hits harder when you remember namjoon told us merry go round was written about the monotonous days of the military and that bts members were put into the harshest bases with some of the worst conditions and they survived that to come back together as a group
sorry but this made me think of jimin saying that namjoon isolated himself and they thought he didn’t like them anymore but they knew he just needed some time bc they’re family and he’ll always come back to them
"You say, with those ridiculously big eyes, are they for real? For real?"
Namjoon pulled such a clever worldplay here. Big eyes - shocked eyes. Big eyes - round eyes of westerns, in opposition to the western stereotype about Asian almond shaped eyes being small
"Oh my god do I look too funny?"
"How are you so shameless
We care about manners, we aliens"
Throughout the whole song, BTS is subtly mocking racist westerns who act shocked that BTS had the AUDACITY to grow beyond Asia and show up in the western industry.
Time after time, it's proven reality.