And here is Taehyung, portraying a person who realizes his mental illness, in that what he wanted so badly (a loveship) is in reality, a para-social relationship. It’s not even really parasocial—

It is worse. His muse is in his head. I think the most telling part of this tale is when Tae confronts his bleeding self. A broken self. A dark self. It’s almost sinister, the way he looks in black. A black reality. And his realization is personified by pain, and crying.

I personally think this is a commentary on the extremes of a parasocial relationship, one that’s so extreme it’s completely made up. And Tae plays with the “reality vs mind” in his previous videos too.

I want to embody real Taehyung: the artist who evolves and does exactly what he says he will.

I don’t want to be music video-Tae. It’s tragic. The simultaneous living of two lives with one never being real, and the result being a toss up of either good or bad.

Dark, bleeding, broken Tae was there from the beginning.

Mental illness can be that way. Escapism, the creation of a paradise, and the sudden shattering of reality is portrayed in this music video.

I don’t want to be on that end of the spectrum. I don’t want to live that way. It’s scary. The fall is scary, and so is the confrontation. I can’t even fathom the doom that will come when reality shatters the paradise. Then again, not comprehending heavy things because you have a mental illness can also ‘be that way’.

Even if I’m not ready to face certain things, I’m certainly ready to congratulate Taehyung on a music video that provokes true thought and introspection. I haven’t experienced this type of quality with the other guys’ music videos. Taehyung is deep. His stuff is deep. I love the way his career is going. I always knew I’d follow him as a solo artist. He’s so talented. His team is just as talented.

That’s reality. That, and I hate winter. I hate the inevitability of it. There are paradises in this world that don’t have winters at all. That’s also fact.

It can be both. I can “always move.”