It's time for another EXO theory video! Or rather a clear analysis and interpretation of their MVs
I recently analysed the newest EXO MV - Power
It's time to get back to the older vids
I started to analyse them in the 1st part of this serie
The next MV I'm going to analyse is Wolf
It has two versions - a normal one and a drama
Let's start!
When we analyse Wolf, we should also mention the name, the whole wolf concept and the numbers
Both type of numbers - Wolf 88 and their individual numbers
Let's start from the individual ones - Baekhyun has number 4
He wanted to be a singer since 4th degree
But if we multiply 4 by the number of members we get 48
And 4 + 8 = 12
Suho has two numbers - 1 or 7
7 is the number of years he spent as a trainee in SM Entertainment
And 1 with Kris' number 00 gives us 100
Sehun's number is 94 and this is pretty easy
He was born in 1994
Xiumin's number is 99
Math is quite easy here as well because if we get the main number 88 and we add 11
because it's the number of the teaser where we saw Xiumin for the first time
We get 99
Luhan - 7 or 77
And the meaning of it is really original and interesting
It was Cristiano Ronaldo's number when he played in Manchester United
Lay - 10 because he was born in October
And this number also means perfection in China
21 is Chen's number and it refers to his date of birth - September 21st
D.O's number is 12 and he was born on January 12th
and EXO has 12 members
At least, it used to back then
Tao - 68 and 6 + 8 = 14
and it refers to his second teaser
Chanyeol's number is 61
His childhood nickname was Park Chanho
A famous Korean baseball player whose number was 61
Kai's number is 88 and 'H' is the 8th letter in alphabet
It gives us HH - Hip Hop
And if we talk about the number 88 which is also EXO number in Wolf era,
we should look at other meanings of this number
88 in Morse's Code means hugs and kisses
It's a reference to xoxo - EXO's album
The combination of the number 88 and wolf was inspired by the movie Lone Wolf from 1988
It's a story about a not well known rock band that came to a small town Fairview
A full moon happens a few days later
and weird and creepy things start to happen
People start finding dead bodies
At first they apportion blame to wild dogs and later to the rock band
But the truth is different and way more scary
Of course, it turns out that a warewolf is a murderer
But going back to EXO - the combination of Wolf is also a reference to the concept EXO sticks to since their debut
An eclipse and a moon - and wolves howl to the moon
The lyrics can seem easy, a bit senseless and quite stupid
but if we look closely to it, it's a story of a beast loving a human girl
In this case - it's a wolf and each EXO member
they fall in love with a human girl
Because of that they let go of theirselves and they stop being a beast
And they're faithful for this love
And here we have a proof for that:
I can't reject this strong feeling
Fall into it, I let go of myself
It also refers to EXO's situation because after leaving the exoplanet, they stopped using their powers
and they fall in love with mortal, human girls
Wolf MV is a choreography where we can see the tree of life made by EXO and we heard about it in MAMA narration
and then EXO members pretend to be a pack of wolves
The choreography was created by Tony Testa
EXO explained that it has 3 important elements:
A tree, a cave and wolves
I think more interesting thing is a bit controversial
Because the meaning of a Wolf and the number 88 is a little bit different for German and European people
I already mentioned that H is the 8th number in the alphabet
This is why 88 (HH) will symbolize the well known Nazi greeting
The same thing goes with the symbolism of Wolf
It was a cryptonym of the German politician - Hitler, of course
I emphasize the fact that the WW2 has nothing to do with EXO
It has nothing to do with the MV and to anything connected to this group
It's just an interesting fact because there were a few situations when people talked to German EXO-Ls on the street
They were wearing the Wolf 88 t-shirt
and people asked them if they know what it means
Another symbolism of the number 88 is a comparison of two worlds
and they move into opposite directions
It connects with EXO concept and their story about two worlds
and we had the description of it in MAMA narration
Except normal Wolf and Growl MVs, SM released two episodes of music drama
And they're just MVs with a good plot
At the beginning we see Kris saying goodbye to Luhan
If we pay attention to the symbols on their hands, we can say that they are wolves
Kris is alpha male
and he has to leave his pack for some reason
We get a proof for the fact that Luhan is a wolf in the next scene
because he does some acrobatics
And in the next scene he rescues a random girl from another clan
Luhan attends a new school and he's in class with the rest of EXO and also with the girl he saved before
They become friends immediately and EXO helps him with fighting with a bad clan
but Luhan's wolf nature turns on and he accidentally hits D.O
and because of that, EXO leaves him
This girl seems to know Luhan's true nature
she saw what happened
And in the 2nd episode, when EXO visits D.O in the hospital, Luhan runs away as soon as he's seen by her
Luhan is hurt and the girl helps him
Kai is waiting in front of Luhan's house and he sees a girl going out
He gets mad and we see he's in love with her
One of the members of the bad clan sees Luhan with the girl
They kidnap her as a revange
Luhan rushes to help her but he cannot do it alone
It's a bit shocking but the rest of EXO decide to help Luhan
In the end, he probably loses his power and it also makes Kris (who suddenly came back) mad
'Growl' appears in the 2nd episode of this drama and it's connected with Wolf
Especially the lyrics because 'growl' is definitely a sound made by wolves
The MV is all about the choreography
There is also a 2nd version of this MV but it's also based on the choreography
Wolf and Growl refer to loving a human girl
and this feeling is something new for exoplanet residents
I know that Wolf and Growl don't add anything special to EXO theories
and to the whole supernatural powers thing
but it's worth mentioning so this is it for now
I hope you liked it!
Of course, write your own theories in the comments
and opinions about this serie
If you want us to continue this serie, also let us know!
And see you in the next video!
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