minji - thinks she’s a doctor hanni - thinks she’s an iphone / siri danielle - thinks she’s a celebrity / apart of newjeans haerin - thinks she’s a cat hyein - thinks she’s a disney princess
My theory: Newjeans tell about how fans see their idols - Hanni is like iphone and say she do everything you want (fans want), Minji is like doctor (idols for fans are like comfort place where they can forget about stress etc), Haerin is cat (she’s just look like cat XD), In one Heesoo film in her channel write about Hyein has princes syndrome (in mv we have many connections with movies, Snow White(the apple), Cinderella(the heels), Subway(scene in subway), The Little Match Girl(scene with matches), La Boum(scene with headphones) and The revenant(main character fighting with bear) and Dani thinks they Newjeans (back to reality which is who they really are being idols). Last scene with netizen who is so stereotyped (about idols) so Minji (doctor) is like "go hospital pls"
this is my take on it- the music video was just a camp way of expressing the idol's side of the parasocial relationship between an artist and a fan. hanni's monologue in the beginning really brings that to light: "when you call me, i will run to you anytime anywhere. i exist for you" it brings the concern of artists having to exist only for the fans- they're trying to say they're *real* people too. she's an "iphone", basically a metaphor for being a person who has to run and be 'on' when the button (app) is pushed. danielle is very smily/bubbly type of person. fans always comment on her happy attitude and when she's watching the tv static and laughing at it, i think it shows that she's stuck in the label that people cast on her. so she's just laughing at nothing in that scene. hyein has princess syndrome, because while always trying to dress up and be her prettiest self for the fans, she forgets reality and confuses herself with fairytales. (snow white, sleeping beauty, and the revenant references) haerin- ever since debut, fans and nonfans have said haerin looks like a cat so much that she actually starts to believe she's a cat. minji is the unofficial leader of the group (there are no positions in nwjns, but a lot of people and myself included think she has leadership qualities) and she's the oldest. so she's been known to take care of her members very well. hence her thinking she is a doctor who's under pressure to take care of her members. i think the team at ador and hybe are VERY self aware of media and newjeans' market. they know what people say about newjeans!! this is their first comeback and only 5 months since their debut and they're already challenging the industry and doing callbacks to their debut! a MASTERPEICE of a music video, and the song is 10/10! i love the breaking of the 4th wall, i love how they called out their haters at the end of the video, i love hanni dressed as steve jobs. i mean, this video has it all- humor, weird/quirkyness, references, callbacks, serious topic, lore, introspection, thought provoking... no one is doing it like newjeans. i mean that literally, this has never been done before.
1. I love this song so much. I love the chorus and the pre-chorus. My favorite part is the pre-chorus. I love the “They keep on asking me “who is he?” It sounds so good! I also think the storyline at the beginning was really interesting. A bit confusing, but I think I understand what she means when she says she an IPhone. But this is a really good song overall. 2. 7:09, “Alright, stop” “Okay.” Lol, this was so funny 🤣. Especially because it was so serious too. 3. The fact that Siri just randomly showed up was really funny. Sometimes that will happen to me too. She will just randomly pop up and I always just say “Siri, shut up!”
I think the accident theory in ditto makes more sense. This is just my little theory and Im also rlly confused 😭 Maybe they had an accident but still exits in Heesoo's imagination and she can see them through camera. ( or all of them are just in Heeseo's imagination) Then she realised they are not rlly exits and destroy the camera. And then maybe NJ reach to another dimension or universe (bcs theres a scene in sideb kinda looks like they woke up and bg kinda looks like hospital) As the camera was destroyed, they lost their minds and only Dani remembers that they are NJ) Not sure and Im rlly excited for the continuation of this concept ❤️
Now i think about it.. The introduction of Hanni in the iphone really hinted the fact they had a sponsorship with Apple until their latest video all this time!!!
The man sitting on the corner are Dr. at the begining and the man who picked up the notepad are the web-toon writer in Korea and I guess he draw all the pictures in this music video.
The last man is 이말년, who is famous web cartoonist now he is 침착맨 as youtuber. I think he is the only one who can understand the true meaning of that bear.
The bear is because of the revenant movie pause on the book index/ this time( different in the movie cause Leo survive) the bear kill her that why she looks like a ghost and the watch the bear
