BTS‘s Jungkook has made his solo debut officially with the album GOLDEN and a new music video for one of the featured tracks, “Standing Next to You.” A few eagle-eyed ARMYs noticed details throughout the MV. Check them out below.
1. Cinematic parallels
I’M NOT CRAZY RIGHT?? THERE ARE DEFINITELY ROMEO & JULIET PARALLELS/DETAILS??? pic.twitter.com/nfCZulrM1p
— Rachel⁷ (@hobiskiss) November 3, 2023
2. Pop culture parallels
the outro of standing next to you…you know what’s up pic.twitter.com/kyWgjAU9gZ
— JIMIN DAY ⁷ (@jiminsfangs) November 3, 2023
3. Jungkook’s name and nickname
THE BUILDING’s NAME BEING “JK” pic.twitter.com/NDJNsJt9tO
— moni⁷ 𖠌 (@taeisthv) November 3, 2023
4. HYYH?!
everything reminds me of pic.twitter.com/4vlQJKgLwl
— BTS once said (slow) (@btslinesiconic) November 3, 2023
OH MY GOD THE 花樣年華 IN THE CORNER pic.twitter.com/iHMlwxs8Kk
— dora⁷ (@forevrjmn) November 3, 2023
5. The references to BTS’s “Black Swan”
jungkook as black swan pic.twitter.com/0FYzMXJFyR
— laura (@7bogoshipda) November 1, 2023
6. Reference to BTS’s “DNA”
“When it’s deep like DNA” and Jungkook does the freaking hand motion like in the DNA choreo pic.twitter.com/sU70xcInWv
— Audrie⁷ ♡ (@AudrieOT7) November 3, 2023
Did you catch any more details or references? Let us know!
Watch the full MV below.