If you can please listen to this break down of Arirang on Apple music. This has one full rotation of Arirang with commentary by BTS members.
https://t.co/x3kRNthxoM
According to the retail industry, sales at five GS25 stores near the Busan Asiad Main Stadium, where @BTS_twt performance was held, increased by up to 6.8 times over the two days compared to the same period last week.
Sales of Jin's brand IGIN also saw a 100-fold increase.
[India Today] “Somewhere between No More Dream & ARIRANG, they thought us that growth isn't about becoming perfect. It's about continuing to show up, for your dreams, for your people, for yourself” 🥹
This is a must read Article!
https://t.co/EzrcCMNK0g
Convenience stores in Busan enjoyed a boom in business with sales of certain items surging by up to 300 times following @BTS_twt concert. According to GS Retail on the 15th, sales at GS25 outlets near the stadium, surged by up to 6.8 times compared to the same period last week.
The boat metaphor gives us one way to trace their journey from Map of the Soul: 7 to AIRANG. During Break the Silence (Ep.1) RM described the group as “the 7 of us are on a boat, looking in different directions, but going the same way. That’s how I describe BTS”
By Right Place, Wrong Person, RM said, “The ship’s already sailed, and I can’t go back anyway.” The previous way of being BTS & perhaps the previous way of being RM inside BTS, can no longer simply be resumed
The ARIRANG images suggest that they are still in the process of discovering what BTS 2.0 will be & what shape their renewed commitment to one another might take. Their ask seems to be to KEEP SWIMMING
In the 1st image, the 7 are walking together, but RM is looking at the members. In the 2nd image, all 7 are in life preserver. The 6 are moving left while RM is looking towards them. They are not yet back in the boat. They are in flotation, in transition. Swimming
This makes sense considering they created it immediately after military service & their years apart. It also resonates with their reference to 7 other Koreans who came before them in the late 1800s & documented their own diaspora with an unfamiliar Arirang
ARIRANG is searching for the sound & emotional register through which they can return home. Their Korean roots, the memory of Arirang, the humility of remembering they are still 촌놈 & the practical reality of 7 members making music together all become part of the same foundation
This also clarifies RM’s leadership. His style is metacognitive because it keeps asking the questions beneath the questions: who are we now & where are we going?
These questions have been present since the school era. BTS’s music has always been a journey of self-inquiry: who they are under pressure, who they are in youth, who they are in love & before their shadows, who they are as 7.
ARIRANG does not begin that inquiry. It returns to it after break. The album documents a group, treading water together before finding their way back into their new vessel
‘Come Over (Lyric Video)’ debuts at #1 on iTunes Philippines Top Music Videos! 🇵🇭
The song has also re-peaked at #1 (+1) on the Top Songs chart! 🔥
No more distractions, ARMY. Let's keep buying this week and boost Come Over for PH charts! 🫡
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