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Early Access: LE SSERAFIM - E, P, B (Patreon)

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2023-06-25 19:04:48
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Here's our reaction to LE SSERAFIM's Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard's wife (MV)!

We loveeee LE SSERAFIM and we frequently listen to their music off camera, so this was a pleasure to react to their newest song on camera to share our raw, unfiltered thoughts with you all :)

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Musicians react & review ♡ LE SSERAFIM - Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s wife (MV)

The title alone made us click. This is our first time reaction to LE SSERAFIM's newest song, Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s wife, and wow! This song was a hell of a dance party - the dance, the synth, the trance sound, and of course, LE SSERAFIM themselves dominating the screen with their powerful presence. We always listen to LE SSERAFIM's songs off camera (latest being the 'unforgiven', but also 'anti-fragile', and their other earlier songs) and we thought we HAVE to react to this crazy titled track on camera. And we were not disappointed. Hope y'all will enjoy this fun little dissection, and like we say in the video, if you wish to support our channel, and get access to other extra contents, considering supporting us on our patreon page at http://patreon.com/handsomesausages !! Kpop producers and singer-songwriters react to LE SSERAFIM's Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard's wife (MV). Enjoy! Sound at http://soundcloud.com/hsausages Follow us on IG: @handsomesausages Timestamp 0:00 - Intro 2:13 - Reaction 6:04 - Initial Thoughts 7:07 - Vocal style & Rhythm 7:46 - Choreography 8:06 - Outfits 8:34 - Audiovisual Experience 10:00 - Lyrics 11:10 - LESSERAFIM LET'S GETIT 12:03 - SHOUTOUT #lesserafim #evepsycheandthebluebeardswife #kpopreaction

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Amazing song! Just started listening to them and they’re in constant rotation now ❤️

sysrae

MY TIME HAS COME [cracks knuckles] This is going to be a long comment, and I'm going to start with a very truncated explanation of Psyche, as you guys asked about it, because otherwise the subsequent commentary won't make any sense. So: In Greek myth, Psyche is the third daughter of a king and so beautiful that she rivals the goddess Aphrodite. Being jealous, the goddess naturally takes offence at this and sends her son Eros, whose arrows can cause anyone they prick to fall in love with whoever they next see, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. However, when Eros beholds the sleeping Psyche, he accidentally pricks himself on his own arrow and falls in love with her. Unaware of this, her parents - who cannot find her a suitor, as all men who see her are content to worship her instead - consult the oracle at Delphi, who tells them the girl is doomed and must be carried away to be left for a monster to eat. They obey and Psyche is taken, but no monster appears, and she falls asleep. Instead, at the behest of Eros, the god of the east wind, Zephyrus, carries Psyche away to Eros's palace. When she wakes, an invisible voice tells her that the beautiful palace and everything in it belongs to her husband, and she can use whatever she wants, but must never seek to look upon his face. She obeys for a time, but when Eros (still invisible) allows her to invite her sisters to visit, so they know she's still alive, the sisters, jealous of her fortune, insist that Psyche's husband must really be a monster, and that she ought to look upon his face. Psyche does this, taking an oil lamp in to illuminate the sleeping Eros's face. A drop of hot oil falls on his cheek, wounding and waking him; and he, betrayed, immediately vanishes along with his palace, leaving her alone in a field. Her sisters, having heard the story of how she arrived in the palace, now scheme to marry Eros in her place; they go to the high rock where she was left and jump, thinking Zephyrus will catch them and take them back to the palace; instead they fall to their deaths. When Eros heals from his injury, he beseeches Aphrodite, who's been tending him, to let him bring Psyche to Mount Olympus and become a goddess as well as his wife; Aphrodite doesn't want this to happen, but reluctantly agrees to it, provided Psyche passes several trials first. The trials are meant to be impossible, but in true Greek myth fashion, various gods and animals help Psyche out, so in the end, she gets to drink ambrosia and come to live with Eros happily ever after, becoming the goddess of the soul - her name is where, in the modern world, we get the word psychology. WITH ALL THAT ESTABLISHED: The commonality between Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard's Wife is that all three are stories about women who are told, "here is a beautiful world of luxury and a man to look after you. Everything will be perfect provided you behave and never ask questions" - but of course, all three women DO eventually question their surroundings, with a range of consequences. What's fascinating to me is how these examples are ordered within the title, as it represents a thematic progression in terms of how each woman is treated by her respective narrative. For eating the apple from the tree of knowledge, Eve (along with Adam) is cast out of the Garden of Eden, forever blamed for bringing original sin to humankind. After that, we have Psyche, who looks upon Eros and initially loses everything, but after trial and suffering is able to become a goddess herself. And then, finally, we have Bluebeard's wife, Ariadne (also, interestingly, a name from Greek myth; the original was the daughter of King Minos of Crete, who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur), who discovers his dead wives and isn't punished at all, but triumphs over her monstrous husband with the aid of her kin and goes on to be free and prosperous. In other words, we start with a woman being punished forever for curiosity, move to one whose punishment for curiosity is eventually surpassed through trial to earn a happy ending, and end with one who doesn't suffer at all, but whose curiosity rather saves and liberates her from horror. It also doesn't escape notice that another progression happens in these stories: the relationships the women have with men. Eve stays with Adam, the husband she was literally made to serve, and remains subservient to him; Psyche, initially a mortal subject to the whims of gods, endures and becomes a god herself, putting her on equal footing with Eros; but Ariadne's freedom is in Bluebeard's death, which provides her the ability to eventually remarry a man of her own choosing. So we move, very deliberately, from a woman being given to a man to whom she is made subservient; a woman being claimed by a man in subservience, but who earns equality alongside him; to a woman being forced into subservience, but overcoming it to discover autonomy. Lyrically, I think it's fair to say the song is lighter on this thematic meat than the title implies; that being said, the title has so much weight if you know the stories that it almost serves as a thesis on its own. That being said, they're still clearly engaging with all three stories: this is why the lyrics talk about knowing it's a lie, setting your own rules and going for what's forbidden; the 'damsel' line is also a reference to being a damsel in distress, while implicitly rejecting this categorization. In this context, the line "if this is a downfall, we fall" is saying, "even if the consequences of curiosity and disobedience make us more like Eve than Ariadne, we still choose to do it, because it's better to have the autonomy than the lie." But I also think the music video is doing some work here, too. The opening shot of the arrow hitting the ground is a reference to Eros's arrow; it lands at a man's feet, and when the camera pulls back, we see one of the members of Le Sserafim holding her arms as if she's just shot a bow - implicitly reversing the roles of the myth. Moving on, all five members do rock paper scissors; four throw paper, and one throws scissors. They all point at her as she clutches her heart; she then falls down, coinciding with the lyrics about "I'm the only one who sets my rules / I'll see what's forbidden." The choreo then shows her on the ground, the others moving over her, then pulling her up - as if she's a literal fallen woman bringing them into her world. At this point, men start to search for them with flashlights as they dance the boom boom boom part, emphasising their hearts; we then cut to one holding an apple shot with another arrow, linking Eve and Psyche, which again lines up with the "I wish for what's forbidden" lyric. As they dance the next section, the lyric We Don't Dress To Impress is written behind them in graffiti, while the lyrics they sing talk about "smile, be a doll a little more;" we then see the member who threw scissors walking away from the group and towards a classic painting depicting Pysche with Eros. As they sing about wanting to be like Eve that day, the choreo mimes plucking and biting an apple. After some more dancing, we see two members - or just their hands, rather - shyly reaching together to link pinky fingers as the lyrics lead again into "I wish for what's forbidden." In the next sequence, we see the Psyche painting again, but this time defaced with blacklight writing - which has also been used to show their lyrics on the walls in a previous scene - reading I Won't Hide Myself. The video ends with the men returning with flashlights to find them, only to find they've reframed the room that used to emphasis the Psyche painting into a party space. The final shot shows a member caught in a spotlight in front of the painting, one hand held up as if to shield the subjects' eyes, the other throwing up horns towards the camera. In other words, the whole piece - lyrically and in terms of the music video - is about transitioning out from a submissive state, risking consequences to gain love and autonomy. Me being me, I would also argue that the shot with the joined pinkies linking to wishing for the forbidden is a deliberate bit of queercoding to hint that part of breaking free from misogynistic cultural defaults is allowing for the potential for queer love, which I don't think is a stretch given that some members of Le Sserafim have been publicly supportive of LGBTQ issues. ANYWAY this was a super long comment, but the intersection of mythology and feminism with kpop and potential queer undertones is sort of, uh, exquisitely my personal brand, so! Have a mini essay about it :)

Handsome Sausages
>>111530782

Holllllyyyyy cow. Well, first of all, thank you for the summary of Psyche story because that was fascinating. Reading your mini essay on the music and the video, we definitely see more relation to the stories than we initially saw (especially because we were most unaware of the story behind Psyche) and with that also see how it would've been a bit too difficult (or even irrelevant and unnecessary given the goal here) to have everything tied to the stories even more than what's given to us. Anyways, super interesting :D Thank you for the fun read!!!

김수미
>>111530782

I think this is one of my favorite comments because I’m more of a casual listener to le sserafim but I love this song and it was super informative plus I love mythology so the fact that they did something like this is super creative and I absolutely love it I definitely have to get more into them