I'm going to pin this tweet as a way to motivate myself to work harder for what I want, so...
I will unpin this WHEN I finally get to see @BTS_twt live 💜
I'm gonna cry so fckng badddd!!
I had the most beautiful dream with ot7 and my freaking alarm woke me up in the middle of it. 😫😫😫
Ngl it was kinda silly but I saw jungkook's face so clearly, and I NEVER see people's faces in my dreams. 😔
Other than the artistic side (music, choreos, concepts, etc) it was their dynamic as a group.
They're funny n seemed so genuine, humble, down to earth. I never perceived em as unreachable spoiled celebrities. We had different realities, but somehow I could relate to them. 🤷♀️
All Army that love OT7 are welcome to reply or quote
Today’s question is…
Other than the music, what was it about BTS that made you decide to start stanning them?
Since I’m already here in the Outro: Tear hole and have been for about 12 hours now. I may as well use this opportunity to point out one of the very distinct reasons Outro: Tear evokes such visceral reactions from all us who hear it.
The meaning behind it is defintely one of the reasons.
But another is the structure of the song itself. Outro: Tear is not one song with 3 verses saying the same thing. It’s 3 different reactions changing hands as the song moves from Namjoon to Yoongi to Hoseok. And along with the lyrics, the melody is doing the same thing. It’s weaving from Namjoon’s conflict to Yoongi’s despair to Hoseok’s fear.
It’s 3 different reactions in response to the same inevitable end.
Namjoon’s reaction being internal interrogation of his self. His relationship with identity has always been threaded through questions of sincerity. Kim Namjoon vs RM. Leader vs person. The person carrying everybody versus the person who is also exhausted and frightened and occasionally has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. It’s inward conflict. Was it real? Was the goodbye always inevitable because of his own insincerity him?
Then yoongi comes in with his verse that says, fine. Destroy it. His reaction is pure rage. And it’s not rage at the people who are important to him. No. It’s rage at the fact it has come to this. So he wants it all scorched. Bc if all of it has to go, then he wants it gone completely. No lingering. No halves. No hope.
And then Hoseok’s verse. His whole verse is grappling with fear through his words. But it’s also fear as a physiological language. It’s one of the truly unique things about his verse. How the melody literally starts with hard breaths. You can hear it in the song. Gasping. Forcing. Almost choking. And then his flow breaks out of its contained rhythm.
He’s panicking. He’s fearful bc “ending” was always just a concept. But now it’s here in present time. He spends the final verse driving his body and the song towards a state that feels increasingly unsustainable. The breaths are shorter, his delivery gets more frantic, rhythm breaking out of confinement, and then his repetitions like geol geol geol and byeong byeong byeong lose structure within the song and becomes a fixation almost.
So now you as the listener who has been experiencing that transition from conflict to rage and despair and now to fear and panic, you are naturally expecting a sort of resolve.
But it doesn’t happen. What does happen is the song quite literally cuts. The composition of the flow itself finally does what it’s meant to do. It ends without allowing for a resolve.
That part. That abrupt end. That is why Outro: Tear has that reaction on us all. Because the very last thing you experience with the song is an interruption. All of that confusion and pain and rage and fear carries with you into Hoseok’s verse where as the panic crescendos, you expect him to arrive emotionally somewhere. But he doesn’t. He is still inside the panic when the song takes him away from you.
So now you’re the one left holding all of that with you.
That’s what’s almost cruel about the song itself. There’s no completion. Hoseok’s verse just escalates and escalates and then cuts. That’s it. You don’t get closure. You don’t get the emotional luxury of watching the pain taper away. The songs just rips from you.
Yo soy una de las que se decepcionó. Pero he leído cada cosa que me deja fría. No sé si me sorprende o asustan las conclusiones a las que llegan algunas personas.
Hay gente sin ningún tipo de interacción social en la vida real que se la pasa acá 24/7 y se nota.
cuando explotó todo yo estuve de acuerdo con las que se decepcionaron pero ya se estan pasando, inventando narrativas, sobreanalizando y creyendo rumores sacados del culo generando mas odio, no es normal el delirio que estan manejando ya chicas vayan a tomar un poco de aire
armys either hugely downplay or hugely play up every situation like you people can never be normal. think critically for once i BEG…not everything is black and white it’s always one extreme or the other for you people
Vocês não começaram a ser descredibilizadas quando apontaram o erro, pq até ai pelo menos 90% do fandom concordou que a crítica era válida. O ponto nunca foi esse. Vocês começaram a ser descredibilizadas quando passaram a transformar isso em uma sequência de acusações cada vez mais absurdas, fazendo textões colocando eles como criminosos, e eu não tô exagerando, espalhando fake atrás de fake, criando teorias da conspiração, e agora como se não bastasse, estão teorizando até sobre as cores do álbum. Quando tu mistura uma crítica que tem fundamento com informação falsa, especulação e teoria da conspiração, você não fortalece a pauta, você esvazia completamente a discussão. Vocês dão munição para que qualquer crítica legítima seja tratada como delírio. Não adianta reclamar que ninguém leva vocês a sério enquanto vocês mesmas estão tornando cada vez mais difícil levar a sério o que estão dizendo. Em vez de manter a discussão nesse ponto e cobrar mudanças de forma onesta, vocês foram aumentando a narrativa até chegar a um nível em que qualquer coisa passou a ser usada de maneira sem sentido
Some of the language I’ve been seeing this past week in a nutshell:
I’m doing this because I love you.
I want you to be better.
You need to learn.
We need to humble you.
We need to make sure you understand what you did.
You need to apologize.
We made you who you are, so you owe us this.
READ THAT LANGUAGE OUTSIDE OF FANDOM FOR A SECOND. Does it sound familiar? We’ve heard versions of those things in real life toxic relationships. We’ve heard people justify controlling or humiliating someone by saying they’re doing it because they love them or because it’s for their own good. I’m NOT saying Army and BTS are in an abusive relationship. That’s actually the point!! YOU AREN'T IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AT ALL. There’s a difference between a boundary and control. Saying you don’t agree with their actions, so you're withdrawing support, is a boundary. “We supported you, so you owe us different behavior, and we’re going to pressure, humiliate, protest or punish you until you give it to us” is an attempt at control, and at this point, what apology would even satisfy everyone? Speak now and it’ll be PR. Speak later and it’ll be “why did you wait?” Say too little and it won’t be enough. Say too much and people will say the company wrote it. Stay silent and people will say silence proves everything. If they genuinely reflect on this and decide they want to address it, that’s their choice. If it makes them approach something differently in the future, that’s their choice too, but pressuring someone into an apology just proves the pressure worked. It doesn’t prove the apology is sincere. Seven men can't live according to the individual moral expectations of millions of people who don’t even agree with each other. You control whether you support them, stream them, buy tickets, stay in the fandom or leave. What you don’t control is what they must believe, who they must associate with, what lesson they must learn, when they must speak, or what apology they must give. And with that, I think I need to take a little break from all of this. I’m honestly tired of opening this app and seeing the same discourse every day. It’s been a week🫠
The way some of yall r moving is giving anti behavior. Like why am i seeing people treating em like they're cword bword themselves.
They embarrassed us this time, but not for one single moment I thought they're the worst people in the world n that they should be crucified.
Nah taking a pic with him was not necessary at all. Like, listening to the music and attending the concert is not as bad as willingly meeting backstage AND taking pictures.
I'm sorry namseok, I love you both so much, but I can't defend you this time.