As a fan of their music, I got confused when I first heard this song. I don't suppose I'm the only one though. I was watching a daily poll of music videos, and because of the stupid Korean invasion in this country, they didn't come at a top spot. And since I'm not much of a person who always feed on updates, I really didn't know they have a new album until August. I was surprised. And I got more and more surprised after I saw the whole video.
The band has been less and less aggressive in their music since they first hit the radio waves and this album is another sign of it. Though like a member of the band had said, "...it's not like it's an experimental album."
To me, as a listener, I heard and felt the meaning, and I've had at least a glimpse of what they probably had been feeling or what emotions were prevailing in their minds when they wrote the songs in this new album. They have created such a clear pathway from their songs to the ears of truly understanding listeners.
The video is more mature and clear. The images playing on Brandon's body is like a view of a man's journey of love, life, survival, and art. Most of them are wearing white in most parts of the video therefore enhancing the effect of simplicity.
There were scenes wherein each of the members of the band is just lying down flat on their backs. I've remembered Leonardo da Vinci's illustration of the Vitruvian man, aside of course from the fact that none of them were naked. And with that in mind, I thought that A person looking at another in a mirror-like fashion, is like someone looking inside his own mind and heart, a man reaching the deep recesses of his soul which is the core from which raw emotions such as his desires, hopes, love, anger, hate, empathy come from. Things which can be expressed in a million ways, such as visual art, music, dance, etc. And when a man is looking inside himself, to a spectator, it's like he is doing nothing, he's just lying there looking at the sky or looking at an empty space of oblivion.
Now, from another angle of view, I say I saw a more mature Brandon. It's all in his eyes. It's in the way he sings. I, for a second, thought that his hair line had gone up, then laughed and thought there's really no way I can tell. For someone who has a high hairline, I was glad he's not doing anything fancy about it, and it kind of made me feel proud of my hairline too. Not that I consider it as a problem, but... well. xD
All the members of the band seem more somber this time, no fancy moves, less distortion on the guitars (I’m not an expert to say though), less fancy video, less fancy lyrics, which all sum up to a clear and a amazing work of art :D
