this race is the perfect representation of bangtan's success. the MCs didnt even mention the boys until they won. just like how bts was ignored by kmedia and the music industry until they became too big to ignore
How I hear this
Hello
On this good day I’m writing a letter for the first time in a while
I’ve never really liked the phrase
‘someone saves someone else’
and I can’t say I’ve ever believed in it all that much
But undeserving as I am
I’ve somehow lived hearing those words from time to time
and I find myself looking back
wondering whether I too haven’t been saved by you.
I’m trying to live more simply than before, more plainly
or perhaps more boldly
There are far fewer moments now when I fall into sentiment
Still the world remains sad
No matter how many joyful days there are
I suppose that can’t be helped.
Or perhaps in truth
it may be because I’m too happy
I’ve handed over so many words
and thrown out so many sounds
I don’t really know
which melody, which pebble*
has reached those of you here now
But I think I’ll keep being someone
who sends & throws them out like that
13 years ago & from now on too.
So long as there are those of you who listen.
Making memories together
and growing one year older with you year by year
makes me very happy.
And I like that there is still someone
I can cry out to
Again & again I see myself through you
Do you too?
Thank you once again
for being with me on this precious anniversary
Today is Saturday, the 13th
A truly good day
Even if someone asks what meaning that could possibly have
I want to keep piling up in one corner of my heart
the memories only we know
and the days we have to celebrate
Please continue to look kindly on me
I love you
#HappyBirthday
@Seoul_OT7 Just take it with you. An Army bomb, no matter what version, is ARMY's companion to concerts, live viewing events, etc. It is one of your "badges" of commitment to the artist and fandom. It is important just like ARMYs are to BTS.
“Normal is a sad song”
Yes it is. Rapline’s verses especially broke me the first time I heard them. And the way their verses directly reflect their roles and the mantles they’ve adopted as RM, SUGA and j-hope of BTS.
Hobi. The man who has literal hope in his name. Who became the embodiment of hope and light to so many. The one deemed the happy one. The one everyone looks to when they’re down. The man who felt like he couldn’t show show hi struggles and fears and worries because he’s always had to be the positive one. The easy going one. The man who even during times where he was not ok, would smile, square his shoulders and say, yea I’m okay I’m your hope after all. He sings, “How am I supposed to feel? Used to think I was built with a heart made of steel. Now I understand the truth, some pain don’t heal. If everything’s just happy, that ain’t real.”
Yoongi. The man who has openly admitted that mundane things like going to the movies are what he cherishes most. The one who cried when he realised how big bts was becoming and what it meant for them. The man who people went after because of his vulnerability. The man who has openly spoken about his mental health struggles. The man who had to compartmentalise his identities to make sense of his journey, his anger, his frustrations. The man who over the years has come to accept that this was what he chose. His normal. He sings, “I breathe everything out like a thousand times. Normal and special, they are just some lines. One deep sigh, then it slips away, fades away. What I try to keep never want to stay.”
And then—
Namjoon. The leader of BTS. The literal front line of his team. The man who has carried all of this for over a decade. The man whose words are constantly taken, kneaded, broken down, twisted, reimagined. The man who is criticised twice as hard because of who he is, the team he’s part of and the company he’s from. The man who at some point lost his true self in all the varied versions of himself that he had to become to satisfy every party. Versions that haunted him. He sings, “Run away, pushin me, pullin me. Said you wanted all of me but what is even all of me? Suddenly, part of me is haunting me. Heard the things they callin me, what the hell you want from me?”
So yes. A hundred times yes. Normal is a very very sad song.