Aespa team deserve applause for "Unhappy" video

i have to agree

What is SMCU episode 2? This video gave me major New Jeans Ditto or OMG vibes tbh with the storyline/aesthetics and the song's got the slow RnB trap of Ditto/OMG. It's nothing like BlackMamba/NL/Girls/Savage which i consider the foundational Aespa lore.

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What is SMCU episode 2? This video gave me major New Jeans Ditto or OMG vibes tbh with the storyline/aesthetics and the song's got the slow RnB trap of Ditto/OMG. It's nothing like BlackMamba/NL/Girls/Savage which i consider the foundational Aespa lore.

i like the MV more than the song itself

Like that ordinary life with hints of weirdness is super appealing to me, just like the Ditto MV

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Both this MV and the "Welcome to MY World" MV seem very western to me. They look like scenes from a coming-of-age Netflix series that touches on serious topics.

its kind of a trend that reminds me of grim realistic 2nd gen videos (like early Bigbang, Brown Eyed Girls, Beast)

I am happy they getting track videos, fuckin finally

Yeah, they got a solid team of production for mvs and their films

it's refreshing to see them film in front of real locations and not mostly green screens

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The only scene with green screen are the one in Next level where they are on the motorbike

There's a couple more that I thought were greenscreen

- The lava scenes, city scape scenes in Next Level

- also genuinely thought the rooms with portals/grid floor in Savage were green screen, but now I'm not so sure haha

either way, the sets are indeed incredible

What struck me is Winter's acting

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First they were able to still use the game concept with the "continue ? " with a scenary far from aespa usual concept

and watching the MV, a lot of scene actually looked quite familiar to me and thinking about it, actually a lot of Scene looks like they were based on SMCU episode 2 (not sure, but it's the feeling it gave me)

This scene of giselle is giving the same vibe than Winter scene in the SMCU ep 2 where she's on the floor too and people gather around her to watch her from above w

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But it's not the only scene who actually kinda remind me SMCU ep 2

the scene at the start of unhappy MV with winter running away and at the end with the girls running away chase by a group of people

remind me the scene of Winter running in the hallucination quest follow by a group of people

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then we have the scene of Ningning in the middle of the cheerleader who get grapped by them suddenly

is very reminiscent of the scene of all the person grabbing Giselle in the Hallucination quest

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even the blue pill / red pill situation of karina is very similar to the choice that she had to make in SMCU ep 2

where she had to decide if she wanted to yield to the illusion of the hallucination quest ( what it seems she's going to do)

or deciding to see the truth and destroy the hallucination question (what she did at the end)

the same analogy can be done here with Karina who yield and decide to take the blue pill but then take the red pill

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so the MV of unhappy might show another version of the Hallucination quest

or maybe the MV actually show how the girls feel in their daily life, like all the doubt and fear that BM show them in the hallucination quest, they actually feel it in their daily life now that they don't have the AE with them or Navis

and that's the reason why they decided to fight back and run away to go find the AE or Navis again

that's maybe why "Unhappy " is the second to last track of the album

and the album end with "till we meet again" which might be a message of hope to see navis or the AE again

and the MV start with "welcome to my world" showing the real world of the girls and Navis coming to the real world

if it turns out to be this, this album might be the most cohesive and the best album i've ever seen in the way they choose how to place each track in the tracklist to tell an entire story through the album

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Solid connection and theory

My take on it is that maybe they are trapped in an illusion/ dream and need to face their fears to escape

its the Black Mambas way of gaining control over them, but if they break free then the Black mamba will realize that they could be a threat to her, so shes trying to gain control over them

Yes, the promo tactic is good, so it aroused everyone's curiosity. I liked Welcome to my World and I'm Unnhappy. Sweet & Salty is more aespa classic sound type, the other two songs were more interesting, a bit dark and glommy story concept type songs. I guess I can't make a full connection without the SMCU new episode. Generally, after watching the SMCU episodes, when I return to the MV, I fully understand what is going on. Lastly in the SMCU episodes, they killed Black Mamba and returned to the real world. Perhaps a new villain will appear in the real world. Maybe that's why Karina drink to blue pill cause she want to return to Kwangya.