If the figure on the cake is Marie Antoinette, then this scene becomes one of the darkest metaphors in Normal.
A cake is meant to be admired, celebrated, shared, and ultimately consumed. The moment the knife cuts into it, the image begins to disappear. That mirrors celebrity almost perfectly.
Society creates an icon, places them on a pedestal, celebrates them, and then slowly consumes them until nothing remains but the image they projected.The Normal MV already questions what it means to perform "normal."
A birthday cake is one of the most ordinary symbols of celebration, yet instead of a name or birthday message, its centerpiece is Marie Antoinette—a historical figure whose legacy has been shaped as much by myth and public perception as by reality.
She's become less of a person and more of a symbol.
It's almost as if the celebration isn't for the individual at all, but for the persona people have created.
They're not celebrating the person—they're celebrating the story, the image, the spectacle.What makes the scene even more unsettling is where the knife lands. It cuts directly through the center of Marie Antoinette, almost like a surgical incision.
Throughout Normal, BTS blur the line between identity and perception, between who they are and who the world believes them to be. Cutting through her image feels like an attempt to dismantle that illusion.
Before you can reach what's real, you have to destroy the version everyone has been consuming.Marie Antoinette's story also carries another layer of meaning. Whether or not every story about her is historically accurate, she has become a cultural icon remembered more for the narrative built around her than for the person she actually was.
In many ways, that's exactly what Normal seems to be exploring: how public figures stop being seen as human beings and instead become symbols—admired, criticized, romanticized, and consumed by everyone else.
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🔗 Jin: https://t.co/NTmJuxOhDi
🔗 SUGA: https://t.co/WXg657sXRf
🔗 j-hope: https://t.co/nHNSMRv80P
#BTS#방탄소년단#BTS_NORMAL
This part in particular where all seven of them are together but all in their own heads carrying their own doubts, questions or just exhausted…linking to the lyrics
Sorry for being late (I set the alarm on the wrong timezone 😫).
Here are the first 2 playlists.
Spotify.
No1 is focused on all NORMAL versions + 1st part of ARIRANG
No2 same + 2nd part of ARIRANG
https://t.co/54yRXShFim
https://t.co/Q46bTWMl2P