The process of picking out the song was simple: I was almost eighteen, and everyone around me seemed to take life seriously - which, for me, is too soon - more than I am. To the point where sometimes I found myself gazing at the girl once so careless at everything started to talk about future career instead of actually keeping up with the conversation. Obviously, I’m not prepared to leave behind my youth; how can someone, as they wake up one day, decide that they will be more responsible than they already do? Then no one has time for love, either. They try to squeeze it into a tiny space between their timetable, try to make sense out of it during the peak hours. People my age love hurriedly, and fall out of it far too slowly.
So I think of something that would bring joy. Or at least remind me and my friends of the happiness we once had when we were young. That takes me to an ultimate conclusion: What is more fun than a school-setting love story? This make sense, too. According to my audience research, 87.5% (59.4% and 28.1%) of them are teenagers, where 56.3% from Ho Chi Minh City and 31.3% belongs to Hanoi. This is such a coincidence, as Vinschool placed most of its schools in these two big cities. Definitely, my audience will get the background of my music video.
The theme is set. All I need now is a song to match it. In the end, I still prioritize familiarity, because trying to accomplish a task that have an element that you encountered before will give me an advantage. After scrolling through my playlist, “Tung Quen” by Wren Even caught my eyes.
My Spotify playlist.
The entire music video describe a one-side love story happens during the last year of high school between an energetic boy and a playful girl. He was so hopelessly in love that even in his test, he wondering about her (album’s merch). Even though the idea seems playful, it reflects on certain issues I found during my time of observation.
Connections between people are complex. I can be best friend of someone for today without knowing tomorrow we won’t cross path again. Especially in our age where we enter the growing of both psychological and physical. In the music video, several scenes depicted the different reactions of friendship and romantic relationship.
For example this in shot, the two classmates can be seen gives little to no care to the heart-broken boy; they even filming him for entertainment. They later on also shown a new form of bullying which is rumors in the after credit. According to the ***National Center for Education Statistics, 2022,*** one out of every five (19.2%) students report being bullied. Bullying can result in physical injury, social and emotional distress, self-harm, and even death. It also increases the risk for depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, lower academic achievement, and dropping out of school.
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQ-dVt9WZDIidWajJtCKOAcz7SZ9ZCuU/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQ-dVt9WZDIidWajJtCKOAcz7SZ9ZCuU/view?usp=sharing)
However not all friendships end up being toxic, in this scene where Kevin gets his heart break (again), his friend immediately rushed in to help him. Or in the after credit scenes, it can be seen that he is hanging out with one of his “gay” friend (aka our supporting actor Bui Ho Quoc Viet), showing diversity and that we can be friend with any one we feel comfortable with. As the data from 2024 suggests that more than 3 in 5 LGBTQ+ students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness during the past year, and more than half had poor mental health during the past month.
Him with the gay friend at the park.
Him with the gay friend at the park.
Him with his best friend at home.
Him with his best friend at home.
One of the symptoms for a unhealthy relationship. It is suggested that Kevin formed an obsession over the female lead by constantly following her and where he saw her photo posting on Instagram, when he found out that the person she posted on wasn’t him, he rapidly breathing, showing hinted. anxious attachment. In real life, we become obsessed with certain people because we have fundamental neural systems that drive us into a state of infatuation, and these can be overactivated at times in our lives when we are vulnerable to the romantic potential of a person who matches our subconscious template of a desirable mate.
Stalking behaviors #1
Stalking behaviors #2
Stalking behaviors #3
This is indeed a mental health problem as this is not a healthy way to cope with life. Mostly people when they become processive over someone admitted to be insecure. In fact, 56% of female Gen Z-ers compared to 33% of male Gen Z-ers admitted to feeling anxious about their appearance, whilst nearly double the amount of girls.
Aha, this lead us to the third issue: gender stereotype.