“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.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“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”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Looking back on it now, I wonder how I managed to stand it.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“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.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“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.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“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.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“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.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS