Seeing the BTS sailing on a sailboat, scrubbing the deck like a 16th century cabin boy and pulling a rope thicker than the entire crew lined up, is the equivalent of watching a version of ‘Master and Commander’ done in the style of ‘Bugsy Malone, grandson of Al Capone’.
Conceived as a dreamlike escape, the video for ‘Swim’ (single from the album ‘ARIRANG’) stars a woman (Lili Reinhart, known for the series ‘Riverdale’) who, compass in hand, seems to have “lost her way.” In the Hall of Discoveries of the Lisbon Navy Museum she gets a Proust-like muffin-like dizziness that transports her to a frigate sailing under full sail across the Atlantic.
What follows is a mix of Jean Paul Gaultier-style sailor pop imagery and a naval romantic fantasy that could well be titled like Camela’s classic: ‘When love sets sail’.
Tanu Muino, director of ‘Chicken Teriyaki’ by Rosalía or the award-winning ‘Montero (Call Me by Your Name)’ by Lil Nas spyglass -, arranged through the use of slow motion, perhaps as a way of underlining the dreamlike nature of the narrative.
Taking into account the commotion that arose with the recruitment of the band members to do the military, could ‘Swim’ be seen as a nod to the military service they completed a year ago?
