Beth C.

Right. Okay.

All these posts going about with people being both hella upset and pointing out how it doesn’t make sense, all I’m thinking about is how someone pointed out a while back how, thanks to the lawsuit, B.A.P is now seen as a “tainted” group in this industry. They put their foot down. They went against the system. And because of this, they’re now “paying the price”, which apparently means them being ignored despite their international success. And that’s really fucking sad, and really shitty, but I also think it answers a lot of questions.

B.A.P recognized that their health and happiness was more important than to continue gaining popularity in this shitty industry. They just wanted to be able to still make music. And thank god they still can!

The dog especially hates Youngjae

+ Youngjae’s wrath:

But what makes them special is that they don’t romanticize them. Mental health is and should never be romanticized - that’s like making a mockery out of it. Its not just some chick flick where handsome guys help you out and tell you that it’s gonna be okay and that they’re gonna be with you to make things better, because the reality of it is, not everyone gets to have some knight and shining armor or, anyone else for that matter, to help them out through their ordeals.

Notice how Wake Me Up and Honeymoon don’t have lyrics which asks anyone to save them? And instead they have lyrics showing how they’re going to do their best to overcome their issues by themselves?

THEY ARE TEACHING YOU THAT ITS OKAY THAT NO ONE HELPS YOU. THEY ARE TEACHING YOU THAT THERE’S NO ONE BETTER TO HELP YOU THAN YOURSELF. THEY TEACH YOU THAT WHEN YOU DO TRY TAKING THAT FIRST STEP YOURSELF, THEN NO ONE AND NOTHING ELSE IS GOING TO MATTER.

And because of that, it makes me think that the reason why there are so many people who dislike their music is because they don’t want to be woken up to the ugly but beautiful truth and just want to be dillusioned by the shallow portrayal of these struggles.

I rest my case.

- ___ 사랑해. (I love you, ___.)

-  화이팅! (Fighting!) ___ 

- 힘내. (“___, I support you.“ or ”___, feel better.”) 

-  ___ 힘내고 사랑해. (___, feel better. I love you.) 

- 항상 응원해. (I support you always.)

- ___, 생일축하해요. (Happy birthday, ___.)

- 건강하고 행복하세요. 좋은날을지내요. 사랑해요. (Always stay happy and healthy. Have a good day. I love you.)  

- 이런 소문에 휩쓸려 맘아파하지말아요.사실이 아닌걸알아요.우리가 항상 뒤에있을께요. 힘내요, 알았지요? (Please don’t let rumors get to you. We know they’re fake. We’re always here to support you guys. Keep your heads up, okay?)  

- 본인을잘챙겨주세요. 힘들게노력하는것을알고있으니까 많이 걱정하기도하지만 뿌듯해요. 당신이 건강하고 행복할때 우리팬들도 가장행복해요. (Please take care of yourselves, we know you work very hard and this makes us both very proud and worried. Your fans are happiest when you are happy and healthy.)

Yongguk giving Daehyun a personally made bouquet. 

Insecurities + Low Self Esteem/self-worth: shown through the girl with makeup around her and she soon tries to apply lipstick, only ending up smashing the mirror. Murder/Shootings: The man waving his arms around as if conducting a musical piece until lights spark at his fingertips (like gunshots being fired) and then people dead surround him. Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness: The man in the bathroom, coiled up by the bathtub as he looks at his surroundings afraid of something, only to submerge himself into the water in his bathtub. Illness in General/Suicidal thoughts or attempts: The girl who drinks down those pills as well as some other type of liquid can represent either illness in a physical aspect or portrays the attempt to suicide. Eating Disorders/Hallucinations: The scene with the woman chopping veggies can allude to two different interpretations. Hallucinations as she almost eats a worm or it is the symbolic representation to express eating disorder. Societal/Political Issues: The probably most iconic scene where the man is holding up a sign “Emotion Revolution”. This is representative of public demonstrations we see on the news today to fight for equal rights and social justice. The people passing by as if its nothing represent those who are unaware of the issues that surround them. Revolution is starting to be achieved when these people who went through their own respective life problems come together to help ‘spread the awareness’. I guess you can say they, “wake up” into new ‘selves’, represented through celebration towards the end of the MV.

This isn’t even it. The MV is very diverse in nationality and they haven’t placed labels/stereotypical roles on these people according to the colour of their skin or where they came from. Each and every person was given a role that any human being would go through in their life because every human being is a human being despite race, colour, place of birth, gender, etc.

Not only did B.A.P create a song concerning social justice but they went even deeper this time. They went into mental illness, problems that we have as individuals at a personal level rather than just ‘society’ as a group. They looked into people in their variety and represented it through WAKE ME UP MV.