Appreciate the full album review/reaction videos even though its not as popular as your other videos. Love your insights into the lyrics and meaning behind them. Not many other content creators do so.
Thanks for your reaction to this album. The MV is about an abusive relationship with a narcissist. Through the lyrics we find out he controls her life, he makes her think he's the only one in the world who understands and puts up with her, he makes it seem like it's all her fault. This narcissist is called NAR. In the beginning of the video, snippets of texts as if pages of a notebook quickly flash on the screen. What we first learn about NAR is, "NAR, when you flipped over the chair, the frame, the books next to the television, and even the vases in the kitchen. I was like, is this really a perfect world? I don't know. It's so confusing. I need to turn the light off". The MV seems to start after this happened as we can see NAR straightening the book and vases. This violent outburst made Taeyeon question the relationship: "is this really a perfect world?" CIS, the house, the relationship The house, the photos and the world being upside down symbolize the relationship. How NAR makes it all seem normal even though an outside viewer can immediately see it's wrong. Taeyeon has fallen into believing that it's normal that the world is upside down, that the relationship is normal. This interpretation is also backed by the text in the beginning: "Yeah, you're right. I think the world flipped upside down is beautiful. I believe". That's why towards the end NAR forces Taeyeon to watch the city upside down, trying to force her back into his lies when she starts to see the truth in the relationship. SIS, the crystal ball, the help The crystal ball helps Taeyeon see this truth. When she looks through it, it shows her the upside down world the right side up again. It helps her see the relationship through the eyes of someone else. The first notebook page in the beginning says, "When I got the crystal ball, I decided to call it 'SIS'. Is this what having a sister feels like? I rely on her more and more". This makes me think the crystal ball symbolizes someone, a person, who helps Taeyeon out of the abusive relationship. NARCISSIST The letters CIS and SIS keep appearing here and there over the music video. They are the little signs in the relationship, the red flags. By themselves they don't mean much and might even go unnoticed. But when the truth finally comes out, thinking back the signs were always there. Taeyeon puts all these pieces together in the end when she pulls out the before partly hidden word 'NARCISSIST', revealing the true nature of NAR, and burns down the house, ending the relationship.
I love your breakdown of her music please review more of her in the future! As a fan of hers since 2007 she is SO TALENTED and is not scared to try new things! No wonder she's the idol of idols in SK! This whole album has been on repeat for me since it came out! She has reached a point where she has nothing to prove but I love that she keeps challenging herself!
Love your reaction! I thought you were in the right way because Melt away feel like the start of this relationship and the last spoken of herself fabulous
I love your reactions and analysis of each meaning of the lyrics. Taeyeon always makes albums like a story. Each song is continuous
Appreciate the full album review/reaction videos even though its not as popular as your other videos. Love your insights into the lyrics and meaning behind them. Not many other content creators do so.
i love melt away
Thanks! Love Taeyeon's new To. X album! Beautiful Vocals!
Thank you for reacting to Taeyeon. Love that you focus on her lyrics
Thanks for your reaction to this album.
The MV is about an abusive relationship with a narcissist. Through the lyrics we find out he controls her life, he makes her think he's the only one in the world who understands and puts up with her, he makes it seem like it's all her fault. This narcissist is called NAR. In the beginning of the video, snippets of texts as if pages of a notebook quickly flash on the screen. What we first learn about NAR is, "NAR, when you flipped over the chair, the frame, the books next to the television, and even the vases in the kitchen. I was like, is this really a perfect world? I don't know. It's so confusing. I need to turn the light off". The MV seems to start after this happened as we can see NAR straightening the book and vases. This violent outburst made Taeyeon question the relationship: "is this really a perfect world?"
CIS, the house, the relationship
The house, the photos and the world being upside down symbolize the relationship. How NAR makes it all seem normal even though an outside viewer can immediately see it's wrong. Taeyeon has fallen into believing that it's normal that the world is upside down, that the relationship is normal. This interpretation is also backed by the text in the beginning: "Yeah, you're right. I think the world flipped upside down is beautiful. I believe". That's why towards the end NAR forces Taeyeon to watch the city upside down, trying to force her back into his lies when she starts to see the truth in the relationship.
SIS, the crystal ball, the help
The crystal ball helps Taeyeon see this truth. When she looks through it, it shows her the upside down world the right side up again. It helps her see the relationship through the eyes of someone else. The first notebook page in the beginning says, "When I got the crystal ball, I decided to call it 'SIS'. Is this what having a sister feels like? I rely on her more and more". This makes me think the crystal ball symbolizes someone, a person, who helps Taeyeon out of the abusive relationship.
NARCISSIST
The letters CIS and SIS keep appearing here and there over the music video. They are the little signs in the relationship, the red flags. By themselves they don't mean much and might even go unnoticed. But when the truth finally comes out, thinking back the signs were always there. Taeyeon puts all these pieces together in the end when she pulls out the before partly hidden word 'NARCISSIST', revealing the true nature of NAR, and burns down the house, ending the relationship.
I love your breakdown of her music please review more of her in the future! As a fan of hers since 2007 she is SO TALENTED and is not scared to try new things!
No wonder she's the idol of idols in SK! This whole album has been on repeat for me since it came out! She has reached a point where she has nothing to prove but I love that she keeps challenging herself!
take ur time for the purpose album!!! BUT YAY ANOTHER TAEYEON REACTSSSSS AHHH
Love your reaction! I thought you were in the right way because Melt away feel like the start of this relationship and the last spoken of herself fabulous
Fun fact, melt away produced by zara larson
Thank you for listening to the bsides too🥰🥰🥰