#domodachi

Mufuckas want a bigger growl

Mufuckas need a damn patrol

I been slippin’ thru all kinda bullshit

이제 잊었어 나의 출신 I’ve forgotten where I’m from

All suckers wanna get it

Take a sip 그 잔에 부어 말없이 Take a sip, fill that glass without saying anything

All the suckers wanna hit it

Ima lead you to the heaven 불어 피리 Ima lead you to the heaven, play the flute

All my friends wanna get around in O’s

All my friends wanna take another pose

Yeah im knocked out, what a bullshit

(Get the fuck down!) Mufucka, want a doom shit

No more goofin’ around, i want cool shit

Ima stay calm when they come up with that new shit

그저 붙여 이 모닥불의 불씨 Just light it up, the flames of this bonfire

친구들은 모여 내 주위 하나둘씩 Friends gather around me one by one

Get high get fire we in saudi

Let me go ape, get down with the party

Yeah I’m knocked out, mufucka, what a bullshit

(Get the fuck down!)

걍 쳐들어가 불시에 Just invade without warning

みんな友達ここで踊りましょう (踊りますright now) All my friends let’s dance here (dancing right now)

みんな友達ここで踊りましょう All my friends let’s dance here

みんな友達ここで踊りましょう (踊りますright now) All my friends let’s dance here (dancing right now)

みんな友達ここで踊りましょう All my friends let’s dance here

Mufuckas wanna bigger growl

Mufuckas wanna take control

All my friends cryin’ in a row, you won’t get it

Free soul, you betta come up with it

Look I step on the place and they yell, Go figure

Watch Ima go all out for my hitta

I already told them ima gorilla

Simz and RM man it don’t get bigger

Catch me in the back with my g’s dem

Greet them with respect when you see them

Run me up a check ima need that

And give my co dee a stack

‘Cause that’s my dawg That’s my homie

You and I know I don’t do phoney

I set the tone listen up closely

You know my name but you do not know me, I got

Got my broski’s back till the end

You can’t put one hand on my friend

We just here for a good time everydayy

내 선은 넘지 못해 Can’t cross my line

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう (踊りますright now) All my friends, let’s dance here (dancing right now)

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう All my friends, let’s dance here

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう (踊りますright now) All my friends, let’s dance here (dancing right now)

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう All my friends, let’s dance here

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう (踊りますright now) All my friends, let’s dance here (dancing right now)

みんな友達, ここで踊りましょう All my friends let’s dance here

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Had some stuff going on these past few days but I finally got to watch the most recent RPWP MV: "Domodachi". The symbolism was too literal for me to just let it pass without commenting.

Young person, living his young person life, two innocent boys riding bikes. The Boy on Bike perhaps represents our Namjoon or a version of his journey.

It's dusk. Maybe a little late for young ones to be out. Where are they going?

Drummer dude is not drumming until Boy is even with him, then commences to bang away. The ever-present drumbeat going on in life.

The road turns from a gravel road to a paved road. Gravel road=rural, less sophisticated, simpler life. Paved road=urban, complicated, faster life.

An adult enters the scene and allows Boy to proceed. Younger boy is held back. Coming of age when not ready, immature mind getting swept away into adult spaces and places.

Boy on Bike continues on willingly.

Lyric: "I be slippin thru all kinda bullshit"

Boy rides through some sketchy dark place looking for something familiar and encounters other young people playing a ball and cup game, pass the ball to the other, but the image begins upside down, not really what it seems.

When I saw the cups I thought it was adults drinking until the images turned upright and I saw it was kids.

Lyric: "Ima lead ya to the heaven, play the pipe All my friends wanna get around in 0's (I interpret that as zeros as in lots of zeros behind a dollar sign) All my friends wanna take another pose (I interpret that as "posing" as something they are not)

Kids who might not be who they seem, young people perhaps looking for something more, something they might not be ready for. He is swept away with them.

Boy is thrust into a swirling confusion of adults pointing in all different directions. Boy is confused, doesn't know what to do.

A hand comes out of nowhere and snatches him out of the confusion.

A benign guide. Someone of similar age that guides Boy past the chaotic and slightly violent version of the world he finds himself in. Shows him the way to safety through a tunnel.

Lyrics: "We're all friends, let's dance here (I'll dance right now)"

But then Boy's world turns into some rat-race train-wreck nightmare. He's overwhelmed amongst the adults putting pressure on him from all sides.

Lyrics (Little Simz rap): "Watch I'ma go all out for my hitta I already told them I'm a gorilla Simz and RM, man it don't get bigger"

All those lines COULD rhyme with the obvious word instead of "hitta" if it was a western rapper's song. But a deliberate choice was made here. That's my take on that.

The train enters a tunnel and it gets dark, slam on the brakes, time to slow this train down and try to get control but it all crashes.

I did snort-laugh when I saw this train driver/person, Namjoon said "fuck you mothafuckin asshole Korail dipshit who shared personal info."

The train crashes and the eye of the lurking monster is there searching for its next victim.

The friend appears again to guide him away.

I think the benign friend of same age is himself. His wits, his will, his mind. He climbs the fence, not a difficult barrier to overcome. He's still able to be on both sides.

He exits the dark place, back to his previous life. His young friend is waiting. But when he gets there, Boy realizes he cannot go back.

He has lived too much, seen too much. He can't go back to where he was before. Sad but true. Innocence stripped away. He stops just short of the gravel road and turns around and leaves behind his youth and innocence.

That's what I got out of it from the second watch of this MV. After that second time, I also realized how prescient this is because of all the bullshit going on over at the Hybe building: "Mothafuckas wanna bigger growl, motherfuckas wanna take control... "

Anyway.

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