Funny how you should mention that a story that keeps repeating. In the beginning and the end, there's an awning that says Mobius Strip, which is an infinite loop. The relationship between mother and daughter is always repeating through generations.
the mv is basically that one tiktok saying "as a woman, i have so much empathy for my mother, but as a daughter i have so much anger" 🤣🤣 maybe IU being Tang Wei's mom did something. left her early or inflicted some trauma. that's why Tang Wei hid her.. out of love. they hid each other i think. you see IU was hidden in warm, cozy space, with her daughter. While IU, who also hid Tang Wei, in a trunk, cold, and alone. i think the way IU hid Tang Wei, she thought it was out of love as well, though for Tang Wei (as a daughter) it was not translated well and she maybe felt isolation or suffocation something like that. "Here's to those women who remains to be an enigma, forever etched somewhere in my time" our mothers! The two at the end shows another story, of a mother and daughter. also they are showing generational pictures of mothers and daughters, because it becomes a loop (if the daughter decides to have a family, that is) because every mother was also a daughter. I suck at explaining but yeah that's my understanding on the MV 😆
The mv is facinating, I was looking forward to your views on it as it went a little over my head the first time and I've sort of been peicing things together since and I really like how you break things down. As far as the song's concerned I really liked it from first listen but then reading IU's own descrition of what it's about makes me appreciate it more. For anyone wh hasn't seen this, what she said was: “Shh.' contains the voices of female vocalists from each generation. The lyrics are about important women in our lives. I'm singing about my mum, HYEIN is singing about her first friend. WONSUN JOE sings about the complicated emotions towards one's role model. It's a song about women sharing their complicated emotions that can't be summarized simply as either love, friendship, obsession or something else.”