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Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = The follow-up song of the 4th generation K-pop girl group ‘LE SSERAFIM’ on their 1st regular album ‘UNFORGIVEN’, ‘Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard’s Wife’ has been released in K-pop. is unfolding a different scene. <\/p>\n
After gaining popularity with a performance based on sophisticated music, showing off their backs, they are presenting a ‘rare experience’ in which interest moves to the narrative of the song itself. <\/p>\n
‘Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’ serves as an important bridge in this regular album by Le Seraphim. The album contains a total of 13 tracks. 7 new songs were added to the existing 6 songs. The seventh track, ‘Burn the Bridge’, the beginning of the new song’s narrative, announces the beginning of Le Seraphim’s new journey. It is the conviction of choice and the determination to break taboos. <\/p>\n
In the title song’s eighth track, ‘Unforgiven’, Le Seraphim sings, “Let’s go with me to the other side, my unforgiven girls.” The ninth track ‘No-Return’ (Into the unknown) focuses on the excitement ahead of an adventure. ‘Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard’s Wife’ sings that only when taboos are broken can you move on to the next step. <\/p>\n
The song was co-produced by Hive Chairman Bang Si-hyuk, producer Supreme Boy, producer team ’13’ members Score (Lee Gwan) and Megatone (Kim Byung-seok), who have consistently participated in Le Seraphim’s albums, and Le Seraphim member Huh Yoon-jin. it’s a track <\/p>\n
The refined jersey club sound is receiving rave reviews. Among K-pop, ‘Haegeum’ by Suga and ‘OMG’ by ‘New Jeans’ were included in ‘The 40 best songs of 2023 so far’ recently announced by the LA Times of the United States. I picked Le Seraphim’s ‘Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard’s wife’, and I saw that this song “arrived at the ‘Jersey Club Party’ before the popular pop star Bad Bunny and beat him.” Latin pop superstar Bad Bunny released a new Jersey club-style song, ‘Where She Goes’, in mid-April.
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Jersey Club is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, USA in the mid-to-late 1990s. It is characterized by a faster beat than disco and catchy melodies. It was derived from Baltimore club dance music. The Baltimore club dance music is a bit heavier, while the Jersey club is more lively, bright and mellow.<\/p>\n
Le Seraphim also embodies the characteristics of the jersey club well in choreography. Intuitive, dreamy, yet elegant. In addition, a dance challenge video featuring Kian 84, NCT Taeyong, Espa Winter, ATEEZ Yunho and Mingi, as well as Eom Jung-hwa, who created a harmony of old and new by decorating the ‘Ending Credit’ stage together at the ‘2023 Weverse Corn Festival’, is also a short-form mobile video platform. Word of mouth spread on TikTok, etc., contributing to its popularity. It is widely spread in various versions such as slow version, double speed version, and dance battle version.<\/p>\n
In addition, Le Seraphim and the agency Source Music launched a campaign related to ‘Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’s Wife’. They released 8 bars of the original song of ‘Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’s Wife’ as a sound source composed only of accompaniment without their singing section. <\/p>\n
Le Seraphim prepared this as a participatory project that everyone can enjoy in order to repay fans’ love. You can participate in the campaign by adding new lyrics to the instrumental sound source to create and share your own message. Singer and actress BIBI opened the curtain by posting a video of participating in the ‘Eve, Psyche and _’ campaign on her personal social media. <\/p>\n
Thanks to these factors, ‘Eve, Psyche and Blue Beard’ has been around for two months since its release, and it is showing great success at the top of the charts, such as running backwards. Not only maintaining the top spot on domestic music platform charts such as Melon, Genie, and Flo, but also ranking 38th on ‘Billboard Global (excluding the US)’ and 71st on ‘Billboard Global 200’ as of the 24th, replacing the highest rankings on the two charts themselves.
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As the box office success continues like this, music fans are also working to look into the narrative of the song with a somewhat unique title. <\/p>\n
The three female characters mentioned in the title are those who broke the taboo due to their strong curiosity. <\/p>\n
Eve (Hawa) in the Bible is the first to eat the forbidden fruit, which is forbidden by God, that is, a being who matures before men, and opens her eyes to the truth that life is not paradise on earth. In the music video for “Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard’s Wife,” Benjamin West’s painting “The Expulsion of Adam and Eve” (1791) also appears. <\/p>\n
In Greek mythology, Psyche wonders at the face of Eros, who disappears with the dawn. In the end, he breaks the taboo and checks his appearance in front of the lantern. Afterwards, she goes through many hardships, but achieves love with Eros. Friske means soul, spirit, butterfly, etc. in Greek.<\/p>\n
Bluebeard’s wife appears in the cruel fairy tale ‘Bluebeard’ by French writer Charles Perrault. A handsome, wealthy, blue-bearded aristocrat depicts his violence and oppression through the story of one after another killing his wife. The nobleman encourages her newly married wife not to open the door to her little basement room, but the wife breaks this taboo and opens her little door. Her wife eventually survives as she discovers her ugly secret in that room. Domestic and foreign female writers such as Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Seongran Ha have reinterpreted this work by making use of the subjectivity of women.
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In the song about the three characters, Le Seraphim said, “It’s okay, whatever I do, I know it’s a lie \/ It’ll be okay, no matter what I do, when I listen to you with a kind face \/ It’s not okay, I’ll only set my rules for those things \/ No, no, I’m a doll No \/ Even if you frown, it\u2019s me too \/ Don\u2019t look, look and dig, these taboos surrounding me \/ Just like the Eve of the day.\u201d <\/p>\n
Jomo (33, female), a K-pop fan in her 30s, said, \u201cDue to the nature of female idols, most of them are consumed as passive objects. It is not common for girl group songs to contain the content,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Real Ha, a K-pop columnist, said, “It will depend on who the other person in the song is assumed to be, but whether it’s a boyfriend, parents, or society, it seems to show ‘I’m independent!'” and added, “It doesn’t matter if you’re not a woman, but ‘ The lyrics of ‘Doll’ give room for interpretation as an independent woman. The fact that Le Seraphim continued to show a healthy image is also the same, and the choreography is very girl-crush.” <\/p>\n
In this way, the actions of Re Seraphim, who have been steadily singing taboos, and the implications of the characters whose songs are used as motifs are intertwined, and a more active and proactive interpretation method that is different from the commonly interpreted K-pop is applied. It is also connected to Viva Magenta, the color of the year announced by the world-renowned color institute Pantone. Le Seraphim presented the color for this activity. Viva Magenta is a red-based color that feels bold and inclusive. Inspired by cochineal, a rare natural dye. Cochineal has a weakness that it is difficult to survive in nature because of its unique red light, but it has become a precious existence by enduring and surviving to the end.<\/p>\n
A young female director and playwright named Ahn Jung-min, who took the name of the theater creative group she leads from Perrault’s ‘Bluebeard’, said that she read ‘the positivity of negativity’ in ‘Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’. Like her wife, who was told by nobles not to open the door, she named the troupe because she wanted to share something that would not be revealed unless she opened it.
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Director Ahn said, \u201cI know that everything will not work and I will be sacrificed, but I will try it anyway. Even though I know I will break, I will try to break the taboo. To open it once, they say you shouldn’t eat an apple, but to try it once”, he interpreted ‘Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’s Wife’. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the music video, it wasn\u2019t about drawing the wife wandering around looking for Bluebeard\u2019s room, but the image of a man wandering around looking for a room and opening the door was impressive. Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard all seemed to be together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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