#nct analysis

A ~ Aftercare

After sex, Jaemin’s only priority if you. He leaves kisses all over your face, telling you how much he loves you and such, before grabbing you water or a wet towel or anything of the sort. He asks a million times if you’re okay.

B ~ Body Part

I’d honestly think that Jaemin likes his mouth the most. He has a beautiful smile and he knows it, so that’s one of his charming points. He likes the fact that he can kiss you, and he really really loves to do so. Honestly, he’d die if he didn’t show you how much you meant to him. Please let him do so :(

On you, he likes your hands. He loves to admire the size difference between yours and his. Plus, holding hands is his favorite thing? It makes him feel so close to you, and he loves the simple yet sweet connections of holding hands. 

C ~ Cum

After you suck him off, if you let him cum on your face, he’d lowkey go rabid for it. The sight of his seed on your face would be so hot to him, and he’d honestly feel so close to you. He also likes to cum inside of you, since he feels the most intimate while doing so. 

D ~ Dirty Secret

So you and Jaemin sometimes would send voice recordings to each other, since it’s faster than texting, and you guys got to hear the other’s voice as opposed to reading their words. On a couple of occasions, when one of you was away, and Jaemin was really needy, he jacked off to even some normal messages. You’d sent him one when you’d just woken up, and in a raspy, tired voice, you told him you missed him. He played that one over and over, and just from the sound of your voice, he managed to get himself off.

E ~ Experience

This boy joined the company in middle school and debuted at age 16. I rest my case. 

F ~ Favorite Position

His favorite position is tied between cowgirl and missionary. At times, he lets you ride him, and you think that you’re in control, when in reality, you’re just fucking yourself on his cock. He appreciates the view, and he also loves being able to easily grab your hips, waist, chest, and neck with ease. With missionary, he loves the fact that he can see your face. He has easy access to your face, neck, and shoulders, which allows him to pepper kisses and hickies wherever his mouth can reach. Plus, he feels so close and intimate with you when he’s fucking you in missionary.

G ~ Goofy

It really depends with him. The softer sex, especially in the morning, is more on the giggly and goofy side. He prefers to keep the mood more lighthearted if he can, but there are are times when he’s so serious and so full of love or some emotion. 

H ~ Hair

He’s at least well-trimmed, if not bare. 

I ~ Intimacy

Jaemin is so intimate during sex. He probably wouldn’t have sex unless he had an emotional connection with that person. This boy would kiss you everywhere, making sure you knew how much he loved you with everything he had. Jaemin would hold your hands, too.

J ~ Jack Off

I don’t think he’d really jack off too much. It would be more to relieve stress, in all honesty. When he does it, it’s done at night, and he remains almost completely silent when he’s doing the deed alone. It’s probably done like 3 times a week or so? However, he gets himself off to the thought of you, the sound of your voice, or the texts you’ve sent him. 

K ~ Kinks

Jaemin is a soft dom. He would try being a sub (it would be so hot, like IMAGINE). As a dom, I don’t see him being into degradation or anything of the sort.

Also, he’s big on praising. He would definitely praise you relentlessly. Please praise this boy, though, and make him feel loved and special.

Orgasm denial is something he also likes. He can tease you at times, and one of his ways of doing so is by denying you orgasms.

Hair pulling? Yes. Tug on his hair, please, he’d love it. He also loves tugging on your hair, especially when you’re sucking him off. 

He won’t hurt you, but he’s in to marking. Like, he’ll litter your skin with love bites, and he’d find it so hot to see the hickies all over your neck and collarbones. 

Dirty talk - he’d really tease you with this one. He’d whisper the most sinful things in your ear, and sometimes, you’d do the same. The utter filthiness of it, as well as the fact that it pushes him to the edge, is what makes it attractive to him.

L ~ Location

Honestly, any place completely risky isn’t something he would go for. The weirdest place he’s fucked you was in Ikea. However, that was when you and NCT Dream were the only people in that store (it’s a long story). Other places include the NCT Dream dorms, the couch of your apartment, and the bedroom of your apartment. 

M ~ Motivation

Your voice is enough. Legitimately, just the sound of your voice is attractive to him. The way you sound when you say less-than-innocent words turns him on. He would never admit this, but it’s true.

N ~ No

Jaemin, more than anything else, would not hurt you. He’d kiss, suck, and bite your skin, but that’s about as far as he’d go. Even if he was being a harder dom, he still wouldn’t like the idea of so much as spanking you.

O ~ Oral

Can you just imagine sucking him off, while he’s pulling your strands of hair, desperately trying to remain dominant though your mouth is turning him into putty? This is the number-one situation in which he loses all control over himself. Moans would spill past his lips, and they would legitimately be so hot. Once, you’d convinced him to let you take care of him and his pleasure for the night, so you once overstimulated him to the point where he was whining.You wouldn’t hear that sound often, but you definitely want to hear it again.

He would prefer receiving more than he would giving. It’s not because he doesn’t enjoy it -- he could eat you out for hours, hearing the sounds you make. But something about the sight of your lips around his cock, hands buried in your hair, and eyes glossy but still innocent, turns him on so incredibly much. 

Him eating you out, though? He’d be a bit sloppy with it, but he does it so passionately that it makes you see stars. 

P ~ Pace 

I think he’s fast with his thrusts. He’s rapid, hardly giving you time to let your breath regulate. He can be softer with love making, but when it’s not as intimate

Q ~ Quickies

Jaemin doesn’t like quickies. He wants to be able to fuck you properly, without being in an odd place, while time-crunched. This is usually because he spends time caring about every detail when it comes to sex with you, and he wants it to be more special. It’s happened once or twice, but it didn’t mean that he enjoyed it.

R ~ Risk

Jaemin doesn’t really take risks. He might do it in the dorms or where he knows he can’t be caught, but really, he prefers for it to be done somewhere more comfortable and safer. 

S ~ Stamina

It honestly depends on the day? Jaemin can be so full of energy, and his sex drive could be really high, so he could go for multiple rounds. On other days, after cumming once, he’s wiped out. He could go through multiple rounds of foreplay beforehand, though.

T ~ Toy

Well...once he bought you vibrating panties, halfway as a joke. You wore them out to the mall one day with him, and let’s just say that wearing them in public was not the best idea

U ~ Unfair

He lets you take control, but even still, he remains in charge. In that sense, he can be pretty fair. However, Jaemin will deny you of orgasm after orgasm, until you’re so sensitive that just a light touch could bring you to your high.

V ~ Volume

I don’t actually think he’s that loud. He’ll definitely praise you and tell you how beautiful and loved you are, and his breathing would be uneven. Along with that, his deep voice would be really raspy and it would sound really attractive. I don’t think he’s much of a moaner, besides an occasional sound here and there.

W ~ Wild Card

“Come on, baby, cum on my cock one last time,” Jaemin crooned. He was lying back against the pillows, and you were riding him. Your mouth was hanging open, and your eyes were screwed shut. The thing that was the most attractive to Jaemin was how you thought you were in control of it all, even the pace, but in reality, you were fucking yourself on his cock. He wouldn’t let you stop, despite you cumming twice already. It got to the point where you were practically sobbing from the stimulation and exhaustion, so he grabbed your hips, flipped you over, and pistoned into you, causing you to scream from pleasure.

X ~ X-ray

He’s longer than average, but he’s not too girthy, either. It can reach incredible depths inside of you, so getting you to scream his name is no problem. It’s probably kind of pretty to look at, as well.

Y ~ Yearning

I don’t think Jaemin’s that horny, overall. He’s young and hormonal and all, but I don’t think his sex drive is really that high. Honestly, once to twice a week is how often you’d have sex. He’d be down to finger you or eat you out any time, though.

Z ~ Zzz

210924: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5HzT3k_Yc 

Yuta wanted to go to Mark several times. You can see he is staring at Mark but hesitant to make a move - maybe he wanted to sing to Mark or give him the flowers. Flowers seems plausible because he looked at them and then back to Mark and at the end he finally went to Mark’s side but pushed the flowers to him first. Something was on his mind. Mark too. This comeback Mark has been very attention to Yuta but in this encore stage it’s like he is ignoring Yuta which is quite weird considering everything we have seen this comeback. Yuta clearly wanted Mark’s attention or just enjoyed looking at him but he hesitated to do whatever he wanted. 

210925: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7SCYmvYl0

Now this is a completely different story. Seems like overnight Yuta put his hesitations aside and did what he wanted - make the encore about him and Mark. He immediately started at Mark when he got the chance and this time Mark has no choice but to reciprocate (not ignore) because Yuta is right there. Mark tries to brush it off but there are moments his body language says clearly ‘what is he doing, right now live on stage?’. He even looks to Taeil to brush off Yuta’s intensity but it doesn’t work because Yuta is a man on a mission. We haven’t seen Yuta this intense with Mark all Sticker era so far so clearly he wanted to make a point. Whatever happened between them yesterday is clearly fizzled because Mark keeps looking at Yuta too - especially when he joined Jaehyun for their part. Mark looks bothered and keeps looking back to see if it’s over. Jungwoo noticed and tried to take Mark’s attention away from them and then once Yuta leaves Jaehyun, Mark continues to dance normally until (@05:31 - https://twitter.com/yumarkpics/status/1442071374521012225) he suddenly notices Yuta in his periphery vision and can’t help but stop and stare. Yuta immediately notices (as always - it’s quite freaky how they have this connection) and he makes eye contact. They share a quick but intense gaze which is bizarre considering they were both jamming to the song but then Yuta looks away and so does Mark. These interactions are really bizarre and quite unlike how Yumark were last year which makes me think something in their relationship has definitely changed. Yuta’s initial staring today is very intense, even for him, and it’s almost uncomfortable to watch.

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key: (D) dramatic, (SD) soft dramatic, (FN) flamboyant natural, (N) natural, (SN) soft natural, (DC) dramatic classic, (C) classic, (SC) soft classic, (FG) flamboyant gamine, (G) gamine, (SG) soft gamine, (TR) theatrical romantic, (R) romantic

DISCLAIMER: This is just a part of the analysis of the idol’s natal chart, which wants to show a deeper perspective on the idols life. This analysis is carried out thanks to the data that appears in the birth chart. These are my interpretations of the signs and how they work based on my experiences with them. Everyone has different opinions and all interpretation and experiences within is valid. The point of this post is to entertain. [This idol has confirmed his birth time].

This was requested but i answered the ask a long time ago so lets pretend that i still have it ksdkdk okay so im gonna do the 7th sense lineup for simplicity in this one! also please dont request anymore boyfriend!series bc all the members have now been requested multiple times skdjdj and i just have to write them now! thank you !!

genre; pretty much just fluff

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Although Taeyong loves kissing you, he love it even more when you kiss him. He likes the cheesy romantic things so i think he loves receiving kisses on his cheek. Something about it is just so cute and intimate to him he just cant get enough of it. Taeyong is also pretty soft and gentle so i think hed like placing kisses on the back of hand or your forehead. Its a beautifully simple way that he can casually show you his affection any time.

Man, so I’ve long thought the Rough version gets misunderstood as a faux-street, too-ugly-to-watch piece of low-res crap without either meaning or storyline. but I believe the MV and lyrics are full of nods to revolution, protest, and “fighting the unjust status quo” – let’s get started.

1. street graffiti as protest speech

What does protest look like? The “civil,” squeaky-clean-legal type can be voting in elections, donating to political parties, and in some countries and U.S. states, mass-assembling in public for “peaceful” demonstrations. Except sometimes people feel disenfranchised by all institutional modes of political participation. Resistance can also be illegal: violence, riots, obstructing traffic, trespassing on private property...and vandalism.

The MV begins with a blurry close-up horizontal pan across a wall of graffiti, and the boys are shown with aerosol spray cans again and again until the end – shaking them, painting with them, chilling with them in the background.

Right away, we’re faced with the puzzle of whether NCT are swaggering revolutionaries...or just angsty, privileged youths defacing public space to “rebel” against their "boring” lives. On one hand, it’s implied by the shabby warehouse littered with cheap goods – pizza boxes, a jumbo cheetos jar, posters taped over un-wallpapered walls- that they’re poor, maybe college students. Yet we see expensive luxury goods that look completely out of place: a glittering chandelier, iMacs, Sony camcorders, guitars, pro lighting kits, Doyoung’s audio mixing panel, the iPhones that they get caught on.

Are NCT 127 a gang that splurges on luxuries? Privileged college students who transplanted dorm items into an abandoned warehouse to film, edit, and produce an indie film? Or maybe they’re a resistance movement using graffiti “writing” as the only alternative media in a censored press, as El Salvador’s FMLN guerilla rebels used graffiti for recruitment, criticism of regime violence against protesters, and commemoration of their fallen from the 70s through the 90s against their brutal (US-backed) right-wing government?

I found NCT’s recurring use of camcorders to be strongly in favor of the (I think) intriguing resistance movement theory...but we’ll get to that later.

Graffiti can be a tool to alleviate boredom or gain fame (or a design career lmao), it can "beautify” urban spaces, and it can serve as gangs’ territory markers. But political graffiti is often the voice of the oppressed in cities where systemic poverty, economic and racial segregation, unemployment, crime, and police brutality ravage communities. In 1989, New York City and Los Angeles each spent over $50 million on graffiti cleanup, and other countries like Peru, Argentina, and Spain are also covered in graffiti that reflect the civil unrest among marginalized indigenous, labor, and student groups.

So is NCT hijacking or co-opting the protest speech of the oppressed? Or are they representing the resistance against injustice in the Limitless MV? I believe they’re consciously paying homage to revolutionaries and activists, as I’ll try to show below, despite the cocky Supreme outfits and sleek, pricey consumer tech.

2. homage to Muhammad Ali: the Greatest (1942-2016)

Who’s that on Mark’s shirt? Called “the Greatest,” the legendary Muhammad Ali was ranked the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time by Ring Magazine and The Associated Press, and the greatest athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated. Ali won gold at the 1960 Olympics at age 18, and is still the world’s only three-time lineal heavyweight champion. He was also a civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam War protester, and a prolific philanthropist.

Muhammad Ali is famous for his 1966 refusal to fight in the then-popular Vietnam War, which he was arrested, stripped of his boxing titles, and charged with draft evasion for – the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1971, even though my President hilariously offered to pardon him just days ago. Ali publicly stated:

Today, Ali has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Academy Award-winning films based on his achievements, and has graced Time Magazine 5x, and Sports Illustrated 37 times. But his activism antagonized wealthy white America long before he became the mainstream icon that he is today.

Muhammad Ali’s protest to a then-popular war cost him 4 of his prime years as an athlete and landed him in jail, so it’s maybe not surprising to learn that the NSA’s “Minaret” program and FBI’s COINTELPRO operations had been illegally spying on him for years. In 1971, an (also illegal lmao) civilian raid on a Pennsylvania FBI office exposed over 1000 FBI records of surveillance, disinformation, and infiltration plans against civil rights and anti-war activists, and most damningly, of their 1969 assassination of 21-year-old Illinois Black Panthers chairman Fred Hampton in our boy Johnny’s hometown, Chicago.

I mention Fred Hampton and the FBI’s COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) because the whole Limitless MV is steeped in this...unsettling, sinister, you’re-under-surveillance discomfort that many civil rights activists felt in their resistance activities through at least the 50s and 60s. In many shots, NCT look like deer frozen in the headlights, caught off guard by the camera.

3. surveillance of activists & revolutionaries

Besides the general feeling of paranoia about being watched, there’s also shots that look straight-up taken without NCT’s consent or knowledge, as if by a secret camera, spy drone, or informant.

Which leads to the question: if NCT are just poseur revolutionaries partying with camcorders and Supreme streetwear in a warehouse, what are they so terrified of? Why do the members look scared out of their minds, as if for their lives? What danger are they constantly on the lookout for? what are they trying to hide?

I actually think this is the most important pattern to catch from the Limitless MV, even more important than the recurring imagery of resistance and protest that I’ve been writing a whole long-ass post about. If NCT fans remember nothing else about this MV, I hope they’ll remember the members’ reactions of fear, defensiveness, and hostility upon suddenly sensing the camera’s presence in each scene. Limitless is an MV with lots of “swagger” and lots of moments where NCT smiles knowingly for the camera, but there’s also these moments where they’re freaked out by the sudden presence of the camera.

Even if you don’t buy the “revolutionaries” theory, it’s still clear that there’s something profoundly, deeply wrong and disturbing going on in much of the VHS camcorder clips.

4. civil disobedience & riots –> arrests

Alright, so I’ve always thought the YouTube thumbnail for the Rough version looked like Taeil, Jaehyun, Doyoung, and Johnny getting arrested or “frisked” by police, and not just showing off their sculpted side profiles lmao. The image of an apprehended person being told to “put your hands up!” or “get on the ground!” or “put your hands up against the wall!” is burned into public consciousness.

Police want to check that the person is unarmed, or unable to reach for a weapon, hence the order to keep palms spread in plain sight.

As you can guess, unpopular peaceful protests are often labeled “riots” and result in arrests, like in the Sir William George “riot” of 1969 in our boy Mark’s own Canada, even if participants only started throwing objects to prevent their forcible removal by armed police upon their arrival.

Several other scenes also struck me as drawing heavily from the imagery of arrested protesters: while I can’t catch the hangul in the background signs (can you?), I get the vibes of police photo lineups and “mugshots” from this shot:

At least, I get that vibe from Doyoung and Taeil on the right. It’s made more discomforting because why the hell is Jaehyun upside down? he looks like he’s being...tortured? and why is Johnny holding him in that position? The boys look like they’re aware they’re being photographed, then catalogued.

In the final few shots, NCT are shown huddled together in poor lighting and throwing sparkler fireworks in arcs that remind me of “armed” protesters throwing rocks, bottles, gas canisters, or molotov cocktails at riot police.

The pose struck by someone throwing a long-range projectile looks the same no matter what the protest is against: a right-wing government, settler colonialism, locally harmful infrastructure like pipelines or military bases, strike-breaking, austerity, police violence, martial law, a verdict, state corruption, high-profile arrests and convictions, food shortages and unemployment under a left-wing government, an inauguration, etc. Anonymous graffiti artist Banksy even produced this meme-famous piece riffing on this iconic pose:

The images above are from Gaza, the Stonewall Inn in New York City, Paris, and Athens – and there’s plenty more to show from Baltimore, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and outside of the U.S. too. But back to the act of NCT throwing ~lit~ fireworks into the air: how do we know if they’re punks who are celebrating or protesters who are rioting?

Since there’s never anyone else shown in the MV except NCT, we can’t tell for sure. But I’m inclined to take the maybe-protesting shots along with the maybe-arrested scene and the maybe-police-photo-lineup scene as belonging to one theme that also explains the graffiti, Muhammad Ali / boxing references, and the pervasive fear of being watched: the theme of resistance.

Also, intriguingly, remember how it was Taeil, Johnny, Doyoung, and Jaehyun who were maybe-arrested and maybe-photographed in a police lineup? Earlier, these guys jostle each others’ shoes in a circle, as if sealing a mutual pact with a secret handshake. Later, the same four are shown arrested.

By the way, there’s a couple of secret handshakes in this MV: gang signs? college boys antics? the identification codes of a legit resistance movement? no one knows.

If we believe Limitless to be the (sketchily told) story of NCT’s resistance, we might speculate that TI, JN, DY, and JH took mutually agreed-upon actions that resulted in their arrest and detention. Still, all of NCT lights their sparklers together, and all of NCT throws them into the air. What do you think?

It also makes you curious: what could they have done? Staged a sit-in? a walkout? a strike? a march? a riot? sprayed graffiti and got caught? or maybe, as I’ll half-seriously propose in Pt 2, they organized a forbidden film screening?

4. 🙈🙉🙊 & “monkey see, monkey do”

There’s a couple of old sayings about monkeys, human behavior, and morality. In the above shot, Yuta records as Mark arranges his body into the gold gorilla statue’s crouching position, and we’re shown this footage in the next scene.

That gold gorilla statue...can actually connect us to more meaningful interpretations of the MV. We see Mark bizarrely, weirdly, almost disturbingly, mimicking the position of the primate with great sensitivity to detail – why is it so unsettling? For me, it’s because he looks almost brainwashed or exploited while doing it. Mark is meticulously copying the example of an inanimate object, and he doesn’t laugh or show signs of having fun either. In fact, he looks almost anxious about messing up.

Later on, we see a highly symbolic shot of all nine boys placing their hands over their eyes, covering their sight as if to say, “see no evil.”

There’s no practical reason for all of NCT to cover their eyes indoors, so it’s not literal, it’s a metaphor. In Western culture, the act of deliberately impairing one’s sight evokes the idiom “to turn a blind eye.” That is, when a person knows evil is happening but doesn’t want to fix it, they can pretend the evil doesn’t exist by covering their eyes so they “see no evil.”

By the way, Kim Namjoon recently shared in a Billboard interview that BTS’s Fake Love choreo references the old “three wise monkeys” saying: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Here, Winwin covers Taeyong’s mouth while they both steadily meet the camera’s gaze. Their stillness and the camera’s smooth zoom in HD, in such contrast from previous low-res scenes that had almost spastically shaky camera motion, emphasizes this setup as another metaphor, instead of a literal action taken by characters within the story of Limitless.

NCT is trying to send us a message in this scene, it seems: that leader Taeyong, and thus maybe all of them, are being silenced for whatever reason and can’t speak the truth. They can look us dead in the eye, but there’s certain things they can’t say out loud –maybe because of the offscreen danger that keeps them living in fear.

I’ll add that I believe the “see no evil” part is meant to evoke the unsettling idea that people, especially youth, are ignoring the present-day evil or injustice in their own countries – the complicity of their willful blindness. The recurring lyrics “wake me u-up” and “open your eyes”( 눈을 떠 봐 오) in the chorus reinforce this association. Back to Mark mimicking the gold gorilla, the old pidgin saying “monkey see, monkey do” refers to the act of learning or mimicry without either knowledge or concern for the consequences.

Is this a critique of youth uncritically adopting the beliefs of their parents and mainstream society without thinking about the systemic injustices they condone and perpetuate? I think the answer depends on the viewer’s interest in politics and comfort with interpreting works that haven’t been explicitly explained by a creator lmao.

conclusion & lyrics.

I think I’ll stop Part 1 here lolol, since there’s still so, so much left. The plan is for Part 2 to introduce the origins of Third World Cinema and the Korean Independent Filmmakers Association (KIFA) as possible influences but, most definitely, amplifiers for the images of resistance used in the MV. Part 2 will address the...uh, limitless cinematic storytelling styles used in the Rough version, and the effects of editing them together into one MV to tell one story.

I also super-duper recommend @seasquared​‘s “Direct Address” essay for a more complete idea of the viewer’s gaze as intruder into NCT’s world – though I sort of interpret the boys’ unpreparedness for the camera’s presence as more of a metaphor for resistance movements’ existential paranoia at being “caught” by the establishment than as a critique of fans’ objectification of idols:

Oh baby it’s you It’s only the beginning, the limitless me || 이제 시작이야 무한의 나 From the start of the East to the end of the West || 동의 처음과 서의 끝 쪽부터 The light gets stronger || 빛은 암흑 속 퍼질 As it spreads through the darkness || 수록 강해져 가 Open your eyes || 눈을 떠 봐 오 My song is getting louder || 점점 커져가 나의 노래가 Did you see? That hot and explosive world? || 봤니 뜨겁고 터질듯한 세계 Can you hear? We have become one || 들리니 우리는 하나가 돼 Baby I don’t want nobody but you

[trans from colorcodedlyrics.com]

If we choose to interpret “the light” as a revolutionary movement, which my eagerly politics-following ass thinks is a meaningful exercise, the lyrics and MV might suddenly start to paint a story of NCT as underground revolutionaries who meet and fall in love with a new friend, eventually begging the friend to join them in the resistance.

I absolutely love it – Limitless then simultaneously becomes a greasy recruitment message (”baby I don’t want nobody but you 😘”) and a desperate plea for a fellow citizen to join the cause against oppression. (”open your eyes”) But it’s also a passionate love song, and I’m a total hoe for the scorchingly intimate hunger the lyrics convey. The obvious “thirsty, thirsty, f-or love” bit aside, the speaker in the lyrics is urgently seeking intimacy: both a personal connection, and a sense of belonging within something greater than himself.

I need a connection, I want it like crazy I need you I need something to make us feel each other completely I need you

Help me so I can do well Sometimes, I get lost Eventually, we are all connected You know this Like finding a big ocean At the end of a desert Your existence is limitless

Change the heavy world Look how free we are, so free Inside, only you are allowed The one to take my heart, that is you

I think it’s interesting to ask: is Limitless more of a love song that borrows its ferocity from the metaphor of revolution, or a revolutionary manifesto that amplifies its fervor with the universal passion and frustration of youth?

I think it’s similar to asking if the MV is more of an “aesthetics” moodfilm that boosts its own glamor by appropriating the imagery of resistance movements (graffiti writers), activists (Muhammad Ali), and hardships (arrest)...or if the MV is itself a story of resistance against oppression, and only dons the gloss of expensive streetwear to add a spirit of youthful cockiness and anti-establishment swagger to the cause.

But in reality, aren’t things more complex than that? The spirit of any revolution and the passions and frustrations of its youth have always fed and strengthened each other, I think. It feels only honest and hard-hitting that a song about youth-led revolution would also be a hungry, impatient love song.

I hope you enjoyed reading this – I’ll die of joy if you decide you want to comment, discuss, message, or interact with me or other fans in whatever way about any of this!

as you can easily imagine by its name this blog is dedicated to yumark: all the posts are going to be related to them and nct 127 (from their moments to their updates on social medias)

i opened this blog prevalently because i wanted a place where to post my analysis and opinions about their relationship but i'm going to reblog other analyses as well in the future. i'd like this blog to become a collector of all the theories posted on tumblr eventually and an archive of their posts so i'm going to post their updates on social medias in the last months.