Now this might seem like an odd post from me, considering that I have talked about BTS on this blog and in positive terms, and I’ve even been to a concert. I very much enjoy their music and parts of their message and still do! But note parts of their message. Not all of it. This is because I’m Catholic, and certain ideas expressed in some of their recent comebacks and the literary works these comebacks reference are antithetical to my beliefs.
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Specifically, Herman Hesse’s Demian and Carl Jung’s ideas.
I had only ever encountered a few Herman Hesse quotes (which I quite liked) before BTS came out with Wings and “Blood, Sweat & Tears” (herefrom BST). Once the teasers came out, everyone kept going on about Herman Hesse’s Demian, and so I decided to read it. I found it on Project Gutenberg or whatever, printed it, and read most of it (some pages got mixed up so I couldn’t finish all of it). And I came away with the conclusion that Demian is dangerous.
Why? Because it creates poisonous half-truths. Demian’s protagonist is extremely relatable, wherein lies the book’s greatest danger. Emil begins with a black and white view of the world: one half is bright and happy and good, and the other is shady and dark and evil. Any fall to the dark side is a complete and total, irreversible moral failure – until he confesses to his crime and all is well again. Until he falls again and the cycle restarts.
I know this cycle very well – it’s the cycle of scrupulosity and it makes you focus on rules and toeing the line and on your actions, how much you can control, and causes you to ignore God and His mercy. This focus often comes from a well-meaning place, but it’s extremely misguided, and Emil (and probably Hesse’s) upbringing seems strict enough to have encouraged this behavior. But no one in their right mind wants to live this way! It’s so fearful!
Which is what makes Emil so susceptible to Max Demian’s bosh about Cain not being evil and there being a god of the dark, evil side of life (including murder and puzzlingly sex), and how both the good God and the “evil” god Abraxas are necessary. An absolutely trippy, sad tale of debauchery, dissolution, and isolation ensues, in which Emil ends up intoxicated and/or high from various substances at various times; and in which he falls in love with the idea of a girl, whom he then somehow sublimates into Demian’s mother whom he had met when he was younger, and the way in which he speaks about it rarefies his infatuation with both women into some spiritual enlightenment experience.
Honestly I felt a sense of unease that grew greater and greater as I read this novel (novella?), which was topped only by my absolute exasperation at Emil’s descent into madness because of its ridiculousness. Because really, that’s what happened. The book got trippier as it went along and just became weird and uncomfortable. And let me tell you, I’m not dumb – I’ve been reading all my life and follow stories very well. This one is certifiably nuts. To The Lighthouse, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Sound and the Fury are like straight-up fairytales compared to this.
Although I dislike BTS using this novel as an album/song/MV concept, I understand why. The idea of good and bad, dark and light both being essential forces in the universe, and a proper balance of them being necessary for harmony, are ideas woven deeply into Eastern culture in general – and Hesse studied Buddhism, learned about India and even went to India, so he would’ve been exposed to such kinds of ideas. It’s apparently standard reading material in Korean curricula (surprise, surprise).
Interestingly, Hesse and Jung actually knew each other, and Jung’s ideas are pretty much the same as what Hesse articulated in Demian – I believe Hesse even wrote Demian after having befriended Jung, so for all I know he could’ve gotten all his ideas from Jung! Ever since BTS’ Map of the Soul: Persona came out I’d heard Jung mentioned, and I only had the barest knowledge of Jung because of the MBTI craze that occurred while I was in college. Other than that, I hadn’t heard his name associated with anything good.
I decided to look into Jung a bit, and from what I’ve learned he focused on life being a quest for wholeness through self-actualization, which was accomplished by focusing inward on the unconscious and becoming aware of it. He delved into the occult and also apparently used Christian spiritual terminology to describe psychological ideas, mixing and melding the two in entirely problematic ways, setting up one’s own self and psyche as God. (He seems to have had a distinctly unscientific approach to a science.)
Like with Freud (who also knew Jung, and also had a distinctly unscientific approach to psychology in certain ways), not all of Jung’s ideas and observations are bad. Is it good to be aware of the ideas and behaviors we demonstrate and perform unconsciously? Yes! Because we want to live purposefully, and as we learn more about the human mind we learn how different events and phenomena can affect a man to his core with him none the wiser unless attention is brought to it.
Is he correct that we often present one or more faces to the public but that our innermost selves are often different? Yes, most definitely. Man has good reason for keeping parts of his life private, and also has the desire to conceal his flaws from others.
And is he right that humans struggle to come to terms with the sinful, flawed parts of themselves? That often they ignore it to their detriment? That they should learn to accept it? Certainly! Men always prefer to ignore their own faults, and would like to think they’re perfect. We have to accept that we are flawed and that we’re not perfect, and have to own our sins and faults as our own and not being imposed from the outside, and not belonging to someone else, and be ok with being imperfect. But along with accepting our imperfections and sinful natures – in fact, the only way we can do that – is in accepting God’s love and mercy (and accepting our need for it). And, of course, we cannot simply acknowledge our sins and flaws and then remain in them – we must strive to be good and perfect, while not letting ourselves be discouraged by our sins and faults.
And this is where, at least superficially, Jung goes badly wrong. He divorces man’s identity from God by setting up man’s self and psyche as a god. But we are not self-determined – we find our identity only in God. Our goal in life is not simply wholeness, but rather right relationship with God, which makes us whole. We are the ones who broke ourselves, and we will never be whole until we do our part to mend that relationship.
So where BTS’ message reminds us that we should love ourselves and accept and acknowledge our imperfections (“Epiphany”) and not hold ourselves to impossible standards and pretend to be something we’re not just to please another human (“Fake Love”); that no matter how hard or dark life gets there is hope (“Tomorrow,” “Spring Day”); that life is more than a materialistic rat-race – a big issue in Korea – and should be lived in the present, not the future (“Paradise”); in essence, wherever BTS’ message acknowledges true human experience (however superficially), it’s good.
But where it draws from Demian and Jungian thought, where in the BST music video it drove the director or whoever to (however unintentionally) sacrilegiously have Our Lady’s portion of the Pieta crumble, and caused someone at BigHit Entertainment (BTS’s agency) to come up with the idea of a skit mocking the sacrament of Confession for one of BTS’ early “Run! BTS” episodes; wherein it encourages BigHit to sell a book of Jungian ideas on its website – where the message fails to encourage people to look to God and rather to look inward, self-ward, and navel gaze and pretend that is gazing at God: that is where it is dangerous.
Insofar as you can enjoy BTS music without delving further into Hesse and Jung, be my guest. But if you are tempted to pursue these ideas even by hearing mention of them, please, please give them a hard pass, no matter how much you may see them around these days. Ever since Wings and reading Demian I’ve been disturbed and saddened by that choice of concept because of just how influential k-pop groups, and thus BTS is, on their fans, and had hoped with the rest of the Love Yourself series that they had left it behind – but it seems just to have been an undercurrent and thread all throughout.
Again, I beg you, if you cannot in this instance separate the good from the bad then do not even embark on it. Find another group. Listen to DAY6 because they’re amazing. Stray Kids. GOT7. EXO. Infinite. Or no k-pop at all! There’s plenty of music out there besides BTS.
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Ironically, I seriously think that Wings/YNWA is Bangtan’s best era. I and/or they certainly have low standards we think are real high, then, it seems. I did feel that something was off about BST too, especially considering one part of Suga’s lyrics there, with said part speaking of “drinking a poisoned holy grail,” which would make sense in fictional Fuyuki City (which I’m very willing to make fun of as much as I try to cautiously draw inspiration from it) but not in the actual Vatican (which, for God’s sake, I would rather not disrespect). Then again, that’s probably just the the tip of the iceberg that is the whole song, which is pretty much a sneakily dolled-up song about accepting falling into temptation as a good thing, though I think that the “temptation is a good thing” idea is more visible in the context of Bangtan’s poetics for the whole album. As a single, though, it really captures quite a unique vibe of temptation that is a lot more potent than, say, the more braggadocious “Dope,” even when disconnected from its more dangerous album poetics. Then again, if a single should give a summary of sorts for the album, then hey, BST certainly does its job a little too well, and its literary influences make it even more dangerous. It’s a silver-tongued piece about letting go and falling and falling and falling and even more letting go and falling and falling and falling…
Oh, and I feel pretty bad about letting that Pieta desecration in the MV easily fly over my head. I also feel worse about it because the BST MV is also one of Bangtan’s more popular MVs. I think I’ve grown a little too used to disrespect against Catholics, though at the very least, the fires of righteous rage are being stoked within me…which brings in the matter of my complicated feelings regarding covering the song now. I mean, I can certainly replace the visuals with something more tasteful for the cover, but still, the song’s a more complicated can of worms I didn’t bother to look at more closely earlier on. In other words, I had liked the song enough to start producing something for it, but…man, this is tough…but Catholic life ain’t supposed to be easy…and funnily enough, the time I spent today watching Logan Paul doing way better in terms of holding back from doing something real stupid is now ringing in my head real hard. Praise and thanks be to God for the strength and challenges yet again, then, and may He keep on helping us all.
Thinking about it some more, though, having to face morally and spiritually problematic art is nothing new to me. I’ve even covered “Stigma” before. I guess it’s just the persisting clash with my famechasing obsession that’s making me feel so shaken. I ain’t canceling anyone, but I do want to show and grow love better, especially in terms of the tougher parts. Would making that cover be more helpful there? Would it be better for me to just make originals instead? Somehow, I feel strangely calm about this, even with my stomach feeling some churn. I guess I gotta forgive myself and take yet another leap of faith with this one, then, even though I don’t feel comfy about it. Of course, I need some guidance again, so yeah. I hope this isn’t too much of a bother.
And there’s nothing wrong with facing problematic things!! We live in the world and nothing is perfect. It’s not really new to me either – I’ve been reading all my life, and I was an English major so I’ve read a looot I don’t agree with. It’s how we engage and respond that matters, I’d say.
And canceling culture is extremely overrated. It’s ultimately meaningless as well, because really, what does that celebrity or random Twitter commenter have to do with any of us? We can just ignore them. And one can recognize flaws without canceling someone/something.
Personally, Stigma seems like a perfectly fine song to cover (and if you have it posted I’d love to check it out, I haven’t had time to explore your blog a lot yet~)! Especially as Stigma is one of those songs about a relatable human experience, it’s not encouraging anyone to temptation. Lie is like that too – someone stuck in a relationship they want out of where they’re still attracted to the person isn’t the same as encouraging temptation.
It’s not a bother! And I’m sorry if I come off as preachy…I just tend to feel strongly about stuff 😓
I don’t know your situation super well myself – I’d say none of the songs on Wings/YNWA are truly problematic except BST. I wouldn’t myself encourage anyone to cover it generally, only because giving in to temptation is sort of glorified by it and pretty much seen as inevitable- which is the issue with Demian (and an Eastern worldview in some ways). BTS is trying to talk about growing up – and included in that *is* temptation, that’s a part of life – but almost as if giving in is necessary to become wiser and grow up, when it’s not. Mistakes are inevitable, but not sin, and since Demian’s concept of sin (and the Eastern concept of sin) is different and has a different moral weight, that’s where we run into a problem.
Yeah, and I’m a Creative Writing major, which also meant reading a lot of crazy stuff. Thank God that He got me stumbling into Flannery O’Connor along the way, though! Actually, if I hadn’t had God’s help, I probably wouldn’t have even tried to learn anything truly worthwhile from school, even from all that many crazy stuff.
And yeah, we can and have to criticize people, but in the first place, criticism is meant to build us up to Paradise despite the pain, not break us down into the Inferno while enjoying the pain. I can also see the lyrical problems with BST some more now, and J-Hope’s raps come to mind. That song definitely works temptation up a little too well, alright. If anything, I’m guessing that its appeal is in how fancy it is in its delivery, because in the history of popular singles of glorified temptation and sin, musical personas tend to hit on listeners with no shame and full vulgarity (and a lot of sexuality), so much that it looks cartoonish. BST, meanwhile, actually takes a more realistic form of dangerous temptation and sin with little shame that’s also too little for one trying to get a nice Catholic perspective out of it. The song and the album’s poetics certainly fit in with the world’s trending confusing philosophies that even Catholic believers like us can fall into, though. I mean, even I had been thinking like the more nominal members of the Church that my more Catholic-apprehensive Literature classmates often criticize when I had seriously thought that suffering is meant to be enjoyed.
Anyway, I’m still really glad that you put those thoughts out! Being Catholic would also mean being soldiers of God, so we’ll definitely need some hard hits for growth here and there, though of course, it should be more from enduring sinful attacks than from being defeated by sinful attacks. I also still have interest in covering BST, honestly, but I don’t think I can ever look at it the same way ever again after this, and I’m also very thankful for that! I mean, if struggle’s gotta happen to get to Heaven, then hey, I gotta welcome dissent with God’s help! It’s gonna take a while, alright, but still, we’ll get there! And if you’re preachy, then hey, I can understand that struggle, since I myself have my moments when I’m like that too, but at the same time, I’mma also say that we can do better! Praise and thanks be to God Almighty for the strength and the challenges, then!
Also, my cover of “Stigma” was from a while back, maybe a year or two ago? It’s somewhere in my blog and in my YouTube Channel! I hope you’ll find it fun if you do check it out, then! Though of course, if there’s stuff to improve on, then please point them out as well! ^w^
Oooh yeah, I can imagine creative writing would’ve had you see all sorts of things!
Less overt sexuality and vulgarity is one reason I got into k-pop and k-dramas, actually! (They are present, which is why I mostly avoid girl-groups because they tend to be more *overtly* sexualized than the guys – though the guys are don’t get me wrong). And yes, thematically speaking BTS is often very different and they definitely deal with important topics!!
I will definitely check it out!
Definitely. I even managed to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas while studying sci-fi in a Comparative Literature class about the short story!
Meanwhile, I seem to be going the other way around. Anime, hip-hop, and pretty much pop culture – especially if it involves the Internet – have been doing weird things to me, see, though at the same time, I feel some sort of affinity to them. I think it’s me trying to go “out of this world” than go in circles with the cliched madness I have to suffer witnessing through various media and stuff everyday. Fortunately, I guess faith has been helping me keep away from the deep end, though it’s still challenging to keep in touch with reality and follow God. But hey, that’s life, and Christ didn’t save us without pain, yeah? Praise and thanks be to Him for the strength and the challenges, then~
Oh that’s cool! So you read it for class? What did your teacher have to say about it?
School quite spoiled me – once you graduate college and enter the work force it’s…shall we say more challenging to make time and find opportunities for such study and discussion – although I did look up and read Omelas on the internet.
I’m not sure what weird things mean for you in this context but I hope whatever weirdness leads you to an ultimately good place. Living in this world is quite difficult, you’re right. So much goes on every day that we’re bombarded with, it’s no wonder we’re depressed and stressed.
Amen! “No pain, no gain” may be a trite phrase but it certainly holds truth. If God suffered for our salvation, then how could we expect not to?
Ah, well, it’s more of my classmates, since it was discussed as part of an intro for the topic of science fiction, and class groups had topics to introduce before Prof would take over in discussing the rest. Anyway, Omelas was discussed in tandem with an American story about some android and a gay man and a Filipino story about a guy who’s basically suffering a long but sure countdown for the extinction of humanity via de-fattening agent or something. I remember my classmates linking it to the Dengvaxia controversy back then, too, considering how recent it was at the time. Though personally, I found that I can read Omelas like a Catholic in contrast to more cynical perspectives. I don’t think that’s an intended view on the author’s part, though, as I think Le Guin practiced Eastern spirituality, but still, for one, I think that the idea of leaving Omelas is more like going humble and hopeful and thinking outside of the box than living a life of doubt, ignorance, and self-loathing.
And I do like weirdness, though of course, there’s good and bad, so what I want to follow should be obvious. The struggle, then, is in figuring out which is which, something that trending thinking fails to think about well enough (in other words: If you think we should be different for the world to be better, then what do you mean by “different?”). It’s even harder with how people these days basically want everyone to talk, when at the same time, we’re all ready to damn someone for saying something we consider dumb, all while we know that we’re not that smart, especially compared to God. I’d rather hold back on declaring what I think to the bigger scope of the public unless I’m ready to take that level of criticism and all that. May God keep on helping us all, then! And thanks very much again, Nami!
Those sound like interesting stories to compare! I hadn’t heard of Dengvaxia or dengue before, and I can see how all of that could be discussed in relation to that controversy.
I agree – I got a more positive vibe from the end of Omelas. Sometimes you can’t change a place by just staying in it, you have to go find a better way. It tells you that you’re not stuck in a hopeless situation.
That’s honestly my favorite thing about literary analysis – you can interpret both what the author was trying to say (whether it’s something you agree with or not) *and* your own interpretation of events. The author doesn’t always have to be saying something you like in order for you to get something out of it!
People nowadays seem to think that in order to see the value of a text, or in order for it to be important, it has to line up with their values and identity, and so they have to twist it to fit their own narrative – whereas it’s much better to acknowledge the likely meaning/intent of the author, but also what benefit can be gotten from the text!
I’m just so over the way analysis is done in academia but also decried by the general public. For example, I had a college friend who majored in political philosophy and theology (or math? I don’t remember which) and he talked about BSing his English papers because interpretation didn’t matter, it was about what the teacher wanted. This was also the guy who believed psychology was bosh – so we definitely disagreed on a lot. Whereas I personally believe literature is in many ways practical philosophy, since author’s beliefs influence their work whether they intend it or not. The disciplines should work together and not be at war in that way!
Sorry about that rant XD
You’re right, there’s so much talk of being free to express your opinion and then immediate vilification for expressing it…so it is especially good to take time and think over something before just saying it. God asks us to be wise as serpents, after all! We aren’t supposed to live as if we’re of the world but we do live *in* it, so we can be smart about how we live.
Thank you too!
Meanwhile, I remember a professor of mine having said that sci-fi is hard to take seriously over here in the Philippines if it isn’t a foreign work. Doesn’t really stop us from working, though, fortunately, hahaha~
As much as it’s sad to see academic analysis easily ignored or belittled, we gotta admit that we all have times when we have a hard time with it, whether we’re passionate about it or not. I think I even I had times when I thought that I just had to be a sycophant, but actually striving to understand those around me had me appreciating my education better. I know I did something, but I think God knows how it went better than I do, and He’d still know it better even if I were an Education major or something, hahaha!
And hey, don’t worry about it! At least we’re working and learning to express ourselves better, yeah? 😀
And you’re very welcome!
I do agree that Wings/YNWA is probably their best, musically speaking (though I have a humongous soft spot for much of their older work).
And yeah, BST as a song itself is not one I actually listen to – production and beat are great!!! but the lyrics bothered me even more since they were specifically associated with Demian. And that’s why I’m most concerned about it, actually, because Hesse mixes together Eastern spirituality and Christianity, and I’m worried people could actually think something like that is true. And since so many people latch on to things without thinking, especially the teenage demographic they tend to cater to, it’s especially worrisome.
I’m not sure I see Wings/YNWA being summarized by BST. What other songs on that album seem to fit that theme for you?
I tend to be scrupulous myself so I try to be more lenient in general: I sometimes worry about listening to BTS at *all* because of these things, but the rational part of me says it’s possible for a well-grounded Catholic to enjoy the good parts – provided they don’t do anything overtly, intentionally offensive. I tend to let that disrespect fly too easily myself as well, perhaps because it’s so commonplace that in certain cases it’s not worth responding to (and in the case of a country with a non-Christian majority I give the benefit of the doubt) – but it still bothers me.
Yeah, Wings/YNWA sounds so chill and energetic in a flowing way. Individually, the songs – including the more political ones – also feel personal (and speaking of which, strikingly emphasizing the madness of Wings/YNWA is “Am I Wrong,” which samples Keb Mo’s song of the same name, and while the cover/remix talks about being jaded over politics and such complicated matters, the original has the persona of a man justifying taking who seems to be a married woman with kids away from her cheating man), and a lot of them, especially the solo tracks, can be enjoyed without connecting them so much to Demian, I think. Actually, I don’t think one would even need to read Demian to enjoy the album (I’ve never even read it before, nor do I have plans to read it, especially not without some good critical assistance), though having that work explicitly stated as part of Bangtan’s poetics for the album is still a legitimate concern. Like, BST is something I enjoy not because of Demian, but because it captures the feeling of falling into temptation so well…though it can do better if the song or the album it’s in would bother to put it in a direction that at least tries to fight it with the help of God Almighty, hahaha~ Ah, I guess my recent rambling was just me beating myself up like an unforgiving fool, then! And at the very least, while the BST music video made some very bad moves, the album isn’t as overtly offensive. And man, I should apologize to my girlfriend for dragging her into my recent freakout…
Oh, I agree – you don’t have to connect any of the album or songs to Demian. Which is why I was sad that they chose it thematically, mostly because many ARMY latch on to anything BTS suggests and sees it as ‘deep’ regardless of it’s true value or lack thereof.
And I’m sorry if I freaked you out, but if I’ve helped anyone think critically then I’m happy for that at least.
I think my favorites from that album are…hmmm…you know I actually don’t listen to all that many of the songs from it! My favorites are probably Spring Day, of course – I’d venture that it’s their best song – Lost, Begin, and Lie. And I have a soft spot for Cypher Pt. 4. Reflection is great but makes me sad to listen to, and though Yoongi is my bias First Love just isn’t my vibe.
Well, I guess we gotta remember where they’re coming from and how we got to where we are, then, all while helping ’em get up to being actually smarter. Thank God that we all got the potential to be smarter, yeah?
Oh yeah, I suddenly remembered the jokes about Spring Day, hahaha! Seriously, it’s really something for it to be that enduring on the charts in Korea, no? Meanwhile, aside from BST, what I particularly like from Wings/YNWA now are the Intro, Lie, Stigma, Reflection, Am I Wrong, Spring Day, and the Outro. I’ve also been gaining more appreciation for First Love lately. My faves from there were different before, actually.
Firstly, I’m sorry for not getting to respond to these before – life got a bit busy the past week.
That is quite true – everyone has to start somewhere! And God uses everything to pull us to Him if we’re receptive, so all we can do is pray and be on the lookout for His hand in things.
It is interesting that it endures on Korean charts. I’m not sure if it truly references the Sewol Ferry Incident but many people certainly think it does, which is more important when it comes to the effect it has on people.
And lyrically speaking I consider it their best song because it acknowledges life’s pain and even describes the extremes of emotion we feel toward someone we love who has left, but has at its core hope. Even if it’s an uncertain hope that is blind, and isn’t really sure what will happen, but lives and acts as if what it desires will eventually occur.
Just thinking about it and looking at the lyrics again and listening to it – I can’t express how much I love that song. I guess I’ll have to write a post about it.
Which ones did you like best initially? (Outro: Wings is an absolute *jam*, I love it too!)
Hey, it’s okay! You can’t be around here if you don’t work on IRL stuff, after all! Besides, this zone is just another part of real life, hahaha!
Ah man, I suddenly remember the bridge of “Spring Day,” and it’s definitely one of it’s shining points! But everything about it shining, so yeah, I guess those are more my personal impressions, hahaha! Also, I personally like the MV cut of the song, ’cause I can’t get enough of it with that extended outro!
Ah, I think I liked “MAMA” and “Awake” as well back then? The former now has me looking at Kanye West, though, as I think that “MAMA” interpolated “Hey Mama” and maybe even pretty much took a lot from the Late Registration Kanye sound, which uses a lot more samples ’cause Kanye, so yeah, pretty much an originality issue, I guess? As for the latter, I do like how the later parts soar, so maybe it’s just current me wishing that I felt like I’m floating or being magical with youth some more, like how I feel with another Jin’s tracks (“Mary no Kakuu Sekai” and “Wasureteshimatta Natsu no Owari ni”). Also, I think I liked “21st Century Girl,” “Not Today,” and “2! 3!,” though the first ended up sounding a little too cheesy and corny for me, the second ended up sounding more like a generic and wordy pre-asskicking one-liner, while the third…actually, I like how the rap line does their verses there, so maybe it’s the choruses that make it lack some enduring oomph for me now?
Huh, talk about my taste changing a lot, though…
Very true, very true! I guess IRL is just super stressful right now and in some ways, this blog is a way to help process. So I wish I had more energy to spend on it and the blogosphere ㅠㅠ But God will help me sort out things as He pleases – which is all I can ask for anyway! ^_^
The outro is the best! I wonder if they’ll release that cut someday, like they did the prologue version of Butterfly, which is by far my favorite version
Changes in one’s own taste are really some of the more surprising ones…at least for me! I’m like, when did that happen??
Ah, same! I guess all those struggles mean that we’re getting close to somewhere good, yeah? It’s just up to us if we wanna get to it or not, and if we do push for it, then God’s gonna be there for us, whatever happens!
At the very least, though, that cut’s up on the MV for peeps who wanna stream it again~
All it takes to figure that change progression out is some backtracking, and then we’re looking at ourselves like we’re applying Poe’s unity of singular effect, hahaha!
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