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After a year-long wait, BTS’s Jimin has finally debuted as a solo artist with his prerelease single, “Set Me Free Pt. 2,” off his upcoming album, “Face,” which comes out March 24.
Jimin teased a first look at his prerelease single and music video on March 14 and 15 in two 30-second clips. They showed him staring down the camera in a black leather jacket as his backup dancers, all wearing black, danced in formation behind and round him. While Jimin would not dance a single move in both clip, the fact that his backup dancers are going onerous to the haunting music stuffed followers with anticipation over the epic choreography that was sure to come. And boy, does the final product deliver!
Jimin’s “Set Me Free Pt. 2” Song Meaning
“Set Me Free Pt. 2” is a hip-hop-tinged observe with highly effective horns and a choir delivering haunting backing vocals. The song is about Jimin dealing with his fans and haters as his true self, no matter how scary it may be. At one level, Jimin sings, “I won’t hide anymore even when it hurts.” Later, he sings, “I will not stop even if they mock me.” He calls out his haters outright, exclaiming, “Just get out of my way! Shut up, f*ck off! I’m on my method.” But finally, the song regularly circles back to Jimin finding his freedom to pursue the path he needs. “Fly away, butterfly. Finally free,” he sings at a quantity of points within the song.
Jimin’s “Set Me Free Pt. 2” Music Video
While easy, the “Set Me Free Pt. 2” music video packs a severe punch. The video sees Jimin dancing among his backup dancers in what seems like a panopticon (a theoretical round prison overseen by a tower where a single safety guard can observe inmates with out the prisoner figuring out when they are being watched). Jimin is roofed head to toe in black initially of the video, but at the music’s midpoint, the display goes dark, only for Jimin to emerge from the darkness with no shirt underneath his leather jacket, revealing words in gothic font tattooed throughout his torso.
Dancers swarm around Jimin throughout the video and point at him and mock him when he sings lyrics like, “I will not stop even when they mock me,” however by the tip of the video, they raise him up into the air as he sings, “Set me free,” again and again. When they drop him to the bottom in the previous few seconds of the video, he’s all of a sudden wearing a loose-fitting white outfit that reveals some of the moon tattoos working down his spine — a lot softer than his earlier look. The music video ends as Jimin turns his head to look again on the camera, seemingly teasing what’s to come back in his next music video for “Like Crazy.”
Jimin’s “Set Me Free Pt. 2” Music Video Tattoos Meaning
Super-sleuth followers found out that the words tattooed on Jimin’s torso are actually a German poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The poem goes:
I reside my life in ever widening circles,
each superseding all of the earlier ones.
Perhaps I by no means shall succeed in reaching
the last circle, however attempt I will.
I circle round God, the traditional tower,
and have been circling for a thousand years,
and still I do not know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a seamless nice song?
Jimin’s “Set Me Free Pt. 2” Lyrics in English
The lyrics to Jimin’s “Set Me Free Pt. 2” in English are as follows, according to the video’s subtitles.
VERSE 1
I got a good time
Yeah, time to get mine
I wandered in a maze
Hennessy and night
“I by no means cease, I never cease”
Again, repeat
“I by no means stop, f*ck all your opps”
Finally free
Ah yeah, ah yeah
I’m standing on the edge
Not but, not yet
I won’t look back
Now yeah, now yeah
Fly away, butterfly
Finally free
PRE-CHORUS
Look at me now
I won’t hide anymore even when it hurts
Going insane to remain sane
Raise your palms for the past me
CHORUS
Now set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
VERSE 2
I received really feel low
Still in a maze
But I received no time to interrupt soul
Just let me flow
Hey idiot, simply get out of my way
Shut up, f*ck off
I’m on my way
Ah yeah, ah yeah
It’s begun, my prime time
Forget, forget
I’ll gladly hop on
Now yeah, now yeah
Fly away, butterfly
Finally free
PRE-CHORUS
Look at me now
I won’t stop even when they mock me
Going insane to stay sane
Raise your hands for the previous me
CHORUS
Now set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
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