K-Pop Lyrics Explained: The Not So Hidden Meaning Behind DREAMCATCHER's 'Maison'

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This week, we're diving deep into a song that rings true, now more than ever: DREAMCATCHER's latest title track, 'Maison' from their second full-length album "Apocalypse : Save us". Quite self-evidently, 'Maison' (French for 'home') serves as a fair warning against a not-so-distant apocalyptic future that awaits us if we continue to plague the Earth with apathetic overconsumption.

 

The lyrics directly correlate to and resonate with a global sentiment of crisis evoked by the unfathomable dangers of climate change through the story of celestial saviors who take it upon themselves to revive the Earth when it is abandoned by the very people who call it home. Gaia transforms into the Grim Reaper as an emblem of the earthly wasteland and chaos reigns in Satan's form. It is now up to the super