With Brazilian reference included; Meet 5 songs by K-Pop artists who had books, animations and movies like Inspiration
That art inspires thousands of people around the world everyone knows. She, who with her particular meanings and detailed details, is able to sensitize and become a model for new productions such as books, movies, music and music videos, such as K-pop, which does not occur different to what Idols use other artistic manifestations to become the concept of a new project.
Therefore, Recreio separated a list of 5 from the South Korean music industry that had classics from cinema, books or pieces as inspiration for tracks.
1. BTS – Demian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hme9f-teutc
BTS’s second studio album, ‘Wings’, released on October 10, 2016, was marked by the iconic single music video, “Blood Sweat & Tears”. Directed by producers Choi Yongseok and Ko yoojongboth the album and the track had the novel ‘Demian’ Herman Hesse as great inspiration.
Confirmed by the group leader, Romthe concept of the project is based on the 1919 book that explicit the fine line between good and evil, following Emil Sinclair by self -knowledge with the help of his friend Max Demian. So the rapper explained: “The more it is difficult to resist temptation, the more you think about it and hesitates. This uncertainty is part of the growth process. Blood Sweat & Tears is a song that shows how you think, how to make decisions and grow” (via Daily Sports Korea).
‘Wings’ is available on digital platforms.
2. Jennie – William Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfg-ie8n_c
The latest project of the Blackpink member, Jennietakes the piece of history William Shakespeare‘As You Like It’ as inspiration for your first studio album, ‘Ruby’ ‘. She who addresses topics such as love, identification and transformation in the lyrics of the 15 tracks, and in the concept photos being in a theater, using the red curtains of the place as a metaphor for her new start as an artist, thus based on the writer’s reinvention narrative.
The remarkable phrase of the album, “The whole world is a stage, and all men and women, mere actors,” is a quote from the play to bring a reflection on the nuances of human life and its constant change, imposing ideology in its context as a public person.
‘Ruby’ is available on digital platforms.
3. Iu – my orange foot lime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfrs5hjuh98
Brazil present! The work of the Brazilian author José Mauro de Vasconcelos‘My Orange Foot Lima’, was the reference for the Soloist’s song ‘Zezé’ Iu. Launched in 2019, the artist sings from the perspective of the book’s protagonist tree, showing the duality between innocence and pain in childhood through a girl alone but mischievous, coming from a rotten family that creates a special bond with a foot of Lima orange.
“You have the shine of the sun on the head/ But the crack from your inside is covered with rain/ zezé clouds, climb the tree, kiss the leaves, but do not hurt them.”
‘Zezé’ is available on digital platforms.
4. TXT – Peter Pan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-b6rlnwiw
The connection between Tomorrow x Together and Never Peter Pan’s land doesn’t come from today. Since the group’s second EP, ‘The Dream Chapter: Eternity’ (2020), References Disney’s animation have been observed by fans with the track ‘Maze in the Mirror’. Based on the children’s trip to a place where they never get older, without the presence of adults, it represented the group’s youth in the lyric of the song, so singing the search for their own identity during their time as trainees at Bighit Music. “My shoulders are heavy, but you can rest in them / Now I want to fly like an eternal Peter Pan.”
Later, in 2023 with the EP ‘The Name Chapter: Temptation’, the TXT returned to use the land of never as inspiration in the song ‘Farewell, Neverland’, making a complete immersion in the concept, addressing the maturation and acceptance that the innocence of youth cannot last forever, being one of the nominal use of ‘My Peter Pan’ as reinforcement of the idea of leaving the idea to let the idea. brings the figure that symbolizes the eternal childhood.
“Neverland, my love, goodbye now/ And I’m in free fall/ Sleep well, stars/ Until I call/ no matter where I go/ here is not a home/ Even if I am afraid, I go down/ Goodbye, soil of the never, my love.”
Both albums are available on digital platforms.
5. Shinee – The Little Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgwk5-qmpc
The classic book of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry‘The Little Prince’, was the concept followed by Shinee in the music video ‘Good Evening’ of the group’s sixth album, “The Story of Light ‘Epilog”, released in 2018. Singing to want to be with someone special at night, using metaphors such as the moonlight that symbolizes the constant relationship of feelings for this person, being compared to the protagonist relationship of the protagonist of the protagonist Book with the rose. Music also explores melancholy, nostalgia and longing that I wish for this love can cause.
The cozy darkness comes slowly from far away/ at the end of sunset that hang over the buildings, I think of you/ the moonlight is born, I go to you before it’s too late/ I will pick you up, I imagine the size of your surprise I go to you for no reason “
The disk is available on all digital platforms.
Source: Recreio
