💜 *after their AMA Song of the Summer award speech*
🐯 My hands were shaking
👤 No, you looked completely relaxed
🐯 So I was like, “Wait..” I was more nervous than performing. Just make me perform on stage instead!
🐹 Taehyung, you were amazing. You sounded like you live here
🐥 You sounded like a native speaker
bts adding this is VERY important. merry go round emphasizes that while you may feel you are moving forward in life (growing up, achieving success) you are still anchored to the same heavy anxieties. the horse vertical movement mimics life’s temporary highs and lows but the horizontal trajectory never actually leaves the circle. growing up does not mean being free from anxiety and pressure. this is bts telling us that you are NOT alone when it comes to that kind of struggle.
“my bed is my coffin” & it’s him standing on coffin bc of military insomnia & members waiting in separate rooms (separated by enlistment) only to finally come back together at end under big dipper waiting for him so they’re whole again as 7 & that’s all it takes to be healed 😭