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We are honored 📀! @RIAA Thank you for all the love toward 'The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION' 💚

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TheNameChapter #TEMPTATION

⠀ ⠀ ⠀♡⃝⠀𓈒⠀✾ ི i th𓂂inׅk i m࣪is̲s u۫ 4e࣪va ܂܂܂⠀⸙

daydreamin with beomgyu🧸

my daydream has been disturbed.... 🌿🎶

너가 난 너가 좋아 죽겠는데 ￣￣￣ ੭ ❪ 🌿 ❫

࣪⭑ ⊹ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤTaeJun ￣￣￣ ⌇ ࣪ ♱ — • ୧ ‧₊˚ 🍵

HES SO GORGEOUS LIKE LOOK AT THIS MAN HES GLOWING

TXT - The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION (ticket versions)

: Today’s edit for my Redbubble shop

txt - devil by the window

tomorrow x together

THE NAME CHAPTER: TEMPTATION

CONCEPT PHOTOS: LULLABY

TXT's The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION will be the first instalment of a new series focusing on the theme of youth facing temptation. The January 27th release date was already foreshadowed back in the Japanese MV of Good Boy Gone Bad, where 1:27 appeared on the phone screen of the girl at the beginning of the video.

In the latest teaser the concept was introduced with the Thursday's Child logo getting lost in a psychedelic fantasy of swirling greens and pinks. A cryptic message can be heard in the background, and once reversed, the voice says: "It's so sweet but I should find my name".

The message implies that the concept will focus on the boys facing a sweet temptation that they will have to overcome in order to find their name. As we know from The Star Seekers, the name is something directly connected to one's true purpose, identity and inner power.

Finding your True Name allows you to begin your path towards self-realisation and by the end of minisode 2, Thursday's Child has Far to Go foreshadowed that they were on their way towards that destination.

With The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION, however, things change because even if Thursday's Child wants to move forward and grow from the mistakes of the past, the whisper of the Devil holds him back. In the concept trailer we saw that this devilish voice belonged to a creature with odd eyes, and in the behind the scenes, Huening Kai confirmed it was none other than the odd-eyed cat, whose eyes were modified in post-production possibly to add a new layer of trickery to this already unsettling character.

In The Name Chapter, this odd-eyed devil tempts Thursday's Child to leave the path of growth and join him in the magical world of their imagination where they can be forever young.

Like in the trailer, the album description references Peter Pan to get the point across. The Devil is like Peter taking the Lost Boys to Neverland and TXT are like Wendy and the Darling Children getting lured in by this entity who teaches them to fly. "Too tempting to ignore", the boys hold the devil's hand as they stray from the right path and start defying gravity. Interestingly enough, the reference to them "defying gravity" might also be a callback to Defying Gravity, which is a song from the musical Wicked, the prequel to The Wizard of Oz. That is a story that has already a lot in common with TXT's concept, but in this specific case, Defying Gravity is even more fitting because that song marks the moment Elphaba actually turns wicked.

Since the goal of the odd-eyed cat/devil is to make them "leave tomorrow behind" and forget about all the responsibilities and worries that they have, TXT will have to "Remember their Name" in order to return on the right path.

Happy Taehyun day!

Txt - Sugar rush ride mv 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

The mv is so aesthetic and pretty 🥲✨

I love it

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝗺𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐓𝐞𝗺𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝗼𝐧

Concept Photo ‘Nightmare’

Sugar Rush Ride MV as a possible metaphor for predatory relationships (Meta)

I posted this piece on TXT’s subreddit, but they removed it because they said my subject matter is too triggering. Screw them. Reposting here because I’d like to share it nonetheless.

Thematically, Sugar Rush Ride is about the loss of innocence, about youth and temptation (as per the name of the chapter), and also about that niche intersection between trickery and seduction.

The music video conjures images of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, but, of course, with a darker, and a more sexual twist. When I say this concept is sexual, I want to emphasize that I do NOT think that the MV and choreography are designed to sexualize the boys in the eyes of the audience at all. Rather, I see the choreography as an illustration or as a performance of sexuality, in as much as sexuality is typically a part of boyhood, and I see the MV as a depiction of sexuality in its adolescent or its "blooming phase" (note the vivid colours in the MV, the numerous vines and flowers, the clothes falling off their bodies; gardens and flowers are inherently symbolic of growth and sexuality). This MV is about eroticism and the relationship between the Ego and the Body. It's about the self-discovery aspect of sexuality and, by consequence, about the temptation and internal conflicts that arise during one's sexual awakening (especially if there are taboo undertones to it). We see multiple instances of the boys gasping, repeatedly touching their own necks and bodies, performing gestures that are explicitly reminiscent of being in the all-consuming throes of pleasure. Through this blissful awakening, the "devil" starts tempting the subject to give up even more of themselves, with the promise of a sugar rush (an emotional or sexual high) as a reward for further compliance. I find it hard to believe the devil isn’t a categorically older figure based on the lyrics, and based on how trust and deception form part of the narrative.

The boys are swept off their feet into a world of magic, of passion and fruitfulness, of wonder and pleasure, which all bring to mind the explosion of feeling and sensation that adolescence and self-discovery can evoke. I want to reiterate, the orgasmic motifs in the MV and choreography are not for the pleasure of the audience - it's more of a storytelling element in the context of the choreo than it exists for the purpose of sexualizing anyone. It aims to represent pleasure and sensation than to seeks to please or to seduce. The subject, in this case, the boys, is leaving childhood and entering a new world, now transcendant as they move away from childhood innocence into adulthood. Likewise, the sugar motif is quite obviously deliberate - it evokes images of hyperactive children, but also of Lolita's red lollipop. But this beautiful world of desire, symbolized by the Bali landscape in the MV, didn't come at no cost. We know they were brought there by the "devil", with his pretty words and with his promises. The boys have been tempted and they've been tricked. The devil beckoning the boys with literal, actual sugar speaks to the age old warning we give to childen: don't take candy from strangers. In this way, I believe devil is not another child or another adolescent. The devil, someone they've come to trust and believe in, is manipulating them with the “sugar”, with the candy, with the high of the sugar rush. Likewise, I think the outro where they directly call the devil who is their seducer "sugar" speaks to elements of fondness and of betrayal.

All highs have a comedown. The once wonderful butterflies (Nabokov himself was a butterfly scientist, by the way) are now pests and beasts. This world they've crash landed to like castaways is no longer a paradise or a welcome escape from reality; it’s actually turning against them. The subject, that is, the boys, has been precocious, and it's only the new pleasure of erotic tempation and sexual satisfaction that's keeping this charade going. Childhood is over by virtue of the sexual awakening and by the evident corruption of their innocence by the devil, and there's no deserting what they've experienced. What's also over is the sugar rush from the “sugar” they were tempted to swallow, and now is time for the crash, which is likely why they're leaving the island at the end of the MV. For this reason, I think the story of the Sugar Rush Ride music video speaks to having one's innocence lost and also simultaneously having a precocious sexual awakening by someone who's manipulative, and also likely much older.

It's astronomy, we're two worlds apart ㅆ ☁️˖ ࣪⭑੭ ㅤㅤㅤㅤ˖ ࣪⭑ ⊹🎐

ᴶᵘˢᵗ ᵏⁱˢˢ ʰⁱᵐ ￣￣￣ ⠀︖﹖soo⠀⎯⠀kai°｡⋆ From far away, I wish I'd stayed with you