LE SSERAFIM - Eve, Psyche and The Bluebeard’s Wife
LE SSERAFIM (르세라핌) — Eve, Psyche and The Bluebeard’s Wife (이브, 프시케 그리고 푸른 수염의 아내)
Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard’s wife is the tenth track on the first full — length album, UNFORGIVEN, released in 2023. The song expresses the story of women breaking taboos and moving into a new world with intense beats in the genre of Jersey Club. Each of the three women in the title of this song has the following meaning.
- Eve: the founder and first woman of mankind in the Bible. Caught up by the smartest snake of all the animals God made, she ate forbidden fruit and degenerated. Eve suffered from God’s wrath and human suffering in exchange for breaking taboos, but at the same time gained human freedom and knowledge.
- Psyche: a beautiful princess in Greek and Roman mythology. Married Eros, the god of love, but lived without seeing him. Out of curiosity, he carried a lamp to see Eros’ face, but he was found and deported. Psyche went through several trials to get Eros back, eventually reuniting with Eros with the help of the gods and obtaining an immortal soul.
- Bluebeard’s wife: a character in a story written by French fairy tale writer Charles Perot. Bluebeard is a cruel man who kills his wives and hides them in his own room. He gives his sixth wife a room key that he told her never to open when she was not, but she opens the room out of curiosity and finds the bodies in it. Bluebeard tries to kill his wife, but his brothers come and save her.
These three women are all taboo violators in their world. But they found their own color and life through the taboo. The song praises these women for their courage and curiosity, and sends a message that they want to break taboos and live freely like such women.
The lyrics express these messages in various ways. For example, the phrase
‘I’m in a distance but we’re still the best’
means that they remain confident and cool, even though they are in a chaotic and painful situation. The phrase
‘Boom boom boom 내 심장이 뛰네’
means that acts that violate the taboo give them a new sense and pleasure. The phrase
‘Girl wanna have fun’
means that women want to live for their own pleasure.
To further analyze the meaning of the lyrics, the song argues that women must break taboos to achieve their desires and dreams through the stories of the three women. This song shows the attitude that women do not deny the pain and conflict they experience while violating taboos, but rather turn it into their power and charm. The song highlights women’s rights and freedoms to decide about their lives, and shows them fighting and enjoying themselves.