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I finally got the YG explanation. At first I thought CL was Nino Brown, but
that would make no sense for a KPop group to promote selling drugs if Danny
can get a year for a little weed. The message is good, especially for kids
of this generation.
And just in agreement, I have been a Minzy an since I found out about 2NE1
3-4 years ago. So, I’m not coming for her…I’ve already been here ;)
COURTNEY YOUR HAIR LOOKS AMAZING!!
I just wish the video had been a bit clearer. I want to enjoy the story as
I watch the video for the first time. I hate having to go around and find
an explanation that honestly still makes no sense to me.
the best analysis I have found so far: SO yeah because I’m so amazed at
this MV I searched on what it means and the hell it is really deep.
I may not hit everything, but I hope this gets some to understand the
video’s storyline a bit
The music video starts off with a setting that looks like it came from a
science fiction movie, with a blue virtual billboard that read, “Virtual
Paradise”. Right away, I made a loud and deadpanning, “Oh” at the now
seemingly obvious clue. I will go back to this later when we hit Actress
Dara.
Next follows a shot of what looks like an abandoned lab or factory, with
this very light and faint pink hue emitting from the corners of the shot.
Notice that besides these colors, the rest are quite muted/desaturated, as
if something has sucked the “life” in this world. Using some color
symbolism, it’s safe to say that the current world that 2NE1 is in isn’t
actually “paradise” after all.
The drums hit, and we are shown that the lifeless futuristic world has
changed into a more chic and colorful version as Chaelin starts to sing,
spray painting the wall with pink. It’s rebellious, but not as overtly so
like 2NE1’s last spraypainting job in UGLY a few years ago.
Another cut to a young man’s hand twitching to…virtual glasses? That
escalated quickly! Another cut of this small box that seems to be keeping
this man in what looks like hibernation mode, but we might have a hint as
to why.
After Minzy’s cut, we see Actress!Dara laying on the couch with the same
dude hooked up like those guys inAvatar, holding each other, denoting that
these two are lovers. The shot cuts to the TV running an advertisement of
dun, dun, dun, “Virtual Paradise”!
Turns out that “Virtual Paradise” billboard is advertising a program that
gives people the chance to be euphorically happy, even though it’s just a
figment of your imagination + some cool ass technology. Sounds super cool,
but as we see later, we realize it’s definitely, definitely not.
Knowing this, Dara looks back at her lover, her eyes spell worry.
Why? Cause her boyfriend is not necessarily the happiest person on Earth
and is currently taking medications to alleviate his depression. Upon
seeing the ad, he crushes his pills with a metal spoon as Dara sings “You
said it was for my own good/and you turned away coldly like a lie”, which
pretty much says, “Hey, I’m going to go do that Virtual Paradise program so
I can truly be happy”. This scene also pans out to show all the
grayness/desaturation, symbolizing not only the dystopian world that they
currently live in, but also, their broken bond with each other.
Next, we see Minzy and Bom in the laboratory (with very vibrant blue!!)
with scientific lab stuff without lab safety equipment (cause they’re too
cool for that) testing something. The question remains: what are they
testing? Is it new technology to make people go into a deeper artificial
happiness or the opposite?
After some more solo singing shots, we see the guy shaving his head, which
could symbolize a sincere apology in Asian cultures, or a sort of rebirth
or transformation (even though the guy doesn’t turn out to build a meth
empire). Either way, the shaving does not make Dara happy as she quietly
cries at her boyfriend’s delusional dream to find eternal happiness,
despite where it came from.
And then we get to the trap break, which I like to call, the very
trippy/LSD part of the music video. CL, after wandering around,
spraypainting shit, finds what might be a Virtual Paradise network hub and
smashes it. The VP billboard wanes a bit before bright, flashing (and
vibrant!!) images come up, showing CL and Dara repeating “Come back home”
and the infamous “Come, baby baby, come come, baby”.
Looking at this part alone, we can see that “come back home” has double
meaning. For one, the song talks about a girl asking her boy to return back
to her and in the music video, given its context, ChaeRa is begging the
people of this society to come back to reality (home), because being all
high and happy is not really living.
After this, we see CL opening the doors (wow super bright light behind her
I wonder what that means), delivering the rap in the unplugged version:
“The only thing left here is your shadow
My longing for you tortures me more than my loneliness
Seems like I can catch the sound of your laughter
But the moments weakly scatter like a sand castle
Every night, I get nightmares
Even in my dreams, I call out your name
In a time where everything changes, the one thing that doesn’t change
Is that I’m your queen, you’re my ruler”
The lyrics definitely match the mood/theme of the music video, casually
mentioning the root of the problem of this dystopian world. Everyone feels
all alone and scared, and, rather than facing it and changing themselves,
people decide to hide away behind an artificial mask of happiness.
During CL’s rap, we can see a looot of pink light in the laboratory,
symbolizing unconditional love and affection, which has been said to be the
solution of loneliness and purposelessness (x). With this, we can say that
2NE1 is fighting against the system.
In this scene, we also see trees for the first time, which symbolizes life
(contrasting to the dullness and gray from the environment earlier in the
music video). In fact, Minzy drives somewhere with the trees later on, with
also a pink light emitting on her face.
We go back to the “happy” boyfriend, still lifeless in bed with his
virtually perfect life as Dara stares on, perhaps jealous because he chose
it over her or regret that she didn’t do anything about it or maybe even
both. Either way, she comes up, wearing pink (!!!) and rips off the helmet
off of her boyfriend to snap him out of the false reality that he’s made.
The video left that subplot in ambiguity, not telling us if he died from
that or if he woke up.
During this, we have cuts showing that wow, 2NE1 is also hooked up to the
program as well, but instead of falling deep into the virtual world, is
using it to break the system. Here, we are able to distinguish the real
world (muted/desaturated colors and the fake virtual world (vibrant,
colorful).
Moving on, we see Bom singing at a dinner (featuring white people wearing
more white and goldheadpieces), reminiscent of Kanye’s Runaway short film
dinner scene. Turns out this scene is Bom’s version of her perfect world.
The world shatters as CL comes around again with her pink spraypaint and
Minzy’s well-prepared molotov cocktails (???), looking very angry.
Aand the dinner gets destroyed and ruined by the fire and the pink plume of
smoke. It doesn’t look that bad of course, considering that they’re doing
this out of ~love~.
The trap part happens again and more calls for people to rise up and rebel
against 2NE1 yay
Now we see a blue tunnel with the same pink smoke going around as many wake
up from autopilot to join forces with the girl. They march on and on,
looking all serious with the torches and metal bats. We get the last few
close up shots with the members before we go back to the overview of the
city burning in pink orange flames, showing the fucked up society has been
overruled by love as the virtual world breaks down.
The camera zooms out as we see the real world not to gray and ew anymore,
but gray with a bit of pink. 2NE1’s rebellion is a success as the world is
all good again.
Ending comments: This video reminds me a lot about Aldous Huxley’s Brave
New World with the whole futuristic dystopian society setting and also, the
idea of people wishing to be numb from pain, believing that it’s better
than facing the music. In a way, 2NE1’s Virtual Paradise is simply a revamp
of the book’s soma,a pill that takes the user to a pleasurable and
pain-free “holiday”. Like Huxley, 2NE1 fights against this, believing that
by knowing and understanding pain, suffering and loneliness, can we really
know what happiness and love is.
With influences from Avatar, Inception, and many other “escape reality”
science fiction movies/books, 2NE1 does an amazing job of not only giving
us an awesome music video, but making a comment about us and the world
itself. Are we truly living or are we wearing our “Virtual Paradise”
sunglasses?
This is what the MV meant!
He [YG] added, “The MV of “COME BACK HOME” is set in a near-future city,
and the concept is that people in this era prefer the virtual world over
the real one, just like the movie ‘Matrix’.”
“These days when people meet they look into the screens of their phones
instead of having a conversation, which shows an addiction to cell phones
and games. I think this behavior demonstrates that people like the virtual
world. Even at playgrounds kids play with cell phones, and this will worsen
in the future and people will be more enthusiastic about the virtual world
than the real one.”
He continued, “In the MV of ‘COME BACK HOME,’ DARA is heartbroken by a man
she is in love with, as he prefers the virtual world. For these reasons,
the four members of 2NE1, DARA, CL, BOM and MINZY enter the virtual world
themselves and turn into warriors to destroy that world. Through this, we
tried to convey the message of how important the real world is, and about
the human touch.”
YG said something about this video at the interview. Basically Dara’s
boyfriend is sick and suffering depression, who keeps on connecting himself
to Virtual Paradise to comfort himself. This represent people who get
addicted to the Internet world. As you see in the lab scene,, 2NE1 members
make some stuff that enable them to enter the Virtual Paradise and destroy
it. If you have the lyrics, they perfectly match with the video, which is
to call those internet addicted to the real world asking them not to leave
the girls alone in the cold real world. — the real world is cold but guys,
do not leave your beloved and run away to the cyber world alone. — that’s
the message of the video.
Here’s one of the theories on this MV that i found pretty accurate,
hopefully it will shed some light to some of you 🙂
http://kpoptimeout.tumblr.com/post/78423890849/k-pop-mv-meanings-2ne1-come-back-home
To me, it’s like Inception : they’re going to that “Virtual Paradise” to
destroy it because Dara’s husband became addicted to his appareance and
started to leave Dara behind…. But I’m not sure :D
Yay! Finally some 2NE1 from you guys!
ALBUM REVIEW PLS.
They are rebelling towards the virtual world, which is is the so called
“perfection”. They are planning their ideas of destroying it therefore,
planning chemicals on the lab. This is something like the hunger games.
found this. hope it helps~
seunghyonq.tumblr.com/post/78420812659/come-back-home-m-v-analysis
Dara’s boyfriend was disillusioned with life and became obsessed in the
virtual paradise. So she and the rest of the girls began working on
infiltrating the virtual world to destroy it which they did.
On another note, both Courtney and Jasmine can get it. Girls, if yall
reading this, get at me. I got paper and it’s nothing for me to take both
of you to Seoul for the summer. Only us three though….
yea, i had to watch it 3 more times before i got a good idea. I think you
guys had the right idea with the ‘matrix’ analogy. the only thing is that i
don’t think dara’s man was sick….but was ‘addicted’ to the virtual
paradise (which explains why there wasn’t anyone else living in this
‘futuristic’ world) and why everyone was wearing those things over their
eyes. dara pulling the plug was, i think her trying to unplug the guy from
the virtual world (tho it looked unsuccessful)
The weed lab looked like they were making gas canisters or something to
rebel against the virtual world everybody was in. And that’s why you see at
the end of the mv all those people behind 2ne1, because they were ‘freed’
from the virtual paradise after they wrecked white room.