In the second repetition of the chorus, a few more dance moves are revealed: Hip thrusts paired with Michael Jackson-esque crotch grabs and body rolls against the pristine floors are executed with more lower body movement than strictly necessary. Given the plentiful religious imagery littered throughout the music video - like “The Fall of the Rebel Angels” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depicting angels driving their fallen brethren from Heaven “Pietà” by Michelangelo, a sculpture of the crucified body of Jesus Christ laying across Mary’s lap or the shot of BTS standing around a long dinner table laden with silverware, mimicking da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” – this choreography signals the intrinsic ignorance of humanity and their willful defiance of God.
In sync with the beat drop, all the members simultaneously tip their heads back to the ceiling and flutter the fingers of one hand over their eyes as a makeshift blindfold. From their “blood, sweat, and tears” to their “body, mind, and soul,” BTS seems to invite either their lover or a higher power to “take them all away.”īy the time the first breathy verse falls away into an addictive, synth-heavy breakdown, BTS is already arranged in perfect formation, standing like a tableau at the center of the tiled floor. No doubt, the set and costumes reeking of material excess are a gesture towards the level of desperation tingeing the song, in that if all this luxury still cannot satisfy BTS, they must be craving something that necessitates the sacrifice of possessions much more intimate and precious than money. Even surrounded by gleaming marble pillars and artfully posed statues, the boys don’t look the slightest bit out of place in their trappings of velvet brocade topped with sequin embellishments. The video starts with the members of BTS – RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Jungkook – frolicking in what looks like a museum exhibit or the lobby of a glamorous manor. Upon a second viewing, however, the visual elements seem to twist and redirect the longing sentiments of the lyrics towards general sin rather than a romantic partner, transforming BTS’ colorful music video into a surprisingly serious rumination on human nature. At first glance, the music video seems thematically incongruous with the lyrics, which speak of a desire to give in to the temptation of a potentially toxic love.
Shockingly enough, BTS manages not to skimp on the complex, energetic choreography that they’re so beloved for while still fitting a storyline laced with religious imagery into six minutes’ worth of video. 10, 2016 and directed by YongSeok Choi and Edie YooJeong Ko, the music video for “Blood Sweat & Tears” is a visual cacophony of whimsical grandeur, filled with shots of spacious rooms bedecked with glittering chandeliers and Renaissance paintings. BTS’ sophomore studio album, “Wings,” is particularly noteworthy for its simultaneously ethereal and haunting soundscape as well as its iconic title song, “Blood Sweat & Tears.” Released Oct. The two additional numbers bring the running time up to 48 minutes, and it's mid-priced, too, which makes it even easier to junk the old version and get hold of this one.Before BTS rocketed to international fame and transformed into a hit generator, cranking out one synth-heavy track after another with Billboard Hot 100’s flavor of the week as a featured artist (see “Boy with Luv” feat. The new release also re-creates the packaging of the original LP, with reviewers' quotes across the band's prime years (1968-72) and a time line history, as well as release and production information on each song. And those numbers now sport state-of-the-art sound - hard, up-front bass and drums, horns that pour out of the speakers, and close and intimate singing from David Clayton-Thomas (or, on the two BS&T Mark 1 tracks here, Al Kooper and Steve Katz). To serious fans, it's sort of Blood, Sweat & Tears-lite, but to millions of listeners, it's these shorter versions, shorn of their extended album-version breaks, by which they know the band best. What distinguishes Blood, Sweat & Tears' Greatest Hits from the double-CD Sony-Legacy compilation What Goes Up: The Best of Blood, Sweat & Tears, however, is that this disc uses the single edits of the hits. Columbia-Legacy went back and recompiled this multi-million selling album (previously available as a fairly lackluster 40-minute, 11-song CD), adding two songs ("So Long Dixie" and "More and More,") that were previously available only on singles from 19, respectively, and upgrading the sound. This disc is no substitute for the Mastersounds version of the Child Is Father to the Man album, or the Mobile Fidelity version of Blood, Sweat and Tears, but it is a really smart idea.
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