Ohhh man. I can’t believe this was 10 years ago. I feel old haha. Baby Dino Chen has grown to T-rex. Each exo members has a animal spirit attached to them so that why I called Chen a dinosaur haha
You can always trust chen to deliver vocals!! , i meay the men wasn't ranked best vocalist in K-pop for nothing , i always like to listen to the Chinese version of the songs because of him , he has a really wide range I love the tone of his voice and the edge he brings thank you for checking out this version , waiting for your next exo videos
In the EXO-M (Mandarin) version of EXO's "What is Love" MV, you see Chen and Luhan as the singers. (As you saw, D.O. and Baekhyun were the main singers of EXO-K.) These are the main vocalists from their respective groups. However, in the MV you see most of the members. The rest of the members aren't singing the song, but they are helping to tell a story. The Chinese version has a slightly different feel because it has a sound and style that is designed to appeal more to a Chinese audience. The EXO-K version has a deeper R&B sound because that is what appeals to a Korean audience, where the EXO-M version has a lighter lyrical feel because that's what attracts a Chinese audience. In both MVs for "What Is Love," you see clips from some of their pre-debut teaser videos. All the clips in the MV are special clips that were originally released one at a time on their own to introduce EXO to the world, before the group's official debut. (You don't recognize some of those clips from the EXO-K version because they weren't part of the Korean MV.) Before EXO debuted, SM released 23 teaser videos over a 3 month period and the videos showcased the members and their talents, such as Kai's special dances and Tao's martial arts skills, as well as told a story about EXO who are on a quest to find each other and to find clues to locate the Tree of Life, etc. Kai was the member that was featured in the most teasers -- somewhere around 10 videos. The "What is Love" MV takes clips from those teaser videos and puts them together to make the MV. (The EXO-M MV only looks like there is more dancing because they happen to use more of the teaser clips that showcase the group's dancing than the EXO-K version, but when they perform the song live, the performance is the same regardless if it's EXO-K or EXO-M.) Although "What is Love" is a love song, the MV really doesn't have a whole lot to do with love. The storyline in the MV is all about EXO's origin story and it is showing the members as they first arrived here on Earth. This was their very first pre-debut MV -- about 3 or 4 months before their debut with "Mama" -- so it is setting up EXO's storyline and it's showing the members. This was before most people really even knew who EXO were. EXO's second MV, was "History" and it was also a pre-debut song. "History" came out about 2 months after "What is Love." Now to explain the story in the MV: As you may have noticed, there is an eclipse happening. EXO's whole concept and storyline is that they are aliens who came to Earth to protect the Tree of Life from the Red Forces. And as otherworldly beings, the members each have a superpower that is specific to them. The eclipse is what controls EXO's powers and it's where they get their power and strength from. So, that is why you see in most of their MVs that they focus on the moon or show an eclipse taking place, etc. EXO are "aliens" so staring at an eclipse or the sun doesn't affect them in the same way. After all, they come from a planet that has two suns. LOL You also see scenes such as Chanyeol (a member of EXO-K) looking at a drawing of a unicorn and comparing it to a hieroglyph of a unicorn on a piece of rock, which is thought to be something to do with the fact that he is searching for Lay (an EXO-M member). Lay's symbol is a unicorn, which represents his power of healing. I think the rocks are clues that may have been left on Earth or on Planet Exo from ancient times. (You will see these symbols all over the place in EXO content because each member has a symbol that represent them -- as you discover in their "Mama" MVs -- and their symbols are often used kind of like a call beacon. When one member is looking for another member, or they want to send a member a message, you will see a version of their symbol appear. It's a way to know who the message is coming from and it's designed to make everyone aware that it's something important that you need to pay attention to.) Think of the message on those rocks like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Therefore, I see it as EXO has to find the clues that someone has left from the past. Just like in real life history, often ancient civilizations have left us clues to tell their story in order to make sure whatever happened to them doesn't get repeated. Therefore, I think someone has left EXO clues, just in case sometime in the future the Red Force was able to gain power once again. Hence, why in EXO's next pre-debut song "History" they talk about not wanting to allow whatever happened previously to repeat itself (i.e. they need to stop and prevent history from repeating itself. And they need to learn from history by discovering clues that will help them understand what happened in the past, in order to figure out a way to make sure the same mistakes aren't repeated, etc.) And because it is thought that the EXO members can travel between time periods and dimensions, this could also mean that the clues could have possibly been left for them by their future selves. The future EXO members have traveled back in time to leave a message for the present day EXO members in order to help them figure out how to stop the Red Force and prevent whatever happened in the future from taking place, etc. The clues I think are something they need in order to find the Tree of Life and to do whatever needs to be done in order to create peace in the world once again, and free humanity and EXO from the control of the Red Force. Which will allow the Tree of Life to be whole once again and be at peace, no longer being used as a potential weapon by the Red Force, etc. In reality, I think the Red Force could be thought of as a symbol of all the things society is dealing with in the world and all the bad things that need to be fixed, such as war, hate, destruction of the environment, corruption, etc. I think SM's wide-reaching message within their SM Cultured Universe and EXO's storyline is the dream of world peace. Therefore, I'm not sure we will ever see an official end to EXO's storyline or the SM Culture Universe story because World Peace is such a lofty goal that will never be accomplished fully. So in other words, EXO's story may be an open ended one that never gets solved. I think the whole point of SM creating this storyline is because it's supposed to be a social commentary on what real life society needs to learn and do in order to create a better world. Think of everything in the SM Culture Universe, and EXO's storyline, as a metaphor for what is happening all around us every day and what we have gone through in the past and will go through in the future if we don't learn from our mistakes, etc. Fun fact: Months and years later, we have also discovered that their pre-debut teasers also were teasers to EXO's discography of songs. At the time, when the teasers were released, we had no idea the significance of the songs that you hear in the teasers. But now, over the years, we have discovered that the majority of the songs that were featured in EXO's pre-debut teasers were also meant to be teasers to songs that would be released as some of the main tracks of EXO's albums. All the teasers are still on SM's UA-cam channel if you want to check them out. If you watch the teasers, you will see how planned out everything EXO is involved in actually is. Most of the songs that they released even years after debut were songs that were teased to in their pre-debut teaser videos. That just goes to show you why we say that everything EXO does comes back to their storyline. :D Absolutely everything has been planned out down to the most minute detail for years in advance and for years to come. However, not all of the songs you hear in the teasers were songs that made it to the albums, or maybe they are songs that haven't been released yet. There are several songs in the teasers that we still don't know. Maybe they are songs that have not been released yet, or maybe they may never exist as a full song. It's another part of EXO's mystery that we are waiting to discover. So, as you can see, if you want to follow EXO's story, you have to watch both "What is Love" MVs to see the different clips and try and figure out the story it is trying to tell. EXO's MVs may look similar, but in each version there are hidden messages and Easter eggs that SM puts in each MV that tell a little more of the story, even still today. Plus, in the Korean version they highlight the 6 EXO-K members, where in the Mandarin version they highlight the EXO-M members. It's a common misconception that just because EXO's two MVs look similar on the surface that you don't need to watch both versions, but as you just discovered, if you skip the Mandarin version of EXO's MVs -- especially these early MVs when they were still a full group with 12 members -- you miss out on hearing the EXO-M members and what made the Mandarin version special.
Yes the instrumental song in the teaser is the clue for EXO's song. I think there's song that not fit to the concept of EXO now. Like "Time Control", cmiiw :3 coz Tao no longer in EXO. And i think "Tempo" in the teaser sound different to the "Tempo" now. Sorry if i'm wrong, coz i'm not remember (gonna check it after left this comment 🤭) The teaser song that I like the most is El Dorado and My Lady. When they just had MAMA album, i convert the video to audio just to be in my winamp playlist 🤭🙈 (pls forgive my ilegal act 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈) Edit: SORRY THERE'S NO "TEMPO" in the teaser. I mistaken "PHOENIX" as "TEMPO". That differrent is "LIGHTSABER" in the teaser and the "LIGHTSABER" now.
The first one where DO and Baek performed was the showcase in Korea on April 8. They flew to China the following day for the China showcase. So, for the 1st one K was on the forefront while M sung more in China. Not everyone knows abt the China showcase too. So thank you again.
I know that you're doing EXO guide videos but I think you should check out the Christmas and winter songs they have R&B in them as well they're known as the kings of winter
Thank u for checking out EXO-M version. The members are quite underrated bec not a lot of people check the M version. I appreciate anyone who does take the time to check them out, THANK YOU. TBH, there are songs I prefer in the M version bec of the song delivery and even the lyrics. But u do get 2 different vibes from the two versions of M and K.
Thank you for reacting to EXO and giving honest opinions. Yeah.the person whp sang with chen was luhan who left group after kris in 2014. In the video u asked who was that blonde hair and white dressed guy right. He is kris. I'm waiting for ypur each members guides reaction but they are updated until 2020. But no prbs u I can't wait for the day until u complete these guides and start reacting to exo songs...I'm sure their discpgraphy is the best that i have ever discovered..its a rollercoaster guide....
thanks.. I am glad u react to the Chinese ver. too ❤️ anyway, it's Luhan who sing with Chen.. I'm sure ppl already tell u that on live chat 😅he was the 2nd to leave.. what I like from EXO-M is their vocalists have high-pitched vocals while their rappers hv that deep voices.. so when they hitting that high notes, it'll be super powerful.. and when they've to do the sexy songs, the rappers will kill it 🤭
@@justineabella895 yup.. me too.. it's a lil more extra than the korean ver.. i mean if the song is cute, they make it cuter.. lol.. idk how to describe it well..
I think D.O. and Baekhyun fit the song more cause they have rnb voices.. Also, they both split and took turns on high notes, but Chen did all of them for exo-m version. Luhan has a beautiful voice, but he didn’t wow me like the others.. tbh Chen carried. Luhan left because he felt he was being discriminated against by SM company because he was Chinese (he was not wrong, they had a history of it) so I still support him Thanks for your reaction girl! I love it 🤍
@@luv4umin471 I heard that's how he was able to break the contract legally without much repercussion, but idk. Cause he was doing solo work immediately after it ended
@@nickroiz i don't really know the true reasons but i respect his choice of not staying with sm especially seeing how sm treating their artists. Now i understand why my friends used to get so mad when taking about sm... I was into jpop back then so i didn't know what kpop much lol
Ohhh man. I can’t believe this was 10 years ago. I feel old haha. Baby Dino Chen has grown to T-rex. Each exo members has a animal spirit attached to them so that why I called Chen a dinosaur haha
You can always trust chen to deliver vocals!! , i meay the men wasn't ranked best vocalist in K-pop for nothing , i always like to listen to the Chinese version of the songs because of him , he has a really wide range I love the tone of his voice and the edge he brings thank you for checking out this version , waiting for your next exo videos
In the EXO-M (Mandarin) version of EXO's "What is Love" MV, you see Chen and Luhan as the singers. (As you saw, D.O. and Baekhyun were the main singers of EXO-K.) These are the main vocalists from their respective groups. However, in the MV you see most of the members. The rest of the members aren't singing the song, but they are helping to tell a story.
The Chinese version has a slightly different feel because it has a sound and style that is designed to appeal more to a Chinese audience. The EXO-K version has a deeper R&B sound because that is what appeals to a Korean audience, where the EXO-M version has a lighter lyrical feel because that's what attracts a Chinese audience.
In both MVs for "What Is Love," you see clips from some of their pre-debut teaser videos. All the clips in the MV are special clips that were originally released one at a time on their own to introduce EXO to the world, before the group's official debut. (You don't recognize some of those clips from the EXO-K version because they weren't part of the Korean MV.) Before EXO debuted, SM released 23 teaser videos over a 3 month period and the videos showcased the members and their talents, such as Kai's special dances and Tao's martial arts skills, as well as told a story about EXO who are on a quest to find each other and to find clues to locate the Tree of Life, etc. Kai was the member that was featured in the most teasers -- somewhere around 10 videos. The "What is Love" MV takes clips from those teaser videos and puts them together to make the MV. (The EXO-M MV only looks like there is more dancing because they happen to use more of the teaser clips that showcase the group's dancing than the EXO-K version, but when they perform the song live, the performance is the same regardless if it's EXO-K or EXO-M.)
Although "What is Love" is a love song, the MV really doesn't have a whole lot to do with love. The storyline in the MV is all about EXO's origin story and it is showing the members as they first arrived here on Earth.
This was their very first pre-debut MV -- about 3 or 4 months before their debut with "Mama" -- so it is setting up EXO's storyline and it's showing the members. This was before most people really even knew who EXO were. EXO's second MV, was "History" and it was also a pre-debut song. "History" came out about 2 months after "What is Love."
Now to explain the story in the MV: As you may have noticed, there is an eclipse happening. EXO's whole concept and storyline is that they are aliens who came to Earth to protect the Tree of Life from the Red Forces. And as otherworldly beings, the members each have a superpower that is specific to them. The eclipse is what controls EXO's powers and it's where they get their power and strength from. So, that is why you see in most of their MVs that they focus on the moon or show an eclipse taking place, etc. EXO are "aliens" so staring at an eclipse or the sun doesn't affect them in the same way. After all, they come from a planet that has two suns. LOL
You also see scenes such as Chanyeol (a member of EXO-K) looking at a drawing of a unicorn and comparing it to a hieroglyph of a unicorn on a piece of rock, which is thought to be something to do with the fact that he is searching for Lay (an EXO-M member). Lay's symbol is a unicorn, which represents his power of healing. I think the rocks are clues that may have been left on Earth or on Planet Exo from ancient times. (You will see these symbols all over the place in EXO content because each member has a symbol that represent them -- as you discover in their "Mama" MVs -- and their symbols are often used kind of like a call beacon. When one member is looking for another member, or they want to send a member a message, you will see a version of their symbol appear. It's a way to know who the message is coming from and it's designed to make everyone aware that it's something important that you need to pay attention to.) Think of the message on those rocks like Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Therefore, I see it as EXO has to find the clues that someone has left from the past. Just like in real life history, often ancient civilizations have left us clues to tell their story in order to make sure whatever happened to them doesn't get repeated. Therefore, I think someone has left EXO clues, just in case sometime in the future the Red Force was able to gain power once again. Hence, why in EXO's next pre-debut song "History" they talk about not wanting to allow whatever happened previously to repeat itself (i.e. they need to stop and prevent history from repeating itself. And they need to learn from history by discovering clues that will help them understand what happened in the past, in order to figure out a way to make sure the same mistakes aren't repeated, etc.)
And because it is thought that the EXO members can travel between time periods and dimensions, this could also mean that the clues could have possibly been left for them by their future selves. The future EXO members have traveled back in time to leave a message for the present day EXO members in order to help them figure out how to stop the Red Force and prevent whatever happened in the future from taking place, etc.
The clues I think are something they need in order to find the Tree of Life and to do whatever needs to be done in order to create peace in the world once again, and free humanity and EXO from the control of the Red Force. Which will allow the Tree of Life to be whole once again and be at peace, no longer being used as a potential weapon by the Red Force, etc.
In reality, I think the Red Force could be thought of as a symbol of all the things society is dealing with in the world and all the bad things that need to be fixed, such as war, hate, destruction of the environment, corruption, etc.
I think SM's wide-reaching message within their SM Cultured Universe and EXO's storyline is the dream of world peace. Therefore, I'm not sure we will ever see an official end to EXO's storyline or the SM Culture Universe story because World Peace is such a lofty goal that will never be accomplished fully. So in other words, EXO's story may be an open ended one that never gets solved.
I think the whole point of SM creating this storyline is because it's supposed to be a social commentary on what real life society needs to learn and do in order to create a better world. Think of everything in the SM Culture Universe, and EXO's storyline, as a metaphor for what is happening all around us every day and what we have gone through in the past and will go through in the future if we don't learn from our mistakes, etc.
Fun fact: Months and years later, we have also discovered that their pre-debut teasers also were teasers to EXO's discography of songs. At the time, when the teasers were released, we had no idea the significance of the songs that you hear in the teasers. But now, over the years, we have discovered that the majority of the songs that were featured in EXO's pre-debut teasers were also meant to be teasers to songs that would be released as some of the main tracks of EXO's albums.
All the teasers are still on SM's UA-cam channel if you want to check them out. If you watch the teasers, you will see how planned out everything EXO is involved in actually is. Most of the songs that they released even years after debut were songs that were teased to in their pre-debut teaser videos. That just goes to show you why we say that everything EXO does comes back to their storyline. :D Absolutely everything has been planned out down to the most minute detail for years in advance and for years to come.
However, not all of the songs you hear in the teasers were songs that made it to the albums, or maybe they are songs that haven't been released yet. There are several songs in the teasers that we still don't know. Maybe they are songs that have not been released yet, or maybe they may never exist as a full song. It's another part of EXO's mystery that we are waiting to discover.
So, as you can see, if you want to follow EXO's story, you have to watch both "What is Love" MVs to see the different clips and try and figure out the story it is trying to tell. EXO's MVs may look similar, but in each version there are hidden messages and Easter eggs that SM puts in each MV that tell a little more of the story, even still today. Plus, in the Korean version they highlight the 6 EXO-K members, where in the Mandarin version they highlight the EXO-M members. It's a common misconception that just because EXO's two MVs look similar on the surface that you don't need to watch both versions, but as you just discovered, if you skip the Mandarin version of EXO's MVs -- especially these early MVs when they were still a full group with 12 members -- you miss out on hearing the EXO-M members and what made the Mandarin version special.
Yes the instrumental song in the teaser is the clue for EXO's song. I think there's song that not fit to the concept of EXO now. Like "Time Control", cmiiw :3 coz Tao no longer in EXO.
And i think "Tempo" in the teaser sound different to the "Tempo" now. Sorry if i'm wrong, coz i'm not remember (gonna check it after left this comment 🤭)
The teaser song that I like the most is El Dorado and My Lady. When they just had MAMA album, i convert the video to audio just to be in my winamp playlist 🤭🙈 (pls forgive my ilegal act 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈)
Edit: SORRY THERE'S NO "TEMPO" in the teaser. I mistaken "PHOENIX" as "TEMPO".
That differrent is "LIGHTSABER" in the teaser and the "LIGHTSABER" now.
The first one where DO and Baek performed was the showcase in Korea on April 8. They flew to China the following day for the China showcase. So, for the 1st one K was on the forefront while M sung more in China. Not everyone knows abt the China showcase too. So thank you again.
I love this song is so beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🎧🎼
I know that you're doing EXO guide videos but I think you should check out the Christmas and winter songs they have R&B in them as well they're known as the kings of winter
Thank u for checking out EXO-M version. The members are quite underrated bec not a lot of people check the M version. I appreciate anyone who does take the time to check them out, THANK YOU.
TBH, there are songs I prefer in the M version bec of the song delivery and even the lyrics. But u do get 2 different vibes from the two versions of M and K.
Check out NCT 127 Killing Voice video. NCT is also from SM Entertainment like EXO. They have vocals as well.
Thank you for reacting to EXO and giving honest opinions. Yeah.the person whp sang with chen was luhan who left group after kris in 2014. In the video u asked who was that blonde hair and white dressed guy right. He is kris.
I'm waiting for ypur each members guides reaction but they are updated until 2020. But no prbs u I can't wait for the day until u complete these guides and start reacting to exo songs...I'm sure their discpgraphy is the best that i have ever discovered..its a rollercoaster guide....
thanks.. I am glad u react to the Chinese ver. too ❤️ anyway, it's Luhan who sing with Chen.. I'm sure ppl already tell u that on live chat 😅he was the 2nd to leave..
what I like from EXO-M is their vocalists have high-pitched vocals while their rappers hv that deep voices.. so when they hitting that high notes, it'll be super powerful.. and when they've to do the sexy songs, the rappers will kill it 🤭
Most of the time I prefer EXO-M's versions more. Their rapping is just so good. Well their vocals too. Both versions deliver different vibes
@@justineabella895 yup.. me too.. it's a lil more extra than the korean ver.. i mean if the song is cute, they make it cuter.. lol.. idk how to describe it well..
Agree and they are equally distributed, 2 vocals, 2 dancers, and 2 rappers. Althouse of course they can do everything
I think D.O. and Baekhyun fit the song more cause they have rnb voices.. Also, they both split and took turns on high notes, but Chen did all of them for exo-m version. Luhan has a beautiful voice, but he didn’t wow me like the others.. tbh Chen carried.
Luhan left because he felt he was being discriminated against by SM company because he was Chinese (he was not wrong, they had a history of it) so I still support him
Thanks for your reaction girl! I love it 🤍
i think part of the reason was also his health.
@@luv4umin471 I heard that's how he was able to break the contract legally without much repercussion, but idk. Cause he was doing solo work immediately after it ended
@@nickroiz i don't really know the true reasons but i respect his choice of not staying with sm especially seeing how sm treating their artists. Now i understand why my friends used to get so mad when taking about sm... I was into jpop back then so i didn't know what kpop much lol
Pls react to Miracle in December, cosmic railway and Wolf. The vocals can make your ears preggy 🫠
Luhan is a Chinese who left in EXO, duet with Chen 🔥♥️🇵🇭
It is so good but still Korean version is my favorite 😭❤️. Because I can't resist Baekhyun and DO 😭