🐨 I hope that BTS remains a team that keeps telling a story, be it about love or whatever it is
🐨 I want to keep doing that, but I feel like the generation doesn't want the story of an artist, they prefer entertainment or play wrapped as a story
i personally feel namjoon doesn't get enough credit for his pen game. in an industry flooded with ghostwriters, where lyricism itself is dead, joon keeps proving why he's one of the greatest songwriters out there. he's a musical genius.
+ 🐨 I still believe in the power of lyrics. at least for BTS, I hope we continue to be a group that tells stories through our music. that’s the side of BTS I want to protect and keep alive.
🐨 I think I reached the sad conclusion that people dont really listen to lyrics anymore. so if my words reach anyone I hope they’ll listen to this album one more time and truly pay attention to the stories we’re trying to tell personally,that’s still something I quietly hope for
NOT ONE PERSON LEAVING THE GROUP 😭🔥
🐨 To be honest, we ended up making this album without having a fixed direction beforehand. Because of that, when the album came out, I completely expected opinions to be divided… starting with the title track itself. Whether people feel it’s lacking, whether the reactions are mixed, or whether some people simply don’t like it.
The important thing is that we came back together here, released a studio album like we promised, and are once again doing performances and going on tour. And the fact that not one person leaving the group, no one got hurt, and no one had to take a break — that we’re able to continue everything safely together — means so much 😭💜
Namjoon said that in 2017 at the AMAs, #BTS didn’t even have a room of their own to do their makeup and now in 2026, the AMAs gave them the biggest room just for them 😭💜
“Last night, I really felt like a strange feeling cause it reminds me of like 2017, 9 years ago when we first attended the AMAs, we had no green room and we literally had to fix our makeup in the hallway.. But last night we used the biggest room”
namjoon talking about how jungkook was crying his eyes out bc he was going through a hard period in the military to now seeing him look the happiest on stage is so healing