The interesting thing about BB songs is that GDragon writes all of the parts (except for TOP's parts) - or at least, is usually the only person with a songwriting credit. But when you compare the other members' parts to the personality they express in interviews, they sort of match up? So he's either specifically writing for the other members, or they are working on the parts together, but he is finalizing the words and taking the credit.
And I guess I think this is kind of psychologically thorny, because on the one hand he might be able to express something they would like to but can't; on the other he might seem to know them better than they know themselves but actually be shaping their responses; and on the third hand he could be doing the authorial thing, where you write - not reality as it actually is - but reality as you would like it to be. (Bringing this comment around full circle.)
...And then that reality might happen, because this isn't a group that draws a strong line between others' perceptions of them and their own self-perceptions of them. ^^
How much all of this is still true, by the way, and how much they have "moved on" in a more "mature" direction, is anyone's guess -- and this is all my speculation anyway. ^^ Really, sometimes I can't escape the feeling that for all the adult choices these guys are making, GDragon Taeyang and especially TOP are all actually five year olds and GDragon in particular is lashing out at the world because it's not going how he wanted it to. And one reason I think that is that the songs sometimes have, not just slightly different meanings when they are rerecorded in a different language, but actually opposite meanings - there's no one reality, here.
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The interesting thing about BB songs is that GDragon writes all of the parts (except for TOP's parts) - or at least, is usually the only person with a songwriting credit. But when you compare the other members' parts to the personality they express in interviews, they sort of match up? So he's either specifically writing for the other members, or they are working on the parts together, but he is finalizing the words and taking the credit.
And I guess I think this is kind of psychologically thorny, because on the one hand he might be able to express something they would like to but can't; on the other he might seem to know them better than they know themselves but actually be shaping their responses; and on the third hand he could be doing the authorial thing, where you write - not reality as it actually is - but reality as you would like it to be. (Bringing this comment around full circle.)
...And then that reality might happen, because this isn't a group that draws a strong line between others' perceptions of them and their own self-perceptions of them. ^^
How much all of this is still true, by the way, and how much they have "moved on" in a more "mature" direction, is anyone's guess -- and this is all my speculation anyway. ^^ Really, sometimes I can't escape the feeling that for all the adult choices these guys are making, GDragon Taeyang and especially TOP are all actually five year olds and GDragon in particular is lashing out at the world because it's not going how he wanted it to. And one reason I think that is that the songs sometimes have, not just slightly different meanings when they are rerecorded in a different language, but actually opposite meanings - there's no one reality, here.