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✦ THE OFFICIAL THREAD OF ✦ GFRIEND ✦ I'll be your BUDDY ~ #ThankYouGFRIEND


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3 hours ago, tuut said:

I slept over it and woke up thinking that tonight's Tale of the Glass Bead could be a comeback trailer? hence only one mv teaser since the comeback trailers for rough, Navillera and fingertip all teased the mv anyways. oR it'd be cute if they did a new version of their first greeting team teaser from back when they were teasing their debut with glass bead :,)

I would loveeeeeeee a comeback trailer. I don't know why they stopped doing it tbh... I have a feeling Tale of the Glass Bead is going to be some kind of video teaser...

Also anybody else noticed that the comeback trailer was posted via SouMu twitter and not GFriend's twitter? I don't remember that being the case for their previous comebacks 🧐

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I saw some interesting and creative theories on the new logo but one that I thought made a lot of sense was if you put all the parts of the logo together, it forms a crossroad. If that's their title track (from Synnara event spoiler), it's pretty cool how the logo is like a labyrinth/maze (album name) and when combined, is a crossroad (title track). 

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2 minutes ago, tuut said:

this aesthetic though

funny how we're painting a picture of the concept this time through things like the album details and showcase poster lol

Buddies reaching and clowning as always except even more than usual for this comeback 😂

Anyone feel like the showcase poster gives vibes of Rough meets Sunrise? The background reminds me of Sunrise/TFU daybreak pics and the sleeve of their coat reminds me of Rough MV LOL.

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Incoming negative nancy eternal glow's irrelevant thoughts...

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I decided to spoiler because a lot of buddies seem to be really pleased with the comeback so far (not just here but on other social media) and I don't really want to ruin the mood with my ramblings LOL. 

Tale of Glass Bead

I really want to be super excited about the Tale of Glass Bead from last night but I feel like I'm lowkey a bit disappointed in terms of execution especially. We've always known that GFriend MVs involve a lot of storytelling but I feel like the back story we got last night didn't really take into consideration what GFriend have previously built and instead they decided to form a story and then incorporate as many previous MVs as possible. The story didn't seem like it was already there from the beginning but instead just produced for this comeback, throwing out a lot of theories that the fandom had originally created. The way the old clips were put together with the English narration seemed a little like a fan-made video and the story seemed a bit forced for the sake of connecting as many past comebacks as possible whilst neglecting some of the key stories like TFTMN/Sunrise. 

Big Hit influence 

When the acquisition was first announced, it was said that Source Music has full creative and artistic control of GFriend but everything about this comeback so far seems to have a lot of influence from Big Hit's artistic direction/aesthetic. I find it a bit hard to believe that Source Music would have executed the comeback this way if the acquisition didn't happen. Maybe I'm just being needlessly worried but I'm afraid that their artistic or musical direction will change despite the promises that it won't. I'm hoping the release of the track list tonight will bury these concerns and we see some familiar composers for this album.

Overall, I feel like I'm very cautious about this comeback despite being excited for new music and content. I'd love to be wrong about everything I've just said and I'm just being needlessly worried for no good reason.  

 

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6 minutes ago, spopo said:
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This is kind of what I wrote too.  I actually agree with your thoughts here, except I'm not sure I totally believe that this was all Big Hit's doing.  It's not as if Source knows what they're doing 100% of the time either.  I almost wish they had looked at fan theories if they weren't sure what they were doing, because Buddies are pretty brilliant when it comes to this stuff.  To me it feels really weird that so much mv lore was ignored.  Maybe this is just part of it?

 

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I don't think it's 100% Big Hit's doing either but I can definitely feel and see that there's a lot of Big Hit influence. Everything about this comeback is just so different from the way Source Music usually handles their comebacks. As for how much outside influence there is and whether the influence is good or bad, it's still too early to tell. I'm just hoping that when the final product is out, it truly reflects GFriend's identity and signature style that they've built over the years. I'm not against change at all but I really want their future direction to be recognisably GFriend as it has been so far and at the moment, I'm still a bit cautious about it. 

 

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No Iggy Youngbae even for bsides 😭 The Iggy Youngbae enthusiast in me is a bit disappointed but I'm very pleased to see many familiar names with a few new ones. I think Noh Joohwan and Lee Wonjong for title track makes sense considering Crossroads seems to be continuing from TFTMN and Sunrise. I'm very relieved to see this tracklist tbh because musically, they're in good hands. 

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Random thought but remember when the girls said somewhere that they were originally supposed to comeback with another title track instead of Sunrise? Was it ever revealed or insinuated what that track was or if it has been released yet whether as a b-side or for Japan? 

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6 minutes ago, Sofs said:

I’m happy there won’t be rap tho. The girls aren’t rappers , this fits them better 😅 

I don't think any of them are that keen on rapping anyway aside from the occasional line or two of talking rap that comes up on their songs. I'm so glad none of them are forced into the rapper role just for the sake of having rap in their songs. No rap is always better than forcing a song to needlessly have rap when it doesn't need it imo 👍

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1 hour ago, tuut said:

http://allthe2048.com/community-games/gfriend-2084.html?usp_success=2&post_id=44562

lmao it's a cute idea and kind of a fun time-killer. i managed to get to sunny summer! 

Omg this was so fun LOL. I got up to Time for Us. I feel like I could have gone further but I made a mistake 😭

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