WINGS #4, FIRST LOVE- Theory and Hidden Secrets
The Theory- SUGA recalls memories
Theme- Remembering to understand
[0:08] Here comes Rap Monster's fabulous English skills: "There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time." [Once again from Hermann Hesse's novel.] This quote circles around remembrance. If one is able to recall memories, he/she can find him/herself.
[0:27] Okay, we see a person staring at a music store. Who is it? Well, he DOES smash the door open to break in. I mean, it's probably Ji-wait what? OH MAN HOLY SHIET, IT'S SUGA! HOLD UP! Where's Jin? The video is supposed to be about Jin! Ugh, BIGHIT, BTS, YOU TROLL! This video is going to be a freaking pain to decipher, dammit.
[0:41] SUGA sits down at the piano. It's actually the same piano that was burning in 'BEGIN' and 'LIES' [Check out those theories if you haven't! #shameless]. The title 'FIRST LOVE' means something here. SUGA's first love: music. He sits down at the piano, which is piano, and by playing it, he expresses his feelings that way, and the following tune sounds very sad.
[0:45] He begins to play a tune that we can recognize from Jungkook's 'BEGIN' video, except that was whistled, and this is on the piano. [For anyone who plays an instrument, the notes are EDAA|ED|EDAAA. Now you can annoy all your non-ARMY friends. Yay!] This actually important though. Remember how SUGA and Jungkook were each other's light? SUGA is remembering Jungkook. But he's not there anymore, because he [Jungkook] was only dreaming right? Well, kind of. More on that later.
[0:55] We can see that he ran out of inspiration. [INFIRES!] He just sits there thinking. We think that he's thinking about Jungkook since that tune was from Jungkook. But, it looks like SUGA is actually mourning him. However, at [1:07] we can faintly hear Jungkook's tune. [We'll call it 'The Seagull's Cry" from now on, haha.] SUGA hears it too. He instantly gets up and looks around. Jungkook? Where was he?
[1:21] SUGA appears at an empty road, seemly followed the sound there. He was following "The Seagull's Cry" [yes, I used it, I was serious,] (J)-hoping to find Jungkook. Once again, Jungkook was SUGA's light, or we can say demian as the book reference. We can also see that there are strange stains on the road. We know that roads aren't supposed to be clean, but how it looks seems fishy. The stain appears to be a spill mark.
[1:37] A car comes for SUGA. Oh shoot, is he going to experience the same fate as Jungkook? Is he going to die? OH HAILLLL NO! AGUST D DOESN'T DIE THAT EASILY. He avoids the car in [1:38] like a boss. However, the car is actually a reference to Jungkook, as we know that he 'died' from a car accident.
[1:43] Here, we can see the stains better. It DOES look like spill marks. We believe that the road is the place where Jungkook got hit by the car, which may explain the stains [blood]. [1:47] also proves this fact since it is a sound of a car hitting something, or we say, a person.
[1:48] Here, we find a lyric from 'Road' ["길"], [apparently it's a hidden track?] The lyric is sung by Jungkook: "난 달라졌을까, 다른 길을 택했다면, 멈춰서 뒤돌아봤다면," meaning "would I have changed, if I had chosen a different path, if I had stopped and looked back." This really emphasizes the theme hinted by the quote from the book. Looking back at all the memories, SUGA wonders if he did anything wrong. He tries to remember at any time if he could have done something else that wouldn't lead to him being alone [1:51].
[1:58] SUGA starts running as if he realized something. Where is he running to?
[2:05] Now, we see a tub that originally was how Jimin died [drowning]. Why is Jimin here? [YOONMIN, THAT'S WHY!] Currently, we know that Jimin has something to do with this video, just like Jungkook.
[2:09] He runs back to the music store, to see the piano burst into flames [2:21], and a car crashed into the store. First, we speculate that the car drove into the store is the car that took Jungkook's life. Second, since we know the SUGA's 'death' was from fire, so the fire means something. It means death. And since death means a new beginning, is this a new beginning for SUGA? Again, it's the same piano that was in Jimin's video and Jungkook's eye. Wait. It's in Jungkook's eye. Does he actually SEE the burning piano? The two connect. We see the cause of Jungkook's death and the cause of SUGA's death. Jungkook's death woke him up and gave him a new beginning. The two causes of death are placed near each other. WHHAATTT? Are SUGA and Jungkook going to reunite? Remember the door of light at the end of Jungkook's video? Is it the same door as the one behind the piano, THAT'S why he saw the piano? [We know the angles are different, but just roll with it.]
[2:21] What's that on the trunk of the car? We actually can't figure that out, so we'll say it is debris or something. Even if we like zooming in on stuff. Help us?
[2:23] "The Seagull's Cry" strikes again. And it does when SUGA is seemly staring at the piano. Or is it that door behind it? Jungkook had a dream about the other members INCLUDING SUGA, but is that door a passageway? That SUGA had already died and he runs back to the store to reunite with Jungkook? He slowly backs up because he couldn't believe it?
[2:45] SUGA's circle becomes a piano. BUT WAIT! At [2:48], Jimin's circle appears right next to it. And they combine to create something that resembles a tire track? Jungkook? So, [Piano] + [Apple] = [Tire Track]. Seems legit. Or maybe it just looks cool and YOONMIN IS REEAAALLL! But if we combine the two titles together, we can get 'First Love is a Lie'. Or rather, 'Love is a lie.' Sound recognizable? It's from 'I Need U', one of Rap Monster's lines "Love is a lie, lie'. If all the titles for all the films happen create some kind of sentence, our minds would be BLOWN!
What To Expect Next- Honestly, all these videos are so confusing that we don't know WHAT to expect anymore. However, we are sure that there are more videos coming, and [J-]hopefully we can get some answers to this confusing AF storyline.
If you haven't checked out the theories for WINGS #1, BEGIN , WINGS #2, LIES, and WINGS #3, STIGMA, please check them outtttt! We will be coming out with more theories as soon as BigHit releases more teasers for their upcoming album.
*side note: updates may or may not be less consistent due to something wonderful named homework.
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