Ryan Tedder said on Zach Sang show that BTS picks everything themselves: the songs, the writing, the direction. He addressed “Some people still think someone at HYBE or Bang PD is pulling the strings. BUT no!"
They had to wait for the members to return to determine the album’s direction. Only BTS leads BTS. Just a reminder for the people at the back.
Hobi about Namjoon's live
🐿: Yesterday, Namjoon did a live. I saw it. I didn't post any comments and I just listened to what he said. For a long time, he's been wanting to talk about this and I had been by his side so I had known all about it.
He felt that if he had the chance, if he could go through the album and tell the stories, this tour that we're doing could become more meaningful and the people who listen to these songs and hear them in that space may feel different emotions.
Namjoon had always said that. And he worked so hard on this album. And so I watched and listened to him on the live quietly.
Translation cr:@/ryuminating
THE FACT NAMJOON REVEALED WHEN SEOKJIN WAS DISCHARGED ALL THE BTS MEMBERS MENTAL HEALTH WASNT THE BEST SO THEY GATHERED IN JIMIN HOUSE AND THEY CRIED TOGETHER🥹:
🐨: First of all, before going into that...Right around the time Jin-hyung was discharged from the military, which was a year before the rest of us would be discharged🐨everyone’s mental state wasn't very good. So, when Jin hyung got discharged, and around the time I played the saxophone, after his discharge, we all gathered together. We all gathered at Jimin’s place,
🐨: At that time, Jungkook was also going through a really tough period. Well, we were all having a hard time since we were all still active-duty soldiers.
🐨Jungkook was crying his eyes out, saying that as the older brother, I needed to work harder to hold the team together. We talked about things like that, and we had a lot of deep conversations among ourselves
Namjoon about Normal
🐨: Normal is a very sad song. I wrote the lyrics in Korean and then changed it to English for radio and stuff, but yeah, there is a Korean version of Normal. The guys have even recorded the Korean version. Idk if it will ever be out tho. Anyways, kerosene is oil that lights the bulbs. One day you love me, one day you say you hate me fine make me bulletproof, so that I won't die even if you shoot me. There was this keyword of Normal. But what is normal for us? As we live as BTS what is the normal for me? Someday ppl tell me that they love me and the other day they tell me to get lost just like a very toxic couple. Ppl put us high 1000 times and pull down 1000 times too.
"Two sides of a coin and they both ain't true"
Both sides aren't true. Why? Coz both sides are true and both sides are fake at the same time. There's no one who can explain this team called BTS.
"Wish I had a min just to turn me off"
Fine this is the life that I've chosen and all mistakes are mine but I can think about having a min of shutting off from the ppl. This doesn't mean that I wanna give up on my life but I can hope for ppl to forget me for a moment. I think that's the feeling behind writing this lyrics. Now that I see this song is really sad too.
"Fantasy and fame yeah the things we choose"
We're accepting that we've chosen this fame. When we sing this song on stage we sing it as a happy song coz we're singing it together, coz this is the other side of the coin.