[Performance] 05 feb 2018

VIXX performed Wind of Starlight and Shangri la Remix on the opening of the 132nd International Olympic Committee session!

introducing: stray kids

oldest and youngest girl group members (for anon)  

He’s so perfect it hurts like please stop I kind of need to stay loyal rn

a cutie buried in sand

•Bts Memes

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blackpink for numéro tokyo magazine

pied piper by bts is predatory and pedophilic

TRIGGER WARNING! SEXUAL ASSAULT AND GENERALLY CREEPY SHIT!

hey babyz! so, i’m probably one of the younger fans here and i’m a fan of bts, but their new album ‘her’ has a song called pied piper that is extremely disgusting, and as a survivor of some shit, i can’t stay silent on this and i’m hoping that as a mature fandom (many of us are in uni/college) we can try and signal boost this and try to reach out to younger people to let them know that this, on so many levels is not okay.

http://bangtan.tumblr.com/post/165470000719/lyrics-eng-trans-pied-piper

the lyrics in pied piper start off by talking about a fan who analyzes music videos, has many posters in her room of the boys, and how they’re obsessed with them. they then go on to describe this song as the girl’s “reward” and calls them a “good girl”

then it proceeds to say “you aren’t being punished, come here” and talks about how she can’t close her eyes.

and then the real kicker: “you may struggle but it won’t matter anymore”

that, ladies and gentleman, is fucking sexual assault. they are literally describing about how they’re going to sexually assault the listener as a “reward” for being a “good girl” for obsessing over the band. 

a few lines later, they say they’ll save and ruin the fan and then “you’re the one who called me here, see how it’s sweet?”

so… the fan is asking for it? nice. good job, guys. great fucking lyrics. 

scroll a bit further down and 

“i am your guilty pleasure, you can never get out of this, never”

so um yeah. thanks bts. good to know how you see your fans and how you’re so fucking open about how you know you’re manipulating them and want to sexually torment them. and i wish i was exaggerating but i’m not. the lyrics are right there, that’s what they say and considering the first verse, the song is very fucking literal.

so yeah bts are highkey cancelled let’s not tolerate this shit and instead tell younger fans that this is really predatory and wrong because it is.

For the most part, I stay relatively quiet when it comes to things I find questionable or dislike, particularly within the kpop fandoms.

But I feel I cannot let this slide.

I would like to preface: I am not a BTS stan. I have listened to their music in the past. I have watched the occasional variety. But I have never found enough to pull me in to the fandom. So some may feel I do not have a place to come out and complain from

However

I am also an adult female with enough experience of ingrained misogynistic culture and rape culture to understand this is what these lyrics are based in.

They are not a simple ‘roast’ or ‘diss’ or ‘call out post’. They are not ‘sexy’. 

I have not heard the song. I do not want to. But these lyrics themselves stand alone to me as incredibly worrying. 

Please, please do not think these lyrics are remotely safe. They are not. Even if you don’t read them as sexual they are still highly manipulative and not even remotely ‘banterous’ or ‘playful’. When I read them I could practically hear the voice of an abuser saying them. I cannot stress enough that if anybody is making you feel victimised in this way it is not something to laugh at or be impressed by. 

Please be safe. 

I looked up the translation found here and umm lemme just add:

“I like it more because it’s bad”

“I’m knowingly drawn to you like the fruit on the tree of knowledge”

“Don’t reject me”

“I’m taking over you”

the fact that all of you are selectively using these lyrics to paint bts in a bad light says more about you than it does the rest of us.

“ Stop Let’s stop looking and and start studying for the exams Your parents and boss hate me The video clips you watched, various pictures and tweets Gotta watch V app I know that you like it, what do you do Stop it, you can analyze the movie later You already have plenty of my pictures in your room Not one hour, but a year or two flashes by This song is a reward I give you Good girl “

THESE LYRICS ARE ABOUT OBSESSIVE FAN CULTURE. the lyrics are literally just saying “please, if you are going to listen to us love yourself more than you love us, your love for us is unhealthy”.

pied piper is literally about leading children away from the village after he killed the rats because the adults did not acknowledge his service. he led them away because the adults did not deserve them, and gave them a better path to walk on.

i’m so fucking angry. as a survivor of both child on child sexual assault and as a victim of a pedophile (or two), your attempt at pushing this agenda onto bts is fucking horrid. 

IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS AND WHAT THEY ALLUDE TO, THEN YOU AREN’T GRASPING THAT BTS HAS ALWAYS MADE SOCIAL COMMENTARY. THIS IS NOT A PREDATORY SONG, THIS IS A SONG ABOUT OBSESSIVE FAN CULTURE. 

kids look up to idols and spend more time looking at what their idols do than other stuff. they skip work, school, exams just to catch up and keep up with their favs schedules.

no where in these lyrics are they alluding to sexual shit, they are saying that “we should be an enjoyable paradise as an escape, we should not rule your entire life, we need you to live so that we can continue our dream”. they need their fans to be happy, healthy and to take care of themselves.

they can’t keep sustaining their idols and supporting them when they have no education or job.

AMEN. YOU COULDN'T HAVE PUT IT BETTER.

Haters are only gonna shine light on parts that make their point more advantageous. BTS are clearly not supporters of rape or sexual assult in any way nor would they write about it in their album???? No one in their right mind would do so???

And ACTUALLY KNOW THE CONTEXT??? CONTEXT IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT THESE DAYS, JESUS CHRIST.

I want it, this love. I want it, real love.