#intro:serendipity

[scholarinbookland]

Jimin as a Method Actor

As a nerd, when I write a think-piece or analysis, I have to define my terms and goals for this piece to start out. My post is about how I think, while not trained in the Method, Jimin really embodies method acting in music videos and on stage.

Method Acting: Common to popular misconception, Method acting is not about being “in character” throughout the course of an acting project. Instead, an actor who uses “the Method” draws upon either past emotional memories or a deep analysis of a character’s motivations to embody the truths of the role that they are playing.

The Jimin quote that gave me this impression was when he told WeVerse Magazine in the interview dated 7/31/2021, “I never noticed before but the songs do sound different depending on what I’m wearing. Sometimes I danced all excitedly when I wore casual clothes, but when I wore a suit, something about the song sounded sexy. There’s a different vibe when I dance alone versus when I dance as part of a group, so I visualize how I should dress to make my dancing look cooler every time.” This response tells me that he uses costuming to get into character on stage, and it’s always a slightly different character that still fits with the theme of the story. There are several videos on YouTube comparing how he changes the vibe of GoGo, Boy With Love, and Dynamite among others depending on the styling. It’s a sort of “obvious in hindsight” thing that made me watch a lot of Jimin fancams and really look at the subtle differences he incorporates.

The whole interview is really interesting, especially coming from the puff-piece prone in-house magazine, because Jimin is very open about his process. He mentions earlier in the interview that he had to modify his process for the English trilogy, and that it was more difficult for him to dance to concept-less songs.

I’m paraphrasing, but he described the Butter dance as difficult to execute at first before he had to find the groove through amalgamating the approaches of other members to the song. The way he contrasted the two song groupings was interesting: previous songs and albums were “a concept” where he “wanted to show off something about myself in that context”; the English trilogy was based in “following the feeling of conveying the feelings I want to share with others”. In short, he struggled without enough storytelling in the dance to develop a character to embody on stage. In my book, that’s Method acting.

You even see it in RunBTS episodes. I think the production team of that show is aware of it, because he’s way more prone to acting whiny/silly and doing aegyo when he’s been styled really young or cutesy, and much more adult in his playfulness/mischief when dressed his age. It’s all in the way he holds himself, in my opinion. It also makes him a great model, because he can sell any outfit concept.

I think it’s also why his parts are generally the most-replayed in Music Videos, despite not being one of the two fandom-designated actors. Every time you see him in a music video, even if it’s a short part, he is firmly in character, defined by the song concept, album concept and the outfit in that scene. Look at LY:Her for example. There’s a clear difference between the Intro: Serendipity Jimin and the DNA Jimin, despite them being on the same album and sharing a common theme of idealistic, naive love. Serendipity is about the dreaminess of first love, expressed through the character of the Little Prince. In DNA his character is still dreamy at times, but overall resolving to convince a partner of your commitment and he is much more naturalistic (by which I mean less ethereal) in his portrayal of the DNA character.

He stars in Intro:Serendipity, playing a character that apparently Koreans compared to the Little Prince. It’s a French science fantasy novella (I read it as a pre-teen) about a child prince who learned life lessons as he travels across planets, eventually ending up on Earth and sharing his experiences with the narrator. The whole music video seems to be based upon that character and novella, and Jimin does a really good job of portraying a dreamy, slightly otherworldly feeling in that performance, including staying composed and calm while doing stunt work. Instead of relying on dance and costuming, here he is actually acting wordlessly as he lip-syncs to the camera, and he made an iconic piece of art. I love this music video.

In DNA he is one of the seven member cast, with four outfit changes and choreography to set the tone for the performance. He is almost entirely a supporting character in this music video, so I’m judging the four character variants purely on split-second vibes. Anyone reading this has seen the music video, so I’m calling the outfits sparkly jacket, white sweater with red stripe, yellow jacket, and navy heart shirt. In the sparkly jacket he has a slightly untouchable, suave vibe, in the white sweater he smirks a little, in the yellow jacket he’s dancing playfully and is a little bro-y in the non dancing couch scene, and in the heart shirt he’s back to a dreamy character like Serendipity but with an extra edge. I don’t even know if the differences are intentional or subconscious, but it’s deeply impressive and makes him a phenomenal dancer to watch on screen. I’m a ballet fan, so wordless character embodiment is a favorite medium of acting to watch.

If you go through all their music videos and focus on Jimin, he’s always doing this. He’s got an idea in his head about what his character is, how it relates to himself (see the above quote about how he approaches concepts), how his character interacts and plays off of the other members, and how the styling influences the character’s presentation. Even more impressively, it’s all in micro expressions, not overacted or very noticeable at first glance. In other words, he quietly plays his character in the background when not in focus, but takes over the scene when it’s his part.

He definitely leaned into this tendency in his solo work. He kept the sets and abrupt scene changes fairly minimal in his four solo music videos, with 3/4 having one set and Like Crazy having 5 interrelated sets (dreamy blue intro, house, club, bathroom, black set with couple) that tell a story. The reason I think so many of his fans, especially the ones who got into BTS pre-English trilogy, love his music videos so much is because of the deeply well-thought out storylines that influence the sets, costuming, and scene changes. I’ll probably follow this post up with a Like Crazy storyline MV analysis of my own, through the lens of what his character is portraying as opposed to declaring what he’s trying to say, but this is a long enough ramble as it is. But overall, I think that Jimin’s method acting ability is a important contributor to his IT factor that many fans overlook when trying to explain his stage presence.

[unstoppablepjm]

Lie has overtaken Intro:Serendipity!

Congratulations Jimin!

Lie now becomes the most streamed BTS solo song on Spotify after overtaking Intro:Serendipity

Continue to stream his solos using this link: bit.ly/jiminspotify 

Credit to:@PJM_data

[maddie1105]

Jimin's solo songs have surpassed 900M combined streams on Spotify.

He achieves this feat with:

▪︎Lie

▪︎intro:Serendipity

▪︎Serendipity Full Length

▪︎Filter

Congratulations Jimin!!!

[butterfly-child99]

Music Video Monday - BTS Intro:Serendipity

Music Video Monday - This week we are looking into BTS Intro:Serendipity. A truly visually stunning music video. #bts #parkjimin #serendipity #bangtan #musicvideomonday @bts_twt

Welcome to this weeks music video Monday! I have to talk about this video as it is one of my favourites. I cannot really out into words how it makes me feel, from the beautiful imagery, the Jimins silky smooth vocals, everything about it is just pure heaven.

“The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or…

[full-peach]

너는 나, 나는 너 설레는 만큼 많이 두려워 운명이 우릴 자꾸 질투해서 너만큼 나도 많이 무서워 When you see me When you touch me

- Intro:Serendipity♡

[triviuhtae]

💜 BTS tag game 💜

Tagged by: @jkstears 💘  

Rules: Answer the questions and tag more ARMY friends to play along

———————

1. First BTS Song?

either a live performance of Fire or Go Go, i can’t remember!!

2. First bias?

taehyung

3. Current Bias?

i double bias tae and namjoon

4. Put the members in order of your bias list

taehyung

namjoon

seokjin

hoseok

jimin, yoongi, jungkook (in no particular order)

5. Favourite BTS Song?

the truth untold, tear, cypher 2, 3, & 4, butterfly, singularity, dope  

6. Favourite BTS Song that is underrated?

outro:purpose, spine breaker, autumn leaves, lost, magic shop

7. Favourite Song of Wings?

(i literally love this whole album but i’ll only give three) stigma, intro:boy meets evil, reflection

8. Favourite Song of each LY Her, Tear and Answer?

HER: go go, intro:serendipity

TEAR: (again, i literally love this whole album but i’ll give myself five this time) intro:singularity, the truth untold, love maze, magic shop, outro:tear

ANSWER: trivia: just dance, love & seesaw, mic drop (steve aoki remix), airplane pt. 2, epiphany, i’m fine

9. Favourite Music Video?

run, i need u, spring day, fake love

10. Favourite Dancer?

hobi and jimin

11. Favourite Vocalist?

tae and jin

12. Favourite Rapper?

hobi (namjoon is really close tho)

13. Favourite hair color on each member?

joon: dirty blonde/light brown, dark brown

jin: blonde, black

yoongi: black, blue

hobi: RED, blonde, black/brown

jimin: blonde

taehyung: brown/black, blonde (@ mullet, come back from war)

jungkook: black, pink

14. Favourite Choreography?

go go, singularity, fire, war of hormone, N.O, spring day

15. Favourite Ship?

vmin, namjin, yoonmin, jikook, jinkook, 2seok, yoonseok (i don’t ship romantically tho)

——————— i’ve never done this tag but i thought it was cute! you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to uwu  I tag: @taenites @isthisatlantis @kkocheuromochi @agustdlovcult @caycypher @sjtual @koyasdad @joonieblossoms @softiejungkook @mccnhild

[king-langdon]

Listen,

I saw a post on Twitter that asked 'What's one song that reminds you of Cody and why?'

And I could not come up with one at ALL till now it finally hit me.

The song that reminds of Cody is Intro:Serendipity by BTS and the reason being that serendipity means 'the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way'

And we have Cody here by chance cause he could have easily stopped acting or could've given up but he didn't. The song is also just very ethereal like Cody.

Now what song reminds you of Cody and why?

[chaitea-photography]

BTS - Intro:Serendipity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMaH9Sm3lQ

[oceanwithinsblog]

[My edit; please don’t steal it]

“이 모든 건 우연이 아냐” 💛

Fandom: A.R.M.Y.

Character: Jimin

Song: Intro:Serendipity - BTS [Empty Arena Version]

[This is my very first quick edit related to 방탄💖  I don’t particularly like how it turned out to be, but I love the underlying message. I really don’t know what to say, so I’ll just go. 안녕하세요🍃 ]

[jooniessun]

🎵

1. Flume & Chet Faker - Drop the Game2. Mad Clown – Love Is a Dog From Hell (Feat. Suran)3. Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes4. BTS - Intro:Serendipity5. Halsey - Bad At Love

(my spotify library is a total trashcan how could it generate such a cool playlist idk 😂)

[wiiuremade]

tagged by @winngs love u 

Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs id like to get to know

•Gender : nb something

•Star sign : leo

•Height: around 157-9 cm

•Time : around 3 pm

•Birthday :  august 22

•Favorite bands : too many. bts nuest twice wanna one pentagon seventeen rv stray kids day6 pretty much all girl groups ever

•Favorite solo artist : iu, taeyeon, joo, sunmi, hyuna, hwang chiyeul, jessica, suzy and luna (some of these guys are part of groups but hey i love their solo music 2)

•Song stuck in my head : go go by bts is playing through my head 24/7

•Last movie I watched : goblet of fire with elena yesterday

•When did I create this blog : UM like 3-4 months ago?? 

•What do I post : aes, kpop, random posts about rice,

•Last thing I googled : why dont i have a gf

•Do I have other blogs : yes good luck finding them

• Do I get asks : sometimes!!! i love my anons

•Why did I choose my url : wiiu is my best url

•Following blogs : 500 ish

•Followers : almost 850!

•Avg hours of sleep : 5-7

•Lucky Number : 2 and anything with 2 in it

• How many blankets do I sleep with : 1 or 2! 

• Dream job : to be a strawberry

•Dream trip : i want to go to japan with my best friends!

•Favorite food : meat meat meat & meat

•Nationality : im a mixed canadian

•Favorite song now : intro:serendipity, awake, spring day & i loved you by day6

i tag @sunkyungs @eheart @jiminsgothbf @qentagon @loveg1rl @hyeonas @avyz and really anyone else that wants to do it!!

[yoonseoklance]

Im reading a klance thread on twitter while listening to BTS’s Intro:Serendipity on a loop 

and THAT is self care

[filattiera]

Park Jimin's all three solo songs: Lie, Intro:Serendipity and Serendipity (Full Length Edition) has made it into Official Chart’s Top 40 Most Streamed BTS songs in the UK

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#지민 #JIMIN #BTS @BTS_twt

[21sgirl]

whats your fav song from every bts album?

wait do u mean my fav bts song in general or my fav bts song from each album??/ listen im dumb but my fav songs from each album r:

2 cool 4 school : no more dream !!O!RUL8,2: coffee Skool luv affair: Tomorrow will forever b my fav also spine breaker i lovdark&wild: !!! let me know hyyh pt 1: outro: love is not over hold me tight hyyh pt 2:i can’t choose a fav one???? i lov them all so muchsksk but i lov butterfly n dead leaves wings: first love stigma mama her: intro:serendipity mic drop sea

[moon-mountain]

rules: list 10 songs you are currently vibing to and tag 10 people 

tagged by @02bts, thank you!

1. 잼잼 Jam Jam - IU

2. Intro:Serendipity - BTS

3. Gashina - Sunmi

4. Lost in Time - Survive Said The Prophet

5. Wonder Palette - TK from 凛として時雨

6. Crowded Houses cover/Don’t Dream It’s Over - Galileo Galilei

7. One More Day - Sistar

8. Drain Away - Dir en Grey

9. who is the Vehicular - Disparition

10. The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

[monoguk]

Hands down, I love «Intro:Serendipity»