On Tuesday, Nov. 10, MINO released a personal commentary on his music video for "Run Away" from his second full album "TAKE." You can read the translated version of the commentary below.
MINO starts off by describing the place, saying, "This place is Jeju Island, guys. The people in the subway were professional dancers. The scene was realistic because among them were older actors too. When I had the director, one of the requests I had made was that I wanted an imaginary character pop up out of the blue. So I had suggested that idea and they portrayed it so well with such a cute character, And I was thrilled with the outcome."
Then he pointed out that in one particular scene, only the shoes seem to be moving while the body is missing. He said, "Only the shoes move here. I'm looking here and there, and the shoes start walking alone. One of the films I like is called 'Mood Indigo,' and there's a scene in that movie where just the shoes go somewhere. It portrayed the rushed, heart-pounding emotion through that I liked that scene so much, so I did a homage and put it in the M/V. I think it turned out so well. But when I filmed this, the director was wearing green stockings and walked around. It was enjoyable to see someone wearing chroma-key stockings. It turned out to be an excellent memory for all of us. I'm such a good runner."
MINO further pointed out how the direction was done precisely to his taste, and all sorts of special effects were employed to that end. He said, "The water is graphic by the way. This scene is actually where we put the most effort into because all the people and objects in the background except me move backward. I'm walking straight forward, but everything else is moving backward. Isn't that such an amazing technique? It's entertaining. The butterfly keeps appearing."
Next, MINO moves on to Yoon's special appearance in the music video, saying, "Guys, YOON is in this scene. YOON had come to the set with coffee just for encouragement. I was thankful he had come. So I asked him to appear as a cameo to celebrate the moment. How special is it that both of us are in the M/V? That's why this scene looks so good. He's an actor too. Wow, looks so cool! I liked this set."
Regarding the sunflower field, MINO excitedly revealed that "All these flowers bloomed in an empty subway like a jungle. A sense of emptiness had been left all alone. That's the overall atmosphere of this set. This part is cool. In this last chorus, when I say 'Run away,' the way the scene changes like that is just like how CG is done with 3D scanning in movies through the 360-degree transition technique. It's such an amazing effect. No matter how many times I watch it, it still looks cool. I think it's an M/V where realistic and unrealistic aspects are combined in harmony."
"I want to say thank you to all our directors and I wanna check out the reactions for the M/V. Let's see what their viewing of the M/V was. There's a funny comment here: 'A masterpiece has come. A masterpiece for Amazing Saturday. I can already see the members getting stressed over this. I can't recognize you even when you are right up close. I will give up while I am looking. How can we guess this? MINO Oppa is a great artist for sure.'"
Then he continued reading the comments, "A lot of people are saying the M/V is artistic. One commenter even said, 'KING,' and he has more than 400 comments. All it says is KING. Thank you. Another one said 'Who fried MINO's hair? LOL.' I told them to fry it for me. Another one said, 'There are two lobsters on MINO's hair.'
Wow, this part is the next level. I've only felt this after listening to Outsider's Loner—shock since listening to Loner.
WINNER's songs are all guaranteed to be good. I never knew MINO was this good at composing and writing songs.
I'm listening to MINO no matter what starting today. This song gives me goosebumps. This person also linked 'Love and a boy.' Wow, this feels amazing.
MINO's lyrics seem like a poem and wrote in the lyrics for 'Lost In A Crowd.' With a stranger and a stranger With night and day. With a person and with love, Lost in a crowd...I hoped for that response. Thank you so much.
To finish it off, someone said in a comment, MINO, can you recommend a track from this album? And someone replied saying 'Lost In A Crowd' and 'POW,' 'Book Store' and 'Lost In A Crowd,' 'Daylight' and 'Lost In A Crowd.' Everyone is recommending 2-3 tracks, and a lot of them say 'Lost In A Crowd.' In that case, since you guys recommended that song. I'll recommend 'CLINK/ Han river view.'"
Finally, he ended the video on a sweet note after reacting to his fans' comments by saying, "So today I reacted to my M/V and also checked out how you guys think about it. It feels great, and I'm very thankful that you guys support me and promote this album. I'll make sure to do many activities with 'Run Away,' so I'd be thankful if you guys can look forward to it. So far, this was your 'Run away' boy, MINO."
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Written by Ishani Sarkar.
