant king. He challenges the system. King Suga arrests and sentences poor Suga to death. And he, bound and kneeling, continues singing Daechwita (Daechwita being a song that is sung when the king is present. Is the poor Suga the true king?). The people who were prostrate in the courtyard now agree with poor Suga, all nodding to the sound of Daechwita. Finally, the executioner who was supposed to kill poor Suga also joins the revolt, frees him and gives him a weapon, with which he kills the tyrant king. Metaphor: the lower class 'overthrowing the system', mentions BTS that started as a small group, discriminated against, from a small bankrupt company, which was despised and disdained, but which ended up becoming the biggest Korean group in kpop, true kings about the game. At the time of the dynasties there was a strong separation between social classes and slaves were considered nothing. The poor would never become part of the elite. Today BTS is the elite, but it was a difficult achievement, with a lot of 'blood, sweat and tears'. And who gave them the 'key' to start the revolution was the Army. BTS 'brought down' the dominant system of the Korean music industry, as they continue to do until now, breaking down the arrogance and prejudice of the world's music industry. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JayEtmyXVpo.html - explanation
He is a genius (as the other 6 boys). Since he did Daechwita he said he was going to do a 3 part series (3 songs) and he did it. The have all in their minds years ahead. What they think, they do.
First, there is a behind the scenes or making of somewhere on Bangtan TV for this one which is worth a watch. Not sure you noticed, but around 1:00 when you paused the MV (or around 2:50, I think, on your video), there were 2 guys fighting in the street behind Suga/Agust D. Guess who they were? Well, I will tell you - they were Jin and Jungkook. They played a few second cameo role in Suga's MV at his request. Jin has a fake beard. Anyway, thanks to reacting to this masterpiece!
DAECHWITA is my introduction to Suga and a bridge for me to learned about BTS. Since then i became a fan of BTS and obsessed of this gorgeous brilliant musician Suga & Agust D. He is like a fine wine, tge more he age the more he become a better person. He is quiet , just chil and not say much but when he is on the stage or in front of the camera he is a beast and he has a natural talent of sucking people to his both visual and his talent. Doing his solo project showed Suga's powerful not only charisma but a testament of his versatility and a one hell of an excellent unique artist! Yoongi, i miss you these days my dear after done your world tour concert. My ultimate bias, im looking forward for your encore concert this coming August! Thanks for your reactions guys!
Hi dears. Your favorite 68yo Army here. Did you guys notice that the lyrics rhymed in English and Korean at the same time? Just a little thing Suga does.
There is an explanation video for Daechwita, also other BTS songs so you don't have to guess what the lyrics mean. Can I just say it's not AugustD there's no second U. It's AgustD. Suga actually released a video of him learning the samurai sword section too
If there is a DKDKTV channel explanation for a BTS video you should watch it, and there is for this one. As people have said, there are some great behind the scenes for this video. Jin and JK getting a peasant makeover and Suga learning his sword dance. All really fun to see.💜
@@maryhduke2307 Yeah... DKDKTV's explanations are decent but they've admitted that they're doing BTS vids for clout, so they get ARMY's clicks and views, so I'm not so keen on recommending them.
Remember guys haeguem (the song you reacted to a while back) was the 2nd song in this trilogy (the first being this song technically). So the story continues from this one to the next MV with the Agust d who shot the king being the same one with the scar in haeguem. The last of the trilogy is amygdala (which is kinda like an origin story) but I highly suggest you watch it with cation when you do react to it... Its pretty heavy and incorroportaes suga's real life story and trauma. Everything in it is real/actually happened in some shape or form to him unlike the fictional aspects of these two so far (so overall you'll have to look at it both literally and symbolically). I also suggest looking up what amygdala means in detail before watching it too. Okay that's all from me lol loved the reaction and can't wait for the next one😁🤘🏾💜
The gun is specifically the "Colt m 1860 Army". His gun is named Army! The order is Daechwita, Haegeum and then Amygdala for the viewing he wants, but the linear story is more Amygdala, Daechwita and then Haegeum and the Amygdala again. Essentially he starts out as Min Yoongi and then becomes Suga and then Agust D, with the push and pull between his Suga and Agust D persona's while Min Yoongi has faded. The end is him letting go of his anger to become Min Yoongi again.
Fun fact: Suga, well Min Yoongi, is a descendant of a Korean king of the Min clan, so he has every right to play a king! But he uses the king to reflect his greedier side that wants power and money and the commoner as his more humble side which he wants to win. We all have those aspects in us (good/evil, selfish/generous, arrogant/humble…) and he is showing the self-fight in trying to overcome the more negative sides of himself. Same goes for Haegeum’s MV. 💜💜💜🫰🏻🫶🏻
Amygdala was where Agust D was born if you listen he keeps saying I don’t know your name I think at the time he didn’t know what to call that part of himself. He’s truly amazing 💜
Highly, highly recommend watching the Bookish Theories explanation video for Daechwita. DKDK TV has one too, and it does a good job of explaining the historical references in the song, but the Bookish Theories explanation is closer to what Suga himself has said about this song.
Hopefully you took the time or will take the time to watch the explanation video for this song. Suga is a genius songwriter, but you won't know it unless you watch the explanation from a Korean perspective. That goes for MANY BTS songs.
Guys, I think you would actually enjoy going a little deeper by reacting to the meaning behind these MVs. Amygdala is the origin story for the trilogy of Daechwita and Haegum. This MV was earth shattering when it was released. Btw That was Jin and JK in the opening sequence fight. BTS was criticized by Korean netizens for going western and not staying true to their Korean heritage and they clapped back with Idol, Daeng and Yoongi’s Daechwita and Haegum. I strongly recommend watching the Meaning videos. The ones for Daechwita (I like bookish theories) but there’s one by a Korean - Danny too. The “meaning” is what sets BTS apart from ALL other KPOP groups. They even have a fictitious time travel storyline linking their discography/MV’s together.
Did you noticef Jin and JK fighting behind Agust D at the market street? 😂 There's a very interesting making of. And this location can be visited. It's part of Armys' turistic sites to visit in Korea. And there's an explanation video too. The picture/drawing with big nose is actually a drawing made by Jk for fun in their early days and portraits Bang PD/ Bang shi-hyuk BTS founder and Hybe's boss. 😅
In addition to recommending the DKDKTV explanation, there’s a great video where Suga is learning the sword dance and a behind the scenes making of the video that’s awesome! Suga writes with such deep meaning and Namjoon (RM) is a true BTS leader. Thank you and enjoying your reactions! 💜
I recommend the explanation video of this song by dkdktv channel, there is a lot of korean references and other things in there that foreigners don’t know. You can appreciate the song more if you know about it.
Suga has every right to call himself a King. Fun Fact he is from a line of Royalty. 2 of his grandmothers were Empresses (he said it himself). Also did you notice Jin and JK in the beginning of the video fighting 😂 I love how they make small cameo’s in each other’s videos.
I love to watch reactions to this my first favorite of AgustD SOLO. it had everything❤️🔥🥰🤩 he is a genius!! But of course my bias is jhope then RM .. OK.OK.OK. THE RAP LINE!!
The executioner made a deal with peasant suga in the market scene (hes the butcher) that is shown through Yoongi's clothes changing to match the butchers clothes. And then the butcher/ executioner sets him free.
Did you see the Chicken it's in both Daechwita and Haegeum also did you notice the two brawling in the market place were his fellow band members Jin and Jungkook. Also did you notice the butcher in the market place was also the guy who chops people heads off for the Tyrant Emperor. Can you guess who the tyrant Emperor represents?
That's indeed a Colt but the model is actually called Army as a nice nod that he's able to fight the authority with ARMY's support. Same with his crew. He's there with 6 dudes in the background but in their "base" there's also a girl with a box containing his car keys (it's worth to notice that in their BT21 animation the ARMY character, VAN, is also their vehicle) but on first glance it looks like she's sitting with a laptop. Meanwhile, the "king Suga" (who can also be seen as an old-fashioned entertainment industry/"system") is followed by a buch of guys who are mindlessly obeying his orders until the one of them decides to stop being just a servant to someone that's ungrateful and actually helps him. I love how many layers this video has. Not only the main story, the cultural and hstorical "flavors" but also that little things you have to really pay attention to notice. On top of that, this song never gets old. Simply a masterpiece.
Agust D tells a story through three songs They go in this order: Daechwita Haegum Amygdala You are confused because you watched no.2 first. But if no one tells you...
Again there is the always aewesome explanation by DKDKTV it's awesome to understand the cultural and historical references. - Which there is few as it is over 12 minutes long. I wonder Why this is my favorite _movie_ with 4 minutes and 28 seconds.. let's start shall we ? Daechwita meand march type song that is palyed when king is out and about, be it celebratory parade for holiday.. or wictorius king returinig from the war.. OR leaving for war.. not saying this is was declaration of war.. He called it practically a "cockroach trap" in his own live where he always talks about his new albums few days after they have been released. [1:28] Here we have at the first second of the MV rapper Agust D aka Min Yoongi sitting on his great (how many greats is there ?) grand mother's throne. Well exact replica of his Great grandmother's throne - as this whole building is an exact replica of one of the real royal palaces that She lived in. Yepp. this place that you are about to see happens to be the literally built set that all Korean historical dramas are filmed - apparently awesome place that usually is booked for YEARS advance, but there happened to be this horrible global thing and the actors and staff was forbidden to come work or most of them. And so, suddenly there was empty historical drama village totally free for artist Agust D Who happens to _love_ historical dramas. Director was offering create this minimalistic MV that everybody was doing at that time, because.. And Agust D said Nope. We are just now right here inventing this historical plot and going to film it like that. (staff must love him - well I would absolutely love invent a historical plot just like that.. But iIm a "flying the seat of my pants"-writer which is not usually the best way to do writing as a work. {Which I don't do.} So there is that.) So from the very first second Agust D is showing who actually IS the king (of the rap game).. [1:54] Awesome getting that the mad king (Suga called the character that) had two rows of "not-active persons" in his yard ! Rare people spot that. [1:55] When the "pauper" comes, notice the tangerines on a string! Suga loves them. He told us in one live that he loves them so much he once as a child ate them so much his skin became yellow. (I've heard one can do that with carrots - but tangerines? How many kilos did the even tinier little Min Yoongi eat ?!) (That is too cute of an image I can't..) [2:03] notice the same theme as we had the nnxt one in the series? "eat and be eaten"? The living bull and the beef on the butcher's block.. Butcher. [2:09] Pauper/darkhaired Agust D with his squad at the gates - "first" hint to time travelling. They are wearing modern clothes. (King also has modern shoes all this video!) [2:16] Butcher - and the long look between them that talks a lot. [2:30 Fisher Jin and Jungkook - here other, even older royal is getting the ish smacked from him. (*) Yeah Jin and his like 10 or 20 removed cousin or something Tae, are also old royal blood - apparently even older than Min Clan. (RM does not belong that same Kim clan as them -- but I have seen one rumor that his Kim clan would also be also royal lines.. (?) ) (*) (Remember what we talked about age order importance in Who is BTS with Jin? Here Youngest is showing the "place-of-the-cabinet" as we say in my country, to the Oldest - again BTS is joking with the strict age thing. (also one could pull here the whole theme of this MV that "royal blood means nothing if you do not do the work." Let's get back to that later. [2:47] James did you spot one more reference to time travelling ? If I remember right, apparently when the lyrics were written, he did not know that he was going to be shooting the MV in historical drama set.. But it is a awesome point still - no none of them have private jets, they have rented one sometimes when they needed it for safety from crazy fans. (Those leasing deals were actually amazing, when I read about them - again before the pandemic, things might have changed then.) But after the pandemic - I think - they have only flown commercial flight - I'm not sure if it is the thing to do as civil servant (their diplomatic status) or what it is. [3:10] Here The mad king hops on standing on one of his ministers or court men.. A absolute disrespect. When I first watched this I absolutely gasped. [3:11] Time travelling anyone ? The key fob is jade how has this poor man has a car key fob that is jade ? There is also quite strong theory that the car key is orange to signify it is a coral - so another expensive and highly valued precious stone of the old times. ( Around here we are deeply into the historical references that DKDKTV's explanation does such a awesome job of teaching all of us ! Please watch it. It gives so much insight into this MV.. Movie.) [3:40] See anyone you know ? Butcher. In old times, all around the world, butchers often worked double job.. They know how to get it done. in that part of the world, in the olden times often in the battle field there was no time and capacity to bring home even fallen top ranked people - so they brought only their top part.. But was it the custom outside of the chaos, or is this kinda disrespecting these fallen "adversaries"? Here I'm not an expert - maybe I should ask the local expert who I asked the last scene, what that "arquebus" was. [3:59] Time travelling anyone ? Army was informed by an native authority, that this car has significance. It is like the black haired Agust D just pulled out a tommy gun. We all know what it references, not the time - the people.. This is different time, kinda similar people. Everybody in Korea knows that this car significance arriving of the organised criminals to the scene, here era is early 90's - mid nineties, if I remember correctly. If we are time travelling.. There is another MV where you will find this exact same type of a car in different color, with different owner and that that there is also Suga... ;D Just saying. Wild west with gangster cars.. Joseon era with gangster cars.. Time travelling - the possibilities are endless. (It would have been nice to hear what you were saying, when the car came to the scene, but yeah I understand the Movie had taken you in. 💜) [4:29] Now Big Bit former CEO and still owner Bang-PD (PD is acronym for producer) makes an appearance in the form of legendary drawing of JK at BTS's old Pictionary game (or similar) - where everybody instantly know who the drawing was. Testament to JK's drawing skills, to draw person instantly recognizable with two dots and one curving line. [5:06] We know now everybody? Butcher. Mad king has let his hair down (which according to native cultural experts means he's now absolutely lost last of his marbles). Black haired Agust D who is not first time in his MV bound. Sus. [5:27] The mad king's ministers/courtmen whatever join in with the Black haired Agust D moshing with him. Openly switching their alliance. With a king that likes to have rows of not-active people at his yard, and liked to dance with those certain boxes.. The minister's choice of action seems here a bit .. [5:42] Kings sword dance here is .. Poor king, my Emperor trained for it for two days as he kinda got information late that there is going to be this sword dance that he needs to perform.. And my Emperor being from the School of BTS where the motto is "we do not use others to do our stunts!" it meant that poor emperor had to madly - if you allow the pun - train a sword dance. There is delicious mini-documentary of that alone. (He's too cute I can't..) ( I have the Best meme about that. "If you see this man chasing me with a sword please do not call the police.." and a still picture from the training video.) And of course there is behind the scenes (BTS) video of filming the MV where you can see JK falling in love with a chicken and.. yeah.. [6:27] "That is a Clint Eastwood gun!" I did not say that that there might be a also other, earlier time travelling link to the wild west.. Or something..?
There is a TV series about this kind of dynamic and very much like Hageum... a Japanese drama series called Ouroboros. Then there is the Korean drama series called Devil/Lucifer with a similar theme as well.
Hello, guys. I really enjoy watching your reactions, but please, add the subtitles to your videos, bc it really help us, non native english speakers, to practice. Much love from Brazil :)
Guys, highly recommend explanation videos to BTS music. We really lose a lot because of cultural references. Hope you react to all the following as they give different perspectives and show Agust D's real genius: Daechwita Explained by Bookish Theories: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_-4njtd0WpE.html & DKDKTV: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JayEtmyXVpo.html - from a Korean perspective Making of Daechwita MV: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-roEjdq3NeKg.html - in case you're interested. Jin & JK are in this
Hello, this is a trilogy: Deachweta, Heagum and Amygdala. And all three are related. When Deachweta came out, the Koreans from the Dkdktv channel released an excellent explanation, with all the details of Korean culture that we don't know. It's very interesting. I recommend that "If you like, see it, even in your free time." Of course you can react to that video on the channel, because Dkdktv allows it as long as you give credit to their original video. Think about it. Note: I know there are other excellent channels of very good explanations that you can choose, but I like this one because of the Korean origin of the boys.
Its always such a fun watching u guys react to BTS or any BTS members, dont forget to also watch #Amygdala ( Its a trilogy to Daechwita, Haegum) Do check out Agust D's #Agust D titled Agust D #The Last #Interlude:Shadow #What do u think #Moon light #People #Seesaw #First Love #So far away feat Suran #Dear my friend You will see the different sides of Suga
Watch Scarface the movie, then Dachwita then the DKDKTV intrepretation of Daewitcha then Dachwita behind the scenes then Haegeum then Haegeum behind the scenes then Amygdala then Amygdala behind the scenes. Do this all in one sitting. Yourind will be blown.
OK SO "DAECHWITA" IS KOREAN COURT MUSIC, ALSO SYMBIOSIS OF OLD & NEW. MY THEORY: AGUST D1 (BLONDE HAIR) FIGHTING AGAINST AGUST D2 (BLACK HAIR), IS BASICALLY THE SYMBOL OF AGUST D2 KILLING HIS OWN SELF AGUST D1 AND BECOMING A BIGGER/BETTER PERSON & THE DEVELOPMENT HE MADE AS A WHOLE PERSON COMPARED 2 THE BATTLES HE WAS HAVING FROM THE 1ST ALBULM. ALSO IN HIS INTRO "SHADOW" HE REPEATED THAT "WE'RE IN THE SAME BODY THERE'S NO ESCAPE", & ALSO IN KOREAN HISTORY OF KINGS/QUEENS - AKA. EMPEROR/EMPRESS: THEIR SURNAMES WERE MIN, KIM AND PARK. IN KOREAN CULTURE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED 2B ON THE THRONE IF U HAVE A SCAR NO MATTER THE GENDER, BUT IN THIS MV SUGA WENT AGAINST IT BY SHOWING THAT HE BEAT THE SYSTEM AND BECAME KING DESPITE ALL ODDS AGAINST HIM. & YOONGI IS ALSO RELATED TO THE LAST EMPRESS OF KOREA, & HE SAID IT ALSO ON THE EPISODE OF KNOWING BROS THERE WAS ANOTHER GUY WITH MIN SURNAME WHO IS OLDER THAN YOONGI BUT THE GI IN SUGA'S REAL NAME GIVES HIM HIGHER RANKS (AKA. AUTHORITY) DESPITE BEING YOUNGER THEN THAT GUY. MIN ROYAL BLOODLINE RESOURCES (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoheung_Min_clan) & ALSO, V AND JIN R ARE ALSO PART OF THE ROYAL KIM BLOODLINE, BUT NAMJOON (RM) IS NOT PART OF THE ROYAL BLOODLINE DESPITE HAVING KIM SURNAME. KIM ROYAL BLOODLINE (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gim_clan_of_Gwangsan)
eminem is one of his favorites he grew up on and you can deffo see that inspiration in his music with agust d having grew up on eminem myself lol even though i love all the rapline this is why i think yoongi tends to be my favorite because that's my favorite type or rapping
