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﹃ ﹄Intro

﹃ ﹄About the album

﹃ ﹄Tokyo

﹃ ﹄Seoul

﹃ ﹄Moonchild

﹃ ﹄Badbye

﹃ ﹄Uhgood

﹃ ﹄Everythingoes

﹃ ﹄Forever rain

﹃ ﹄Appreciation

﹃ ﹄Outro




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So it's the one year with Mono. Of course I wanted to make something for celebrating this event, but at the right time I couldn't manage to do it. But now now I am doing it. We all are very grateful to RM for this amazing playlist (eventually a mixtape but he prefer to be called a playlist for his certain experience) and basically I will make an analysis on this mixtape.


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Mono is the 2nd mixtape by RM (although known as just a playlist). It was released on October 23, 2018, through BigHit Entertainment. It features seven tracks and was introduced by an animated music video for the final track, 'Forever Rain'. RM has called Mono a playlist, while other publications have referred to it as a mixtape. Also lately the lyrics video of the tracks 'Seoul' and 'Moonchild' were released. The uniqueness is this mixtape contains both rap songs and normal melodious songs with it.

Track list :

1. Tokyo

2. Seoul

3. Moonchild

4. Badbye (with eAeon)

5. Uhgood (어긋 / Eogeut [lit. "out of place"])

6. Everythingoes (지나가 / Jinaga) (with Nell)

7. Forever rain


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The first track of this mixtape is itself a surprise for us. A song fully in english. A small and cute one dedicated to a lovely city.

Lyrics breakdown

In this track the city Tokyo is shown as a nostalgic one, a city with many memories and many dreams. At the first stanza the song start with a feel of deep emotion. A person who has a drawback with the city is about to leave it or going to make an evolution in life,so he misses his old self and his love who is associated with the city by looking around.

The next stanza comes with a deep meaning. Here he equates life and death, love and hate. Just how life feel true and real to us, death is same true and real in our journey. Just same way love and hate they continuously turn into each other like they interchange within us for dominance. Time passes and the city Tokyo within these ups and downs goes on.

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Drawback, something what we want or may be not wnat that much but it stays with us. A city, a nostalgia, my first love, my home, my everything where I want to stay, what we wish always. But this is always not possible for us to carry our past and sweet memories with us. That is what RM tried to say through this song.

There is a part of whistling. Whistling is a symbol of relaxation and comfort what we get from oyr native beings. From that core place, where we have stayed and grown up. So this song is absolutely a piece of nostalgia of our roots and pasts.


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The second track my favourite one. Based on Seoul, a song with love and hate, happiness and sorrow, a fresh and beautiful track which can melt everyone's heart.

Lyrics breakdown

This song comes with another nostalgic memories associated with the city Seoul. RM is so obsessed with the city that from very beginning of the day and from each small details of this city is love for him.

The 2nd stanza is very soulful as he compares Seoul with soul. He is there for a long tims yet he is connected with the city very tightly. Just how he loves that city that much he hates or tired of the same atmosphere of the city. Still he can't leave it.

The feeling of love and hate has merged into each other so he loves and hates the city at the same time.

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He loves the bus running and leaving away the city streets, the building who runs behind that bus, he loves every small details even the lonely cold park waiting for people to arrive. The river Han who has seen many emotions and dissolving them into his own water he is flowing. The scent of the city and the sky and all the goodness makes love to RM and so RM does to city.

The next part is heart warming. How a place, city can move our memories and get captured that we can't think of leaving thet place.

By loving and hating the city RM will continue staying and living there for ever.

Lyrics video breakdown

The lyrics video for this song is very simple. The video shows the city Seoul in fast motion and yet in a simple way the lyrics are placed in the centre of the video. The lyrics video is very simple, soft, nostalgic and beautiful.

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From the tunnels to building to old and new routs to bus to train to shops and to everything, every small places of Seoul is shown here.

Seoul Lyrics Video


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Just after Seoul the 3rd track Moonchild is a change in theme. A mysterious, yet inspiring and soothing track.

Lyrics breakdown

Moonlight is very blessing and luxurious that is what it symbolises. We all are not born there, cause we are very ordinary human beings. So the common people who can't reach and compete the rich one will remain sad for rest of the life ?

But despite of not having moonlight, we can say we are moonchild by having our good selves with us. We have pain and sorrows but we can fight back it. By making my self stronger I can win all the games of my life.

Then he tells us to shine, to rise cause our time has come, the time to show our ability.

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The moments when we feel tired of life struggle and want to give up, we should't do jt and stand up again to live cause we worth it. Why should we run when it's just destiny who made us like this, but our bond can bring the freedom of living and shining to us.

We are often scared of fighting the world, our surrounding looks dangerous, the night darkness too. But it can't stay like that, the comfort will come to us one day if we keep calm and confident.

Lyrics video breakdown

This Lyrics video is very aesthetic, in dark aesthetic mood it is amazing. The video is designed with laser shows and having a great inner meaning.

°• Moon of different colours :

         The moon, universally representing the rhythm of time as it embodies the cycle. The phases of the moon symbolize immortality and eternity, enlightenment or the dark side of Nature herself. So clearly it's something fresh and new which last long and give us strength and also in the song it is clearly highlighted that RM is trying plot Moon-Child as someone who will begin his journey and make everyone spellbound with it. Lighter shades of purple denote all things feminine just how moon is. It may denote a motherly side. A darker shade would signify sorrow, anger and worry so keep away from those where the moonchild is now in anxiety. If it is a purple that is vibrant and vivid, it denotes riches, luxury, and influence how RM does by his song.

°• Neon colour :

          Neon colors can hbe represented for trying to get attention in some way. If you see neon, a lot of times, you look. Signs, clothing, whatever. Neon colors means happyness. So in this video the usage of neon colours in dark is somehow an goodness and encouragement for the moonchild.

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°• The laser show :

         Laser depicts positive energies, concentration, focus, ability to attain success in life and rays of hopes. So it for are seeing this in the video it means positive energy for moonchild. Also between this we see aome random clips like of buildings, train running etc is nothing but the image of our tough social life where the moonchild is going to enter.

°• Big Window :

          A big window can symbolise a new growth in our perspective, learning new things and developing the ability to see things we haven't seen before and that is what moonchild is going to explore.

°• A man on sofa :

            It is quite confusing, say can say it's RM who is singing the song for moonchild and some can say it's moonchild it slef. His sitting posture is kinda like he is in deep thought and that makes a sence that human before entering to larger world often feel insecure and so it's probably the moonchild sitting.

°• Galaxy :

           The galaxy is the symbol of hopes, wishes, aspirations and desires for the future. The dream that moonchild is seeing and going to fulfil in future, when he will step into larger world fearlessly.

Moonchild Lyrics Video


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Badbye the forth track is really very dreamy and unique one. A super small track with very few lines, mostly repeated and it is sung with eAeon.

Lyrics breakdown

In this song there is only few lines mostly with a feel of sorrow. Saying bye to someone, a bad bye what we don't want. A good bye what we don't want. If someone is leaving how it can be a good bye ? it's surely sorrowful and bad bye.

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This journey is bitter than death. Saying bye to love one feel worse than that. Even if that person kill us and break into pieces, it hurts lesser.

We try to make our mind to not remember that person, but we fail in that try, a bad try. We just cry.

A very simple song with amazing words which touches our hearts.


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The 5th track is a soulful composition, uhgood. I think this song is underrated and should be noticed more by us.

Lyrics breakdown

What is the best thing for us ? When we have ourselves and our love one with us. Together it can face any problems of life.

When we feel dizzy our love one only can cure our restless mind. They can only motivate us.

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No matter how much we are in pain our love one can bring that smile in our face. The continuous try for uniting oyr love one is good for us.

Love never expect for return. When we love someone we do it with out condition. So if my love one never fall for me still my love will hold true. That person will never know my feeling. But still I will be wanting to reach that person.


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The 6th one, everthingoes is such a melodious piece, and Nell in chorus just nailed it. A perfect song by rapper where there is mostly melody and almost no rapping.

Lyrics breakdown

This song is all about flow of life. Just how life takes away everything with time this is what RM has highlighted in the song.

RM has used some very pretty comparing lines, which jsut melts with the melody.

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Our life is like a dream and we go ahead by archiving one by one of those dreams. And that is how dreams slowly gets disappeared. Just like a river life gives us everything but takes everything again.

A soft and delicate song nothing much to explain about the beauty of the song.


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The last and title track of this mixtape forever rain will left you with goosebumps. Just a passionate song which will touch your heart.

Lyrics breakdown

This song is certainly an emotional one, someone who is wanting rain for accompanying his sadness. Cause he never want to be noticed by other, rain will hide him.

In rain all people are busy to resist it and they never care for other, that is what RM wants, in his fast life he want to stop and think about his all downfalls, so he need to hide his sorrows.

Everything slows down. He could see himself now perfectly, the one to whom he need to make questions. He was unknown to these all.

And the thing he wants is raining forever to clean his tiredness.

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Rain is like a friend for him who accompanies him in his lonely time. He is not living just he have to live, but for himself. His life is not a smooth one, not having all happiness still it's a good one.

He will wait for that person who will change his life. And the rain will keep falling into his face. Everything will remain slow and calm till then.

Music video breakdown

This is a animated video in black and white theme. Amazing video with deep meaning inside co related with each and every lyrics of the song.

°• Black & White :

         White is often associated with purity, cleanliness and perfection. Black is the color of power, elegance and mystery. It can also be associated with fear and unknowing. So this is basically the two main shades of human life. Someone who has goodness also have some dark side and RM tried to compose the song core to life so this colour combination is selected.

°• Sketch :

         The mv is animated one and the base is sketch animation, no complex texture of mv. Sketching is the first and main and simplest art form. RM making this song a simple yet meaningful, so the mv based on sketch is remarkable match.

°• Rain :

          Rain symbolises most commonly connotes sadness, rejection or despair. Because rain diminishes sunlight, it creates human emotions of darkness and depression. It's nothing here but the true inner self of our life which is always going through difficulties. Rain drops for specifying the fact.

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°• Black circle :

           The black circle shown in the mv can mean a total eclipse, a black out, the pause button and many more negative things. But if we tale it in simple way then the core dark of our heart, the blank space where we can confess oyr feeling that is meant here.

°• Misshappened faces :

          It is in my opinion that how we act try to act good and beautiful from outside but may be our true self not that fair but ugly and messed.

°• Multiple shadows :

          Multiple shadow can clearly symbolise our multiple personalities in different fields of our life.

°• Negative colour :

           I don't know it anyone have noticed or not but in between some time negative colours appeared. Like for black shadow is white and visi-verse. It is nothing but like in goodness there is some badness hidden and in badness some goodness, a very common thought is highlighted.

Forever Rain Music Video


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No doubt RM is an amazing rapper not only in Korea but worldwide. His baritone voice and strong flavour in songs makes him genuinely a beautiful rapper. But not only his own self but also his works are incredible and should be appreciated more. Specially his this mixtape or playlist. He has formed this playlist in a different way, in a different style out of his comfort and have gave us delightful tracks and soft-sweet flavours. So each and every tracks of this mixtape is gift for us. He has developed his music a lot from his pre debut time and now he is almost a perfect one. After his first mixtape 'RM' this mixtape was a shocking treat for us.


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I don't want to stretch it longer cause I have already told what ever I wanted to say about his this masterpiece. Finally I am very happy after making this blog cause it's really satisfiying for me to share this here. We all will keep loving his this inspiring playlist forever.

Thank you RM for this Playlist.



PS : The cover picture is absolutely edited by me. Again sorry for not giving the link of the owners of pictures cause these are taken from pinterest and from different places. My all respect to them. The data is taken from google search, Wikipedia.

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0 Reply December 10

Beautiful analysis. RM is truly such an amazing an insightful person to life, mono has really helped me feel relaxed and comforted me during times of stress or just sadness. A truly amazing playlist/mixtape with an amazing analysis :purple_heart:

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