The next verse elaborates on this further: “I want these moments to all be false / I hope these are passing delusions / If through wet tears, / through belated regrets / If only I could return, return yeah.”Īgain, at the start of the prechorus, Jiu raises her rapier to point at Yoohyeon over the same lyrics. The rest of the chorus is filled with pain and a desire for change to what had previously happened. Jiu stands next to Yoohyeon, just as Judas sat next to Jesus.īetween this moment and the next chorus, the lyrics only further develop this regret and sadness. “Oh Deja Vu Oh Deja Vu Oh Deja Vu” kicks off the chorus, the repetition of the words “Deja Vu” reinforcing the idea that this is happening over and over again. The betrayal scene is broken up by a recreation of the last supper, the girls all standing at a table filled with food. She laments that “It grows more painful every day,” lending credence to the theory that everything she’s witnessing is repetitive, part of a groundhog’s day type loop. Once again, the lyrics reflect Yoohyeon’s emotions. In Yoohyeon’s eyes, we see nothing but confusion and sadness as one of her closest friends so brazenly double crosses her. In this scene, we witness Yoohyeon lying on the floor, staring at Jiu who’s leveling a sword at her. This is likely due to her blaming Jiu for catching the spider that cursed them. Yoohyeon seems to see Jiu as a symbol of her betrayal and the blonde girl appears multiple times in this way. We get a visual depiction of this in the next scene. She’s just sad and confused, trying to process her newfound loneliness in this “dense fog.” She’s starting the deja vu process, reliving the pain that initially plagued her.
“Far away through the dense fog / The far path I departed on only left hurtful marks / Even as I try to grasp the ends of the dream eventually, longer and longer, / I fall asleep in a deep silence.” In the context of this video, these words seem to describe Yoohyeon’s initial reaction to being abandoned. The following lyrics match the idea I presented in my intro: that Yoohyeon is hurt because of her friends’ betrayals. This represents her entering the mindscape we’re about to view. She sits down and closes her eyes, allowing thick black smoke to entirely engulf her. The music video open with Yoohyeon approaching a dais and the throne atop it. She has a lot of really good dreamcatcher mv gifs and I would highly recommend checking her out :) She then haunted them through their nightmares, possessed by the spirit of the witch. To escape, they had to sacrifice and abandon one girl: Yoohyeon. Alas, their freedom was short lived as the witch hunted them down. They all escaped when they stole a book from a ghost hunter and trapped him in the other world in their stead. The spider turned out to be a witch who transported them into a sort of parallel universe where they existed on the physical plane as ghosts only. The other girls, namely Yoohyeon, tormented the poor creature. The girls all used to attend a boarding school but, one day, Jiu found a spider in the woods and captured it. My theory is heavily based on the Dreamcatcher cinematic universe so I’ll go over it quickly for those who are unfamiliar.
In honor of her return and her birthday, I have decided to honor Deja Vu with a theory that I’ve been sitting on for the last two years. Unfortunately, it would also be Handong’s last comeback until this year. My first regular (read: non-Japanese) comeback with them was Deja Vu. It wasn’t hard for me to fall in love with them. I’ve always been an avid fan of rock music and was intrigued by a girl group that had a discography renown for that very genre. I first heard of Dreamcatcher in 2019 after the release of Piri.
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