@namspecs Thank you so much for this! It will be my first time in Toronto and I'll be staying downtown and have been stressing about how to get to the stadium and back!
Namjoon about FYA💜
🐨: And about ‘FYA.’
🐨: As I mentioned earlier, ‘FYA’ was one of the songs we worked on while trying to create something that could surpass ‘Hooligan’; something harder, more intense, and even better than ‘Hooligan.’
🐨: You know Flume, right? Back in the day he was behind that whole future bass boom. I suddenly can’t remember the song name, but he was one of the pioneers of that dubstep/future bass wave. And then there’s JPEGMAFIA — he’s basically one of the leaders of experimental alternative hip-hop right now. His tracks are incredible, and his ideas are so unique that we used him as a major reference point this time around.
So those two actually released an album together recently, maybe it was the year before last. Anyway, Diplo has a really wide network, right? He was kind of our American head contact. And I told the company that I absolutely wanted to work with JPEGMAFIA no matter what.
So he came, and during that process we listened to a bunch of Flume beats. Seriously, Flume must have thousands of beats. We couldn’t possibly listen to all of them, so we went through maybe around 200.
🐨: Then we found this beat that started with motorcycle sounds — dududududu — and it was just so good. Then there was that “tuk tuk tuk” part, and when the Jersey beat comes in, we started going: “It’s fire…”
🐨: Because honestly, the phrase we used the most during camp was probably: “That’s fire.” People just kept saying it constantly, even casually. When you spend all day in sessions like that, everyone gets exhausted. Someone would say, “That melody sounds like another song,” or someone would randomly hum something weird, and somebody else would just go: “Bro, that’s fire!” It almost became like a habit, kind of like how Koreans casually say “Have you eaten?” or “Let’s grab a meal sometime.” It became that kind of automatic phrase.
🐨: So we thought: “What if we actually made a song around ‘That’s fire’?” We started messing around with: “That’s fire… that’s fire…” and everyone thought it sounded kind of fun.
🐨: So I asked JPEGMAFIA: “Hyung, could you maybe just do something like ‘It’s fire’ over this?” And then he suddenly went: “It’s FYA!” And we were like: “Oh, that’s it. That’s it.”
🐨: Then later we added melodies on top of it, and that’s basically how the song came together. Personally, I just wanted to make one completely insane song.
Because songs like “Aliens,” “Hooligan,” and “Body to Body” all had meanings and themes, I wanted at least one track where people could just completely let loose almost like brainrot music.
🐨: I imagined a concert moment where everyone’s just jumping together in a giant mosh pit. Just screaming nonsense like: “Everything that’s fire!” Even though it doesn’t really mean anything, just running around, jumping, and having fun together.
🐨: And honestly, I think that vision kind of came true in the end. Actually, I think some members at first were like: “I don’t really know about this song…” But after performing it live, everyone accepted it and felt: “Yeah… this song really was necessary.”
🐨: So in the end, all the songs that deserved to be there found their place on the album.