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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LqcEKPfYgY

There are a few performance habits of GD's I like, but perhaps my favorite would be his little animal-esque noises. His pigeon cooing, ows, and yas are always so fun and perfectly timed, and his cat purring's as familiar and welcoming as the purring of my own cat. ^^

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I see jjangbakk's putting my gif to good use, haha ^^

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kF2z7Q0DM

This stage is so lovely. At the beginning it looks like blood boiling and when it shifts over to blue it looks like raindrops racing each other down a window pane. Afterwards it changes and resembles a meteor shower, then it looks like magic residue in the air, then the afterglow of a dark summoning ritual, then a magnification of falling glitter. During the first chorus it looks like melting stars. TOP's section makes me think of uptown lights and skyscrapers. It keeps morphing itself slightly and each morph is just as pretty as the last. The first half of Taeyang's section somewhat resembles under the surface of the ocean, where there are specks floating around and the sunlight's still able to glint off of them, and the second half looks like embers as they float up from a fire.

The clouds and stars afterwards are especially beautiful.

And I really like how TOP's "I'm going home" is so forceful sounding - as always, he has a line that I favor.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tslOKvqwt0

It's another morning, and it's time again for giving half of my brain's functionality to Bangtan for a while.

First, this song's so great, even changed a little. I think I've listened to it half a million times now and when I watched this, I went back and re-watched it three times and then went to find the broadcasted version and watched it a few times, too.

0:55, what a lovely action pose for all my Bangtan bros. It looks like it belongs at the end of the opening theme for a cartoon.

Next at 1:06 out of all of them, Jimin somehow manages to resemble a witch-in-training trying to get off the ground on his broomstick and it not quite working so well. I don't even know how he did this, but he did. Speaking of Jimin, he in particular impresses me in the chorus sections, his moves are so sharp and individually defined, which is why he always excels really well in more powerful dances and it can sometimes look kinda off in softer ones, but it doesn't look off at all here.

lol @ whatever Rap Monster's doing at 1:12.

Then at 2:49 til 2:58 I felt my hands slowly go up to either side of my head as an involuntary reaction to the nice voice going into my ears and filling up my skull.

Lastly, I really like this choreo and want a dance practice. There are so many dance practices I need! I hope the forces of the universe get on making them happen. ^^

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHsupDWJBrE

 

This made me feel too many things! And it's so beautifully shot.

When he rushes into the room, shakily closes the door, and starts looking for something to defend himself with all in a flurry of panic, I started to feel a tension rising in my chest and my breathing slowed a little. The dim atmosphere, the way he bows his head, and the way his tremblings hands are almost cupped together in a prayer-esque motion but not quite due to how fear-ridden and upset he is had me completely enthralled.

Next it flashes back and forth between where the dudes are ganging up on him and the girl (I'm guessing someone important to him but not exactly a significant other) is giving him the bandana to put over his neck wound in a loving gesture, giving a little more insight into the significance of when they rip it off him and throw it back down on his face. I noticed that in the MV of course and it made me cringe then 'cause having something with a special meaning taken away from you and then hurled back in a mocking manner really does hurt, but here since it was longer it felt much more painful...

And him observing the street musician at the end also made me feel so sad and like I want to be there with his character.

I think all this is doubled 'cause I've always, strangely, felt a twinge of protectiveness over Daesung, so him playing this role brought it out a lot stronger and made a special effect the other members wouldn't be able to achieve quite as heavily. What a perfect casting.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZOTfqtYfE

 

I think this might be my favorite one thus far! First, the stage is really beautiful - it looks like an art project. The floating orbs, fragmented design pieces, and clocks appeal to my personal taste a lot, and the color scheme that was chose - the low golds and browns - give it a calmer, contemplative feel as opposed to being melancholy, had it used cold colors. And I'm glad.

There are so many gestures in here from the members I really like, such as GD putting one arm around Seungri, Taeyang raising his mic to his mouth every few words during GD's part and bouncing about behind them. And 0:38 - 0:42 sounds so nice. ^^ The position those three go into as TOP enters is perfect enough that I wanna gif it later. GD's little hand movements is as though he read my mind and knew I was gonna make those myself while watching.

1:39 = lecture TOP, yay!

Another thing I've always liked is how they all have their own slightly different way of interpreting and performing a dance piece, it makes it much more interesting to watch, and it's very visible here during Daesung's part especially.

2:07, my panda friend.

And then Taeyang's facial expression at the end's perfect.

 

Now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BisO2LBhc

1:35, 4:05, 4:54 (and then 3:47 - 3:50 is a really artistic interpretation of a toad face)

 

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2:12 - 2:15, 3:02

 

youtube.com/watch?v=MpZKntO65Jk

1:02

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He looks like a science student who just came up with what he deems to be a really brilliant baseline for a theory and now he’s reveling in that moment of happiness with oneself mixed with cheerful determination to start working. ^^

 

Harry Potter and dancing are two of my favourite things, so this is just :stare: ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssHB7aThek

 

My kind of choreography!

This is really cute and made me smile the entire time, which isn’t an easy feat for something to accomplish!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv_HQ-0upns

Finally, the forces of the universe were on my side.

My mouth dropped open slightly and one hand raised up to cup behind my right ear and it never lowered itself 'cause I was too in awe. I think I removed and re-inserted my studs absent-mindedly at least 20 times.

 

1:05

One zero five, my friends! It makes me... wanna turn into a bat and fly outside and screech into the night. I don't even know what to do other than re-play the section surrounding this over and over but then I'm kinda worried my marshmallow heart will implode from how lovely it sounds.

And then all of J-Hope's section was just "wow."

r1CcWH3.jpg < literally me

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I really like the five screens displaying the headshot for each member in the back at the beginning, the setup looks so similar to the way this one posh film theater uptown will have poster displays when a hyped up movie is coming out and isn't that quite fitting. ^^

The vocals throughout the entire performance are great, 'specially coming from Seungri and TOP. From 1:42 til 1:56 I feel like GD's voice is hitting me like a relentless maroon hurricane.

lol @ TOP at 3:32.

All of the raw energy seeping out of my screen and earbuds and curling around my brain makes me feel like I should have my crown lighstick out.

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Taeyang managed to score a shot (while not standing right on top of it) even though it was a weighted basketball that got heavier the more it got wet and was lumpy 'cause its weight was prolly unevenly distributed. *in awe*

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-l60QskA8

There's nothing about this that I don't like, but most of all... nyongtory!

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Featuring Taeyang's brutal poke attack of doom.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3_ROOjvGc

All the red's really beautiful, 'specially the way GD's jacket, which looks practically likes it's made out of ruby essence, melds into the background sometimes-

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Sometimes I feel like if I were to touch him, I'd pull my hand away and see it covered in sparkles.

But my favorite thing here, aside from our favorite fae-creature and how precise and sharp Taeyang's and Daesung's movements are, would be the way the lights turn down at the beginning, in the first half of the chorus both times, and as it shifts over into the final section. It perfectly completes the atmosphere.

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It's another morning, and I decided to go on a trek through my musical library in search of something rather lovely...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56jN9-cMEBU

This is now almost exactly half a year old and I've listened to it not every day or even every week, but often enough for it to be familiar to me. This cover possesses a little spark of magic in that despite this, every time it happens to come up it feels like it's entering my skull for the first time. Whenever 1:31 hits, I feel a little piece of my heart at the bottom start to curl up, and then at 2:01 that piece drops off but instead of hitting the bottom with a plank, it gets carried off by a little moth.

His voice contains its own vast and abyssal atmosphere, with just the tiniest touch of whimsy and emotional backing found in the way he enunciates and rapidly yet smoothly moves between high and low at all the right times. And so this cover's a great success of a cover.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDUh2H0tOc

Their songs always manage to be better live and sound so much more fulfilling, part of it I think is their habit of responding to each other vocally and not simply keeping quiet once their individual section's finished. I figured this was a crowd song when I first heard it and that's really confirmed here in an actual concert setting; it has a new life breathed into it and transforms itself.
GD's such a nerd and Seungri's such a derp :chu: Nice giant God Panda at 4:43 with a hammerhead shark it wrestled from the ocean.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxFc8wZqosY

Googles!V is one of the greatest things I've seen in a while; the forces of the universe are quite intent on making my skullfantasies come true. He really looks the best and most interesting in slightly off-kilter outfits.

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OMG!!! I've been absent for a while and I hadn't seen those pics before!!!! They made me smile from ear to ear, my mouth took a long while to go back to rest position. V and Jimin are the best bros!!!

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Hello there, elitin. ^^ I noticed you'd been absent virtually the whole month thus far; all the Bangtan threads were missing a certain sparkling and tumbling starry presence.

V and Jimin host my favorite interactions in the group! So I admittedly kinda stalk any VMin things, haha. Those pictures made me cheeks hurt too, I guess we're both suckers for nice things, then. ^^

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