"Primary - Bawling Feat. Ohyuk MV reaction"

"Primary - Bawling Feat. Ohyuk MV reaction"

by:

The Vole

This MV was actually published more than a year ago(March 23 2015) on youtube with music maker Primary pairing up with the soulful singer Ohyuk to produce what is for me one of the most moving songs that you will ever hear in your lifetime. The 4 million views says that this has not hit it off with a lot of people and I might never know why.

The lyrics translated are as follows:

On top of the long rail

I’m standing with you like last time

I swallow with my dry throat

And cool down the cold sweat on my back

just a little bit

just a little bit

Then I asked you about your day

I open my ears to your typical story

Trying to find an excuse to let you know that I changed

and we play

bowling bowling bowling bowling

bowling game again

that ball just

running running running running

running out again

Picking up the ball again

Writing down the score

Yeah, we’re sad

sideway, we take

You walked on a different path

But I didn’t match my steps with yours but matched my eyes with yours

You know, actions before words

there’s a lot of pins

you’re the one of them

Now I’ll ask you for a chance

In the silence

Trying to find an excuse to let you know that I changed

and we play

bowling bowling bowling bowling

bowling game again

that ball just

running running running running

running out again

Picking up the ball again

Writing down the score

Yeah, we’re sad

I wasn’t innocent

But had clean intentions

I didn’t know anything

We lost our minds

Because we didn’t do anything

It’s nothing

I didn’t know anything

We lost our minds

and we play

bowling bowling bowling bowling

bowling game again

that ball just

running running running running

running out again

Picking up the ball again

Writing down the score

Yeah, we’re sad

and we play

The story of the song revolves around a chance meeting of ex-lovers where the guy is reminiscing about their not so innocent past.

The MV opens up with a rolling shot of the camera on tracks and immense shots of Apartment complexes that seem to surround Ohyuk on all sides. Ohyuk starts singing on a couch on a rooftop.The mere distances and expanses of the places seem to engulf you as the singer takes you through the emotions of sadness and longing in the song. If you are not hooked by the first sad horn notes or the first sounds of the snare drums coming on then Ohyuk will most likely do the rest. There has been talk that Primary always saves his best work for this particular guy and Bawling seems to be the best of the best of cuts.

From mellow vocals to haunting horn sections to the wonderfully rhytmic drumbeats you feel the proportions of how sad the narrator is that he was not able to show how he has changed at all. The ex-lover would never know how much he has changed at all.

In a place where everyone should be hyperconnected you see how alone one can feel in the city and this mood permeates the MV until the very end as even when you see sunny colors they are still grey and subdued. 

The latter part of the MV shows Ohyuk walking but it does not show if it is towards or away from the girl that represents the person he wants to talk to and as the last roll seems to unfold you see Ohyuk still on the same rooftop , still on the same couch as in the beginning. Stuck in that loop of sadness that he cannot escape.