marți, 27 iunie 2017

The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017

The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017
G-Dragon (GD) is a multifaceted star with immense global influence – singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, fashion icon, leader of K-Pop phenomenon, Big Bang. Four years after his last album (COUP D’ETAT), GD introduces KWON JI YONG, a self-titled album that explores a lesser-known angle: the man behind G-Dragon.
ACT III: M.O.T.T.E (Moment of Truth, The End) takes us deeper into the mind of GD in a personal journey of pain, growth and self-discovery, delivered with a considerable level of artistry, flair and undeniable swag
The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017  The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017
ACT 1: G-Dragon
Divided into three acts, the first is a trip down memory lane with well-loved tracks from his early years such as Heartbreaker, Breathe and A Boy. In a slightly cryptic video montage, the audience is treated to flashes of busy Korea, brain scans and eventually a faltering heart rate which revives shortly later. Something has died and something has been born. One could interpret this as the birth of G-Dragon and possibly, the death of Kwon Ji Yong.
The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017  The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017  The Duality of G-Dragon Explored in ACT III: M.O.T.T.E World Tour Singapore 2017


ACT 2: G-Dragon vs. Kwon Ji Yong
Opening with another video montage, this time even more macabre than the first, scenes of a hospital and operation tools suggest a painful procedure. Someone is being operated on. Someone is suffocated, only being allowed to breathe through a tube. Someone is being injected. Someone is tied up. That someone is Kwon Ji Yong, with the face of G-Dragon.
In an act that is louder, fiercer and more mature, the music extraordinaire performs tracks from his two solo albums, ‘ONE OF A KIND’ and ‘COUP D’ETAT’. The montage scenes keep returning as a subtle reminder of his state of mind – a nod to a period in his life when he was slowly becoming aware of what ‘G-Dragon’ was, and what that meant for ‘Kwon Ji Yong’.
A short video towards the end of the act draws attention to the duality of G-Dragon, in which his family and friends – including familiar faces such as Big Bang’s Taeyang and Daesung, CL, Sandara Park, PSY, Se7en and Jung Hyeong Don (Doni) – address two simple questions:
1) Who is G-Dragon to you?
2) Who is Kwon Ji Yong to you?
Some answers entertained and incited laughter, but the responses wholly bring to light who ‘G-Dragon’ is and strips him down to a ‘Kwon Ji Yong’ who is not merely an idol. Kwon Ji Yong (“Who?” – Doni) is also a “beloved son” (his mother), a “warm-hearted brother” (CL) “who talks a lot when he drinks” (his older sister) and a good friend who will “always be a part of my life” (Taeyang). He is, at his core, a regular person just like everyone else.

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