BTS Can't Be Contained To Just The Stage In Theatrical 'Black Swan' Video

BTS's majestic new "Black Swan" video chronicles the group's haunting transformation into metaphorical black swans. They assemble within a grand theater and use the stage to show where they've gone, where they are right now, and why they feel about the tempestuous journey.


A black swan isn't just a usual Australian avian, it's also a unforeseen event that often has earth-shattering implications. This second meaning is at the center of "Black Swan" as the seeds of disillusionment with music have been planted in the group's psyche. With them then realizing that music is all that they have, their love must endure. That poisonous feeling isn't going to leave though. Their feathers have been blackened by fear.


Human beings can't grow feathers although, so BTS depicts this pivotal transformation in an other way during the dynamic visual. It kicks off with the order wearing white suits, symbolizing innocent white swans, as they morph their bodies into sharp poses.


One by one, we're introduced to the members right now dressed in black, feather-like suits, signaling that the shift is complete once they dance, mimicking the delicate movements of a wedge of swans. Through serious and sullen expressions, they chart a path to despair that manifests once wings sprout into the air.


It ends with one last glance at the stage that they know as house before they leave, undoubtedly to go upon it again sometime soon. No matter what they wear for the next go around, their black suits will be underneath.


"Black Swan" appears on BTS's latest album, Map Of The Soul: 7, that dropped in February. The LP also features "On," a spin on their 2013 track, "N.O." BTS revealed to MTV's Fresh Out Live how the song came about. "The name of the track wasn't 'On' in the starting, yet we came with each other and we had a meeting attempting to determine what we wanted the title track to be and what we wanted to call it," vocalist Jungkook mentioned. "Because this was a reboot, we wanted to take our old song 'N.O' and turn into 'On,' so I just threw that out, and we really fancied it, spoke about 'bring the pain on,' and we put that into the lyrics — and that's how we came up with the title track."


Check out BTS's royal new 'Black Swan' video up above. And check out MTV News's interview with the superstar septet below: