I was shook! | TAEMIN 태민 'Criminal' MV reaction
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In May 2022 I randomly happened upon a fancam of Bang Chan from Stray Kids and immediately got sucked into the kpop rabbithole.
Before this I had only heard a few kpop songs (read: BigBang - Bang Bang Bang and Fantastic Baby, Super Junior - Sorry Sorry, Shinee - Ring Ding Dong and Lucifer, F(x) - Red Light and Electric Shock and last but not least PSY - Gangnam Style) but had never looked deeper into it.
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Taemin es genial y cada vez mas adictivo, cada video se vuelve mas interesante como que hipnotiza con su baile y su voz es encantadora... Lo amaras❤
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Criminal is one of my favorite Taemin songs. ❤
I love your reaction-same as mine 4 years ago! This mv was my first exposure to Taemin when it was released in 2020, and to say it changed the trajectory of my life is no understatement! I was completely unfamiliar with Kpop (I was a rock girl) but that was irrelevant when witnessing this gorgeous utterly captivating artist taking me to a whole new realm I didn’t know I needed in my life. Taemin led me to SHINee, who I adore, but my heart truly belongs to Taemin above all others. To see him perform live would be a real dream come true 🤞🏼🙏🥹
Thank you again, Michelle! Love to follow your journey into Taemins dischography. Even I have seen all of them so many times before, I am always in awe every single time, and I love to see reactors get the same reactions...Looking forward to more from you!
Fun fact - If you watch a live stage or the dance practice of this song and his next song IDEA, you'll see that the choreo for IDEA starts how the Choreo for Criminal ends.
this song has layers of meaning, the obvious meaning is Stockholm syndrome, where Taemin is both the criminal AND the victim, but the deeper meaning of this song is Taemin's inner conflict between his idol self and non idol self.
this song was Taemin's BABY, he was involved with every single part of it.
Watch the dance practices from Taemin, they are fab
Just so you know, the Taemin you see is not necessarily the criminal in his "Criminal" MV. I see him as the victim who is being held captive by the criminal. The criminal is his lover (i.e. the other side of his personality) that he is singing about, which is a metaphor for the pressure he feels under as a Kpop idol. The song is about living in a toxic relationship and being brainwashed by a lover. He has now fallen in love with the person (or thing -- i.e. his career) who is inflicting all the pain and suffering on him, so now he accepts the abuse as a normal part of the relationship. Even though he is being abused by that person -- possibly a metaphor for the pressure he is creating for himself with the need to always be the best in everything he does -- he can't help but love them and allow them to continue to hurt him, etc.
All the abuse is happening to him, he is not hurting anyone else or doing anything criminal himself. Therefore, the story isn't about Taemin being a criminal. Notice, the S.W.A.T. team isn't arresting him. They pretty much walk right past Taemin and ignore him as they search for the criminal.
The "boss" vibe is a facade he puts on to make people believe he is in control, but as we see in the choreography, he is being manipulated by all the outside forces around him. For example, we see him lying across the backup dancers backs and they pick him up and manipulate him to do what they want him to do at that moment. A lot of his dance moves are designed to make him look like a marionette puppet that is being pulled around by strings and being told what to do. Which is what we see when he is crouched down and he creates that wiggly, wave movement in the dance, etc.
As part of the story, he has been held captive for so long that, as it says in the lyrics of the song, he is now suffering from Stockholm syndrome, so he is no longer fighting the abuse and that is why we see him throw his bindings away. The criminal -- which is a metaphor for the pressure he has felt in his career -- no longer has to tie him up to keep him there. (Because he has fallen in love with the pain and suffering he inflicts on himself as an artist, etc.) The backup dancers represent the forces he is struggling against as he fights with his mind over whether to stay or go, etc.
Also, pirates didn't just wear eye patches because they injured one of their eyes. Eye patches were more often worn by thieves who had perfect eyesight. An eye patch helps you to see better in the dark or in low light. If you shield your eyes from bright light, when you enter a dark room and remove the eye patch, your eyes adjust more quickly to the dark. This allowed pirates and thieves to be able to see better and be able to get in and get out more quickly as they go from bright daylight to darkness of a low lit room or hull of a ship, etc. Therefore, I think the eye patch that Taemin wears and the masks covering one eye of the backup dancers is a metaphor for being able to see in the dark and how Taemin is saying he has now been in the industry long enough to understand what the "criminal" is doing to him -- i.e. he knows he needs to shield himself from the bright lights of fame in order to see what is happening in the dark -- and he is fully aware of what he is sacrificing, but he loves what he does too much to leave, etc.
Fun fact: It was Taemin's idea to include the police blotter/news clips in that part of the song. If you notice, the sound bites are from all over the world and they are speaking multiple languages.
"Criminal" is the second part of Taemin's Never Gonna Dance Again album that came out in 2021. As you have seen, it's part of a trilogy, which started with his prologue "2 Kids," and continued with "Criminal," which is part of Act 1 of the album. And it was followed up by "Idea," which is part of Act 2 of the album. And now his follow up release, "Advice," has become the epilogue to the story.
This album's whole concept is a metaphor for his life and career. With every release from this album, the concept was designed to be darker then the last. In "2 Kids" he was emotionally and physically beating himself up with regrets. In "Criminal" he was living in a toxic relationship. In "Idea" he takes the theme one step further, and says that even though it was my idea and my plan to live this life, nothing comes without a price, and because of that need for perfection, any chance of being average or living a regular life is pretty much dead. Taemin has sacrificed everything to become the magnificent and unique performer and person that we know him as today.
All of Taemin's dances tell a story. As he has said, he specifically designs his choreography to be a part of the story within the song and MV. So, "Criminal" is supposed to be slightly creepy, as well as sexy. He is literally being abused and asking you to please "destroy me more."
If you are impressed with Taemin's dancing, not only should you see his dance practice video for "Criminal," but just wait until you see a live performance. You will be even more blown away. And if you want to see Taemin explain the concept behind his dance moves, watch a tutorial video he did where he explains the dance to Jeno from NCT-Dream and Mark from NCT/SuperM.
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I can't remember if I mentioned it in any of the other reactions today, but Taemin's new OST called Bones was released today (no MV, unfortunately) and it's amazing! very dark and spooky!
@@Ofra8191- I saw on Instagram! I'll definitely give it a listen!