BTS are real artists who make music not for the sake of it but for their immense love for music.
BTS' music is pure art that resonates with people who know how to appreciate it & that's why they chart. It's that simple.
Everyone remembers 2 COOL 4 SKOOL for "What is your dream?" But that's not actually what this album is about. It's not a motivational push to dream bigger. It's a much harder question aimed at a specific system.
"did you ever get the chance to choose your dream in the first place?"
To understand why that question lands the way it does, you need the context it's aimed at.
South Korean youth culture revolves heavily around education — kids as young as kindergarten age start attending after-school academies aimed at getting into the country's top "SKY" universities — Seoul National, Korea, and Yonsei.
There's even a term, "In-Seoul," used just to describe whether your university is located in Seoul at all — a geographic shorthand for how much your degree, and by extension you, are worth. 🧵
One of my favorite things to see about the surprise song is how ARMY recognizes them in 1 second, with the first note/chord.
Either BCD trained us well or we REALLY, REALLY listen to BTS music.
Those brandishing the bot allegations can kiss my a$$.
my favorite thing about the surprise songs is that the tannies see that we really do listen to their music. not just the title tracks, not just the most recent album. all of it. the old stuff, the b-sides, every single song. i think that's really special 🥹
imo we need to chill with the connections to rival companies narratives, it gives them credit for having more power than they have. Our strongest point is othering of asian artist than conflict of interests. The latter makes this a kpawp issue when it bigger than that.
Yall I just remembered this from 2024 they had this plan to launch an "Asian version of grammys" for so long
So if we connect the dots their plan was to- launch an "asian pop" category > make BTS win > give it relevance > launch a separate grammy show for Asians THIS IS SICK WTF