#fireworks mv

[atiny-for-life]

Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Part 4

Masterlist

Fireworks (I'm The One) (Z-World)

It's rather unclear what exactly is going on here but I'll once again present my personal theory/headcanon which aligns best with the canon info we get from the Diary Entries laid out below:

The Black Pirates are in their hideout and have just woken up from passing the Cromer on to Ateez (as seen in Fever Part 1) and are now gearing up for a fight against the Android Guardians who they know are right on their asses - this is the part we get to see in the MV

Storyline wise, however, we can elaborate on the surrounding events through context clues:

The Black Pirates absolutely don't want the Cromer to fall into the hands of the central government so they chose to hide it with the only people they can trust to pick up where they're now forced to leave off: themselves - or in this case, the next best thing: themselves from another reality

I believe Hongjoong was able to hand over the Cromer without actively traveling to the A-World by utilizing the dreamscape - this could either be because a cosmic lunar event enhanced the Cromer's powers or because both parties are alternate versions of each other and happen to be extremely powerful dreamers which allow them to access a part of the Cromer's powers others cannot

Either way, they could hand over the Cromer successfully and managed to put a quite a fight against the Android Guardians, as we get to hear in the song The Leaders which directly follows this track

However, in the end, the Black Pirates are captured before Ateez's arrival in the Z-World as we'll find out below

Fever Part 2 Diary Entries:

The Diary Entries take place after the happenings of the MV.

Ateez arrive in the Z-World, specifically in the Black Pirates’ hideout after the Cromer teleported them there

They immediately get confronted by Android Guardians who're breaking down the hideout's door and are described as "giants dressed in white" who are "wearing masks that cover their entire face" and "did not feel like people"

The Guardians want to get their hands on the Cromer (which is Ateez's only ticket back home) so they put aside their confusion regarding their entire situation and focus on getting to safety

From Hongjoong's entry:

I had to protect the Cromer and the members at the same time, but that was more like a gamble.

Noticing a shard of glass under his foot, Hongjoong takes the Cromer from Yunho and tells the Guardians he'll hand them the Cromer right before he chucks the shard out the broken window and shouts for his members to run away while the Guardians are distracted by the piece of glass

Hongjoong's distraction bought them enough time to get away and Ateez get some time to explore the hideout's surroundings which San notes, are very similar to their own hideout's back home

From San's entry:

Visible spaces were similar to the reality we knew but were also slightly different. [...] By the time I was immersed in such thoughts, I could hear the members laughing. The members, who had been taking a break for a while, were playing with each other, relieved that the Cromer was safe.

Note: This is the only other time outside of Fever Part 1 where we get San mentioning "Bobo" - this time in regards to there being a place nearby back home where Wooyoung had saved Bobo. I can only assume it's some neighborhood kid, or maybe a street cat or something. He never explains it.

While they're all resting in the middle of the forest, the Android Guardians catch up to them and attack them once again

They manage to grab Wooyoung by the ankle and drag him away which makes the remaining members jump into action

During the resulting fight, the Guardians get their hands on the Cromer just as a small avalanche of stones catches them by surprise

Ateez are quick to rush toward the cave where they spot a girl who gestures for them to enter where they also met her brother - he introduces them as the Grimes siblings

Tired, all of Ateez are quick to fall asleep while the Grimes girl tends to Wooyoung's injured ankle

The Grimes boy explains his sister's voice was stolen by the Android Guardians who can remove a voice and turn it into what looks like a bead filled with blue energy

The boy also offers more information on the world they'd found themselves in, such as the AI simulations the government had run to establish new policies that would ensure their desired futures which resulted in the ban of the arts and the use of technology to lower the citizens ability to experience emotion

All that led to the appearance of the men in black fedoras who'd made it their mission to return the arts to their world (a mission that landed them on the Government's Wanted list)

From Seonghwa's entry:

[The Central Government] put the blame on human emotions for causing crimes and terrorism that threaten humanity and so the key to their policy was to control the variables called human emotions. [...] As those days continued, men wearing black fedora began to appear one day. They sang and performed here and there and that and that was said to have the power to attract people. Being stimulated by these men, people who escaped the control began to appear. People from various fields formed a resistance against the central government and called themselves the 'Black Pirates'.

Due to the Black Pirates' ability to teleport with the Cromer, they'd been able to evade capture for the longest time but, at last, thanks to the Android Guardians, they'd finally been arrested

Side-Note: The fact that the Grimes siblings know about this now, as well as later instances suggest that the Black Pirates were captured at least some time ago which implies instances of time travel correlated to the upward flow of the sand in the Cromer in the Fever Part 1 Diary Entries. I explain this in more detail here.

Ateez listen to the story but as Seonghwa describes, none of it matters - what matters is that they can't back home without the Cromer and that was now in the hands of the Android Guardians

Despite everything that's happening, Yeosang takes a moment to write a letter to his father (a letter he can never send) detailing how trapped he felt in the life his parents had planned for him and how, despite it all, he feels more free here in the Z-World than he ever did back home, simply because his own decisions had led him here and he was still with his friends

He also takes a moment to describe the people he'd seen in the city after they left the woods; he says they never look at each other or the sky, always rushing around like they're being chased, they never talk about anything but their needs, never smile when "unnecessary" and move as if they were machine controlled

From Yeosang's letter:

I thought that maybe this place is not a new world, but that I'm just taking a microscopic look at the world I was living in. Father, I know you were shocked to see me singing and dancing with these friends. But I really wanted to escape the world I've lived in, the world I've been trapped in. I love my parents so much but I have never been happy in your world.

He proceeds to detail a past event in which his father kicked them all out of the empty garage they'd been using as a hideout, forcing them to separate; this is likely the incident that caused all of Ateez to split up in the Outro of the Fever Part 1 Diary Entries

It made Yeosang feel like it was his fault, that meeting him was the reason all their happiness was taken from them and it made Yeosang resent his father

But he doesn't want to feel like that anymore - he still loves him but doesn't want to blame him anymore and because of that, he doesn't plan to return to the world his father has created

Thanks to Wooyoung's nosiness, they find out about a man named Left Eye and how his position as the manager of the Strictland dump gives him knowledge about the Android Guardians' bunker which they can use to break in and get back the Cromer; their only way back home

From Mingi's entry:

Thanks to nosy Wooyoung, we decided to find out the location of the Android bunker as well as regain the voice of the Grimes girl. That dude is always so unnecessarily nosy like that.

The wording heavily implies that Wooyoung was the one who asked why the Grimes girl never speaks and then proceeded to offer all of Ateez's help once they got her story; it's certainly in line with his personality and lines up with how him and Mingi became friends (see: Fever Part 1 Diary Entries)

They decide to split into 2 teams: one will track down Left Eye while the other will find the Grimes girl's voice

The team in search of Left Eye find him in the yellow hallucination inducing fumes of the Strictland dump, mumbling to himself

(Side-note: We first get to see Left Eye on-screen in the Guerrilla MV and Teasers

Meanwhile, in search of the Grimes girl's voice, Jongho ties a rope around his waist, puts on a gas mask and enters a cave filled with toxic fumes

Inside, his old basketball rolls toward him and a game begins

While Jongho is trapped in his own hallucination, Yunho is facing down Left Eye

Here, we learn about Left Eye's background as a fashion designer who was repeatedly denied opportunities due to his unfriendly appearance

Regardless, he was known as a warm person with a passion up until he lost his daughter who got hit by a car when she tried to safe a flower that had bloomed on the roadside

From Yunho's entry:

People thought moving forward quickly was more important than looking around. Even after seeing the child on the street after getting hit by the car, people were busy passing by, pretending not to have seen anything. During that time, the child died slowly.

When Left Eye learned about this, he changed and shortly after, he saw the hallucination of his daughter in the Strictland dump fumes for the first time

And it was while wandering through those fumes, that the Android Guardians selected him as its manager

The story makes Yunho think of his brother and, instead of only seeking information about the Android Bunker which houses the Cromer, he now also wants to help Left Eye

This means luring him away from the fumes and making him realize the fumes were only showing him an illusion of his daughter

Back by the cave, with Jongho trapped in the illusion of the game, Yeosang gets increasingly worried and decides to put on his own mask and enters the cave to check on him, only to find him running straight toward a cliff

While that's going down, Yunho manages to lure Left Eye away from the fumes, but once freed from the hallucination, Left Eye gets furious

Everyone was unsure what to do but then Yunho shouted amid the silence. "Your daughter is dead!" Everyone looked at Yunho in surprise. "You're denying it because you don't want to believe it, but aren't you already aware of the truth?"

It only made Left Eye swing a big bat at Yunho

The entries end here.

[flops]

&TEAM FIREWORK

[ambivartence]

My top songs (of the first half) of 2023 ✦ Boys Planet edition ✦

tagged by @lunetual @jikyu @leewonseo @lee-minhoe ty 💕

I've listened to over 300 new releases from over 100 different kpop artists this year so picking my top songs felt like an mnet-level survival show 😭 the irony that i never watched Boys Planet AND one of the songs is literally a Peak Time song is not lost on me ! 🙃 but i wanted to pick a trendy format so here we are 😈 anyways i included albums instead of songs that didn't make the cut since there's too many honorable mention songs that i have had on repeat this year 😭 but most of them are in these 22 albums (oo-li is on here twice and istj isn't out yet !)

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[woosansang]

seonghwa vs wooyoung ♡ ult bias collaboration with @hwanswerland​ ↳ day 1 :: music video

[miss-floral-thief]

Corvus and the Dramatic Chase

[natsmagi]

manifesting switch group hug for the climax 5* unbloomed 🙏🙏

ME TOOOOOOOOOOOO!! at LEAST give us a super cute cameo please its all i ask...............

i was 100% prepared to go for 5 copies of the 5* but seeing it was the usual valentines day recolor of the unit outfits im a little less sure, even though i do think the little add-ons and gradients are adorable.......... but if it has an even MORE adorable unbloomed its a sealed deal

[aricastmblr]

지민 (Jimin) MV oficial de 'Closer Than This' & JMJK fuegos artificiales

[thekendallkathryn]

❤️‍🔥 runnin' too hot! ❤️‍🔥

[kpopmultifan]

[J-Pop] &TEAM has released the performance MV for "Firework (Korean Version)," the title track of their EP “First Howling: WE."

[Apple Music/iTunes] [Spotify] [YouTube Music]

[igiveyoumyblood]

‘FIREWORK’MV First Reactions

It’s here, baby! Werewolf comeback!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!

Please let me preface this with the fact that,a lthough I love &TEAM and their concept and watched a bit of the survival show, I don’t know the members yet... expect for K, who other than the concept was the main reason I was interested in this group. I will do my best, but there might just be some ‘ahh yes this guy is doing this, this other guy is doing something else’ in this post. 

My apologies to Lune who know everyone. I would appreciate any tips you can give me. 

As with Bite Me, I was deeply disappointed by the lack of vampire content in this release, but I was happy with the amount of werewolf content.

This music video had a bizarre tone, though - it had the obvious serious and carefree moments of youth and werewolfhood, and that girl was back again - something that I appreciate because she links ENHYPEN and &TEAM. But I could not take the MV seriously when there were all of those shots of her just looking down at them dancing and them seriously dancing while looking up at her. I could not stop cackling - but I’ll point those moments out late, iof they didn’t stand out to you. 

Alright, let’s get into it!

Lyrics

The song is pretty self-explanatory in name. It’s about those moments of youth where you stay out, late at night, together and watch the stars. I don’t really know if those moments exist often in real life, or if they are a figment of fanfiction and coming-of-age movies, but that’s a good chunk of the content of this song. It also has the nice little moments of falling in love that feel like fireworks... literally. 

And there are the mandatory supernatural storyline mentions of magic and stars, and the mandatory werewolf mention of running towards your goal. A suspiscious lack of moon imagery. 

They’re relatively plain and cliche lyrics, but this is when I remind you that, not only are cliches cliche for a reason, but also that werewolves as mystical heroes rather than monsters is a relatively new idea, and is only considered cliche and cringey because it became so popular in the Twilight era. So, let’s just say that the lyrics got the job done quite well, if in a boring way.

The MV

I love the room and the grainy filter they’ve put over the top. I hope this room isn’t supposed to contain 9 werewolf boys because that could create several issues. 

I’m sure there are lots of references to the previous MV and to the webtoon. I ain’t paying for the webtoon (yet), so I don’t know those references other than the girl who shows up later, but I do know that the photos, calendars, and balloons remind me of the MV for ‘Under the Skin’- which had a Y2K theme and which focused on both time passing and a new chapter of life - literally, since K lost his mentor (?) but gained a group of friends. 

And, there is of course the two high schools that the ENHYPEN and &TEAM members go to - I’m unsure how 25 year old K and 21 year old Heeseung (not to mention the other members in their 20s) got into these high schools.`But good on them, I guess.

I also have never really understood the obsession with having idols lying around asleep - the only time it’s made sense is if they’re in some weird dream state - like in TXT or ATEEZ’s storylines. And I’m prettty sure they aren’t in one here. 

Anyway....

I love the unsubtle werewolf representation here. It’s also great because it has the running - which is both a werewolf thing and part of the lyrics. 

However, with the grain, the fog, and the backlight, it really reminds me of Teen Wolf. And I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.

Not sure how or why the girl ended up with a gun but good on her.

However, we then end up with her chasing then on a bike, which definitely gives a sinister tone to the rest of the MV and to the previous shot of them running (which I initially assumed was joyful).

It’s also our first hint of the funky nonlinear aspects of this MV.

And the girl is pictured in warm light - like the sun, and like ENHYPEN. Which makes sense, since she, from my viewing of the MVs and related materials, seems to be affiliated with ENHYPEN, or at least with Sunghoon. 

We get these flashabacks to happy memories of the boys and this girl, which is depressing in the hindsight of what we’ve just seen.

I love this shot. It’s short and snappy but obvious enough to get the point across. He’s against the red - ENHYPEN’s domain which the girl exists in. The gunshot looks like a firework, which was initially the joy of love and the times they spent together, but which now betrays him. 

This kind of cinematography and symbolism is one of the main reasons I follow kpop. 

Because yeah, they’re a jpop group but they’re run by a kpop company in the style of a kpop group.

And we get a nice flashback of what I assume is a party on the beach.

And of course boys being boys at the beach. 

And teenage shennanagins. Is this flower supposed to be a dandelion? in which case - I looked it up, and a dandelion is apparently a symbol of hope and healing. So, since it’s being dropped we can reasonably assume that those things are now gone. 

Here we have the happy fireworks.

And here some not-so-happy fireworks/lights.

Lmao I love how everyone’s just looking cool.

The pyjamas the boys are in also suggest that they are out  of their element and have been suddely disturbed from sleep - you know, by something like someone trying to murder you?

Cute memory with the flowers. And related to the &TEAM theme of collecting and preserving memories.

Dang he’s got a lot of memories. 

And this is where I let everyone know that this is only the first 30 seconds of the MV.

FRECKLES.

Lune who are better than me, who is this member?

Okay these flowers are different from the one that was dropped, but nonetheless bring us into the world of memories. This makes me think that the vampires have powers like teleportation and flight, while the werewolves have powers like telepathy and literally being able to store and protect memories. A very interesting concept, if it’s what HYBE are going for.

Here we have the hands connecting - the opposite of them coming apart earlier, and a reflection of when K met the boys in ‘Under the Skin.’

Nevermind the werewolves can fly too it seems.

Just wolf things.

And notepad - a way to store memories!

Thy literally have every way possible to store memories - cameras, photos, albums, notes, calendars, balloons and mementos. I love it.

This is the scene I can’t take seriously. I love that she is passively observing them, and that they are showing their passion. I also love that the ground has been turned into mud - presumably by the mist and damp, and by them dancing so much. But I can’t take it seriously that they’re all possibly fighting for the love of this girl, and fighting against vampires, and the way they do this is to dance together in a group while giving her a dramatic stare. I literally had to pause the video and take a break to laugh when I first saw this.

Second-hand embarrassment, I guess.

Anyway I’m glad they had fun.

I like that she smiles while dropping the flower - showing that she destroys their hope and love knowingly - but that whoever it was that dropped it out of the members was limp and without hope - she made him drop it.

Also love the creepy subtlety of her plucking a petal.

I’m not entirely sure what the purpose of this scene is, but I love that they’re in their pretigious high school eating their food and there’s just... a wolf. 

Memories!!!!!

And we enter the memories! Which are basically the embodiment of youth.

Epic transition that;

Looks nice

Is more than a little sinister

FIRE

Warm tones aka vampires

Brings us back into the memories

Is done in an easy way to understand despite being so fast

Nice.

I see that your life is a tad tangled, K. That’s unfortunate.

He’s got brithday cake trauma. 

Mandatory wolves having fun scene.

Mandatory sports scene since they play sports. And nice imagery of them fighting for the ball (aka the girl).

Wolves being wolves.

Haha you did this to yourselves, what are you so upset about?

I also  like the contrast of the happier meadow scene and the darker, grittier fight/sports match. And how, while fighting each other, they managed to lose the girl. 

Mandatory &TEAM water scene.

Mandatory being sad and reflecting on the past scene. But why would you bend the memory - you’re supposed to protect it?

Okay first, it’s a beautiful shot.

Second - you know what I said about them preserving memories in many different ways? They literally brought the flowers home!

Okay, that’s creepy. And it’s creepy not only because it defies gravity, but also because, since it defies gravity, it seems like it has been sucked from him - like a piece of his soul. And you know what sucks people’s souls out? Vampires.

I love the transition from the murder fireworks to the happy fireworks.

And now everyone gets to be sad because they were betrayed and are being hunted.

NOOOOO who made freckle boy cry????

And more happy firework foreshadowing... even though the things that it foreshadowed already happened in the MV.

Gosh I love nonlinear narratives.

Honestly still a little bit confused about the sleeping. There are a few possibilities -  that they are kind of dead after the events of the actual MV, and that the sleeping is a representation of that, or that the girl has lulled them into this state of vulnerability, which is why she approaches slowly and with her hands behind her back - a show of dishonesty. 

I see an exposed neck that would be perfect for a vampire to sink their fangs into.

Wonderful shot, very woolfy. I’m just not sure why the music cut out so suddenly when the video did - I’m sure they did it on purpose but it doesn’t communicate much and seems like a mistake.

Anyway.

Conclusions

It seems to me that the &TEAM storyline is kind of like a K angst-fest. 

The MV had a sad lack of vampires, although it did allude to them wonderfully. It did a great job of telling a heart-wrenching nonlinear story, and had lots of great moments. The only thing that I felt was out of place was when they danced while staring at her. Other than that, a top-tier MV with simple but effective storytelling. 

And werewolves whose mission is to store a  preserve memories of all forms is a unique take on the genre which I hope that HYBE will continue to lean into. 

[sopekooks]

every month of 2022!

link your favorite and/or most popular post(s) of each month this year and tag some CCs you love!

i was tagged by @raplinenthusiasts​ ♡︎ @rumue​ ♡︎ @sevencoloredstar​ ♡︎ @jiniekook​ 

january - most popular/favorite: ginger yoongi

february - most popular/favorite: flower crown yoongi

march - most popular/favorite: yoongi in a “flower field”

april -  most popular/favorite: yoongi in a suit

may - most popular/favorite: dior yoongi

june - most popular: paint yoongi favorite: prince yoongi

july - most popular/favorite: puma ad yoongi 

august - most popular: fairy yoongi favorite: yoongi’s hair colors

september - most popular/favorite: winter hobi

october - most popular/favorite: astronaut jin 

november - most popular: bucket hat yoongi favorite: cotton candy jimin

december - most popular: pink yoongi favorite: honey boy yoongi

tagging: @yooboobies ♡ @yoonjinns ♡ @jinstronaut ♡ @yoonqiful ♡ @eggjinnie ♡ @userhobi ♡ @rkivedfiles ♡ @anpanmann ♡ @kimtaegis ♡ @itsallaboutzayn ♡ @usertae & everyone who wants to go this!

[atiny-for-life]

Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Update!

First of all: thank you to everyone who's been leaving likes and reblogs and stuff on everything I posted three days ago - I hope my guide has been helpful to some of you.

As I was copying everything into a notebook for the sake of keeping a physical copy for myself that wasn't just messy notes (cuz I'm paranoid and like to keep a backup in case I lose access to my Tumblr account), I think I figured out the Fireworks MV!

This has no impact on the storyline as all the important bits are covered in the Fever Part 2 Diary Version but it's just nice to know what storybeats are actually being visualized in the MVs imo.

I made sure to update the original post as to not fuck up the links in my masterlist but here's the excerpt for anyone who's interested:

Fireworks (Z-Dimension)

the Black Pirates are in their hideout and about to pass the Cromer on to Ateez (or they’ve just woken up from doing so) because they know the Android Guardians are right on their asses - this would explain why they’re gathering weapons

they refuse to be captured without putting up a fight and they certainly won’t hand the Cromer to the central government, even if they do get captured so they hide it with the only people they can trust: themselves - or in this case, the next best thing: themselves from another dimension

in the end, their fears are confirmed when an Android Guardian shows up at the hideout as we can see at the end of the MV

Storyline Masterlist (Reminder as I've been seeing people confused in the tag recently: the storyline goes Fever Series - Treasure Series - Movement Series - it alles makes sense when you go in this order as long as you take the albums' diary entries into consideration.)

[candescentkpop]

The whole town is dancing red

Ateez: 불놀이야 (I’m the one)

Ateez Part 38 / ∞

[eerie-asterisks]

11 & 16

had to look through these with very serious consideration because i already know most of these things about you.. the beauty of friendship moment ♡

awawawawa really?????? yaaaaaay for friendship!!!!!!!!! <3333

11. do you have a least favorite character?

ok i know i call natsume my biggest enemy all the time but i dont actually hate him.... if i had to pick id prooobably say sena tbh hes just never been particularly appealing to me.....

16. what is your favorite underrated ship?

does rinneshu count as underrated because i love rinneshu theyre one of my favourite ships overall..... im also a fan of kohiiai, mitsutomo and adoniki!!!!! and after midoyuzu beat ibayuzu in the ship polls i dont know if they count as underrated anymore but i still love them a lot lot lot <3

[sanstropfremir]

I have no idea what is going on with Ateez's latest comeback but I'm enjoying trying to *insert that meme of red string conspiracy board* figure out all this marketing. Like the physical posters that are up and people who went to the pre-recording for the utopia performance getting airdropped a qr code that also was up on socials before being deleted which linked to an audio file? I usually have minimal energy for storylines but kudos to the creative department for sticking with their theme

the kq marketing+creative teams are so dedicated, i admire them so much even though i don't care about the lore. i'm also pretty certain that the video that went up today was qr coded on posters that were put up during their europe tour bc i remember watching it on an unlisted channel a couple of months ago. also the voiceover from the video is the same one from the rhythm ta kingdom stage but i'm sure we all got that one right away. they're really going all in for this comeback and i'm pretty excited for it even though the lore doesn't matter to me. tbh it's a really good example of using lore as a marketing tactic to drum up interest but in a way that doesn't require you to know anything about it at the same time

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Spoilers

Title: Lose You To Love Me

Editor: Vichima

Song: Lose You to Love Me

Artist: Selena Gomez

Anime: Orange, Fireworks (film), Violet Evergarden, AnoHana, Sankarea, Kuzu no Honkai

Category: Drama