i dont think y’all realize how fucking cool it is to just openly announce you are not submitting for the grammys because of their mistreatment. it takes a lot to have that kind of courage. they said FUCK that racist organization. BTS are truly the most inspiring artists ever
“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.
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.
🐨living as BTS made me question what 'normal' even is for me. one day people say they love me the next they tell me to disappear. people who love us, people who dont keep switching up one day they put u on a pedestal, the next they tear you down.somehow that became my normal