Album Thursday -EXO 엑소' (Tempo MV) and Don't mess up my tempo Full Album listening
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 เม.ย. 2024
- Today I'm checking out EXO - Don't mess up my tempo album
This was so much fun! what an album!!
Link to the videoes used in this video:
• EXO 엑소 'Tempo' MV
• EXO 엑소 '節奏 (Tempo)' MV
• EXO (엑소) - Oasis (오아시스...
• EXO (엑소) - Smile On My...
• EXO (엑소) - 'DAMAGE' LY...
• EXO 엑소 - Bad Dream (후폭...
• EXO (엑소) - 24/7 (Color...
• EXO (엑소) - With You (가...
• EXO (엑소) - GRAVITY (Co...
• EXO (엑소) - Ooh La La L...
• EXO (엑소) - SIGN (Color...
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Every song in DMUMT album represents every members power
Sign - Chanyeol
Ooh La La - Kai
Gravity - D.O
With you - Baekhyun
24/7 - Xiumin
Bad dream - Sehun
Damage - Chen
Smile on my face - Lay
Oasis - Suho
Gravity is insane track, the live performance is amazing ❤
That is so cool!! I have to read up more on the EXO powers and stuff, it’s so much! But also so fascinating! ✨
Don't forget the Love Shot repackage of DMUMT includes two more B-sides: Wait (amazing) and Trauma (one of my faves).
Wait, did I miss two songs? Or do they belong to a different album? 😅
0:24 @@MimiGemReactsMost EXO albums are repackaged a few months later with a second title track and additional songs. Don't Mess Up My Tempo album added Love Shot, Wait and Trauma. No one ever forgets to react to Love shot but the other songs are often forgotten.
@@cambojoe oh! I didn’t know that, I’ll make sure to make a video to it then! 🙏🏻
This album is stellar.... So good. Most of the tracks were performed (even better) on their 5th tour (EXplOration) though D.O. & Xiumin were in the military at that time. Their performance of Gravity (in the black & white outfits) is one of their finest performances.
Agreed! Absolutely amazing!! ✨
Oh La La La has a super dance practice well worth reacting to.
@@cambojoe adding it to my list 🫶🏻
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sehunnie ❤🎉
Have a wonderful birthday to our baby ❤
And EXO top tier b sides ❤️🔥
Wiiii! It’s still the 11th here! But happy Birthday Sehun! 🫶🏻✨
I can’t wait to hear more!!!! This album was sooooo good!!✨💎
The song is called "Tempo" and the album is named Don't Mess Up My Tempo, so, the tempo is intentionally a prominent part of the song. I think the tempo is also supposed to mirror the uncertainty and unsteadiness that EXO are feeling within the storyline in the MV and be the driving force spurring them on in the story.
However, if you read the lyrics, we see that in the song they are talking to a girl and they are telling her, "Don't mess up my tempo." And yes, part of the tempo in the song is created by the squeak of what is thought to be bed springs. (The underlying theme of the song is a tongue and cheek reference to sexual innuendo.) On the surface, the song and MV is meant to be enjoyed by the casual watcher and listener like you would any song on the radio, but if you want to delve in deeper and explore EXO's storyline, then there is so much more going on.
As an SM Entertainment group, it shouldn't be a surprise that EXO are amazing vocalists -- hence the acapella part in the song. SM is known as the vocal powerhouse, so all of SM's artists are outstanding vocalists. Fun fact: There wasn't supposed to be an acapella section in the song. The members were just messing around in the recording studio riffing with each other and the sound engineer loved it so much that they decided to put it in the song. EXO are known as the "Vocal Kings of Kpop" for a reason.
"Tempo" came out in 2018, so there are 9 members in this MV. (Only 8 members are in the group scenes.) This is special because it's the first time we have seen Lay, EXO's Chinese member, participate in anything with EXO since 2016 and you won't see him again in another EXO project until their "Don't Fight the Feeling" MV in 2021. However, although Lay was in this MV, you won't see or hear him sing or dance because you watched the Korean version, and at this time, because of the political issues between China and Korea, the Chinese government only gave him permission to appear in the Korean version, but he wasn't allowed to participate in the song. If you want to hear Lay sing you will have to watch the Mandarin version.
To understand the choices being made in this song and the story in the MV, you have to be aware that everything EXO is involved in, and I literally mean almost everything, is connected in some way to their concept and storyline. EXO's MVs are kind of like a movie -- it's a movie that has been going on for the past 12+ years -- since pre-debut.
EXO debuted in 2012 and from day one, the group's concept is that they are aliens from planet Exo and they came to Earth with superpowers to protect the Tree of Life from the evil Red Forces. As otherworldly beings, each of the members has a superpower that is unique to them.
The aesthetic of the "Tempo" MV is centered around the color red because the setting is supposed to be depicting the members under the Red Forces' control. What fan theories think is happening in "Tempo" is it's showing the members of EXO all trapped in separate dimensions. Each of those rooms, could possibly be a different dimension and that is why you see the glitches and why you hear Xiumin and Baekhyun with that computerized voice, because they aren't all in the same place at the same time, so their voices are being distorted as they try to connect between dimensions, etc. (Which could also explain Xiumin's hair.)
They also still could be trapped in different rooms within the maze, like what we see them in their "Overdose" MVs. For several of EXO's MVs we believe they are still trapped within the maze and they are continuously trying to find their way out. The maze seems to affect their connection to their powers and it clouds their minds and dulls their senses, so not only are they fighting the Red Force and X-EXO, but they are also struggling to break free from the fog the Red Force has them in. That's why we see some of the members just lazily sitting around and kind of blankly staring off into space at times.
Baekhyun is the one that is singled out in the MV and he is the one standing above everything looking down, so this is one example of where we think that maybe he is the only one who has avoided the Red Force's control and he is observing everything that is going on from the outside.
We see Chanyeol (one of the main rappers) being interrogated by Chen with the inkblot test and that is thought to be the members trying to figure out who are the real EXO members and who are the evil X-EXO members created by the Red Force -- or who are the real members and who are the clones. At this point everyone is suspicious of each other and no one can be trusted.
Also notice how the inkblot looks like it's shaped like a butterfly. The butterfly is also an important part of SM's Culture Universe storyline. We see a butterfly in EXO's debut "Mama" MVs in 2012, which is thought to be connected to the colorful butterfly that is Ningnig's symbol in aespa's story, so you will see it all the time in aespa's MVs starting in 2020 as she navigates through the digital world. You also will see a butterfly appear in several of SM's other groups' MVs, which is often used as a metaphor to represent a woman -- possibly representing a connection to the heart of the Tree of Life from EXO's storyline -- in each of the MVs, as a way to connect all of SM's storylines together. For example, there is also a white butterfly in NCT-127's "Favorite (Vampire)" MV from 2021, which is meant to represent the "vampire" woman that they are singing about, and it's even thought it could be connected to the white butterfly in SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong" MV from 2009. It also could be the white butterfly that helps aespa navigate through Kwangya in aespa's "aespa ep. 2 'Next Level' - SM Culture Universe" video in 2022, which would explain why we see a similar butterfly in all of SM's storylines. The butterfly appears to help everyone as they travel through Kwangya. (Everything SM does has to do with Kwangya -- even SM's new building where everything is created and produced is called Kwangya. Kwangya is the metaverse that all of SM's groups' and artists' concepts, and most of their MV storylines revolve around.)
Therefore, the butterfly inkblot could be used as a way to try and break the control the Red Force has over EXO and to remind them of the fact that they need to find their way out of the maze and to not forget what their mission is, etc.
Halfway through the MV Chanyeol's eyes and hair change color, so some think that this is either showing two different versions of Chanyeol who appear in two different time periods or dimensions, or one is Chanyeol the EXO member and one is Chanyeol the X-EXO clone. Often, when you see a character in one of SM's MVs with blue eyes or different eye colors this usually means they are not who they appear to be.
The silhouettes we see behind the lighted white wall or box also could be connected to the silhouettes you will see when you watch EXO's live remixed version of their song "Wolf" in concert. The silhouettes could represent the fact that EXO are battling with X-EXO for control. (And, now, it also could be connected to the silhouettes we see behind the white wall in SHINee's new "Hard" MV.)
The "Chess game" is thought to be supernatural EXO chess, and I don't think it's a game they are playing, but I think maybe it's something they are using to try to decipher a clue or figure out a way out of wherever the Red Force has them trapped at the moment. It's unclear right now what that scene is really telling us, but I have a feeling, things will become clearer in the future as more of EXO's storyline is unveiled in future MVs and as SM's SM Culture Universe storyline continues to evolve.
At one point we see them take those "chess" pieces and put them together to form a larger cube shape, which is thought could possibly be a model of the maze in which they are trapped in. And I think this also may be connected to the cube/labyrinth maze we see floating in the air in WayV's "Love Talk" MV in 2019 and the similar cube we see blocking aespa's way as they travel through Kwangya in aespa's ep. 2 video. And I think it might even be connected to the cubes we see in the sky in Kai's solo "Mmmh" MV in 2020, as well as the labyrinth cube we see SHINee's Key standing on top of in his solo "Gasoline" MV in 2022. (Baekhyun and Kai from EXO, Taemin from SHINee, Taeyong and Mark from NCT, Ten from WayV and Lucas who is a former member of WayV, are all members of the Kpop supergroup SuperM, which I think is why SM is creating connections between all of their groups' storylines, because it's all part of the same story. Plus, everything aespa does is connected to the SM Culture Universe.)
In SuperM's "One (Monster & Infinity)" MV, we see the members using a map to navigate through what is thought could be the maze that the EXO members are trapped in, as SuperM is coming to rescue EXO from the Red Force's control. And it could even have something to do with the fact that we see in SHINee's teaser video for their Hard album, that they are also trying to solve a maze, which -- because Taemin is a member of SuperM -- could possibly be SHINee trying to help EXO as well.
We also see EXO's Sehun (EXO's other main rapper) on the motorcycle in "Tempo", which I now think is connected to the scene where we see him driving a motorcycle in EXO's "Lightsaber" MV and sitting on the motorcycle in their "Don't Fight the Feeling" MV.
In the very last scene in "Tempo", that is Baekhyun with that glass cube. I am not sure what that means, but I am sure it's foreshadowing something to come in the future with EXO's storyline, and it probably has something to do with the fact that Baekhyun is the one that is singled out in most of EXO's story. (We also see Chanyeol with a glass cube, similar to the one Baekhyun has, in their "Love Shot" MV.)
DMUMT is honestly one of my favorite albums.
I love when EXO harmonized it sounds like only one person is singing. Each of them has unique voice but they compliment each other❤
The live performance of all these songs are top notch. Please react to them when you get time
Ooh La La La dance practice and live performance is a must
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Gravity and 24/7 also a must watch)
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Their voices just fits so well together! 🙏🏻 absolutely amazing when they harmonise! ✨
And this album was top tier!!🫶🏻
I’ll write the performances down on my to watch list! ✨ thank you!
And thank you for watching 💎
Lay last participated in the recording of the album Don't fight the feeling in 2021.
In fact, due to the political situation between Korea and China, it was difficult for him to move forward with Exo.
But Lay will have a Korean album coming out soon, maybe we'll see some interaction between the guys.
Thank you for telling me! ✨
But, he’s still part of EXO? That’s what I’ve been told at least 😅 But I’m a bit confused 🙏🏻
@@MimiGemReacts There has been no official announcement of his departure from the group, so the Exo-l still consider Lay to be part of the group and hope for him to reunite with the members. Thank u for your reaction!😊
@@LenaKovl got it! Thanks for telling me! ✨
Thank you for watching 💎🫶🏻
@@MimiGemReactsWe EXO-Ls are also confused, Lay still often talks about his members, He also often likes other members' posts. but the other members never talk about Lay anymore (except Sehun during last year's Fancall). On several occasions, members only mentioned "eight members".
A no skip album for sure ❤
So good! ✨
A little explanation, Hopefully you read it so you don't get confused:
2012:
-)There are 12 members divided into 2 sub units. 1st sub unit is EXO-K (Suho, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai, Sehun) and 2nd sub unit is EXO-M (Kris, Xiumin Luhan, Lay, Chen, Tao). I've read that they went on hiatus for almost a year after their debut.
2013:
-)They made a comeback as a whole group, but there is still a Korean version and a Chinese version.
-)The title track is sung by all members, but the b-side album is sung by each unit, they did this until 2015 (Call Me Baby era)
2014: 2 Chinese members left this year (Kris and Luhan) after comeback (Overdose)
2015:
-)there are 10 members participating in this comeback (Call Me Baby), and after that 1 Chinese members left again (Tao).
-)They comeback again towards the end of the year (Love Me Right). In this comeback, the EXO-K and EXO-M units have been erased, instead they have become a group with 9 members.
-)Starting from this comeback, the title track and b-side were sung by all the members, both the Korean version and the Chinese version. They did this until 2018 even though the only Chinese member (Lay) did not participate in the comeback
2016: There are 9 members
2017: One remaining Chinese member (Lay) is on hiatus so there are only 8 of them making a comeback
2018: This year there were 2 comebacks, in the first comeback there were 9 members (but he didn't participate in promotions), the second was Loveshot, only 8 members participated.
2019: 2 Korean members are serving military service (Xiumin and D.O.), 1 Chinese member (Lay) is still on group hiatus (but still active solo in China). So only 6 members participated in the comeback (Obsession). On this album only the title track has a Chinese version
2020: There is no group comeback, they are doing solo activities. The other 2 members are serving military service (Suho and Chen)
2021: The first 2 members (Xiumin and D.O.) who underwent military service have finished. One Chinese member (Lay) made a comeback with the group. So there are 7 members participating. In the same year 2 other members underwent military service (Baekhyun and Chanyeol)
2022: 3 members (Suho, Chen, and Chanyeol) have finished military service, there is no group comeback, only solo activities
2023: One Chinese member (Lay) is back on hiatus from the group's comeback. One member (Baekhyun) has completed his mandatory military service. So there are 8 members participating. In the same year the last 2 members underwent military service (KAI and Sehun)
Addition:
2016: Lay makes his solo debut. New unit formed (EXO-CBX: Chen Baekhyun and Xiumin)
2019: Chen and Baekhyun made their solo debut. New unit formed (EXO-SC: Sehun and Chanyeol)
2020: Suho and KAI make their solo debut. Lay created his own agency and recruited trainees too (so far 16 people have been introduced to the public)
2021: D.O. make his solo debut
2022: Xiumin make his solo debut
2022: One remaining Chinese member (Lay) announced that he was leaving the agency because his contract had expired. (It's still debatable whether he left the group at once or not, but he still often talks about his members)
2023: Chen, Baekhyun and Xiumin ending their unit and solo contracts with the agency, and they founded an agency with Baekhyun as CEO.
D.O. also left the agency because his contract had expired and he built his own agency. But the four of them did not leave the group
2024: Only 4 members are still in the agency (Suho, Chanyeol, KAI and Sehun), The eight of them will hold a fan meeting this month, there is no definite information regarding the upcoming comeback
Thank you! This is very informative!! ✨ very appreciated! 🫶🏻
@@MimiGemReactsIn this album Lay only participated in the Chinese version of "Tempo", for the b-side he didn't participate at all even in the Chinese version
Don't Mess up my Tempo album is all about getting hurt, betrayed, lied to and broken
Lay has been doing solo activities since 2016 but even during then he was active as an exo member. The last concert & the stage we saw him with exo was in February 2017 as i remember.
Then in 2018, he participated in the DMUMT but he only sang the chinese ver. of Tempo !!
The latest one is Don't Fight The Feeling, in 2021 when exo had only 6 active members, lay joined them !! He was part of the full album but he couldn't physically join due to covid-19.
*During Oasis first verse & first chorus, the lyric video kinda confused with chen & suho !
I really love Smile On My Face maybe bcuz it was Lay's song and I missed him so much then but that song still makes me feel so weird 🥺❤️
And I hope you watch the live stages for Sign & Damage bcuz they are soooo 🔥🔥🔥
Ah okey! Thank you for telling me, always glad to get info on the group! I have so much to learn! ✨
I can absolutely add it to my to watch list! ✨💎
@@MimiGemReacts you can take your time to learn ~ I'm really enjoying your journey with EXO since you started it 🥰
@@byunbhlove thank you! That makes me so happy ✨🫶🏻
If you want to react to the Obsession album or the Don't fight the feeling album, you have to take the video lyric reference from the Oohmaya channel
youtube.com/@oohmaya6202?si=3pYFVbSfZ0A6QD83
Will do! Not sure what album from EXO I'll do next, but I'll check the link out!
Please check out Ooh La la la dance practice and live stage. Gravity was written by Chanyeol and the live stage of it is so fire! ❤❤❤🎉
Writing it down! ✨
Happy Birthday Sehunnie! ❤🎂🎉🎁
I always interpreted 24/7 as a one sided love (bf) or like fwb and one got in love with the other person and they are frustrated that the other one isn’t. Like not as a break up song.
That's what's so beautiful with music! So many different interpretations! I can see what you mean with that 😊
Today is Sehun’s birthday💝💝
Yes it is!!! Our baby Maknae (who's 3 years older than me 'XD) Happy birthday Sehun!! -💕💕
I like to watch live version of their songs,live sing was more amazing and enjoyed their performance,
I did watch some live stages, but TH-cam blocked them 😭 So if you have any live stages recommendations (preferably Korean Stage) you’d like to suggest, then that would be awesome! 🫶🏻✨