In my opinion the video clearly is a view on the parasocial relationships formed between idol and fans, where we really feel like they are ours friends but ultimately they are people we don’t know. Those relationships despite bringing confort and company when we feel the most lonely can also be damaging to one’s life and that is represented in the video as the girl alienated herself from her classmates, walks in the rain and dangerously backwards on a rooftop. Ultimately as she grows older, she is able to grow up and move on from her loneliness and form a real relationship with the boy on the video while also looking back with fondness at NewJeans and the comfort they brought her.
I thought about it, too but first, why would such young group as NJ tried to send this kind of message? They are young, ambitions and don’t have such big voice yet to employ this message. Second, there are still details that can’t explain “kpop fans theory” like why she has cast or why is she crying not answering the phone. I think theory about dead friends story is more trustworthy just because it explains everything about previous details and others like her wearing black and at the end wearing bright colors. Also, one of the girls asked “what are practicing today?” Doesn’t it mean that the girls are still rookies. If they would be idol group already, wouldn’t they have particular task to practice
@@mrn.w.a.6344 NJ is a new group but Min Hee-jin has been in the industry for ages and worked seen a lot of the dark side of kpop. As for her cast, she is literally seen waking backwards in a rooftop. Is not hard to imagine how she could end up being hurt. The call was from the boy, I thought that was very clear in the MV. Lastly, Min Hee-jin said, “The music video for the pre-release song ‘Ditto’, which will be released on the 19th, contains an unexpected story between Bunnies (official fan club name) and NewJeans”. Its obviously about fans and idols. Its sad that kpop stans always go for the craziest theories and refuse to see what is right in their faces.
I think this is definitely one plausible theory. However, I do think the other commenter above me may be onto something as well. With the Itaewon Halloween incident, there were some students/younger people who passed away. The girl in the video almost seems like she could be reminiscing friends who are no longer with her because they're gone, as the video does make it clear several times that they acknowledge her, say her name, and at points she IS physically with them. So she may be a grieving student reliving past memories, which is why her fellow students look at her with concern
not a critique necessarily because it isn't painted negatively just as a "slice of life " of a fan i guess at the end the girl is an adult and doesn't look at that part of her life with negativity or regret but with nostalgia and as a fond memory and i think all 1st and 2nd gen fans understand, you move on and everything becomes distant memories but sometimes you check out on your faves (if they're still alive or have a public life) or at the things you collected with that fondness
I feel like, regardless of what happened to the girls, it’s about loss, loneliness, letting go and moving on. The beginning of Side A and the end of Side B shows an older version of her looking back at a hard time of her life through the videos. She went through it all over again, until she was able to look fondly at the memories.
It really feels very sad, and I cried while watching the clip B. I agree that the story can be presented in different ways, I like each fan theory more and more. But probably my favorite is about the connection between fans and idols, when you feel like they are here, but they don't really even know you, and you are so attached to them.
Yeah that's the interpretation that resonates the most with me. I also like the how the ending was bittersweet in side B because it shows how even though the relationship is not " real". The relationship with the girls will remain unchanging and always be there for you later on in life if you need the support or warmth of it.
I cried too. I don’t know what the MV actually means but I was moved by it, the visuals with the melodies just did something to me. As someone older it tugged on my heart strings especially as it reminded me of what my friends were like when we were that age.
NewJeans has said that "Ditto" is a song for their fans and continues the 90's nostalgia vibe. Here is my theory (similar to others as well). In the MV, "Heesoo" is a loner, kind of an outcast. Listening to Kpop, being a fan of NewJeans is her way of coping. She considers NewJeans as the friends she wanted to have. She imagines them as part of her reality. However, at some point, she moves from this stage in her life as she develops a relationship with the guy IRL. She then lets go of NewJeans and puts her memories of them away in a box. Years later, she opens the box and watches the video --- she remembers the time that she was a fan with fondness. The MV evokes a feeling of nostalgia -- how when we grow up, we look back at the group we liked and remember how they were a part of our life at one time.
Part of me wants an official explanation but at the same time there’s something so good in the not knowing. It feels so haunting. It’s beautiful. I actually started tearing up at the end of side b and I was not ready for that today from a new jeans mv
I think that New Jeans and Heesoo were a friend group that got into a some kind of an accident and only Heesoo survived and got injured, there is ‘don’t die’ written on her cast. She is holding in to her friends through her video camera, refusing to admit that her friends are gone, everyone at school knows what happened but don’t want to deal with it and only the boy is concerned for her, hence always watching her and walking with her in the end. I think the deer also symbolizes acceptance and moving on. In the end she watches the real tape of her friends and remembers her time with them, no longer holding on.
I can literally listen to the first 5 seconds of the song and say it's newjeans. I mean they already found their sound in their debut era itself it's incredible
i felt so empty and sad after watching the mvs 😭 im not the best at intepreting stuff but i felt like this was about feeling lonely/daydreaming?? which i can painfully relate to the song's a bop tho
The girl's name, Ban Hee Soo, is a fun expression of bunnies' Korean pronunciation and symbolizes fans. Like a girl who watches members on a video camera, fans watch TV or UA-cam videos, and the boy represents real problems (academic, employment), and the wind and rain mean trials. They support each other, but in the eyes of those around them, idols are only seen as otaku. Throwing away the camcorder means quitting fan activities, and as Minji said, the scene of looking at the deer from afar expresses the distance between fan and idol. Just as news gins come true when playing video tapes later, this MV shows the relationship between fans and idols. , It's amazing that a 5-month-old rookie girl group released such a song and a music video, and this is something that other idols and fans can relate to!
The creative team that have been guiding New Jeans since debut has done a truly INCREDIBLE job. These girls are getting the absolute best support in terms of concept, songs, choreography, styling and "branding". The "Ditto" sides A & B are two absolutely incredible MVs in terms of the concept and artistry of the MV cinematography and direction. The wistful, melancholic and slightly haunting sound supports perfectly the message of the song. It was truly a stroke of inspiration to make this into two MVs, with both MVs needing to be viewed in order to gain the fuller, more deep meaning. The ending of Side A is so heartbreaking when it dawns upon the viewer the darkness that was obscured by the girl's vicarious joy she experienced through her imaginary friendship with New Jeans. For the second MV, the way I interpreted it, was that the girl finally realizes that it is unhealthy for her to live in an imaginary world in which the New Jeans girls are her imaginary friends, and she makes a painful decision to leave her imaginary world and to live in reality (she destroys the camera, walks with the boy, has relationship problems. etc.). That is also why the deer walks away in the corridor, as she no longer lives in a fantasy world. Then, years later the adult version of the girl returns to her childhood bedroom and reminisces about her past, including the happy memories of her passion for Kpop idols (symbolized by New Jeans). The girl (now a woman) is able to again let New Jeans back into her life in a healthy manner (with the 5 New Jeans girls happily reentering her room), as she is now more grounded and better able mentally to reap the benefits and enjoyment of Kpop without the unhealthy obsession that her less mature self fell into.
I feel like the girl is holding the camera and standing right where she stood when she was filming her friends while they still were in her life matching the video shown on the camera with the view to make it seem as she was filming the girls at those moments, while she was just rewatching the videos. It really makes sense. She is not crazy, she is just looking at the same places through the videos she took with her friends still being there. And that’s why she rewatched the moment of them in that room while being in that room in the end - to feel that connection
반희수 (Bahn Heesoo) = 버니즈 (Bunnies), Bunnies = NJS's fan name. shared an umbrella or got rained on, fell into idol groups, and later became estranged, but the memories of that time became closer than the camera and became one with my precious memories. 😍 finally, she go back to the past and become one. when she was in idol's fan ❤
I was obsessed with how eerily gorgeous these mvs were when they came out! They just did something to my art/lit student brain and I wanted to make a million different versions of what everything meant or paint the 'empty' quiet scenes. Some of the shots are so beautiful and lonely, especially when put in contrast to the louder, happier shots of the girls. I was also super chuffed to recognise the actors playing Heesoo and the boy: Park Jihu and Choi Hyunwook!! Which is random, but the excitement I felt when recognising them, in hindsight, is hilarious.
I think I get this, and here is my theory. Heesoo and newjeans were best friends, they six were always together. Newjeans liked to dance, and Heesoo always did the filming work for them. But one day an terrible accident happened, newjeans the five girls didn't survive, only Heesoo survived and had her arm injured. Since that day, Heesoo went back to school on her own but always watching everything through that video recorder, because inside that recorder, she could still see her five friends talking and playing with her at school, and other classmates thought Heesoo is getting weird and crazy. At the end of the story, Heesoo grows up, and she can finally move on, but when she watched the old video of her five friends, she feels like it was just yesterday. 💔
I keep seeing people theorizing about a car accident I think everything in your theory is totally plausible apart from that. Because what in the MV indicates that a car accident took place ?
No it's actually about their fans and them. 6th member represents us ^^ She is so obsessed with them at one point in her life that her friends find it weird but she grows up eventually. She recalls the good memories she had with them when she watches the old videos on TV and she feels like they are still with her, in her heart.
@@tessahaarman3468 Also, deer represents gentleness and unconditional love. So i'm guessing she's been hurt by their school friends/maybe got into bullying and she found love at NewJeans. Cause deer also means "survival". She's been surviving with NewJeans.
The girls name is ban heesoo - banheesoo - bannieseu - bunniesu - bunnies/tokki (nj fandom), Newjeans is newjeans, idol, The girl is fans, our as bunnies (banheesoo) The boy is reality, as the other in the class etc, In our eyes newjeans are real, only us that can see them, other didnt understand what wee see, so to other, we (bunnies or kpop fans) are like weird guy.
the girl was a loner in class because she was totally dedicated to her idols but at one point she decides to live her own life for example when she's with newjeans she doesn't need the umbrella she just walks under the rain with the girls that shelter her but when she decides to live her life she walks alone with the umbrella same with the guy he's been observing her and when she stops living in her head with her idols she gives him a chance to enter her life, at the end she becomes an adult and looks back at that part of her life as a stan with fondness
I agree with the opinion that this could be a commentary on the parasocial relationships that form between fans and celebrities, but I actually read it as more of a commentary on what happens (primarily to girls) as we grow up. For a lot of people there comes a time when you feel like you need to shed pieces of yourself in order to "grow up," whether that's trying to fit in with people who don't understand you, or feeling like you need to behave or look a certain wait, etc. I think it happens most often to girls because there's this idea that you leave everything that represents your girlhood (i.e. your innocence) behind. Deer are often associated with innocence, and she cries as she watches the deer leave, it's the end of that time for her. I think this is the most obvious in side B because unlike with parasocial relationships New Jeans is sad as they're slowly watching her pull away and ultimately leave. When she leaves she walks away with her love interest, and ultimately she gives up who she was in order to be accepted, which yes is so incredibly sad and such a tragedy. I think it's something that is also so very relatable. I also loved that it showed her coming back when she's older, finding those old memories of herself, realizing they made her happy and she seems to "reunite" with what she lost. I love that there's a hopeful note at the end and again I also think that's something you realize as you leave young adulthood and enter full adulthood; ultimately, what matters the most is being truly happy and that means being your most authentic self.
M/V Interpretation: The 6th girl means a fan of Bernie's New Jeans The existence of an idol is an illusion that doesn't exist in everyday life Someone who likes idols may take a picture of them and leave them as a record, and it may seem like Odd to be with them as close friends If you take it out after some time, it means that the memories are still there
New Jeans in their mvs always talk about them and us fans. To me this videos are about the perspective of a fan. We watch them, most of the time, through a screen. We follow their journey and at some point in life we will leave them aside. But we will always have our memories to revisit these moments. when we listen to an artist it's like he's with us. And an artist is nothing without fans. so for them, we will always be by their side.
Thank you for your reaction! Here are a few things I noticed about the MVs. 1) Casted arm: indicating that she had an accident or metaphor of her feeling hurt. 2) Deer: to me, deer come as innocence, or it could also mean as a catalyst of a car accident(?). 3) Black cat: in popular Korean culture superstition, the black cat is an omen, and it can see the dead. 4) Blackboard drawing: again in popular Korean culture superstition, a ghost has no legs(maybe that is why she erased them?). 5) Camcorder: to me camcorder indicates her illusion.
I think the meaning/plot of the MV is up for interpretation but regardless of how anyone perceives it, I just have to give creds to the director, they did an insane job like this MV is stunning and just so well produced and directed, it compliments the song so well (Oh also the percussion slapppps)
The most clear and comprehensive theory about the story is that Heesoo is the only survivor out of six of them from an accident and at the side a she was reminiscing their memories while in side b she had finally moved on.
The song is a really good B-Side. the MVs are phenomenal with an intriguing story their vocals are out of this world MV story has two theories at the moment Short forms 1. Heeso and the girls had an accident and Heeso is the only surviver, she wasn't able to move on and the boy helped her the leave the past behind 2. Heeso is us fans living with the imagination to be friend with her fav idols but she fell in love with the boy and moved on but later remembers this moments. (Oh you said it yourself) Might be a mixture of this two in the mind of the producers BTW: the song is breaking records on the K-Charts at the moment second fastest song of all time to top Melon (2h) only BTS was faster (1h) with one of their songs Still fastest song of 4th gen to top Melon Breaking records in fastest steamed song within 24h just 1h after release etc. New Jeans is a huge, HUGE thing in Korea right now
New jeans said this song written thinking of fan. Their fandom. Its not a sad song. None of them are ghosts. Its about how you had your favorite bands when you were in school growing up. They were always there for you when you happy, sad, alone and also after you grow up, have a crush, boyfriend eventually. But they will be always in your memories. Never dies.
@@mansthgusful there will always be multiple layers to this kind of mv. like the true meaning of what the writers want and other interpretation for fans
i think theres two meanings i saw somewhere that meeting a deer can represent having to come to terms with the present, when you're lost in the past 1- literal, there was 6 girls who had an accident, heesoo was the only survivor, shes pretending her friends are still with her but they sadly aren't, eventually meets the deer and comes to terms with it, gets with that boy she likes, comes back to their hideout as an adult and looks back on their memories fondly 2- representing the idol-fan relationship, the other people can't see it but she's using her liking of newjeans to get her through difficulties like breaking her arm, eventually grows out of them and goes on with her life, comes back as an adult to watch their mvs and thank them for getting her through that rough time
They’ve made a statement (the director) saying it’s about parasocial relationships with idols and how you sometimes grow out of groups as you get older, even if they were once super important in your life. Honestly, I thought it was about survivors guilt because of her arm cast and the whole memories thing. I think it can be interpreted in any way.
So I’m thinking, something tragic happened to her 5 friends and somehow she has survivor guilt and it plunged her into depression to a point where she imagines them still alive and doing their thing like they used to, thus we see her filming them but they are not really there. Until she saw a sign, maybe a message from her friends through seeing this deer that it is time for her to let go and move on. With that came the other video where maybe she is older, she takes out the VHS tape and we see her sitting on the couch watching her friends and just remembering their memories.
I was surprised from the fact that very few reviewers actually caught the sad & doleful atmosphere and subtle imagery of MVs... Many reviewers even watched side B first!
Heesoo = Ban Heesoo (They wrote her full name on the cast 반희수, Ban is her last name and Koreans put last name in front) =Barneys =The name of New Jeans fanclub so Ban heesoo is kinda wordplay to personify their fans
The camcorder girl's name: Ban Hee Soo = Bunnies(new jeans' fandom name) The act of filming new jeans with camcorder: fangirling/fanboying the idol(other students are not interested in new jeans so that's why they can't see them) The boy: real life/reality Breaking the camcorder and walking away from new jeans in the rain: forget about once-favorite idol and live in reality The girl grew up, open the memory box and reminisce about the past. Then new jeans come into the room wearing the exact same clothes when they were hanging around with HeeSoo(when HeeSoo was a teenager, when she was their fan): it can be embarrassing, shameful or immature to fangirl someone so much, but when you grew up and look at the past, it wasn't in vain, but it remained as a good memory( or When fans looked it up again, new jeans are still there) The deer: In korea, deer is kinda recognized as a sacred, mysterious animal that people can't easily catch. So the deer represent the subtle distance or relationship between the fans and the idol. Not too far, Not too close (Theres a phrase "You're like a deer/bambi" which means you are so precious, sacred, innocent, beautiful etc. So there are a lot of songs about using deer as a metaphor of a lover or a crush. Baekhyun's Bambi is a perfect example) HeeSoo ignoring Minji's phone call: indifference to new jeans ( not catching up the latest songs or albums, not looking for their promotions or ig posts etc..) Minji erasing Hee Soo's leg on the chalkboard: The idol wants their fans to stay with them forever. But actually, that is not up to the idols. Only fans can decide whether they want to be the fans of the idol or not. They can be indifferent to the idols anytime just like HeeSoo did to New Jeans. you know, fangirling celebrities can be vain, empty since you can't really meet them or get to know them in reality. so when you face the reality, it may feel useless. And yet, New Jeans are aware of that, and they hope that the fans would keep the happy memories (while fangirling new jeans) real even if time passes( Or New Jeans are telling the fans like "I'll stay the same until then, so come back anytime")
"i dont have the brain cell..." *Proceeds to say all theories fans are commenting in other reactions* dayum you got the brainnnn ;-; ive been waiting for this exact reaction
Bang Hee Soo who is representing us bunnies, the camera showing newjeans is us fangirling-boying over them and thats why nobody else can see them apart from us and the other students thinking that we're weird. The deer represents good fortune and luck for your future (i think). And the part where Minji rubs off the legs of the chalk drawing is showing that we can go wherever we like, and nobody can force us to stay where we are put. Even if that means we're moving on from them. If you got the chance to spend a couple of weeks or months with an idol just know they're completely two different people. One that is off the camera and another side which is on camera. They cannot guarantee that you'll stay forever so they'll try to be as default/normal as they can be, Idols are not a special kind of breed/race/entity, they are humans, and they try their hardest with alot of things.
I feel these two video represented a gril and her 5 imaginary friends that supported her during her lonely school years. In side B, it is even more clear that the 5 girls NJs does not exist however the guy from her school also started noticing her well being and being there for her. Eventually she also wants to leave NJs behind by smashing the camera, walking away from them into the rain with the guy. The deer leaving also symbolising she no longer reqires the help from god(NJs) Many years later, she revisited her belongs and memories, she still wish NJs could be real and thankful that they have helped her
Claramente como un fan puedes darle una interpretación más ídolo - fan, como la sensación de que ellas están contigo pero no. Y como no fan puedes darle más interpretaciones y pensar más escenarios ya que deja espacio a la imaginación, ideal para el gp que vea el mv (pueden pensar que eran amigas y murieron o eran imaginarios o algo así). La mayoría no fan seguro lo escuché directamente en spotify, appleM y las letras funcionan muy bien sin la pieza cinematográfica. Para mi es un 🔥👍🏼 esperando OMG en enero mientras escucho Ditto en loop jajaja
Is it me or melody in the end of the MVs very much remind of smth that Hanz Zimmer could do for Inception? So I thought maybe MVs are trying to interpretant same thing as movie like “don’t dive in hallucinations, move on and be happy with smth that is real”
Should check out the Korean Programme which is about student survival from zombie, the girl and boy both are the main characters in this television programme
The fanbase seems divided on two theories. Option one: Ban Heesoo (Bunnie) is a fan who was really in love with her group, until real life happens (both romance and injury) which makes her forget about the silliness of being a fan. At the end, Heesoo pops in the VHS and remembers what it was like to be a fan and gets nostalgic. Option two: Heesoo is the friend of New Jeans who always filmed them when they were at school. Some accident happens where Heesoo is injured but left alone. So she's been taking her camera with her replaying all the moments she had with her friends in the locations they were at. Only the boy in school sees how hurt she is, while everyone else doesn't know how to react. In the end, she throws away the camera because she's only hurting herself by living in the past and not moving on. That's why she's walking with the guy home, as he seems to have helped her. Personally, I think option two is more desirable given the sadness/melancholy at which the videos are shot, but I won't discount the first one either. They are filmed to have ambiguity in them so interpretations are encouraged. I can see how Heesoo always looking through the camera at her friends can be seen as fans being close but separated from their idols, but also a girl not letting go of memories even if they are harming her. Hanging out with NewJeans could be seen as the fandom peppering her every day life vs Heesoo recalling memories. I think in both the guy is the anchor towards reality, and is the one who wants to help her. Being too obsessed with your fandom can make you miss out on real life, or else diving too much into the past and not healing over painful moments is destructive. So in both theories, he's trying to help her. Regardless on what's "canon", a silly K-pop video is causing THIS much discussion from a fanbase who usual response to MVs are "Queens slay! lol". So I'm enjoying some deeper thought here. I'm glad NewJeans is not being pinned down and is trying to be more artistic.
🔎Theory🔍 I believe that our cámara girl is a lonely girl, but one night walking alone she found a group of five girls(new jeans) dancing happily, she wanted to be happy just like them so she started to imagen if she has their friend (new jeans) at the point of taking video of the girls dancing creating a whole imaginary friend group of girls that just saw one night, as a way of coping with her loneliness, but also having a love interest .that in order to be with him she has to leave her imagination that kept her from socializing. getting rid of the cámara that kept her inside the her head The cast on her arm Can mean that something happens that broke her (an accident or someone special leaving ) who knows the only thing we know is that her imaginary friends (new jeans) filled that void on her heart (painting a heart on her arm cast I don’t explain or theorize the other stuff cuz I don’t know what to think
As a Loona lore stan, I'm glad this came out. Just something to theorize about, with beautiful music and vocals. It's haunting and BEAUTIFUL. And it makes me happy in a sad way and fits my bittersweet mood due to the drama happening in my kpop world right now, as well as some drama in my personal life. New Jeans is what I need right now to keep me level at the moment. It's exactly what I need and I love the charm of these girls. Something about them makes me happy. I can't put my finger on it. But they climbed up to 3rd on my favorite kpop groups, behind Loona and Red Velvet.
TXT dropped concept trailer for their new album The Name Chapter Temptation, could you pls react to it? :) it's so well done 🥺 It doesn't have any music/aesthetic spoilers for the album
actually there’s a korean movie called ditto which is about two students of the same school, one from the 70s and one from the 2000s who are able to communicate through a radio and fall in love without knowing they are from different eras, that’s why heesoo in the mv has a more modern uniform than newjeans
it is so cute when you rubbing your nose because it looks like you suppress crying .. well, me too.. i don't know. but that song, and mv make me soooooo blue... they made really beautiful things again.
It’s either a metaphorical story, or a regular story. Metaphorically as in, we see kpop idols as our friends, even though they’re not actually there with us. Well eventually move on, but the memories of them will still be with us. Or they got into a car accident and died. I don’t know
Watched this a couple of times since it got released. What I think, is that the videos were before her friends died. They died, in what I think, was an accident, with her the only one surviving - hence having her cast the whole time. She still can't let go of the fact that she was the only one who survived that's why she keeps on doing what she does with her friends which is already worrying the people around her. Then at some point, she is slowly accepting the fact that she can never bring back her friends, and what they had before - you see this when she starts going alone(and them just looking at her as she walks away), and even goes out with the guy. I definitely agree with you that the song is really A BOP, well, all their songs have been lol. And intertwining the song with the music video is definitely a work of art. I hope that they keep releasing these kinds of bops, no matter what genre they try to go to!
I felt the same way about this. I really like the song, but I couldn't concentrate on it as much, cause I was way too invested in the video and storyline. It almost felt like background music (not meant in a bad way) to the video/story.
I'm so confused. At the end it seems like all of the story never happened or is just a memory, yet Heesoo's nail is still painted. Was it a dream? Something that happened way before and the nail is a way for Heesoo to remember? DiD thEy TImE tRaVEL?!?!!!?!!! I mean...everything in kpop lore is possible these days. Especially with HYBE.
Hybe gg's first comeback always contains a controversy Newjeans- Ghost or Fan controversy 👻 Le sserafim- Mango or potato controversy 😂 They built defferent 🔥
OMG. i think you got the main point from just looking at them once. i think it's about the relationship between bunnies (if you say ban hee soo fast in Korean, it sounds like bunnies) between newjeans, more generally fandom and idols. A : Bunnies selected NewJeans, decided to go with them, which helped her thru her hard times B : Bunnies selected her real life but cherishes her memories with NewJeans later. the memories which helped her thru her hard times By the way, the deer represents a thing that you want to go near but you cannot. if you approach her, she will run away. the relationship between idols and the fans. One more thing, the song itself is an obvious love song dedicated by NewJeans to bunnies as indicated by NewJeans members.
i am curious with the lyrics, is it us as a fan that says " I got nothin to lose, I like you" which is our pov to idols, or is it from idol pov to us ( fans ) ?
I think you have to watch first side B and then side A cause makes more sense! Seems that New jeans is ghosting that girl but i'm not getting at all, why they are ghosting her 😂
The thing is while that totally makes sense and is probably correct, there still enough of an interpretation that you could make for the other theories. Also, there's many times where you'll read a book, listen to a song, watch a tv show/movie and while there might be an "official" explanation(from the author, etc.), it's still wide open enough to think about other theories. I think that's why I love both MV's.
my theory is these 6 were friends and new jeans died in an accident leaving only camera girl and thats why she has a cast, and the deer is newjeans telling her to move on and the boy helps her out .
also every camera view scene is her looking back on when they were alive so in the scenes where shes filming nothing shes actually looking back in the spot where they were once
I haven't quite wrap my thoughts around the story behind the two mv A and B. It appears that Heesoo was really close with the five friends and she use to film her friends interacting in school and also filming them dance. Heesoo also have feelings for boy at school. We also see that there was an accident and she's in an arm cast and the fact that the later part of both showed that she was alone in real life and during some of the recording scene symbolizes that her five friends must have died. The deer in both also reaffirms that. "Caught like a deer in the headlight" is a common phrase to mean paralyze by fear or indecision. Many deer died at night in car accidents when bright spotlight shine at them and they instinctively freezes rather than run away. We can assume her friends died but the deer could also explained that they died in the car accident that she was also in. So all that we see in A and B. Now what's different between A and B is that A was about her holding on to them in her thoughts even after the accident. We see that when it was raining she chose to walk with them in the rain instead of using the umbrella and her filming the school settings with them gone. While in B was about letting go, we see in the rain scene, she left on her own without her friends and we also see her drop the camcorder and later walking away with the boy. Perhaps the boy helped her to let go. The ending scene of B showed years later as she dusted off the VCR tape to watch it again. Here all the emotions of the past came rushing back as if it was just yesterday. Perhaps showing that life continues and we learn to accept but we never truly can let go.
When I first saw this music video, I cried. Because I could understand her mind. She is an outcast student at school and a victim of domestic violence. I can't even talk to my favorite male student. Only the music of the NEW JEANS comforts her.
Heres my theory that there was a huge accident the tragic deaths (mostly young) of 156 people caught in an Itaewon crowd which happened on Halloween day. A girl holding a camera would be an only survivor from that accident lost all of her besties and she cannot get out of the shock so strongly hold a delusion making up her friends still alive which is not true fact. Remembering those days warm gatherings with friends and cannot believe in a fact that they are all gone. Watch 13:42 on your reaction, there are camera girl (only wearing school uniform summer clothes) and newjeans members (wearing school uniform winter clothes differs from the camera girl), which represents NJs members are imaginary friends who all suffered from the tragedy on winter time and the camera girl is an only one survived living a real life. at the very last scene, seems the camera girl gets little older turns on the VHS again, shows that NewJeans members are not illusion. And seems the camera girl overcome the accidental memory but her friends still remains as a warm and bright memory. I think the purpose of this MV could be mourning the Itaewon tragedy. Just my guess.
I think the girl is been bullied and that’s why she has a broken arm. New Jeans are her imaginary friends in her loneliness and depression. When she was standing on the roof, I think she was thinking of jumping to her death, but do you remember New Jeans wrote “don’t die” on her arm cast. Their company and the boy she had a crush on helped her get through her old school day.
MHJ said in a interview before the release that it was a story between NWJNS and tokkis so basically she's bullied and a loner but she finds shelter in her idols and feels like if they were her friends but when she decides to live her own life newjeans disappears and she opens her life to the boy, someone real who actually can give her the support she was seeking from her idols
This song is about survivor's guilt. Heesoo and NewJeans members are friends but something tragic happens and Heesoo survives alone and the rest of friends are dead. At first, Heesoo can't accept the reality and they're still there in her imagination. That's why only she can see the members. The boy is the one who helps her to overcome her guilty. You can see she doesn't walk with the members but with the boys in the side B. And finally she can accept the reality and that's why she drops the camera from the rooftop. The deer represents the reality about the girls' death. That's why there's tear in Heesoo's eyes when she sees the deer. This is the combination of my thoughts and some people's. I hope you can understand the storyline. This is so tragic like you said.
Honestly I'm not smart like this and things can just stay riddles for me. Universes and storylines if they are not simple and spelled out for me I am not going to delve deeper. Not my style. All I know is the song it sounds super cute and the lyrics are super cute but the video made me sad and confused and I just feel bad for her. I watched both like everybody because I thought one would have a happy ending but naw. Sidenote: I still have not come to terms with the fandom name being Bunnies....🤔🤔🤨🤨
In my opinion the video clearly is a view on the parasocial relationships formed between idol and fans, where we really feel like they are ours friends but ultimately they are people we don’t know. Those relationships despite bringing confort and company when we feel the most lonely can also be damaging to one’s life and that is represented in the video as the girl alienated herself from her classmates, walks in the rain and dangerously backwards on a rooftop. Ultimately as she grows older, she is able to grow up and move on from her loneliness and form a real relationship with the boy on the video while also looking back with fondness at NewJeans and the comfort they brought her.
I thought about it, too but first, why would such young group as NJ tried to send this kind of message? They are young, ambitions and don’t have such big voice yet to employ this message. Second, there are still details that can’t explain “kpop fans theory” like why she has cast or why is she crying not answering the phone. I think theory about dead friends story is more trustworthy just because it explains everything about previous details and others like her wearing black and at the end wearing bright colors.
Also, one of the girls asked “what are practicing today?” Doesn’t it mean that the girls are still rookies. If they would be idol group already, wouldn’t they have particular task to practice
@@mrn.w.a.6344 NJ is a new group but Min Hee-jin has been in the industry for ages and worked seen a lot of the dark side of kpop. As for her cast, she is literally seen waking backwards in a rooftop. Is not hard to imagine how she could end up being hurt. The call was from the boy, I thought that was very clear in the MV. Lastly, Min Hee-jin said, “The music video for the pre-release song ‘Ditto’, which will be released on the 19th, contains an unexpected story between Bunnies (official fan club name) and NewJeans”. Its obviously about fans and idols. Its sad that kpop stans always go for the craziest theories and refuse to see what is right in their faces.
I think this is definitely one plausible theory. However, I do think the other commenter above me may be onto something as well. With the Itaewon Halloween incident, there were some students/younger people who passed away. The girl in the video almost seems like she could be reminiscing friends who are no longer with her because they're gone, as the video does make it clear several times that they acknowledge her, say her name, and at points she IS physically with them. So she may be a grieving student reliving past memories, which is why her fellow students look at her with concern
@@mrn.w.a.6344they already said its about us supporting them without even ever getting to meet them, so basically the comment above
not a critique necessarily because it isn't painted negatively just as a "slice of life " of a fan i guess at the end the girl is an adult and doesn't look at that part of her life with negativity or regret but with nostalgia and as a fond memory and i think all 1st and 2nd gen fans understand, you move on and everything becomes distant memories but sometimes you check out on your faves (if they're still alive or have a public life) or at the things you collected with that fondness
I feel like, regardless of what happened to the girls, it’s about loss, loneliness, letting go and moving on.
The beginning of Side A and the end of Side B shows an older version of her looking back at a hard time of her life through the videos. She went through it all over again, until she was able to look fondly at the memories.
It really feels very sad, and I cried while watching the clip B. I agree that the story can be presented in different ways, I like each fan theory more and more. But probably my favorite is about the connection between fans and idols, when you feel like they are here, but they don't really even know you, and you are so attached to them.
Yeah that's the interpretation that resonates the most with me. I also like the how the ending was bittersweet in side B because it shows how even though the relationship is not " real". The relationship with the girls will remain unchanging and always be there for you later on in life if you need the support or warmth of it.
I cried too. I don’t know what the MV actually means but I was moved by it, the visuals with the melodies just did something to me. As someone older it tugged on my heart strings especially as it reminded me of what my friends were like when we were that age.
Hee Soo represents the fans. Her last name is Ban so her full name is Ban Hee Soo (반희수) = Bunnies (번히스) = New Jeans fan club name.
NewJeans has said that "Ditto" is a song for their fans and continues the 90's nostalgia vibe. Here is my theory (similar to others as well).
In the MV, "Heesoo" is a loner, kind of an outcast. Listening to Kpop, being a fan of NewJeans is her way of coping. She considers NewJeans as the friends she wanted to have. She imagines them as part of her reality. However, at some point, she moves from this stage in her life as she develops a relationship with the guy IRL. She then lets go of NewJeans and puts her memories of them away in a box. Years later, she opens the box and watches the video --- she remembers the time that she was a fan with fondness. The MV evokes a feeling of nostalgia -- how when we grow up, we look back at the group we liked and remember how they were a part of our life at one time.
Literally not a single bad song from them so far 👏👏👏
Part of me wants an official explanation but at the same time there’s something so good in the not knowing. It feels so haunting. It’s beautiful. I actually started tearing up at the end of side b and I was not ready for that today from a new jeans mv
I think that New Jeans and Heesoo were a friend group that got into a some kind of an accident and only Heesoo survived and got injured, there is ‘don’t die’ written on her cast. She is holding in to her friends through her video camera, refusing to admit that her friends are gone, everyone at school knows what happened but don’t want to deal with it and only the boy is concerned for her, hence always watching her and walking with her in the end. I think the deer also symbolizes acceptance and moving on. In the end she watches the real tape of her friends and remembers her time with them, no longer holding on.
thats such a good theory
No accident…. This song is about their fandom
@@mansthgusful then explain it fully how the cast, the camera, the deer is related to the fandom.. i’ll wait to read it
@@cobaltbluemaru 캐스트는 팬덤인 바니스 입니다. 카메라는 뉴진스를 보는 팬의 시선입니다. 사슴은 뉴진스와 팬의 거리입니다.
@@chullsa1 that didnt make any sense
I can literally listen to the first 5 seconds of the song and say it's newjeans. I mean they already found their sound in their debut era itself it's incredible
i felt so empty and sad after watching the mvs 😭
im not the best at intepreting stuff but i felt like this was about feeling lonely/daydreaming?? which i can painfully relate to
the song's a bop tho
The girl's name, Ban Hee Soo, is a fun expression of bunnies' Korean pronunciation and symbolizes fans. Like a girl who watches members on a video camera, fans watch TV or UA-cam videos, and the boy represents real problems (academic, employment), and the wind and rain mean trials. They support each other, but in the eyes of those around them, idols are only seen as otaku. Throwing away the camcorder means quitting fan activities, and as Minji said, the scene of looking at the deer from afar expresses the distance between fan and idol. Just as news gins come true when playing video tapes later, this MV shows the relationship between fans and idols. , It's amazing that a 5-month-old rookie girl group released such a song and a music video, and this is something that other idols and fans can relate to!
The creative team that have been guiding New Jeans since debut has done a truly INCREDIBLE job. These girls are getting the absolute best support in terms of concept, songs, choreography, styling and "branding". The "Ditto" sides A & B are two absolutely incredible MVs in terms of the concept and artistry of the MV cinematography and direction. The wistful, melancholic and slightly haunting sound supports perfectly the message of the song. It was truly a stroke of inspiration to make this into two MVs, with both MVs needing to be viewed in order to gain the fuller, more deep meaning. The ending of Side A is so heartbreaking when it dawns upon the viewer the darkness that was obscured by the girl's vicarious joy she experienced through her imaginary friendship with New Jeans. For the second MV, the way I interpreted it, was that the girl finally realizes that it is unhealthy for her to live in an imaginary world in which the New Jeans girls are her imaginary friends, and she makes a painful decision to leave her imaginary world and to live in reality (she destroys the camera, walks with the boy, has relationship problems. etc.). That is also why the deer walks away in the corridor, as she no longer lives in a fantasy world. Then, years later the adult version of the girl returns to her childhood bedroom and reminisces about her past, including the happy memories of her passion for Kpop idols (symbolized by New Jeans). The girl (now a woman) is able to again let New Jeans back into her life in a healthy manner (with the 5 New Jeans girls happily reentering her room), as she is now more grounded and better able mentally to reap the benefits and enjoyment of Kpop without the unhealthy obsession that her less mature self fell into.
I feel like the girl is holding the camera and standing right where she stood when she was filming her friends while they still were in her life matching the video shown on the camera with the view to make it seem as she was filming the girls at those moments, while she was just rewatching the videos. It really makes sense. She is not crazy, she is just looking at the same places through the videos she took with her friends still being there. And that’s why she rewatched the moment of them in that room while being in that room in the end - to feel that connection
Park Jihu ( Actress ) & Choi Hyun Wook ( Actor) they both cameo in this MV
반희수 (Bahn Heesoo) = 버니즈 (Bunnies), Bunnies = NJS's fan name.
shared an umbrella or got rained on, fell into idol groups, and later became estranged, but the memories of that time became closer than the camera and became one with my precious memories. 😍
finally, she go back to the past and become one. when she was in idol's fan ❤
I was obsessed with how eerily gorgeous these mvs were when they came out! They just did something to my art/lit student brain and I wanted to make a million different versions of what everything meant or paint the 'empty' quiet scenes. Some of the shots are so beautiful and lonely, especially when put in contrast to the louder, happier shots of the girls. I was also super chuffed to recognise the actors playing Heesoo and the boy: Park Jihu and Choi Hyunwook!! Which is random, but the excitement I felt when recognising them, in hindsight, is hilarious.
I think I get this, and here is my theory. Heesoo and newjeans were best friends, they six were always together. Newjeans liked to dance, and Heesoo always did the filming work for them. But one day an terrible accident happened, newjeans the five girls didn't survive, only Heesoo survived and had her arm injured. Since that day, Heesoo went back to school on her own but always watching everything through that video recorder, because inside that recorder, she could still see her five friends talking and playing with her at school, and other classmates thought Heesoo is getting weird and crazy. At the end of the story, Heesoo grows up, and she can finally move on, but when she watched the old video of her five friends, she feels like it was just yesterday. 💔
I keep seeing people theorizing about a car accident I think everything in your theory is totally plausible apart from that.
Because what in the MV indicates that a car accident took place ?
@@aryajager3231 I saw someone say that the deer in de mv represents the deer that hit the car (it was their interpretation)
No it's actually about their fans and them. 6th member represents us ^^ She is so obsessed with them at one point in her life that her friends find it weird but she grows up eventually. She recalls the good memories she had with them when she watches the old videos on TV and she feels like they are still with her, in her heart.
@@tessahaarman3468 Also, deer represents gentleness and unconditional love. So i'm guessing she's been hurt by their school friends/maybe got into bullying and she found love at NewJeans. Cause deer also means "survival". She's been surviving with NewJeans.
@@mariaakawai That makes sense! Like I said, it wasn't my theory but I enjoy seeing people interpret the mv differently
This might be the first time I actually teared up watching a kpop video and I know kpop since 2010. What a touching video. That end really broke me🥲
The girls name is ban heesoo - banheesoo - bannieseu - bunniesu - bunnies/tokki (nj fandom),
Newjeans is newjeans, idol,
The girl is fans, our as bunnies (banheesoo)
The boy is reality, as the other in the class etc,
In our eyes newjeans are real, only us that can see them, other didnt understand what wee see, so to other, we (bunnies or kpop fans) are like weird guy.
the girl was a loner in class because she was totally dedicated to her idols but at one point she decides to live her own life for example when she's with newjeans she doesn't need the umbrella she just walks under the rain with the girls that shelter her but when she decides to live her life she walks alone with the umbrella same with the guy he's been observing her and when she stops living in her head with her idols she gives him a chance to enter her life, at the end she becomes an adult and looks back at that part of her life as a stan with fondness
@@ichig0tchi representing the fandom (kpop fans) lifes
I agree with the opinion that this could be a commentary on the parasocial relationships that form between fans and celebrities, but I actually read it as more of a commentary on what happens (primarily to girls) as we grow up. For a lot of people there comes a time when you feel like you need to shed pieces of yourself in order to "grow up," whether that's trying to fit in with people who don't understand you, or feeling like you need to behave or look a certain wait, etc. I think it happens most often to girls because there's this idea that you leave everything that represents your girlhood (i.e. your innocence) behind. Deer are often associated with innocence, and she cries as she watches the deer leave, it's the end of that time for her. I think this is the most obvious in side B because unlike with parasocial relationships New Jeans is sad as they're slowly watching her pull away and ultimately leave. When she leaves she walks away with her love interest, and ultimately she gives up who she was in order to be accepted, which yes is so incredibly sad and such a tragedy. I think it's something that is also so very relatable. I also loved that it showed her coming back when she's older, finding those old memories of herself, realizing they made her happy and she seems to "reunite" with what she lost. I love that there's a hopeful note at the end and again I also think that's something you realize as you leave young adulthood and enter full adulthood; ultimately, what matters the most is being truly happy and that means being your most authentic self.
This interpretation really fits for me actually.
M/V Interpretation: The 6th girl means a fan of Bernie's New Jeans
The existence of an idol is an illusion that doesn't exist in everyday life
Someone who likes idols may take a picture of them and leave them as a record, and it may seem like Odd to be with them as close friends
If you take it out after some time, it means that the memories are still there
New Jeans in their mvs always talk about them and us fans. To me this videos are about the perspective of a fan. We watch them, most of the time, through a screen. We follow their journey and at some point in life we will leave them aside. But we will always have our memories to revisit these moments.
when we listen to an artist it's like he's with us. And an artist is nothing without fans. so for them, we will always be by their side.
If you listen closely to the beginning of Side A where NJ are dancing in the gymnasium/auditorium, you can hear the instrumental for OMG.
Thank you for your reaction!
Here are a few things I noticed about the MVs.
1) Casted arm: indicating that she had an accident or metaphor of her feeling hurt.
2) Deer: to me, deer come as innocence, or it could also mean as a catalyst of a car accident(?).
3) Black cat: in popular Korean culture superstition, the black cat is an omen, and it can see the dead.
4) Blackboard drawing: again in popular Korean culture superstition, a ghost has no legs(maybe that is why she erased them?).
5) Camcorder: to me camcorder indicates her illusion.
I think the meaning/plot of the MV is up for interpretation but regardless of how anyone perceives it, I just have to give creds to the director, they did an insane job like this MV is stunning and just so well produced and directed, it compliments the song so well
(Oh also the percussion slapppps)
I think the song and mv is about loneliness idk it made me emotional damage😢
The most clear and comprehensive theory about the story is that Heesoo is the only survivor out of six of them from an accident and at the side a she was reminiscing their memories while in side b she had finally moved on.
this song is devouring my mind (also your hair looks 🔥🔥 kaia)
Yes! After watching them I realized I was getting emotional and I just couldn’t place it a specific thing. These were beautiful
The song is a really good B-Side.
the MVs are phenomenal with an intriguing story
their vocals are out of this world
MV story has two theories at the moment
Short forms
1. Heeso and the girls had an accident and Heeso is the only surviver, she wasn't able to move on and the boy helped her the leave the past behind
2. Heeso is us fans living with the imagination to be friend with her fav idols but she fell in love with the boy and moved on but later remembers this moments.
(Oh you said it yourself)
Might be a mixture of this two in the mind of the producers
BTW: the song is breaking records on the K-Charts at the moment
second fastest song of all time to top Melon (2h) only BTS was faster (1h) with one of their songs
Still fastest song of 4th gen to top Melon
Breaking records in fastest steamed song within 24h just 1h after release etc.
New Jeans is a huge, HUGE thing in Korea right now
But why a car accident though ?
@@aryajager3231 it's just a theory
New jeans said this song written thinking of fan. Their fandom. Its not a sad song. None of them are ghosts. Its about how you had your favorite bands when you were in school growing up. They were always there for you when you happy, sad, alone and also after you grow up, have a crush, boyfriend eventually. But they will be always in your memories. Never dies.
@@mansthgusful there will always be multiple layers to this kind of mv. like the true meaning of what the writers want and other interpretation for fans
@@aryajager3231 look at her (hee soo) hand...
i think theres two meanings
i saw somewhere that meeting a deer can represent having to come to terms with the present, when you're lost in the past
1- literal, there was 6 girls who had an accident, heesoo was the only survivor, shes pretending her friends are still with her but they sadly aren't, eventually meets the deer and comes to terms with it, gets with that boy she likes, comes back to their hideout as an adult and looks back on their memories fondly
2- representing the idol-fan relationship, the other people can't see it but she's using her liking of newjeans to get her through difficulties like breaking her arm, eventually grows out of them and goes on with her life, comes back as an adult to watch their mvs and thank them for getting her through that rough time
That's just the b-side, the title song called "OMG" will be out January 2nd!
They’ve made a statement (the director) saying it’s about parasocial relationships with idols and how you sometimes grow out of groups as you get older, even if they were once super important in your life. Honestly, I thought it was about survivors guilt because of her arm cast and the whole memories thing. I think it can be interpreted in any way.
So I’m thinking, something tragic happened to her 5 friends and somehow she has survivor guilt and it plunged her into depression to a point where she imagines them still alive and doing their thing like they used to, thus we see her filming them but they are not really there. Until she saw a sign, maybe a message from her friends through seeing this deer that it is time for her to let go and move on. With that came the other video where maybe she is older, she takes out the VHS tape and we see her sitting on the couch watching her friends and just remembering their memories.
I was surprised from the fact that very few reviewers actually caught the sad & doleful atmosphere and subtle imagery of MVs... Many reviewers even watched side B first!
Heesoo = Ban Heesoo (They wrote her full name on the cast 반희수, Ban is her last name and Koreans put last name in front) =Barneys =The name of New Jeans fanclub so Ban heesoo is kinda wordplay to personify their fans
The camcorder girl's name: Ban Hee Soo = Bunnies(new jeans' fandom name)
The act of filming new jeans with camcorder: fangirling/fanboying the idol(other students are not interested in new jeans so that's why they can't see them)
The boy: real life/reality
Breaking the camcorder and walking away from new jeans in the rain: forget about once-favorite idol and live in reality
The girl grew up, open the memory box and reminisce about the past. Then new jeans come into the room wearing the exact same clothes when they were hanging around with HeeSoo(when HeeSoo was a teenager, when she was their fan): it can be embarrassing, shameful or immature to fangirl someone so much, but when you grew up and look at the past, it wasn't in vain, but it remained as a good memory( or When fans looked it up again, new jeans are still there)
The deer: In korea, deer is kinda recognized as a sacred, mysterious animal that people can't easily catch. So the deer represent the subtle distance or relationship between the fans and the idol. Not too far, Not too close (Theres a phrase "You're like a deer/bambi" which means you are so precious, sacred, innocent, beautiful etc. So there are a lot of songs about using deer as a metaphor of a lover or a crush. Baekhyun's Bambi is a perfect example)
HeeSoo ignoring Minji's phone call: indifference to new jeans ( not catching up the latest songs or albums, not looking for their promotions or ig posts etc..)
Minji erasing Hee Soo's leg on the chalkboard: The idol wants their fans to stay with them forever. But actually, that is not up to the idols. Only fans can decide whether they want to be the fans of the idol or not. They can be indifferent to the idols anytime just like HeeSoo did to New Jeans.
you know, fangirling celebrities can be vain, empty since you can't really meet them or get to know them in reality. so when you face the reality, it may feel useless. And yet, New Jeans are aware of that, and they hope that the fans would keep the happy memories (while fangirling new jeans) real even if time passes( Or New Jeans are telling the fans like "I'll stay the same until then, so come back anytime")
Omg me being an English teacher and loving this…I feel so called out 😂
"i dont have the brain cell..."
*Proceeds to say all theories fans are commenting in other reactions* dayum you got the brainnnn ;-; ive been waiting for this exact reaction
Bang Hee Soo who is representing us bunnies, the camera showing newjeans is us fangirling-boying over them and thats why nobody else can see them apart from us and the other students thinking that we're weird. The deer represents good fortune and luck for your future (i think). And the part where Minji rubs off the legs of the chalk drawing is showing that we can go wherever we like, and nobody can force us to stay where we are put. Even if that means we're moving on from them.
If you got the chance to spend a couple of weeks or months with an idol just know they're completely two different people. One that is off the camera and another side which is on camera. They cannot guarantee that you'll stay forever so they'll try to be as default/normal as they can be, Idols are not a special kind of breed/race/entity, they are humans, and they try their hardest with alot of things.
Something about the way the video is shot reminds me of Roly Poly by T-ara. Maybe the nostalgia old memories vibes
I feel these two video represented a gril and her 5 imaginary friends that supported her during her lonely school years. In side B, it is even more clear that the 5 girls NJs does not exist however the guy from her school also started noticing her well being and being there for her. Eventually she also wants to leave NJs behind by smashing the camera, walking away from them into the rain with the guy. The deer leaving also symbolising she no longer reqires the help from god(NJs) Many years later, she revisited her belongs and memories, she still wish NJs could be real and thankful that they have helped her
DANIELLE'S VOCALS ARE KILLERS WOW SO POWERFUL 💜
I feel like the girl with the camera could be the CEO of Ador in her youth…
21:40 you were right there! you had the meaning down. If you rewatch both MVs from that lens (pun intended) it makes way more sense.
The 'woo woo' part is sung by...Hyein!
I find it hilarious that they put in subtitles for that. :)
Claramente como un fan puedes darle una interpretación más ídolo - fan, como la sensación de que ellas están contigo pero no.
Y como no fan puedes darle más interpretaciones y pensar más escenarios ya que deja espacio a la imaginación, ideal para el gp que vea el mv (pueden pensar que eran amigas y murieron o eran imaginarios o algo así). La mayoría no fan seguro lo escuché directamente en spotify, appleM y las letras funcionan muy bien sin la pieza cinematográfica. Para mi es un 🔥👍🏼 esperando OMG en enero mientras escucho Ditto en loop jajaja
On Korea's largest music app Melon, Ditto took first place for 77 days, surpassing BTS' dynamite for 75 days, breaking the record.
i swear if this is another time for the moon night situation im gonna bawl my eyes out
i love them man i loooove😭 what a naturalness💜
Is it me or melody in the end of the MVs very much remind of smth that Hanz Zimmer could do for Inception?
So I thought maybe MVs are trying to interpretant same thing as movie like “don’t dive in hallucinations, move on and be happy with smth that is real”
Should check out the Korean Programme which is about student survival from zombie, the girl and boy both are the main characters in this television programme
The fanbase seems divided on two theories.
Option one: Ban Heesoo (Bunnie) is a fan who was really in love with her group, until real life happens (both romance and injury) which makes her forget about the silliness of being a fan. At the end, Heesoo pops in the VHS and remembers what it was like to be a fan and gets nostalgic.
Option two: Heesoo is the friend of New Jeans who always filmed them when they were at school. Some accident happens where Heesoo is injured but left alone. So she's been taking her camera with her replaying all the moments she had with her friends in the locations they were at. Only the boy in school sees how hurt she is, while everyone else doesn't know how to react. In the end, she throws away the camera because she's only hurting herself by living in the past and not moving on. That's why she's walking with the guy home, as he seems to have helped her.
Personally, I think option two is more desirable given the sadness/melancholy at which the videos are shot, but I won't discount the first one either. They are filmed to have ambiguity in them so interpretations are encouraged. I can see how Heesoo always looking through the camera at her friends can be seen as fans being close but separated from their idols, but also a girl not letting go of memories even if they are harming her. Hanging out with NewJeans could be seen as the fandom peppering her every day life vs Heesoo recalling memories. I think in both the guy is the anchor towards reality, and is the one who wants to help her. Being too obsessed with your fandom can make you miss out on real life, or else diving too much into the past and not healing over painful moments is destructive. So in both theories, he's trying to help her.
Regardless on what's "canon", a silly K-pop video is causing THIS much discussion from a fanbase who usual response to MVs are "Queens slay! lol". So I'm enjoying some deeper thought here. I'm glad NewJeans is not being pinned down and is trying to be more artistic.
The girls are real but the lonely girl’s friendship with them isn’t. She isn’t recording on that camcorder, she is watching a playback.
the percussion you hear in the chorus is baltimore club music genre
🔎Theory🔍
I believe that our cámara girl is a lonely girl, but one night walking alone she found a group of five girls(new jeans) dancing happily, she wanted to be happy just like them so she started to imagen if she has their friend (new jeans) at the point of taking video of the girls dancing creating a whole imaginary friend group of girls that just saw one night, as a way of coping with her loneliness, but also having a love interest .that in order to be with him she has to leave her imagination that kept her from socializing. getting rid of the cámara that kept her inside the her head
The cast on her arm Can mean that something happens that broke her (an accident or someone special leaving ) who knows the only thing we know is that her imaginary friends (new jeans) filled that void on her heart (painting a heart on her arm cast
I don’t explain or theorize the other stuff cuz I don’t know what to think
As a Loona lore stan, I'm glad this came out. Just something to theorize about, with beautiful music and vocals. It's haunting and BEAUTIFUL. And it makes me happy in a sad way and fits my bittersweet mood due to the drama happening in my kpop world right now, as well as some drama in my personal life. New Jeans is what I need right now to keep me level at the moment. It's exactly what I need and I love the charm of these girls. Something about them makes me happy. I can't put my finger on it. But they climbed up to 3rd on my favorite kpop groups, behind Loona and Red Velvet.
There was something about this style of MV filming that gave me Loona vibes (in a good way!) 😊
"It feels like something tragic" That's exactly what they're trying to convey without being too explicit.
Heeso looks like the lead girl in all of us are dead park jihoo
TXT dropped concept trailer for their new album The Name Chapter Temptation, could you pls react to it? :) it's so well done 🥺
It doesn't have any music/aesthetic spoilers for the album
Yes I hope she reacts to it😍
actually there’s a korean movie called ditto which is about two students of the same school, one from the 70s and one from the 2000s who are able to communicate through a radio and fall in love without knowing they are from different eras, that’s why heesoo in the mv has a more modern uniform than newjeans
it is so cute when you rubbing your nose because it looks like you suppress crying .. well, me too.. i don't know. but that song, and mv make me soooooo blue... they made really beautiful things again.
It’s either a metaphorical story, or a regular story. Metaphorically as in, we see kpop idols as our friends, even though they’re not actually there with us. Well eventually move on, but the memories of them will still be with us.
Or they got into a car accident and died. I don’t know
they had the capacity to make me sad without barely knowing why
Watched this a couple of times since it got released.
What I think, is that the videos were before her friends died. They died, in what I think, was an accident, with her the only one surviving - hence having her cast the whole time. She still can't let go of the fact that she was the only one who survived that's why she keeps on doing what she does with her friends which is already worrying the people around her.
Then at some point, she is slowly accepting the fact that she can never bring back her friends, and what they had before - you see this when she starts going alone(and them just looking at her as she walks away), and even goes out with the guy.
I definitely agree with you that the song is really A BOP, well, all their songs have been lol. And intertwining the song with the music video is definitely a work of art.
I hope that they keep releasing these kinds of bops, no matter what genre they try to go to!
Watching this MV reminds me of BTS's older videos. It makes me use my only one brain cell to understand the storyline 🤣
What I'm really curious about is, how did she have a painted nail if she can't use her other arm?
I felt the same way about this. I really like the song, but I couldn't concentrate on it as much, cause I was way too invested in the video and storyline. It almost felt like background music (not meant in a bad way) to the video/story.
남자 = 하이브 방시혁
희수 = 어도어 민희진
현재 분쟁중 입니다.
최근에 민희진이 해임 되었습니다.
뉴진스와 팬들은 슬퍼하고 있어요
I'm so confused. At the end it seems like all of the story never happened or is just a memory, yet Heesoo's nail is still painted. Was it a dream? Something that happened way before and the nail is a way for Heesoo to remember? DiD thEy TImE tRaVEL?!?!!!?!!! I mean...everything in kpop lore is possible these days. Especially with HYBE.
I think it’s about youth and loneliness.
Hybe gg's first comeback always contains a controversy
Newjeans- Ghost or Fan controversy 👻
Le sserafim- Mango or potato controversy 😂
They built defferent 🔥
Why do i feel the producers feeling ….
I think its her pov when she’s filming fx
I can’t believe they outdid Rough by Gfriend… I guess Ditto is THE school girl concept of 4th gen
OMG. i think you got the main point from just looking at them once.
i think it's about the relationship between bunnies (if you say ban hee soo fast in Korean, it sounds like bunnies) between newjeans, more generally fandom and idols.
A : Bunnies selected NewJeans, decided to go with them, which helped her thru her hard times
B : Bunnies selected her real life but cherishes her memories with NewJeans later. the memories which helped her thru her hard times
By the way, the deer represents a thing that you want to go near but you cannot. if you approach her, she will run away. the relationship between idols and the fans.
One more thing, the song itself is an obvious love song dedicated by NewJeans to bunnies as indicated by NewJeans members.
It also interprets to me tragically
Mv: 100/100 amazing
Song: ... its an ok bside
i am curious with the lyrics, is it us as a fan that says " I got nothin to lose, I like you" which is our pov to idols, or is it from idol pov to us ( fans ) ?
This is a fansong(officially)
I guess the girl means fan.
I think you have to watch first side B and then side A cause makes more sense! Seems that New jeans is ghosting that girl but i'm not getting at all, why they are ghosting her 😂
Amazing song!!
Those who say they died in an accident are saying this because they do not know that the song is for their fans.
The thing is while that totally makes sense and is probably correct, there still enough of an interpretation that you could make for the other theories. Also, there's many times where you'll read a book, listen to a song, watch a tv show/movie and while there might be an "official" explanation(from the author, etc.), it's still wide open enough to think about other theories. I think that's why I love both MV's.
Gave me youth and loneliness vibe 😢
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my theory is these 6 were friends and new jeans died in an accident leaving only camera girl and thats why she has a cast, and the deer is newjeans telling her to move on and the boy helps her out .
also every camera view scene is her looking back on when they were alive so in the scenes where shes filming nothing shes actually looking back in the spot where they were once
I haven't quite wrap my thoughts around the story behind the two mv A and B. It appears that Heesoo was really close with the five friends and she use to film her friends interacting in school and also filming them dance. Heesoo also have feelings for boy at school. We also see that there was an accident and she's in an arm cast and the fact that the later part of both showed that she was alone in real life and during some of the recording scene symbolizes that her five friends must have died. The deer in both also reaffirms that. "Caught like a deer in the headlight" is a common phrase to mean paralyze by fear or indecision. Many deer died at night in car accidents when bright spotlight shine at them and they instinctively freezes rather than run away. We can assume her friends died but the deer could also explained that they died in the car accident that she was also in. So all that we see in A and B. Now what's different between A and B is that A was about her holding on to them in her thoughts even after the accident. We see that when it was raining she chose to walk with them in the rain instead of using the umbrella and her filming the school settings with them gone. While in B was about letting go, we see in the rain scene, she left on her own without her friends and we also see her drop the camcorder and later walking away with the boy. Perhaps the boy helped her to let go. The ending scene of B showed years later as she dusted off the VCR tape to watch it again. Here all the emotions of the past came rushing back as if it was just yesterday. Perhaps showing that life continues and we learn to accept but we never truly can let go.
When I first saw this music video, I cried. Because I could understand her mind. She is an outcast student at school and a victim of domestic violence. I can't even talk to my favorite male student. Only the music of the NEW JEANS comforts her.
Only those who have studied Northeast Asia, especially Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Confucian-centered school days can understand this mv.
Heres my theory that there was a huge accident the tragic deaths (mostly young) of 156 people caught in an Itaewon crowd which happened on Halloween day. A girl holding a camera would be an only survivor from that accident lost all of her besties and she cannot get out of the shock so strongly hold a delusion making up her friends still alive which is not true fact. Remembering those days warm gatherings with friends and cannot believe in a fact that they are all gone.
Watch 13:42 on your reaction, there are camera girl (only wearing school uniform summer clothes) and newjeans members (wearing school uniform winter clothes differs from the camera girl), which represents NJs members are imaginary friends who all suffered from the tragedy on winter time and the camera girl is an only one survived living a real life.
at the very last scene, seems the camera girl gets little older turns on the VHS again, shows that NewJeans members are not illusion. And seems the camera girl overcome the accidental memory but her friends still remains as a warm and bright memory.
I think the purpose of this MV could be mourning the Itaewon tragedy. Just my guess.
In my opinion heesoo got imaginary friend but then she fell in love with a guy and continously forgets them (nj)
in this industry just give me hanni and chaewon i don't want anything again
Thats Ruka in documentary Leserafim??
First
5 friends gone/passed, heesoo left with a broken arm. boy watches over her and saved her from being alone.
The music is amazing but the video is disturbing.
I think the girl is been bullied and that’s why she has a broken arm. New Jeans are her imaginary friends in her loneliness and depression. When she was standing on the roof, I think she was thinking of jumping to her death, but do you remember New Jeans wrote “don’t die” on her arm cast. Their company and the boy she had a crush on helped her get through her old school day.
MHJ said in a interview before the release that it was a story between NWJNS and tokkis so basically she's bullied and a loner but she finds shelter in her idols and feels like if they were her friends but when she decides to live her own life newjeans disappears and she opens her life to the boy, someone real who actually can give her the support she was seeking from her idols
This song is about survivor's guilt. Heesoo and NewJeans members are friends but something tragic happens and Heesoo survives alone and the rest of friends are dead. At first, Heesoo can't accept the reality and they're still there in her imagination. That's why only she can see the members. The boy is the one who helps her to overcome her guilty. You can see she doesn't walk with the members but with the boys in the side B. And finally she can accept the reality and that's why she drops the camera from the rooftop. The deer represents the reality about the girls' death. That's why there's tear in Heesoo's eyes when she sees the deer. This is the combination of my thoughts and some people's. I hope you can understand the storyline. This is so tragic like you said.
Honestly I'm not smart like this and things can just stay riddles for me. Universes and storylines if they are not simple and spelled out for me I am not going to delve deeper. Not my style. All I know is the song it sounds super cute and the lyrics are super cute but the video made me sad and confused and I just feel bad for her. I watched both like everybody because I thought one would have a happy ending but naw. Sidenote: I still have not come to terms with the fandom name being Bunnies....🤔🤔🤨🤨
사슴을 피하려다 교통사고후에 6명중 혼자남은 혼자남은 희수가 세상을 떠난 친구들을 그리워하는 뮤비로 해석됩니다
ditto is like : me too