Hi, guys, it’s been a while (right?) I wrote random interpretations of music videos. Anyways, my favorite Hip-Hop group, Epik High has a comeback around this time. Yeay.
Well, they will
have released the album ‘SHOEBOX’ on Oct 21/22, right? And last night they had
given us a warming up MV, Born Hater,
featuring Beenzino, Verbal Jint, Mino, B.I., and Bobby (Well, I love B.I. and
Bobby o ma gad you don’t have any idea). The overall video is unique with the
setting of public toilets. Call it public because Beenzino even says that ‘Blo Hyung is on the next room right now’.
Besides, with the proof of Hanbin (B.I.) as the ‘cleaner’, the toilets aren’t
private ones. So, from my first impression, oh uh, they are all doing ‘shit’ on
the public toilets. Whatever they do, they leave ‘shit’ that should be cleaned
by B.I. later, no matter whether it’s the money (Bobby) or the pizza (Mithra Jin).
Now, let’s
follow me to peel the deeper insights of this MV. Note that I won’t interpret
any symbols of certain things or any kind of thing like seven deadly sins, etc.
But, I will talk about the wholeness of the music video scenes suggest us. Just
like I have been saying before that all the eight men are doing their ‘shits’
on the ‘public toilets’, I will start this talk from this point. So, please
bear on your minds that they actually do the ‘shits’ in the ‘rooms’ where are
actually ‘public’ possession. Well, if you can’t get what I mean, you do shit
in toilet, don’t you? So do they.
Are you
wondering why the toilets? Why the toilets are full of their belongings, such
as the shoebox, paintings, money, pizza, adult magazines, etc? I bet most of
you are thinking about this. Or, do any of you even ask about why the video is
just 1/3 of the whole size? Let me share my thoughts with y’all.
Firstly, toilet
suggests a room, a very tiny one of course, where you can ‘shit’ freely up to
your desire. However as the music video goes on, it reveals that it’s not a
toilet, but toilets. In every toilet
there is different kind of individual with their own ‘shit’. They do ‘shit’ on
their own room. No one should care because that’s their right to shit as much
as they want, as much as they need, as dirt as they can, as crazy as they
imagine, true everyone? You can do everything in your own room, that’s a
nature. That’s your room at the moment, so that’s up to you what you will do. Great
idea, isn’t it?
Secondly,
the belongings and abilities (money, magazines, etc) are their shits. Let’s
take larger scale from the toilet metaphor, I can find that actually Epik High
wants to speak about the industry they are in at the moment. It’s the industry
where people are actually boxed by their own uniqueness and identities. So,
there are various and diverse great people that can be good choices for the
public to fulfill their thirst for enjoyment. If you dislike this kind of boxed
person, you can choose the next box. It’s also explain why they decide to make
the video just as large as 1/3 of the whole. As the other 2/3 are black. It can
be meant that if you happen to bump or have an encounter (through TV mostly) with
a certain someone (rapper, singer, idol, or just common people etc) and you
dislike him; you still can look to the other places. No one force you to keep
looking at him if you hate him so much. You can change it to the next room, or
just simply stare at the black area. No one actually asks you to keep your
interest on him, buddy, just change the channel. Do not like them rapping? Just
don’t watch. Why? Because they are doing it in their own tiny room and not for
your satisfaction, but their own satisfaction. So, don’t ridicule yourself by
hating them. They are just part of the big world, you can find other persons
that you can favorite and support, why bother to care then?
As the
whole, I can say, it’s not just about the music industry actually. But, we can
see this kind of thing in our society. Yeah, haters are everywhere. They talk
ill about us. They whisper bad things behind our back just like how they
contaminate the air. They type harsh words on our site, on our SNS, etc. I
actually believe some of them are really born haters. Damn, Epik High is so true.
BORN HATER MV:
