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BTS Nirvana Theory
Warning: Photobook Pictures + long post ahead
So basically I was having some crazy ideas while waiting for my album to arrive and I just decided to make a post about them. I know that I am not a major blog, but I just wished to share my ideas with you guys! And I do apoloogise for the crappy pictures of the photobook, the light in my house is really bad.
During the Prologue we can see that Namjoon is wearing a T-shirt of the grunge American band Nirvana. At first I thought it was just a random choice of clothes, but during the RUN MV Taehyung is also wearing a Nirvana T-shirt.
We can also see references to the band in the Photobook, where the names of three of their most famous songs are written in its pages. I put in this post the parts of the lyrics of each song that I thought to be relevant to the storyline, as well as the other songs from the album that fitted the concept.
Smells like Teen Spirit:
“I’m worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end”
We can relate this passage with the fact that their group is a group of marginal boys, they don’t fit, and they are always going against what is expected. This can be seen when Taehyung and Namjoon are spraying graffiti on the walls, getting arrested, and when the boys stopped the traffic in the tunnel and vandalized the cars.
In Bloom:
“He’s the one who likes
All the pretty songs and he
Likes to sing along and he
Likes to shoot his gun but he
Don’t know what it means
Don’t know what it means
When I say
Yeah”.
So this song I even had to ask my mom’s help as she is a Nirvana fan because I couldn’t picture what the song itself was about. But we got to the conclusion that it is about a guy that paints himself as being a good person, a good friend, but he actually is not. He is reckless and drags people with him without realizing the consequences of it. It could be about Namjoon dragging the boys with him to the marginal life, especially Taehyung.
Something in The Way:
“Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak .
And the animals I’ve trapped
They have all become my pets.”
The connection I can make is Namjoon being the bad guy and attracting the boys to do bad things with him, having now pets. As for the bridge part, all the boys are gathered under a bridge towards the end of I NEED U. And honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the same bridge that Hoseok was seen feeling the effects of his overdose.
On a plain:
“My mother died every night
It’s safe to say don’t quote me on that
Love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong, so what should I do?
The black sheep got blackmailed again
Forgot to put on the zip code
Love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong, so what should I do?”
For this song, I think the focus is on the fact that Taehyung is starting to realize the bad influence Namjoon is but he is so deeply into it that he doesn’t know how to get out anymore. We also need to mention that the part “My mother died every night It’s safe to say don’t quote me on that” can be related to the fact that Taehyung’s mom was abuses by his father, and that he didn’t use to do anything about it.
Come as you are:
“Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don’t be late
Take a rest as a friend as an old memory.
Memory, memory, memory.”
What I’m going to say now is risky, but I’ll develop it anyway. I think this part might be related to how Jin sees Namjoon after he left the group, taking into account that the theory of Namjoon being the Grim Reaper made by @taetaetown I love your theories is right. Now that he has matured he realizes what a poison Namjoon was to him, making him do wrong stuff with him, as graffiti. But he also sees him as someone that made him grow up, therefore Jin considers him as an old friend, a memory.
Lithium:
“I’m so happy ‘cause today
I’ve found my friends …
They’re in my head I’m so ugly, but that’s okay, ‘cause so are you …
We broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care …
And I’m not scared
Light my candles, in a daze
'Cause I’ve found God yeah yeah yeah (x6)”
Honestly when I saw the lyrics of this song I was like *holy shit what have you done big hit*. For Lithium I think it is connected to the fact that Jin re-live his most precious moments with his friends, which are now all dead -after they all committed suicide in the I NEED U MV. The phrase “We broke our mirrors” refers to the boys stopping their lives, as mirrors can represent the spiritual mirror. I was doing some research and I found that “Spiritual Mirror Truthfully reflect the Consequences of our actions along with the Karmic rewards, or punishments, which the consequences of our actions have brought upon us.” So it could be the case that the boys killed themselves because of the burdens of their lives. Jin also committed suicide, probably drowning himself with the car in the Prologue. This could be because he felt guilty that all his friends died. The phrase that makes me believe that he killed himself in the end is “Light my candles, in a daze 'Cause I’ve found God”. This shows that he has now met God, he died. Therefore, others can light the candles of his funeral.
Besides the name of the songs and their lyrics I spotted two curiosities:
1. Nirvana is also a known term of Buddhism. I was researching and I found that “In the spiritual sense, nirvana (or nibbanain Pali) is an ancient Sanskrit word that means something like 'to extinguish’, with the connotation of extinguishing a flame.” and “Buddha used the word nirvana to mean 'liberation’ or 'unbinding’. So nirvana is liberation, but liberation from what? The standard answer is 'samsara’, which usually is defined as the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.”
2. The name of the album where all the referred songs are from is called Nevermind, which is also the title of The Most Beautiful Moment in Life pt.2 Intro
solar striking back
you have been blessed by the christmas chan
like and reblog and you will prosper from the blessings of the great jackie
won’t even risk it.
I like this one best because there’s no threat to not reblogging it so even if you don’t there’s no worries but if you do then you’re gonna have an even better time.
I’ve been waiting all year to reblog this.
hello everyone! its finally time to announce the winners of my tumblr awards!
THE WINNERS ARE:
Best BTS URL: @raplined
Best Taehyung URL: @justonetae
Best Jungkook URL: @omgjeongguk
Best Namjoon URL: @rapmonclub
Best Jin URL: @seokgym
Best Hoseok URL: @hobiscuits
Best Jimin URL: @jiminstantnoodles
Best Yoongi URL: @minyoon
Best Overall Blog: @junghoseo-k
Best Posts: @papihoseok
Best Gif Maker: @justonetae (x)
Best Graphic Maker: @mellekook (x)
Best BTS Pastel Blog: @taekookmp4
Best Pastel Edits: @soysuga (x)
Funniest Blogger: @sngkwans
Best AU: @bts-scenaarios (x)
Best Scenario Blog/Writing Blog: @infires-by-bts (x)
Edit of The Year: @ilsan-flower (x)
Blog of The Year: @cowjimin
thank you to everyone who participated and i hope everyone has a happy holiday season and a good new year!
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“I’ll say we’re like a transformer” - solar
whens ur birthday??
may 30th like ailee and yoona :)
anyways i wish jimin hadn’t debuted as the “boy with the abs” bc tbh i feel like now he’s always gonna have the pressure to keep them and honestly he deserves better reblog if you support jimin with a little tummy
Swegmaster Kim Seokjin bout’ fuck shit up
you know those people who are just luminous, like they’re so beautiful and everything they do is endearing and all you can do is stare and hope that some of their light hits you someday. maybe it’s not even romantic but they’re just such people, they’re humans, and they’re so beautiful that you cannot make yourself look away
his hair is so cute :3
I just tweeted it and I figure I should also post it here.
This website literally GRADES YOUR ESSAYS. You can choose your grade level, if you’re using American or British english, what type of paper it is (essay, short story, biography…), and it even checks for plagiarism. THEN once it’s grading your essay, it shows you grammatical errors, suggestions for better sentence structure, and a lot of other things. Reblog to save a life.
sometimes i feel sad but then i remember that park jimin exists