jinthusiast

enjoy the many ways that "body to body" is about craving intimacy. like the words "body to body" are both very obviously about sex but also about being literally physically With people in the stadium they're seeing out. in the chorus, the line "i need some body to body" blurs into the plea "i need somebody," as if they're just asking to be With someone. in the bridge, the traditional folk song arirang plays underneath that line, like this plea for intimacy also contains a deeper desire for understanding, for the group to be interpreted in their cultural context. this frustration with being forever other-ized and misinterpreted is echoed in later songs like aliens, and i think its Neat.