🧵 references and easter eggs in “placebo” by park gunwook: a thread

a non exhaustive list based on the many many replays i’ve done so far + is focused more on the video than the lyrics for now, feel free to share more if i’ve missed anything 💙 also, STREAM PLACEBO!

the tvs are playing his zb1 fancams, but there are also what appears to be pre debut scenes of him singing and dancing in practice rooms, likely jellyfish’s these may be his audition clips for boys planet?

multiple blue roses, a blue rose mannequin and zb1 light sticks turned to blue mode to represent zeroses

he featured two of his in-ears gifted by fans in the video, and matched their colours to the background of each scene (white for b&w scene, blue for blue scene)

also using his custom red hand mic which was a fan gift

“the one and only of kpop is gunwook park” gunwook’s catchphrase as written in his boys planet profile

mama trophies on display

“let’s show them what we got! zerobaseone!” group chant

“the letter i wrote the day before, how many ppl would have already understood the meaning behind it?” after he cried at the seoul concert, the next day he handwrote us his first letter after over a year. he also started working on placebo right after this concert

not a direct reference from the video itself but gunwook spoiled placebo on nov 29 of last year, when he shared an impromptu self-produced track on plus chat

“the blue lights are always illuminating my path” referring to the blue lights of zerose lightsticks in the crowd - he also referenced this in the lyrics of the impromptu track he shared

where space meets sound