Artists Fall for DPR IAN - Don't Go Insane - So Beautiful
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
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DPR IAN - Don't Go Insane (Official Music Video)
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DPR IAN - So Beautiful (OFFICIAL M/V)
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NOBODY EVER REACTS TO THE BUTTERFLY PART WHEN THEY'RE RUNNING! Thank you so much for calling out my favorite part!!!
i love that part. my favorite part is when he’s on the bus at the end and does the spin and lightning comes out of his eyes but it’s never talked about 😩
@_rune I LOVE that part! It's like Mr. Insanity zaps himself back into Ian's brain. Such an underrated moment!!
I been waiting for this!! Thanks for the reaction♥️
You should react to DPR IAN "Limbo", "so i danced" and "nerves"🤗
Ian is very creative with his videos and his way of telling his story, I love seeing reactions that appreciate that about him, I loved the reaction girls!
Thanks for the supporting!! We love DPR IAN, he gave us such great time to explore his world - blending philosophical depth, surrealism, magical realism, and imaginative storytelling!! Thank you DPR IAN!
You should react to DPR IAN "Nerves" please👽
and Peanut Butter & Tears
thanks for react to Christian, i was at his concert the last week, awesome, he is just genius, enjoy girls, welcome to DPR world )))
Thanks for the comment, how lucky to be in the concert!! ; -)
첫곡은 오디오 이슈 두번째는 영상 싱크 이슈 ㅋㅋ 편집 일부러 그러는거야?!
I'm going to talk about his career and the story behind these MVs so in case you're interested read this whole book 😂 Ian is being vulnerable sharing parts of himself that he really didn't need to and giving a voice to people with mental health disorders (like myself) so I want recognize this by sharing his story:
*About his career:*
He's korean-australian and as a teen he was part of heavy metal band while he was in Australia. He moved to Korea alone after just 1 year of university to pursue bboying. Suddenly was streetcasted and entered the Kpop group C-Clown as the main rapper/main dancer/leader back in 2012 (yes, wild ride...). They sadly didn't get much success and disbanded after just 3 years. After that he decided to work as a video director and shot videos for a lot of other korean artists.
He then co-founded the record label DPR (Dream Perfect Regime) where he works as the chief editor and visual director, and they launched their first artist called DPR Live, Ian's close friend. For many years he was behind the cameras and had a lot of success as a director. It was only 2020 that he decided to start his solo career in which he produces and writes the songs plus directs and edits the videos himself. He also plays the drums, keyboard and bass.
*Basis of the storyline:*
At first he started as a soloist because he wanted to tell his story and to help himself release and manage what he goes through. He struggles with bipolar disorder type I and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and he decided to tell a storyline with three other "characters" besides himself: Mito, Mr Insanity and The Hybrid. But those aren't just characters, Mito and Mr Insanity are real people that have a mind of their own called "alters" (short for the medical term 'altered state of consciousness') and that he coexists with. In DID there's more than one person living in the same body with different memories, voice tone, body language, beliefs, motives, etc.
DID stems from severe and/or repeated early childhood trauma (particularly before 5 to 9 years old) that prevents the mind of the child from fully integrating into one singular identity. The mind grows as different alters (different people/identities) that develop separately and each one has a different role. One of these alters can be the 'protector alter' or there can be more than one. The protector alter is there to be the person who takes all of the trauma for the child and remembers them just so the others will forget (dissociative amnesia). That person was Mito.
A child struck by trauma is like a broken mirror and each fragment, each alter, becomes its own mirror and functions separately, but all pieces together complete the whole mirror, their whole 'system'. (how someone with DID may refer to themselves). The physical version of his first EP had a broken mirror inside the case and the cover of it is his face behind a shattered glass.
Someone with DID then only knows this mechanism to cope with trauma: to disassociate and become someone else. So they unconsciously switch between identities as they are exposed to stress and also more identities can be formed throughout their lives.
Ian is the prominent identity, the one who stays the longest in control (called the "host"). In very stressful situations Ian blacks out and Mito takes control of the mind in order to protect him (he's the one "fronting" ps. there's also cofronting meaning more than one alter in control at the same time.) Ian then will come back hours, days, weeks later (the longest that it has been was a month) not remembering anything that was said or done. Basically his life has been lived and he doesn't know how.
Mr Insanity is when he's manic due to his bipolar disorder. Ian personally calls this state his "manic high" and by that he could mean pure mania (without depressive symptoms). Although formally the "high" specifier is not needed and more like a personal choice since mania is by definition already a high state. Mania is when the person reaches a state of high euphoria and/or irritability. The person is in full speed, the ideas just flow, can't sleep, has high energy and rapid speech, makes irresponsible decisions and if severe it can turn into psychosis, when they start to have delusions (believes something that can't be true) and hallucinations (sees or hears something that doesn't exist). Whistles are often incorporated into many of his songs, present in both So Beautiful and Don't Go Insane. This is because he usually has auditory hallucinations of whistles when he’s manic.
But he also treats Insanity as another alter, referring to him in third person and talking as if he has a mind of his own, as he does to Mito. "They said this...They said that". It's complicated since he has two diagnosis so they can interact in a different way compared to a person with just one or the other. For example when he dives into severe mania and suddenly experiences trauma or stress resembling a trauma while in this state, it's when his switches to another alter mostly are triggered. This association is an unique aspect to people with both disorders.
He has said that he only blacked out into Insanity a few times (supposedly a DID switch, Insanity fully fronting/in control) but most of the times he's aware, even if when he comes back to himself he can't believe he had that thought process and was capable of such things (could mean co-fronting, Ian and Insanity both in control or an exclusively bipolar episode). Because of this Mito has also repeated to Ian how he despises Insanity, not accepting that he is another alter and being positive that Insanity is just Ian himself, with Mito being his only true alter. This feud will inspire all of the story behind Insanity's journey (his 2nd EP) that will be described later.
‘Butterflies’ are Insanity's symbol (shown several times in Don't Go Insane) because of a test used to assess mental stability, probably referring to the Rorschach Test which consists of showing a person inkblots and asking them what each of them could be, some resembling butterflies. Sanity for him can be represented by butterflies, the more you see them the more you are clinically insane. No one in this world sees the butterflies except for Mr Insanity.
Before he revealed that he has DID (which he stated at the end of 2023) he was open only about his bipolar disorder since according to him he was embarassed of his DID. Before this reveal he always used to call Mito his "manic low", when he's manic but also empty, as he said 'flat line'. Although "manic low" is also not an expression formally recognized by the medical field, by that he could mean mania with mixed features (meets the criteria for mania but has at least 3 symptoms of depression as well, though not meeting all of the requirements for a full depressive episode. Basically mania with bits of depression). Now he mostly refers to Mito as his protector/guardian alter so both definitions are valid.
*Don't Go Insane:*
Now finally about this video, the protagonist of this EP is Mr Insanity. This album is all about how Mr Insanity came to be. It's about Ian's journey as a character into a world called “The Other Side” which represents his consciousness. It's a journey into his own mind, where these alters exist. People with DID usually have inner/internal worlds where alters can interact. There the Ian in the story will switch into Mr Insanity, representing what actually happens in real life. In the story, there's a door that Mr Insanity's chaotic self is trying to open which represents the traumas. Mito, being the protector, won't let this happen since Ian isn't supposed to know anything about it.
Ian since childhood usually lucid dreams (when you know that you are dreaming and can manipulate the dream to your desire) and in these dreams there are a lot of doors. Going through the wrong door could turn the dream into a nightmare and that's what inspired the "door" analogy
At the beginning of the video, while Ian is sitting at the desk, there's a howl and he mentions 'wolves' in the lyrics: ("Oh, bless my heart / When the wolves take me away"). “Wolves” are a huge symbolism for him because of the werewolf transformation aspect that ties on with his DID switches. 'Take me away' meaning losing the control of the mind to Insanity (who is represented by the wolves). At the desk Ian is also writing a letter for his future self (Insanity). The content of the letter can be found on the lyrics for the EP's intro, the song 'Famous Last Words'.
Here we see Mr Insanity develop. We see Ian/Mr Insanity’s journey venturing into "The Other Side" as he slowly goes further into madness and pursues the key that unlocks another door/memory. During this journey, Mr Insanity is met by pink villagers which are essentially Mito's minions trying to stop him and Mito is represented by the black smoke. He says to himself "I'm sane", and even so, still loses grip on reality. “Don't Go Insane” is about trying to not go insane while simultaneously, still losing your mind.
In the story, the most advanced version of Mr Insanity (the character with claws and silver hair), when he succumbs to his madness, is completely blind because he no longer needs to see. He holds the entire universe within himself. This is probably why at the end of this song, right before the bridge, he said "Can't see...".
(Continues 😂)
*So Beautiful:*
This song was heavily inspired by the idea that a lot of times what we label ‘monsters’, as scary or wrong, are usually the most beautiful and misunderstood, this applying to Mito.
The MV feels like the transformation into a monster or more specifically a werewolf. Once again the theme of wolves is used. Waking up in the middle of the road not remembering what happened, representing Ian's feelings once he comes back.
The white eye and the eye-ring are because Ian considers the eyes the most important as a visual director. When he switches to Mito it's when his world turns upside down and he feels that he loses an eye. The only korean word thus far on his discography is '눈' on the song 'Mood' which means eye. The ring is also his way to cope and subside Mito from fully fronting.
The intro:
“Before I change again, remind me of the time when I still remembered.”
Probably referencing his switches to Mito and the memory gaps. How once he comes back to the body/mind he needs to try to recall what is the last moment he remembers and also figure out all that was said and done by Mito.
“I can feel it coming (thunder sounds)”
He had been studying thunder and lightning for years just so he could understand its behavior to implement it into his editing. Everytime it rains he likes to go outside, sit there and film it. Thunder/lighting will be used frequently in his music videos to represent Mito.
Ian said that he can't act and that he sometimes feels that he's going to switch even if he can't predict when it's going to happen (hence the "I feel it coming" at the into). That's when he tries to schedule his MV filming. Here all of the black and white scenes are Mito, since when Mito is present everything loses its colors. It was the first time that he switched on camera. Ian had a black out and when he came back he asked: "When are the cameras going to start rolling?" and the camera operator answered, "We have already done 3 takes of it". Ian has no recollection of filming these scenes. He said it was hard to edit them and see Mito for the first time. There were some scenes that he couldn't leave in. He also said he can't do some scenes if he isn't at least a percentage of Mito (by that he probably means co-fronting, Mito and Ian at the same time in control of the mind).
Anyway, hopefully this wall of text was worth it lol It's amazing how far Ian has come since his early days and it's impressive how he manages his mental health struggles. He's an artist of all trades and is incredibly talented. Hopefully you'll react to more of his stuff! His newer MVs are Limbo (prequel to Don't Go Insane), Saint (from The Hybrid timeline), Miito Movie (medley of 4 songs, from Mito's arc), Peanut Butter & Tears, So I Danced (rest of Insanity's storyline)...
Take notice that the genres are really vast because each one of these alters has prefered music genres (mentioned here just from observation):
Mito - Orchestra, R&B, jazz (most of his 1st EP and 1st album)
Mr Insanity - pop, indie pop, EDM (most of the 2nd EP)
Ian - indie rock, heavy metal (he said he's going to release an Ian album soon)
Though his songs are usually a mix of genres in good way because often an alter will start a song and another will finish it.
There's also The Hybrid storyline which isn't technically an alter but an entity who rules The Other Side. It misleads and influences Ian into entering this world. There's even more but I've written too much already. He's also going to release the Hybrid album but we don't know the genre.
Above all I really recommend Skins Demo. It's a relatively short video that was made entirely by Mito while Ian had a 2 day black out. Ian came back found the video and decided to release as it was. It was a spontaneous release so it's not part of any storyline. The 'you' in the lyrics is Ian. It's a letter from Mito to Ian. It contains Mito's feelings about holding their traumas for so long. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk!
Sources:
Say What Reacts interview
Zach Sang show interview
Inside The Mnd of DPR Ian Part 1 & Part 2
230916 DPR Ian IG Live
231128 DPR Ian IG Live
231129 DPR Ian IG Live
240225 DPR Ian Twitter space
240226 DPR Ian Twitter space
240303 DPR Ian IG Live
Wow please continue... how fascinating!!