Discover the story of the whale discovered almost forty years ago that inspired the creation of one of the BTS discography songs
Have you heard the song “Whalien 52” from BTS? The song is part of the album “The Most Beautiful Moment in Life PT.2”, released on November 30, 2015, which is the second album in the series of two parts of the K-pop group centered on “Youth”, where songs bring feelings related to the search for meaning in life and belonging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WUILF04RG
In the case of “Whalien 52”, the track reflects on the feeling of feeling alone and misunderstood even surrounded by others, while wearing the metaphor of a lonely whale.
In one stretch, the group members sing:
“In the midst of this vast ocean,
A whale speaks in a low, calm and lonely voice
That can never reach someone else, no matter how strong shouts,
Feels so alone that it closes your mouth “
The message, which can refer to the reality of the members, who could face loneliness in their lives even in front of the spotlight, is easy to identify for all those who, in some way, have already felt isolated from the world.
Does the music whale really exist?
Although the lyrics are sad, there is an even more moving story behind the inspiration for the song, after all, the whale quoted in the song really exists in real life!
Nicknamed “the most lonely whale in the world, the” Whale 52 Hertz “was discovered in 1989 during the Cold War. This is because, during the use of a sound monitoring system that during the Cold War served to detect enemy submarines, the US Navy detected, in northern Pacific Ocean, a different sound: the singing of a whale.
However, the sound, which was similar to those emitted by the big boats of the Blue Species (Balaenoptera musculus) and Fin (Balaenoptera Physalus), was in the frequency range between 50 and 52 Hz, drawing attention because it is an unusual frequency, as it is scientific knowledge that this species is in 20 or 30 hz.
Due to the different frequency, researchers began to investigate the existence of “Whale 52 Hertz”, as the unique singing, which was never heard elsewhere in the ocean, led to the belief that the whale was unusual, since, with an unusual frequency, the idea that other whales “can simply find ‘strange’ and not responding,” as the biologist and master in ecology and Master. Daniela Pivari to the G1.
As a result, songs, poems, movies, and plays were created in inspiration the likely loneliness of the whale that wanders the ocean alone while emits sounds that others of their species do not listen – such as the BTS song already mentioned or the clip of “We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal”, which made the whale a true symbol in the group’s discography. Look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwbyjjuil0
Is the “Whale 52 Hertz” really lonely?
Still, the search for the true history of the whale has never been abandoned. So much so that, to try to unravel the mystery, the documentary “Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52” (2021) was held in the California region to locate Whale 52, and scientists and researchers could never see it, some hypotheses about the origin of the whale were created.
The most popular among them is that the whale has some congenital anomaly on the device that emits sounds, or that it is a hybrid animal, as the junction of two different species could affect whale genetics for the development of a corner with such frequency.
Source: Recreio
