You Make Me Feel So (1917)
트Generation, 2018
K-pop project: 트Generation [Transgeneration]*
Revolutionary defeatism as a pop song to learn and sing.
This music video project explored kpop’s latent kommunist potential. Reaching across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea it narrates the the psychedelic flight of 2 young lovers on a magic memory foam mattress looted from a store in Seoul.
In the process it anticipates the revolt of young Koreans against binaries of gender, race, class and sexuality, but also the rising masculinism and militarism of an era of global nationalisms. Closing with a cameo from the great Harisu, Korea’s first transgender pop star, the song pits trans love against (terf) war.
You Make Me Feel So (1917) attempts an anti-militarist anthem for the era of Trump and BLM. As US imperialism slides from global trade wars to proxy wars to war wars it may stay (un)timely.
Glossary:
동무: Dongmo: Friend/comrade
K-pop = Kommunist pop with 동무- character-istics
동무 may be ultimately of Sino-Korean origin
From 동모 (同謀): dongmo = “planning together; complotting; collusion”
동무 (dongmu) was originally a non-ideological, neutral word for "friend" once used all over the Korean Peninsula
North Koreans later adopted it as the equivalent of the Communist term of address "comrade"
Music, words, concept, video – B. Seymour.
Research, discussion, translation, vocals – Soohyun Choi
You Make Me Feel So (2017)
7 mins edit
In secular crisis, always go long
Dongmu + donkdonk donk donkdonk = revolution
你让我感觉 (1917) [Chinese subtitles]
‘Nǐ ràng wǒ gǎnjué (1917)’
Chinese sub-titles were made for the video when shown and discussed at CAA Hangzhou in December 2025 and April 2026
