“The stages and performances were something we really wanted to do and now we were doing it, but our schedule was just so harsh...Afraid our affection for the work would diminish, that it would become simply "work," we all decided, "Let's take a little time for ourselves.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“If I'd had to find the answer to every question on my own every time, it would've been a really hard path to follow, but I think I was always influenced by the people around me. Who likes me, whom I get onstage with, who will lead me, who will support me. These are what's really important to me.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I'd relied so much on him and the members of BTS, which I suppose meant a part of me had always sought his approval. So hearing him say that did put my feelings in order a bit...In any case, I'm surrounded by good people and beloved by our fans, so how could I ever fail?”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I think that's how I became conscious of how to think. As I began to have favorite artists, I found new ways of communicating with myself. A work of art is the visual result of an artist who had thought long and hard about things, right? With so much trial and error put into it. Which is why I feel such a catharsis in seeing the results of an artist putting out a piece of art as if they were saying, "This is what I think," after going through all that processing.”
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“This makes me think we're on a bridge made of glass that lies across such boundaries. And we can see how far it falls below...So it's also scary. Because just one crack means we're going to fall.”
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“...and people loved me, and I had to meet their expectations...I was dealing with all that chaos in my life with some awkwardness. I didn't know where I had gone wrong, and wondered how I could've done better.”
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“I couldn't understand him at first. Sure, I was a little too young to be very understanding of others, and hadn't met many people then...But I was really curious and kept thinking, 'Why does he work so hard?' Because Jimin really, really gives it his all in every single song. And I came to realize, 'This kid is absolutely serious about being onstage. And he's constantly worried people will be disappointed by his performance.' I'd though long and hard about Jimin this way, and it turned out, Jimin had also thought about me. And once I realized that I had things I was good at while Jimin had his things he was good at...I started to understand. It's just so fascinating to me. That complete opposites can be like, 'Wow, we really don't go together,' but once we saw how we made up for each other's deficiencies, we came to see each other with even more respect and admiration.”
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“Two completely difference people accepting each other's differences and becoming friends might come across as a cliche in a movie or a drama.”
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“I wanted to fill it with the hurt I felt. It's a very lively song, but the lyrics are really sad.
Yesterday's you
Now I see it all
So many thorns on a sprouting rose
I want to give you a hug”
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“The results are important, sure, but the process is also very important, and I try to maintain my own balance through direct experience.”
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“But "ON" actually goes:
Where my pain lies
Let me take a breath”
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“Well...I don't think I have a lot of memories of the pandemic. Like that time was "chopped off" my memory? I just felt like time was passing. It was hard at times, and we overcame it, but looking back at that time, I feel so wistful.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Forever we are young
Even if you fall and get hurt
I keep running towards my dream”
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“...but I felt like whenever something bad happened, something good happened too.”
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“It was exactly one month since their debut, and three days since their fandom had adopted the name ARMY on July 9.”
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“The blood and sweat we shed, I can feel it drenching me
My tears well up after our performance”
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“As time went by, the members were preoccupied more and more by uncertainty.”
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“The rim seems farther away today
Sighs pile up on the court
A boy afraid of reality”
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“I need to do everything I can for her, no matter what it is. Maybe that was why I was hungry for success.”
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“In reality, I do remember looking around my room in the accommodations once before leaving. I felt that we'd grown, and on the one hand I was looking forward to what exciting things would happen in our new place.”
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“...but they went through the process of "smaller the house, stronger the bond." Leaving that place and moving into their new accommodations proved that something was changing, or at least allowed them to believe this was the case.”
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“Work was important to me, I had a dream and wanted to be successful, and so I had quite a lot of anxiety over whether, 'Will this work make me really happy?' I was always hovering around that point.”
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“Those people—without those people cheering us on, there would have been no demand for us to exist, and we felt a sense of urgency that we needed to be truly thankful to these people called fans.”
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“Success made BTS conscious of everything they'd gone through to get this far, as well as what they wanted their goal to be from that point on.”
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“Fighting as an underdog: enduring everything imaginable, but never losing the will to go on.”
“I've bet my life on this group, I can't just decide something based on my own individual opinion. That's why I do it, and all of us have the attitude, 'Let's do it,' for all those different activities. And my attitude is to go along with it.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I still can't believe it
This all feels like a dream
Don't try to disappear
...
Will you stop time
After this moment passes by
What if this becomes something that never happened, or I lose you
I'm afraid, afraid, afraid”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“For BTS, who had shouted out, "If you think you're gonna crash, accelerate even more," their situation was a complex combination of hardship and expectation, sadness and hope.”
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“In THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.2's first half, while "INTRO: Never Mind" deals with BTS's attitude in changing circumstances, "RUN" deals with how this attitude would be put into practice, and "Butterfly" is about BTS's internal anxiety and sadness, which existed both in the real world and within their music videos.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“In the middle of this vast ocean
A whale speaks in a low and lonesome voice
No matter how much it shouts, it won't reach anyone
Feeling so lonely, it quietly shuts its mouth
...
Words easily thrown out to me builds a wall in between
Even my loneliness looks fake in your eyes
...
The world will never know
How sad I am
My pain is like water and oil, it can never mix”
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“Looking back on it now, I wonder how I managed to stand it.”
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“I didn't even have the slightest fear about learning. This was because the hyungs had done music before, whereas from the start, I couldn't dance, sing, or play instruments well.”
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“Who will tell these stories if music doesn't? And that music, looking at it now, it's like those are words speaking to me. A few years later, listening to the songs I made back then, I feel comforted. They're like a letter written to my future self.”
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“For this generation, though exhausting and suffocating, you can't give the world a piece of your mind if you want to survive in society. Thus, in this generation, though you can rebel, it's hard to resist. BTS took the picture of this generation of young people and brought it into the world of idol groups: here, they defined their own generation through the means of hip-hop.”
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“Later, in July 2016, Big Hit Entertainment and BTS publicly announced their position on the misogyny controversy, stating, "We learned that music creation is not free from societal prejudice and fallacies," and "Furthermore, we became aware that it may also not be desirable to define the value of women and their role in society from a male perspective." Gender sensitivity training is now obligatory for all HYBE artists before they can debut.”
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“While "Save ME" on the one hand continued the stories of the characters from THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE series, it was also a message from BTS to the world.
Thank you for allowing me to be who I am
Allowing me to fly
For giving me wings”
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“Don't try too hard
It's okay to be a loser”
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“No star ever gets used to countless anti-fans analyzing every second of their life to find things to criticize.”
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“I'm sure the other members were really frustrated. They told me to talk to them if things were rough, but I didn't tell them anything. It's the way I am, I'm not good at talking about those things. I can't work up the courage.”
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“...pressure to do well was so big.”
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“So there were parts I could do, parts I wasn't good enough for, and parts I couldn't do at all. Somehow, I had to address them one by one.”
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“Bloodstains caused by the harshness of reality
Couldn't imagine
That the greed would become a call to hell
...
Too bad but it's too sweet”
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“...new things came up that I had to address, to overcome. 'Wow. There's so much I didn't know. So much I have to learn.' And I'll have to keep doing it in the future.”
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“Wake me up from this hell
I can't break free from this pain
Save me from this punishment”
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“It gave the effect of being surrounded by people yet isolated.”
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“People look happier in the dark than in the daylight
They all know where they need to be
I'm the only one just walking around
But I feel more comfortable just blending in”
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“I don't believe in it
I'm just trying to hold on
The only thing
I can do is this”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Bulletproof Boy Scouts": "Beyond The Scene." This new brand identity for both BTS and ARMY was unveiled on July 5, 2017, making the team's name easier to remember for both Korean and international fans, and expanding the scope the team could cover.”
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“So I just felt like, 'I guess I'm doing all right.' I didn't want to focus on the numbers, just keep doing what we always did.”
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“It's so hard, I don't know if this is the right path
I'm so confused, never leave me alone”
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