#the connected

i dont think some of this blogs followers know aster so:

asterope is someone who worshipped a mechanical deity, the connected. she questioned her role, became outwardly skeptical, and was killed by that god for it. she was remade by her best friend (mutually in love but never told each other btw) and fellow cultist chrysothemis... in a robotic body that resembles the connected, bc she thought aster was still faithful.

Now heres the rambling:

like. the very idea of her being killed and remade in the god who killed her's image. and how that very god mocks her for All of it. even when she was dying it literally called her a liability to her face, and when she obviously dissented, shes still constantly reminded of it. when she first woke up in her new connected-based body she literally got mind controlled for a while and got to watch (until she forcefully took it back and broke the chip in her that let it happen).

looking back i feel like i shouldve made her more paranoid in the campaign i played her in bc like. looks at this whole situation. its like.... god hates you and is out for you, genuinely,

but like its god. thats still a deity. which reminds me of this song about religious trauma.

Isiri meets someone from her past in a dream. Tau and Poni uncover hidden audio with help from HOUND-5. Guyser and Smog confront an attack on the World of Spirit. WorldCorps faces off with the Governance in the Configuration during the eclipse on Khre-Salis. They make a choice about creation, travel, and home.

I should say that this album differs from all the others very greatly. Besides, when we listen to the songs, we can say that some of them are so unusual for k-pop that it makes our “foreign hearts” beat faster. If you listen to k-pop songs, any songs, there is often something similiar in most of them (maybe melodies, arrangement, tunes and etc.) but here we have the album which consists of VERY VARIOUS types of music, and even genres, I think, are a little different. That’s why fans were really amazed after listening to the preview. So let’s look at this album more detailed (of course, my opinion is rather subjective but all the same)

Jealousy. I was talking about this song in one of my posts, so if you are interested, just follow the link http://prettyunicornmimi.tumblr.com/post/172438889685/k-pop-fans-bloggers-especially-monbebes-lets

Destroyer. The song which wins the hearts of all people who hear it, no matter whether he or she is a monbebe or not. We could feel it as soon as we had watched the music film with the part of this song. There were (and still there are) a lot of comments that “Destroyer” must have become the main one because it’s very strong, but I’ve already explained in one of my previous posts why it’s not the main one. So let’s talk about “Destroyer”

What amazed everyone (me either) in this song is the melody, tunes and sounds. This kind of songs is very rare. We, as foreing fans, heard some rock sounds that it’s not typical for k-pop songs. And when we look at the name “Destroyer”, it already warns us about something strong. This song is similiar to the ones which we are used to hearing in our countries but not in Korea. Rock sounds make it real pleasant and familiar to our ears, so that’s why exactly foreign fans voted for this song as the main. As for lyrics, at the first sight it seems to be rather usual (again about love and so on), BUT among typical words about love you can find something which makes you look at this song from the other side. For example, for me they are “I’m confused if I lose everything”; “Leave the time, I was full of regrets”; “Trust your fate, trust us, I believe in my sincerity and i won’t change” and etc. So we see that this song tells us not only about deep love feelings but it’s a kind of message for us that we can rely on boys because they can be destroyers of our cruel destiny and fate and we are all connected.

Falling/Heavy rain. To be honest, after the preview i was thinking that this would be a typical korean song. BUT I was pleasantly surprised. This song amazingly combines swag style of Monsta X and just pop-music. The beats are strong that makes you shake your body. BTW, the lyrics are more calling than sensitive and i think it perfectly shows Monsta X’s style and spirit. It’s enough to listen to this song once and you can’t help moving all day. Unfortunately, I don’t have more to say about this song.

Crazy in love. From the title we again get a kind of impression (especially for ones who have just engaged in k-pop) that this song will just tell us a story about love, love feelings, love thoughts and all other sort of things connected with love. We consider this song to be sentimental, sensitive, very slow and in some cases even mawkish and saccharine. HOWEVER rap-line (our precious I.M and Jooheon) make this song sound very pleasant for ears even if you are not a fan of this kind of song like me. It sounds smooth telling us a story about the person who was so crazy in love that he could even let his ego behind and etc. (Sorry if there is not much information) Here I especially adore rap-line.

Lost in the dream. The second song in this album which even KILLED fans (BTW, from different fandoms). 98% of fans has in their lists of favourite songs of this album excatly “Lost in the dream”. So what is so special in this song?

Firstly, I think it’s line distribution. Monsta X is very famous for their funny line distribution (I’m talking about Hyungwon and Minhyuk) but here we see that everyone has rather equal and normal line distribution if we take into consideration the vocal abilities of all members.

Secondly, this song perfectly demonstrates strong sides of each member. Kihyun shows us his incredible vocal abilities and talents, the same we can notice when Shownu is singing. Wonho with his a little husky voice adds some even rocky tunes. Minhyuk and Hyungwon (being not VERY good at singing, but i still consider their voices to be wonderful) sound very great and not-fans can’t decide who in this group suffers from deprivation of lines. As for rap-lines, we see exactly Jooheon’s style and I.M’s style: Jooheon’s rap is slower but strong and roaring, I.M’s is fast but sexy and deep.

Thirdly, the melody and the tune. This song sounds really strong (the same feeling we have while listening to “Destroyer”), especially beats make it sound very unusual and differ this song from the others very much.

Fourthly, at the first sight lyrics seem to be rather weak for such a song but if you read the lyrics carefully, you will find out that this song touches upon the problem of distinguish between a dream and a reality. Very possibly, that some of you, just like me, sometimes confuse dreams and the reality, want to stay in the dream or vice versa escape. All in all, it’s an incredible song which has a lot of pluses and its style is very interesting and powerful.

If only. The song which is written by our precious Wonho. Wonho tends to write sensitive songs about love difficulties and problems. What is special about this song? Music itself has cheerful mood but the lyrics tell us about pain. The song is full of life and emotions, it shows us that there is always something sad in happines and vice versa. In comparison with “From Zero”, “If only” has more deep lyrics and many people can find themselves in these lines. BTW, it’s amazing how rap-line sounds. They sound as if they are not rappers but vocalists. WHAT TALENTED BOYS AWWW (i couldn’t get over my admiration). But as I mentioned above I can’t say more about such kind of the song.

Special. The song which is written by our incredible Jooheon. Here we can notice exactly Jooheon’s style in lyrics, melodies, arrangement and etc. I get the impression that here Jooheon tried to show people what kind of group Monsta X is. Especially “I’m a special baby” (i connect their frequent use of the word “baby” with our fandom which as far as i know in French means “my baby”) “Here come Monsta, get out of the way” and etc.

All in all, I should say that this album is a success. It combines a lot of unusual for k-pop genres, styles. But, to be honest, I was a little sad that the main idea of all this songs goes round love but not life, difficulties, problems themselves. However, I mentioned it already that only two songs are written by boys, btw, only producers and company's directors choose and decide what songs to release. So we can see that boys can influence the choice of songs very much.

Love them, please. Support them. They deserve this!

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