GFRIEND 'Apple' Comeback; thoughts
i just can’t even begin to explain how much i love ‘apple’ and the whole entire album that is ‘song of the sirens’. when gfriend was explaining the mature route they went with this comeback, i was not expecting whatever THAT was. the mv is so aesthetically pleasing, like the demons??? the apple??? is that yerin and sowon making out??? there’s so much to unpack in the mv it’s not even funny. it seems to be snow white themed, though, so there’s something.
eunbi dancing on the fucking table? making a mess?? but it’s so??? PRETTY????? how do you make that pretty??? eunha starting the mv by eating the apple then collapsing, causing the song to start like THAT???? those hand dances they do? chef’s kiss. the way yewon starts the song has me on my knees for such a godsend (yewon (umji) is my gfriend bias, so i might be talking about her a lot in this). the way her hand scratches the air then uses sowon and yerin as an arm rest, looking at sowon makes her seem so mature. as someone who has watched her grow up, this is such a tear jerker, not going to lie. eunbi’s red hair has me feeling weak. i never knew i needed such a thing in my life, but here we are. red haired eunbi. yerin and eunha.... they killed me, absolutely destroyed me. their lines and their outfits were so pretty. (the mv started and i started crying, so by this point i was sobbing.) the outfits you see them wear for the first dance scene make them seem like literal goddesses. and yerin’s belle inspired outfit? beautiful, everything i’ve ever needed. although i didn’t see yuju much, her voice was prominently there and still sounded as beautiful as ever, you could never go wrong with her voice or eunha’s voice, their voices just stand out so much and i love it. the dance?????? i want to learn it, i can see myself learning this dance tomorrow. it’s mature and so not gfriend like at all, but do you see me complaining? yuju fucking vaping with a butterfly is probably the wildest shit ever, but she’s stunning, not going to hold her against it at all. then the fucking members almost making out? not going to lie, loved it. i’m glad that they figured out their conflict from ‘crossroads’ and a now back to being happy demon (?) girlfriends. the next dance scene where they look like goddesses but of the underworld? ok queens, whatever you want, here’s your crown still. some cult shit was happening too, not going to lie, the director made it seem cool, i want to be in whatever cult gfriend is in too. eunbi’s dance scene next to the tree on fire???? oh my fucking god, i can’t get that scene out of my head, it’s so, so magical. AND THE END, WHERE THEY TURN INTO THEIR TRUE DEMON SELVES!!!! it’s truely a sight to behold. the music is wild too. it’s not their normal ‘gfriend sound’ but i am so not mad, not one bit. like i said, it’s so mature from what they’ve previously done, but i am still so in love. the lyrics are beautiful, really poetic, and at first it doesn’t really seem like they’re conveying love, it seems more up to the listener’s perspective on the song and i live for it, it’s ambiguous, i love it. (the way the lyrics: “we o wow wow wow” and “we o yeah yeah yeah” are sung makes me seem like i’m summoning a demon 😳)
the next three songs on the album, ‘eye of the storm’, ‘room of mirrors’ and ‘tarot cards’ are move gfriend though, so i’m really happy that they still have their gfriend sound on their album, even if it’s not the title track, it would be weird for me not to hear it. but i think if i heard the album without their ‘gfriend sound’, i would still love it either way. the next song ‘crème brûlée’ sound something more from their ‘sunny summer’ and ‘fever era’, so it’s really nice to hear that inclusion. (the way eo. ddeok. hae was said was just splendid.) the last song ‘stairs in the north’ is a BAL. LAD. i’m in love 🥰🥰 if you know me, you know i love ballads so much and this one wasn’t an exception. you start off with the song immediately starting, but it’s not hard hitting and then the acoustic guitar starting with the first member as it slowly crescendos into something more. the chorus with the drums and violins? splendid, i’m crying just thinking about this song, the composer did a beautiful job with this one. then the way it slows down for the second verse to repeat, i’m so in love. the music analogies jumped out of me in the last one, i’m sorry, i would go on for longer about it, but i should probably stop. if i fully broke down the song it would be a long while before i finished it.
in conclusion, i’m really really happy with how this album and mv turned out, it really accentuates how mature they are now. as someone who has watched them for three years (they are a five year old group), i’ve watched them grow into these women who i admire. they’ve gone through so much hate, from yewon and her weight (poor girl didn’t deserve it), to their music sounding “the same”, and they’ve come out stronger than ever, i love them so so much, all six of them. eunha, eunbi, yewon, yuju, sowon and yerin.