#irregular regular

English ver. for the MV, Korean Ver. for the lyrics

I watched Regular MV the other day, and suddenly new ideas came into mind. Honestly, I’m not 100% percent sure of it... because I have two possibilities

1. Regular was the first time 127 entered the Reality after Dreaming as a unit, which is the night city itself.

2. The night city is a deeper dream, they synchronized but not necessarily have made their dreams come true.

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First Point: Explanation

Lets start with the first point and my strongest explanation. Starting with this,

1. TV and Time Setting

This is a screenshot of a TV in the MV with a headline on it that says “you know, it’s all in our dreams”, with Mark and the tiger in the background with a tiger with him in daylight.

The reason why I highlighted ‘daylight’ is because, I remember mentioning this on another post, the reality should be in nighttime while the dream world should be in daytime. Why? To enter the dream world you must sleep, so shouldn’t you be sleeping during nighttime? This is also supported by their SMCU Express pictures, NCTmentaries could also support too since if you noticed, majority of the scenes are shot in daytime (I haven’t check them again, but from what I remember, most of them are in daylight..).

2. Parachute and Time Travel

The very first thing you see in the MV is Jungwoo who just arrived using a parachute. I presume that the other members also go through this..

It is rather odd since this whole time, they don’t need a special equipment like this to be in the dream world. BUT in the daytime, there were rockets were simultaneously blasted to the sky.

The rockets went up, while using a parachute means they went down. This signifies how the Neos used this special way to enter the Reality that is by using a rocket and arrived by landing with a parachute. Possibly, they jumped from the rocket; before letting go of the parachute, using speed, they traveled to Reality. This traveling is possibly done like time traveling, just like using a wormhole (a slight foreshadowing of how they will enter RaD as a whole group).

Though this may not be applied to the Winwin solo skydiving. This was the second to the last MV he has with 127, this scene for him alone could be more relevant to his arrival in WayV.

3. Lyrics

As for the lyrics, I will be using the Korean ver. because its closer to their lore. I hand-picked some lines that make the most sense. They are not in order by the way.

“I be bangin’ with my team, we’re awake (Awake awake)”

This is the most obvious one of course. This line alone shook my brain.

“What we want, we get em all, still not that much buzz”

“We’re closing our eyes and falling asleep I can catch my dreams with my hands”

These are slight hints that they may made some of their dreams come true. I will explain this again in the next point.

“It’s building up but I’m still not satisfied”

The first line hit me because, just like the previous line, they made their dreams come true but they are not satisfied yet. Perhaps they are looking forward to making a bigger dream, along with the rest of the Neos.

“And now we in a zone”

“Of course, we’re on the regular I’m not ordinary, irregular”

Additional short lines that convinced me that they are in Reality. They called it a zone, but soon as of Kick It, it will be called Neo Zone. It is the same city. Irregular-Regular is the Dream-Reality division. Regular is Reality, while Irregular is Dream. But they said they are irregular in here to somewhat show how special they are because they basically can get what they want.

4. Some Details

The overall MV and lyrics are basically them showing off... that they can get what they want. There are many symbols of wealth like the gold and basically rich aesthetics, they were proud and this same theme is very evident in the overall lyrics. These are further supporting points of them being proud of being able to make their dreams come true.

There were scenes of some members going around the city, it can be interpreted as their first time entering the Reality (they were checking around). Lastly, there was one scene of the Neos releasing people from a truck? Could this mean that they have woken up some people from the Dream world? Aside from those people, the city looked rather empty but at least the lights were lively.

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Second Point: Explanation

To be honest, there is only one explanation that made me think that perhaps this city is still a dream. This is also the reason why many people believes it too.

1. Irregular Office, Regular Dream, and Colorful lights

In the entirety of the nighttime scenes, the lights were very colorful and lively. This liveliness is often associated with the dream world. This was shown in Irregular Office and Regular Dream. In Regular Dream, the office was dull and the Neos fell asleep. Though after they fell asleep, the lights changed and continues to Irregular Office with even more colorful lights and odd activities.

With this, the colorful lights made people think that they are dreaming. This may only have one explanation, but its somehow significant in the overall NCT lore. Dream stages and the process of entering dream involves colors; we have this scale for an example.

Even the album versions for Empathy work the same way. The black and white for Reality ver., and the colorful one for Dream ver.

These definitely lead people into thinking that the night city in Regular is in a dream because of its strong and vivid lights. After all, they were doing ‘goofy’ things too in the city.

Conclusion

It is VERY obvious that I’m leaning towards the first point. But like what I said in my pinned post, I would often have more than one ideas. So who knows if someone out there would agree or disagree with me. Consider this post as my thought process? I did somehow speculate that the colorful lights in the city are for the aesthetics? To support that rich and classy vibe? The MV needs to be eye-catching after all and fit the “Neo” style.