Saraux & That 🏁

she/her 22 INFP
army ot7 *rm and jk*, stay 💗 ot8 *innie* | 22.07.25 Skz ♡ | 12.09.25 MuBank | 09.05.26 Twice | 02.07.26 BTS 🥹 |

[Yang Jeongin • 6/14/25 ❤️🍋 & that @YANG__JEONGINNN]

this is genuinely one of their best songs ever

[𝐴𝑠ℎ⁷ @kthnoir7]

Normal tells its story in three acts.

It begins with celebration.

The rooms are overflowing with people, music, laughter, dancing, birthday cake, and conversation. Every frame feels alive. They're completely immersed in the moment, celebrating the simple joy of existing together. It's messy, loud, and wonderfully imperfect—the kind of night where time dissolves because you're surrounded by the people who make you feel at home.

But every celebration has a morning after.

The next time we see them, everything has changed.

The noise has disappeared. The room is almost silent. They're scattered throughout the space, each sitting alone despite occupying the same room. No one is performing anymore. The adrenaline has faded, leaving behind nothing but exhaustion.

Taehyung's bruises become impossible to ignore. Whether they're literal or symbolic almost doesn't matter. They tell us the same thing: the night left its mark. Every member looks worn down, carrying traces of something the audience never fully witnessed. The joy was real, but so was the cost of living through it.

And yet, the story refuses to end there.

In the final act, they're transformed once again.

They're dressed in immaculate black suits, standing shoulder to shoulder for what appears to be a formal portrait. Their posture is composed. Their expressions are calm. Beside them stand dogs, introducing an unexpected sense of warmth and quiet after everything that came before.

That's why I think the ending is the emotional core of the video. It doesn't erase the celebration, nor does it deny the exhaustion. Instead, it acknowledges both before showing us what comes next.

Because life doesn't stop after the party ends. You wake up tired. You carry the bruises no one else notices. You straighten your jacket. You stand in front of the camera.

You smile.

The photograph becomes the memory everyone else keeps but only the people inside that photograph know everything that happened before the shutter clicked.

Maybe that's the irony behind Normal. We often think of "normal" as a single emotional state—as happiness or sadness, celebration or grief, success or exhaustion. But this music video suggests that normal has never been one thing. It's the entire cycle. The highs. The lows. The silence after the music ends. The resilience required to get dressed the next morning and face the world again.

After thirteen years, perhaps that's what BTS are trying to say.

Life isn't defined solely by standing ovations, nor by the bruises left behind once the crowd goes home. It's defined by the willingness to experience both—to embrace the joy, endure the aftermath, and still find the strength to stand beside the people you love when the camera starts rolling again.

Maybe that is what it truly means to be normal.

[Ayen On Top 👣 @top_ayen]

ㅤ ‧₊˚ 🩷 ‧₊𓏲 ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖🌸. ‧₊˚ 🩵 ‧₊𓏲 ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖🎐

[Stray Kids @Stray_Kids]

Hello, TASY⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ | Official Character of STAY

https://t.co/3osmSVvVsJ

별빛을 따라가다 만난
새로운 친구, TASY˶ᐢ. .ᐢ˵

🅢🅣🅐🅨
⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆
🅣🅐🅢🅨

#StrayKids #스트레이키즈
#TASY #테이지
#SKZOO #스키주
#YouMakeStrayKidsStay

[Carolyne🌱⁷⁼¹ SAW BTS @mhereonlyforbts]

NOT AN ARMY TELLING HOBI THAT THE LAMP BEHIND HIM LOOK LIKE HES WEARING A CROWN AND THE WAY HE JUST IMITATED THE STATUE OF LIBERTY😭😭

[faiꪆৎ @myyouwithjk]

jungkook was dancing to save me and forgot the choreo and started whining IM CRYINGGGGGG HE IS SO CUTEE 😭😭😭😭

[elle⁷ is so normal about aRMs @arirangrkive]

this love will never be onesided 🥺

[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

I love how they are pushing for us, because they know Europe can be loud, and they want to see that energy at every stop 🔥

[TG @taeguide]

Taehyung: “Hey London Army don’t let the other cities win. Let’s make the London the loudest tour stop!”

[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

Stray kids scary concept???

[Stray Kids @Stray_Kids]

TEST

https://t.co/OyAMU8mjDG

#StrayKids #스트레이키즈
#YouMakeStrayKidsStay

[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

Precisei de uns dias para processar o concerto dos BTS..., estou completamente apaixonada pelas vozes e a presença deles no palco, eles são incríveis e ainda não acredito que ouvi a For Youth e a On ao vivo, não podia ter sido melhor 🥹

[𝐴𝑠ℎ⁷ @kthnoir7]

I think when for youth started playing they realised that they made it, the entire enlistment, the entire ambiguity, the entire “will army stay” mindset, at that very precise moment they realised that they came back and they came back stronger than ever. https://t.co/9KztB0rdhq

[Lia @rkiveforlive]

One day Day one

[ajk ⋆ @archiveforJK]

“i’ll be with you for the rest of my life” and he FELT that 😭🥹❤️‍🩹

[aru⁷ ⋆ @baesggukie]

how do i explain this feeling of bts performing for youth to someone who didn't wait 4 years for them?

[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

@dailyinnieluv

[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

@hyunhopudding Omggg, congrats!! 🥳🫶🏻

[Chris & That @gnabnahctext]

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[Saraux & That 🏁 @yanfeiiscool]

@molemates Portugal!