[Train To Kwangya EP 11] Lee Soo Man Has A Blood-Sucking Vampire Dream (Trigger Warning: Only Pink Blood Running Through The Veins Is Accepted)

Songs featured:

“Eraser” by Taeyeon x “Secret” (Piano Speed up ver.) by Jay Chou 周杰伦 (Mashup)
“Wolf (늑대와 미녀)” by EXO (Official Music Video)
“Blood Sweat & Tears (피 땀 눈물)” by BTS (방탄소년단) (Official Music Video)
“Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift (Official Music Video)

Main featured artists:
aespa (Lee Soo Man’s ambassadors for his Pink Blood project)

Special appearances:
Kangta (SM’s veteran old blood), RIIZE (SM’s newest young blood)

Synopsis & Lyrics Reference:

Yeah I’ll be just fine Yeah I’ll be just fine

— Opening intro with my earlier mashup of Taeyeon’s “Eraser” and the scene from “The Secret” movie where Jay Chou was playing on the piano in a fast tempo trying to time-travel back to the past while the demolition of the building was taking place. When the last note was played finish, a drop of blood was seen dripping from Jay Chou’s fingers just as he was about to get hit by a wrecking ball… —

[AESPA & EXO STATION]

— A recap from the last season: Lee Soo Man talked about the meaning of CAWMAN which was derived from his nickname “Cowman” on his SM Show with aespa —

— Lee Soo Man continues to talk about another acronym that he came up with called “SMP” which stands for “SM Music Performance” but also has a hidden meaning of “SM Blood” as the letter P sounds like blood in Korean. This in turn brings up yet another latest term he has just invented called “Pink Blood” which he is now using to collectively identify the fans of SM Entertainment as a company. The aespa girls nod allusively as they listen to Lee Soo Man speaking about his worldview. —

I get a feeling all at once, in one bite
I will put you in my mouth like cheese
I’ll smell your scent, enjoy your color
And eat you more elegantly than wine
But I have lost strength in my claw
My appetite is disappearing
Am I sick? Do I have an illness?
(Yeah, he’s in big trouble) Snap out of it
How could your heart be stolen by a human?
(I’m telling you she is just one bite)

Hey, just bite her
Then shake her so she’ll lose her conscious
Hey, do it with a style you’ve never used
Get rid of her before that full moon sets

Yes, wolf, I’m a wolf, awoo
(I love you) I’m a wolf and you’re a beauty
Yes, wolf, I’m a wolf, awoo
(I love you)

— At SM Congress 2021, Lee Sung Soo (then SM co-CEO) officially introduces the launch of their Pink Blood project. Using examples of user-recreated TikTok contents of NCT Dream’s “Hot Sauce” and aespa’s “Next Level” (notably they also feature Taeyeon’s participation in aespa’s “Next Level” dance challenge as one of those “user contents”), the project aims to foster the growth of such prosumers in recreating and reproducing contents related to SM artists and music on their social platforms whom they will now identify as “Pink Blood”, and these in turn become free contents for the company. Three of such TikTok content creators are featured in a video sharing their thoughts on being selected as Pink Blood while promoting the message “Pink in my Blood”. —

— To kickstart this Pink Blood campaign, the aespa girls cheer together, “Pink Blood is running~!” (but Ningning misunderstands the cheer slogan and says GO! instead) —

— Plays an opening video from the SM Congress 2021 seemingly showing they are “pinkwashing” an entire planet in the universe with pink waters or blood —

My blood, sweat and tears
My last dance
Take it away
My blood, sweat and tears
My cold breath
Take it away

I want you a lot, a lot, a lot
I want you a lot, a lot, a lot
I want you a lot, a lot, a lot
I want you a lot, a lot, a lot

Kill me softly
Close my eyes with your touch
I can’t even reject you anyway
I can’t run away anymore
You’re too sweet, too sweet
Because you’re too sweet

[He, too, was a tempter. He, too, was a link to the second. The evil world with which he no longer wanted to have anything to do.]

— The scene from BTS’ “Blood Sweat & Tears” music video: “Amidst the eerie organ music that suddenly starts playing, Jin approaches a huge, humanoid statue with a pair of black wings sprouting from its back that resembles Lucifer… Cementing his submission to the temptation of sin is the act of Jin kissing Lucifer’s statue.” (referenced from https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/11/5/bts-mvb-blog/) Here in this musicmentary, Jin’s role is a figurative representation of Lee Soo Man (and quite possibly also other K-pop industry leaders alike) who has “struck deals with the devil to conflate reality with artistic likenesses of reality” to benefit his own entertainment business. —

— Back to the SM Congress’ opening video, the conspiracy of “pinkwashing” the planet then generates into balls of energy that feed into a mysterious celestial object that looks like the body of a man presumed to be Lee Soo Man who in actual fact has always been running SM Entertainment as his one-man show. (which is why he always asks K-pop fans to give him some love too as it feeds energy to the devil) —

— Fans mobbing at a recent airport appearance of RIIZE as they are seen squeezing and pushing each other and even the members, causing great chaos like uncivilised, irrational zombies after getting bitten by the SM vampire (the disastrous effect of “pinkwashing” minds of immature fans by the K-pop cult) —

Now we got bad blood
You know

Now we got problems
And I don’t think we can solve ’em
You made a really deep cut
And baby, now we got bad blood (hey!)

— End of Episode 11 (to be continued) —