Brown Eyed Girls

雨雨雨

Cleansing Cream: Revealing Your True Face
这首歌的风格和以往BEG的歌不一样，是比较悲伤的调，自己看MV的时候没明白是什么意思，只是被歌曲所吸引，看了网上的解释之后发现MV做的真是不错



歌迷的解释如下：
Like Subi, I also believe that the girl and the woman in the music video are one and the same. However, after reading through the translated lyrics, it occurred to me that the song is actually about the aftermath of a break-up, and how a woman struggles to move on with her life without her lover. Instead of the two main characters being coexisting older and younger versions herself, my interpretation is that the two split personas actually have the same physical age, but are at varying levels of maturity in relation to love.


The woman in makeup puts on a strong exterior image after the break-up. If you notice, she’s actively trying to ignore the ‘memory’ of the man in the room. She sleeps while turned away from him on the bed, puts on makeup in her room while ignoring his presence behind her (although she can see him in her mirror), and doesn’t talk to him at the table. Meanwhile, the girl is actually the woman on the inside (or underneath all the makeup), emotionally confused, and groping blindly around for any feeling from the past to anchor herself to the only world she knows: a world with the man still in her life. She reaches out to touch his face while he sleeps, reaches out to touch him as he sits in the room reading the newspaper, and if she isn’t able to locate him, she sits in the closet smelling his clothes.

The woman is trying hard to keep these two parts of herself separate, wanting to hide her debilitated and emotional side from both the public, and herself. Her mature and polished appearance is cold and numb, but in control.

In the end, however, you see that in fact she cannot keep up the denial of her yearning. Throughout the whole MV, the girl is not only trying to reach out to the man, but trying to reach out to the woman as well. Because she isn’t able to make sense of her world, she repeatedly asks the woman (in the lyrics) why she is feeling this way and what she should do. And while the woman is constantly observing the girl, she refuses to address the weak side of herself, ignoring and leaving the girl to blindly figure out how to move on in the unfamiliar and empty world on her own.

When she sees the results of the girl’s clumsy attempt to put on makeup (as a means to emulate the woman and show maturity), the woman sees a garish parody of her own self, who secretly stays up at night trying to hold back tears. She then loses patience and becomes angry at the girl for trying to climb her way into the woman’s reality in such a clumsy and embarrassing manner. They engage in a struggle in the shower where the woman tries to wash the makeup off the girl, but in the end, she finally breaks down and begins to accept that she and the girl are in fact the same person, feeling the same feelings. After she nearly drowns the girl in the bathtub, their eyes connect, and the woman then realizes that ignoring her hurting self won’t make it go away, and that instead, she should be nurturing and guiding her inner self in the right direction.

It’s important to note that the man plays a very passive role in the music video. Like the girl, he doesn’t really exist on the physical plane of reality. While sleeping, he isn’t even aware that the girl is yearning to touch him. While reading the newspaper, his only response to her touch is a perplexed and confused glance. The woman is aware that the memory of the man is only a shell, and that he has already forgotten about her and moved on. Even in the last scene, when the woman and the girl are struggling in the bathroom, the man is only mildly concerned (after seeing a crack in the woman’s strong facade), and doesn’t (and cannot) do anything beyond ineffectually trying the doorknob and giving up. In the end, it is not up to the man to solve the conflict; the only person capable of saving the girl is the woman herself.

So which side of the woman is more mature? The side that masks away her yearning because she knows she needs to move on, or the side that doesn’t deny her true feelings but is unable to come to terms with reality? The final struggle in the music video suggests that even if it is draining, both sides need to eventually find their way towards each other: to accept one’s inner feelings, but at the same time, to also be conscious and aware of the real and current situation. It is only after the woman acknowledges the girl that they are both forced to come to terms with different aspects of reality.