#please give this attention i watched the mv on loop for hours to make this 👉👈

[here4theheartbreak]

I LOVE your passion for them. It oozes. It's so nice , right? To actually care about comebacks for real. I've been Atiny for 4.5 years and I'm still excited every single time! They're incredible.

Their songs match my tastes so well. Their performances are legendary. My sister came with me to see them this year, she's not Atiny, she only know a few songs, and she said they were the best live performers she's ever seen. And of course they're fun people too! And I always feel like a proud parent when others in the industry/show staff praise them.

It seems like you know a lot of Atiny already but if you ever need anything, or want to know anything, you can just hit me up!

Welcome to Atiny life~!

🏴‍☠️💖

It really is nice! Even a few days after the comeback I'm still not at all bored or disinterested - generally by now I'm so sick of hearing the same few songs or watching the same choreo that I just give up 🤣

(Apparently I still have a lot of feelings so I'm cutting this for the sake of my followers' dashes lol)

Today I was able go to go a cupsleeve event in my city and the support was overwhelming. I've been to a handful, usually around 50-100 people max -- Even for bigger groups. But today there were probably close to 200+ people minimum. For a good 2+ hours we had a line looping all through the tea bar - from the end of the vendor tables, around to the order counter, then out to the sidewalk and looping around the side of the building, it was insane. Even when my friends and I packed up to go there was still a line heading up to the counter.

I was amazed and it was so sweet to see, esp for a group that I know is less popular in KR - I genuinely don't get it (I mean, I do - not big 4 means people don't pay enough attention - but from a talent standpoint, it's baffling).

My first MV was Guerrilla - my friend and I watched it and sat in genuinely stunned silence for a good 5 minutes afterward. It blended so many of our favorite musical types into one really cohesive package and I couldn't believe it. And every subsequent song - even their softer summery ones (Utopia, please, it's so cute. And Eternal Sunshine - I could cry).

It's been a very very long time since I've heard a group that so perfectly vibes with everything I like in musical styles. (I don't actually know that I have found one before Ateez tbh; even my biggest groups have always had a handful of songs every comeback that are just... Meh.)

Plus the general talent in terms of intense choreography and vocals - they really are top class performers. And then adding in all the AU stuff - I love complex aus, I love storytelling, and these guys do it in such a cool way; and the production value of their mvs?! From an itty bitty company?? Genuinely elite.

My friend Drea went to their AZ show and Chicago shows last year; she had barricade during Chi and has shown me her videos; on top of YT recorded videos - the energy is unbelievable - you can just feel how hyped everyone is. I almost sprung for LA Kcon this year bc Ateez, SKZ, and Taemin are gonna be there; but none of my group are going and it's far too expensive on my own 😭 (plus it's right before school starts up for my gremlin and my own Korean classes start up, so I really shouldn't be traversing the country >.<).

We have plans to all try for the next Chicago concert though; there's about 7 of us for sure, maybe a few more, so carpooling and splitting hotel fees will make it easier - aside from the apparent bloodbath for tickets lol.

Where did you end up going to see them?

Also did you see the stats that dropped today? We broke our own previous record for Spotify streams! Generally I don't care about those, but I'm excited to see the small wins for a group that deserves so much 😭

But yes, thank you! I will 100% reach out with questions lol or to scream - or you can just to chat - bc clearly I can't say enough about them. 🧡

[lovleez]

cai xukun “hard to get” mv theory

i’m back at it again!

i don’t think this one will need any warnings itself because everything is connected strictly to the mv itself (no, no killer sirens this time around) (but killer clowns tho 👀👀👀) (update: the killer clown IS the warning itself plz don’t read this if you have severe coulrophobia akjhdfjdh)

i’d recommended watching this to process what goes on in this post:

hard to get mv 

theory one 

this ones going to be really weird, so if you want a sensible theory, scroll down to the second one :D

let’s start here with clown xukun:

or more specifically, i want to talk about the clown, not xukun himself

okay here’s the driving force of this theory: this clown is a killing spirit that can possess people (and i’ll be referring to this entity as either clown  or ‘killer spirit’ throughout the rest of this theory)

(it’ll make sense later i hope)

now that this is established, let’s travel back to the beginning of the mv

the first 30 seconds or so are clearly a mix between the future and the present, as evidenced by the flashes

our first solid shot that signifies the actual start of the mv (aside from kun) is the main girl of this story

- her eyes are scouring around the room, obviously looking for something. when they settle, the scene jumps back to xukun 

moving on

at this part, when it flashed as if she was in a confused state, listen closely and you’ll hear a little woosh multiple times

this sound does come up multiple times in the mv, but never in the actual audio itself (yes i double checked w/ full volume 😌)

when does this sound come in? whenever the clown is involved (you’ll see)

what am i implying? at this point in the mv, this ‘killer spirit’ is possessing the girl at the moment

earlier when she was looking around, the clown was looking for a new host. why? well perhaps the current one was trying to fight for control (which is why in the scene seemed like she was disorientated for a bit) (or she could be drunk but shhh) 

and who does it pick? xukun obviously. but how did the clown switch hosts 

when the girl comes up to him, she hands him a drink, and xukun drinks it almost immediately (ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ᶠᵒˡᵏˢ, ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵍˢ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˢᵗʳᵃⁿᵍᵉʳˢ)

and then this happens immediately:

which leads me to believe that there was some sort of drugging substance in there (or again, he could be drunk 🤫)

(also someone tell me why what looks like an old lady is at the club in the first place)

he heads over to the bathroom to clear his mind, but look who’s waiting for him there 

i’m assuming this is where the clown would switch hosts other stuff aside and all

the girl seems to leave in an awful hurry afterwards 👀

probably to escape the clown or something 

xukun also leaves the party . . . but what’s this in the scene?

a jump cut 👀👀👀

(i don’t know how to explain it for those who don’t know what that is...but it’s like  the little jump between kun walking down the path to him arriving at the mansions doorsteps in a flash)

well placed too

lend your ear to the noise before the cut 👂

it’s a whoosh, then clown giggles  👀

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

okay, before we move into what’s happening after this scene, i’m going to fast forward the mv to 2:23

where the familiar clown giggles can be heard again, and the scene opens to the clown chasing the poor girl D:

i believe that this scene slots in perfectly to what happens during that jump

my brain tells me that when he was simply walkin down to the mansion here, but (obv) he spotted the girl and chased her down. what did he do? 

turn her into a puppet (not like literal, but you know those mind controlled human puppets you see on tv shows....yeah like those)

how’d i get to that conclusion?

👀 

when he walks into the mansion, and into the room, there’s a couch full of other people there just sitting there nearly lifeless

these ‘puppets’ are all presumably the clown’s previous hosts (and i draw this from the fact that the girl is sitting among them)

one more thing 

see how the girl was standing behind the couch in this gif, but when kun settles down, she’s sitting on the ground

its as if she (as a puppet) is welcoming him as the new host, and moves back to the ground to start her life as a presumably insignificant puppet

anyways lets call this theory to an end with the assumption that the clown finally found a permanent host in xukun 

(further proof he is possessed by a killer spirit...his eyes are glowing r e d...now go ahead and try telling me that’s normal 😤) (no it doesn’t seem like a reflection of the light to me,,,,where’d the light even come from in the first place?)

theory two

(aka the more sensible one \(`-`)/ )

this one is going to be more straightforward

the second theory follows a quite simple story line:

the two, kun and the girl, could possibly be a pair (whether it be as a couple or partners in crime, the only important fact about this is that xukun is a killer in this verse) 

and for whatever reason, the girl is simply unhappy with him. so what does she decide to do? drug him, with a side of assassination in mind

so when he heads out to clear up his mind in the bathroom, she plans to murder him there 

however, the attempt was unsuccessful, so she heads out. xukun heads out too, maybe a few hours later. 

however, this jump cut would signify that something else happened before he arrived there

when we go back inside the mansion, to the girl, we see these shots:

it seems like she’s rather expressionless, but she also looks annoyed

there’s also this scene (+ the lyrics)

do i gotta clear it up / swear i ain’t in a rush / i could only play with you so much

does it not seem like he is mocking her here???

before this scene is the clown chasing her. so what does my brain conclude?

after the assassination attempt, he went after her in his killer clown attire to give her a scare, and it worked.

as we can see, she’s sitting by his feet pretty obediently so.

also there’s this scene at the end of the mv:

its probably hard to tell from the gif, but just take a look from the mv and look at the gaze. 

he knew what she was going to go through, but probably played along to give her a lesson.

or,

this mv is quite simple and is what it is: xukun is a killer clown who targeted the girl as his next victim, those scenes where in both theories i stated he was drugged was probably just him getting drunk, and the people in the mansion are simply his past victims (yes i could make this into theory #3 but i’m lazy)

....but where’s the fun in that

however, the solid takeaway from this mv no matter the theory is that xukun is indefinitely: a clown (an angel too 🥺) (not in the mv tho)