#bts music video

[golden-jeon-jungkook]

'Save ME'

[zer0-devoox]

💜Time lapse here💜

[cute-st]

[riconastyoutfits]

[bts-tblr-updates]

Love Me Again Official MV

REBLOG & TAG. Spread and stream!!!

[thebtseffect]

"He Too Was a Tempter": Desire and Homoerotic Subtext in "Blood, Sweat, & Tears"

originally presented at the 2022 BTS Interdisciplinary Conference

The media surrounding "Blood, Sweat, & Tears," off BTS's 2016 album WINGS, was a stark visual and thematic departure from the group's prior releases. In this dark era of BTS's "reflection of youth" timeline, the characters introduced in the HYYH series are plunged into a conflicting world of temptation. While there is much to explore and pull apart in this content, a close read of the concept's themes is one particularly intriguing option.

Though "Blood, Sweat, & Tears" has a clear focus on themes of desire and temptation, the song's lyrics are genderless, and the music videos and performances only feature interactions between male characters. This deliberate production choice wraps "Blood, Sweat, & Tears" and its central themes in a homoerotic subtext. While subtle, the use of this subtext is one of the more convincing within BTS's content, adding a new layer to the narrative of the HYYH characters. Additionally, as homoerotic subtext has historically served as a method for hidden arguments for social freedom and expressions of equality, this subtext lends itself to BTS’s tendency towards socially conscious lyricism. With the purposeful choice to steer "Blood, Sweat, & Tears" from the mainstream heteronormative coming-of-age story, the construction of this concept acts as another outlet for such ideas.

This presentation aims to delve deeply into the music videos, lyrics, and performance produced for "Blood, Sweat, & Tears" to discuss how the homoerotic undertones are central to amplifying the work's themes, rather than homoeroticism for the sake of fanservice or stage play. I will also explore the media's thematic links with Hermann Hesse's novel Demian, and argue that this coded desire, while not outright representation, is a quietly visible and important extension of BTS's ongoing social commentary.

[melomancy]

Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)

[btsjk-biased]

Jin 'I'll Be There'

[namchyoon]

day 219/547 until joon returns cr. namuspromised

[golden-jeon-jungkook]

‘Euphoria’

[fan-goddess]

IN THE MODERN WORLD by FONTAINES DC (2024)

EWAN MITCHELL BTS

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

(+) bts of ewan mitchell as martin for the fontaines d.c. “in the modern world” music video, photographed by emma jones.

[weareravershq]

Rema & Shallipopi 

[wineonmytshirt]

Fortnight: Behind The Scenes

[cosmicdreamgrl]

if this doesn’t resonate with me anymore doesn’t send my heart quivering anymore that is how i’d die for the first time, probably but what if that moment’s right now?

[madisonbeersource]

rollingstone: In a behind-the-scenes video for "Make You Mine," @madisonbeer takes Rolling Stone along for the ride as she creates her take on 'Jennifer's Body' complete with cheer routines, bloody locker rooms, and a gymnasium transformed into a rave. Watch the full video by hitting the link in our bio. 🎥 Kristen Jan Wong