Big Bang Discuss Loser and Bae Bae
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On Loser:
Q: What is the message of your new song “Loser”?
G-Dragon: When we first started working on the song, we only had the hook/chorus. In the beginning, the title of the song wasn’t even “Loser”; the whole song actually had a whole different theme to it. At some point, the song was just another typical love-themed track. Since, however, it was a song that we were releasing after many years, we thought that maybe we could change the theme to something that the mass public could relate to. We thought that if we wrote the song as relevant to the public’s own personal experiences, when they look at us, maybe they would see us in a different way with many different emotions. We thought that maybe the song could give strength to the public.
To many people, we may just look like really successful kids who live a nice life and we are pretty successful for people our age — it’s all true, but what they see on the outside of our skin is not what we feel inside. Inside all of us, we have an underlying sadness and loneliness. For example, we perform for nearly 50,000 people at Tokyo Dome for several days, but every night after the concert is over, we all just go into our hotel rooms and stay inside alone. We have that sense of emptiness inside of us. I know many people who will hear me saying this will all just say that I am only making up excuses and empty complaints [we don’t have a perfect life], but we really do feel that way. We wanted to make a song that the public could listen to and think, “Oh, those kids aren’t any different from us… they’re just like all of us – they have their own pain.” The song may sound like we are just trying to make ourselves feel better, but we wrote it to try to represent the 20s age group from a loser’s point of view.
Taeyang: Many people think of us as celebrities who got big and succeeded at a very young age, but if you watch our music video for “Loser”, you would know that we suffer through loneliness in areas that the public has no idea about. We are lonely inside of us in parts that others don’t feel or realize.
G-Dragon: All people have the tendency to think that they are winners in what they are most confident about and vice versa, they don’t feel like winners in areas that they are not confident in. We may look like we have everything and we may look like we don’t have a single flaw in our lives, but the emotions we feel on the inside of ourselves is what we transferred into “Loser” as a message to the youth. We [Big Bang members] have an unspeakable pain and loneliness inside of us. The bigger and more well-known we get as a group, the bigger the pressure and burden. None of us are the type to show those true emotions, so we borrowed the strength of music to express those feelings to the public.
On Bae Bae:
G-Dragon, T.O.P, Taeyang, Seungri, and Daesung raised eyebrows online with the release of their “Bae Bae” music video. It was unusual in many ways, and -- as American music magazine Billboard put it, represented Big Bang’s “sexual peak.” In a conversation with reporters at the Conrad Hotel in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul on Monday, Big Bang talked about the creation of the buzz-creating video.
“We wanted to make something unusual, something that people would find fun, something that made you feel like you were going to a different world,” said leader G-Dragon. “We paid a lot of attention to details in each scene. We wanted to make a video that could be experienced differently very time you watch it.”
As for his part in the video, G-Dragon said, “My character embodies unrequited love. He falls in love with a girl, but can’t get himself to talk to her. You see a lot of girls in my scene, but they’re all mannequins. And his ideal is represented as an angel. He can’t actually talk to her in person, but has a lot of passion.”
T.O.P, who arguably has the most unusual persona in the video, said that he was inspired by Jack Nicholson’s acting. “I wanted to create a new, crazy character. It’s a character that makes you laugh,” he said.
He also explained the fake eye, saying, “The character is fundamentally pure at heart. The eye represents something that the character is lacking in his life. He’s lacking something, and that’s why he’s singing those lyrics.”
The music video had a deeper significance for Daesung, who said he felt the character reflected his true personality. “I’m on a deserted island, but I’m wearing these flashy clothes,” he said. “The director actually came up with the concept for me, but it fits me.”
“I like being alone, and thinking to myself. I can relate to someone who’s on a deserted island alone, in the middle of the vast sea. The flashy clothes, meanwhile, represent who I am when I’m working,” he explained.
G-Dragon, who said he visited the set for Daesung’s scene, commented that he thought Daesung seemed like a “modern, sexy Little Prince.”
“He looked like a boy, who had grown up trapped alone in his own little world,” he said.
Meanwhile, Taeyang said, “I just thought it would be funny if I appeared on a horse. The concept was one of those sexy guys in an old Western movie. In the video, I appear riding a horse through the desert. A girl appears to me like a mirage, and in the end we ride off somewhere.” He added, “While Jiyong’s (G-Dragon) scene has a lot of pink and blue lighting, I wanted to have a more classic-looking scene, filled with the hot sun.”
The video was a victory for Seungri. “Finally, I get to shine visually in this video!” he joked. “My part is the bridge, when there’s no beat and it’s just a quiet guitar. You see me holding a match. I wanted to express the fear of losing someone you love, represented by the fire on the match.”
The video also shows all five members frolicking together in the moonlight, dressed in hanbok, or traditional Korean garb. “It’s an ‘ancestor’ concept,” said T.O.P, laughing.
About that scene, Taeyang also said, “There was a distinctly Korean taste to the ‘Bae Bae’ music video, so I was curious about what people overseas would think.”
“I watched some of the reaction videos, and everyone seemed to like it. It was interesting. They seemed to have a kind of culture shock,” he said.
Sources: Star News, trans via @big_seunghyun 1, 2 | The Korea Herald
Oh lord, YB watching reaction videos
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Date: 2015-05-04 08:05 pm (UTC)lmao taeyang pls, omg imagine all the reaction vids he watched
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Date: 2015-05-04 08:29 pm (UTC)and lol at them watching reaction videos. i could never. so much second hand embarrassment could kill me
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Date: 2015-05-04 08:34 pm (UTC)okay, i laughed out loud at that, haha
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Date: 2015-05-04 09:27 pm (UTC)T.O.P. ... saying: "The character is fundamentally pure at heart."
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Date: 2015-05-05 09:21 am (UTC)You can order icons whenever you want (even non BB ones)
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Date: 2015-05-04 09:55 pm (UTC)Tabi is trolling...you were very obvious about what your character was doing
Seungri did shine...work it
And the gisaeng scene being an "ancestor concept"...Tabi totally suggested it
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Date: 2015-05-04 11:07 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, Taeyang said, “I just thought it would be funny if I appeared on a horse.
I lmao. This is why I love him. IT WORKED, Taeyang. I really appreciated you channeling your inner Billy Ray.
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Date: 2015-05-05 02:42 pm (UTC)“I just thought it would be funny if I appeared on a horse."
I LAUGHED