inspired by hyeautiful on yt as most of you know, newjeans made a comeback with a heartfelt song about having a crush, ditto. i really did like this comeback, but what really caught my attention (get it haha) was the eerie and mysterious music video. set in the time period of 1999-2000, the plot centers around the members of newjeans and one of their friends, ban heesoo. heesoo captures everything that newjeans does with her camcorder with the cast she has on her arm. as she hangs out with newjeans, her pain starts to go away. she starts to develop a crush on one of the boys in her gym class but looks away and tries to brush her feelings to the side as she continues filming newjeans dancing. one time, she goes on a rooftop and is disappointed to find newjeans having fun and dancing without her. soon, heesoo's memories start to glitch and she realizes that newjeans...isn't real. they were all a figment of her imagination. wait...what?? let me explain the symbolism here. heesoo represents us, kpop stans. the cast on her arm represents our emotional pain. newjeans represents kpop idols. her camcorder represents our phone screens, and heesoo's crush represents real life. when heesoo discovers newjeans, her pain starts to go away and she forgets her worries. but she only has one way to hang out with newjeans: her camcorder, which is like our phones and laptops. because of heesoo's obsessive fandom over newjeans, she forgets about real life and her crush. we, as kpop stans, often tend to say, "kpop saved my life." however, kpop does not define our whole identites. so apparently, heesoo can't live without newjeans, but newjeans can live without heesoo. realizing this, heesoo goes to a high place and drops her camcorder, thus destroying the one thing that defines her identity, but doing this she is able to spend more time in real life. later in the music video, heesoo is an adult looking at old things in her attic. she comes across the tapes from her destroyed camcorder and watched them, remembering all the fun times she had with newjeans, but also realizing, trying new things was for the better. she is shown getting teary eyed, but smiles at the memories of hanging out with her old friends. i hope this helped because this took a long time to figure out lmao but i love newjeans lore :)
