Imagine how pissed Bang Si Hyuk to go through chasing trends and western validation so desperately only to have the same SM creators he despised a decade ago to outdo him without losing the essence of Kpop
the fact that damn near every kpop mv made in 2020 looked god awful bc everything had to be filmed either on greenscreens or in the same 5 locations with heavy reliance on cgi bc of the pandemic 😭😭😭
"As I always say, the reason we study history is so we don't repeat the wrong parts of it. So I think it's really important to read books like [Animal Farm] and study."