Also fun fact GFRIEND SUNNY SUMMER had their lyrics name on it. If you listen closely they've used their names on their lyrics to make the song more creative
16:33 They are the memories that they have together, Sowon (white dove represents the death of her father) Sinb (wings due to her shoulder injury) Yerin (injury to her knees) Yuju (injury to her wrist) Eunha (her eye infection) Umji (paints the red moon as a new beginning since she was criticized a lot for her appearance before) And it shows that despite everything they resolved it and faced it together
The Memoria music video is actually about real life hardships they've gone through. Most of them are injuries (eye, shoulder ect.) Sowon's is about her father's passing and Umji's about the bullying she received for her looks after debut. And it's about how they've helped each other through all that. I'm pretty sure it's the only mv that isn't connected to the storyline tho Fever might be as well
their korean comebacks changed a lot in 2020, apple and mago specially, but their bsides still have the gfriend nostalgia and uniqueness of their more melancolic songs like rough and time for the moon night
Gfriend's signature sound of orchestral pop carries an intrinsic attribute of drama and it is probably only natural that the artistic direction of their work embed the lyrical and story-telling narrative both in their MVs as well as their music (and I should include their choreography. It is apparent that many Gfriend's MV invoked theories from the fans attempting to unearth the underlying message given the often opage and lyrical style of their MV structure. Sunny Summer is well known to have include each member's name in the lyrics. Yerin is mentioned openly, and others used homophones in Korean for embedding. Sowon mean "Wish", SinB "Mystery", and Eunha "Galaxy". If you check the lyrics, you can easily identify them. Yuju's name actually conflated "You should" to approximate her name in the lyrics Just for fun. Memoria is actually my favorite Gfriend MV for the implied sisterhood as the underlying message. The MV actually consists of three parts. The choreo portion is not part of the message. The rest of the MV consists of each member's states: one in reality, another while asleep. You can easily identify each by the clothes they wear. While in dream state, each member showed a need/desire: Sowon, paper crane; Umji, moon, Yuju, constellation, Yerin, sparkling dust, SinB, wings, Eunha, two colored eyes. Also you see each member supports or helps another with action: SinB provides a crane for Sowon; Sowon comforts Umji while holding a moon-shape pillow; Umji draws the constellation on Yuju's arm; Yuju treats the sparkling dusts for Yerin; Yerin places a flower on one of Eunha's eyes; and Eunha blows feathers onto SinB for her wings. Afte waking up, each recalls their dream and runs to the rooftop to reunite with the others. The mutual reliance and support just gets me every time. Thanks for the reaction. Look forward to the next one.
from this video we can see that gfriend is such a versatile group going from the cutesy refreshing sunny summer, chic and mature fever to the melancholic tugging on your feels memoria and fallin light. No other groups right now have that range like maybe we have those chic and cutesy concepts nowadays but we will never again get tftmn, sunrise, crossroads, memoria and fallin light from any other groups and that made me utterly devastated. hope they can comeback together soon and bring the melancholic genre back
Memoria mv always gets me to cry. Especially in the part they heal each others. They've gone through a lot, but they always can depend on each other to gain more strengths. That's happens in 2021 too, after the termination of their contract by company, Eunha and umji doesn't want to do entertainment works anymore and start to thinking another jobs, but SinB called them and asking if they want to start again, and that's how our trio viviz start.
in Sunny Summer they all say their own name. Yerin and Yuju are pretty obvious but the rest of their stage names are korean words so they're more hidden.
The lyrics in Sunny summer are so clever i'd say. All the members names are mentioned and become part of the lyrics of the song as each of them are korean words and has a meaning (except for Yerin and Yuju) 1:48 Yerin 2:12 & 3:13 Sinb (mysterious) 2:47 Umji (thumbs) 2:49 Eunha (milky way/galaxy) 3:55 Yuju be my~ (a word play to would u be my) 3:57 Sowon (wish)
Also (sorry I'm commenting as I'm watching lmao) but you saying the mvs are dream like reminded me of the lyrics of TFTMN "I'll meet you in my dreams" and Umji's narration in the beginning of Sunrise when she goes "I had a dream last night. The time we had together was short..." and there is this pretty widely accepted theory that after a certain point in the story they can only meet each other in their dreams.
Sunny summer.. the lyrics of this song are brilliant. I don't think I've found a song from another KPop group that mentions all its members' names in it :D
Thanks for the reaction. I really hope you will get into their dance practices too! Mago (eye mask ver.), Fingertip & Love whisper dance practices are highly recommended :)
Rj, i suggest you look on some of 'WJSN' songs mv soon^^ they're worth it to watch !! Some Mv's 1. Last Sequence 2. MoMoMo 3. Unnatural 4. Save Me, Save You 5. Secret 6. La La Love 7. Boogie Up 8. Easy - WJSN THE BLACK 9. Hmph! WJSN CHOCOME 10. Super Yuppers! - WJSN CHOCOME 11. Dreams Come True 12. As You Wish 13. KISS ME 14. Butterfly 15. Catch Me There are still more ^^
So yes, 'Flower' is gfriend's only remaining jp mv. Actually gfriend has another MV for the song "Wave" (2016), it's a collab project of gfriend x american tourister (a luggage brand). It's a fun song tho, but yeah u can either do a reaction or just listen to it in your own time. Also yes, their 'Labyrinth' special clip is highly recommended!
10:30 I would not say they simplified their production, remember a song like Fever is basically just a summer song not connected to their main discography concept (same with Sunny summer) - I mean they made Crossroads after this.
It will more nice if you know them all i wish you will react the gfreind group member profile video or gfreind guide video🙏🏻 if you know their name you will get a fascinating feels i sure that.
