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[SPEAKER_00]: Bore, hey, iconic army.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bore, hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have been so blessed lately.
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS have been incredibly active on social media these last few weeks since they've been here in LA.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw J-Hope's Instagram story with Yungi popping up in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There has even though Yungi's been back, there's still been such little Yungi appearances.
[SPEAKER_00]: Breadcrumbs, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So seeing Jay Hope on his Instagram story, pan the camera over and Yungi pops in and his eyebrows get all like scrunched together and he scrunched his nose up and he's got a backwards cap on.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks so good with this backwards cap on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not only that, then it pans over to RM resting his head on Jimin's shoulder, just so so cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think boyfriends, obviously.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, mini-money is alive and well.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rise they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: And V is there, too, kind of snuggled in between Jay Hope and Jimin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so so cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not sure where Jungkook is.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's probably busy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has some sort of schedule going on when all of the members went to.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like they were at a beach that they went to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then obviously we know that Jen is touring, which actually his last date was his last tour date was just a couple days ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he was saying all the time that he was so excited to get back with the members.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also like pictures and videos from him from his last couple days of tour.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, now you've seen the chest.
[SPEAKER_00]: The white shirt just gripping onto his body, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, did you see for a rope that he wore like a blow up costume, like a horse?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it was like a horse on the bottom.
[SPEAKER_03]: And well, he was so funny as he was like talking to the crowd and like the horse's ear hit his face.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he just like smacked to the horse away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like to, and he was, I think he wore that for super tune and maybe not rope it, but like he should have kept it on for rope it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looked like an incredible end of his tour.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm excited to see him, like, back with the rest of the members, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a lot of armies just, like, focusing in on that blowup, like, horse that he was on, but, like, his butt was also blown up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a butt, like, like, real big and he's, like, damn fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, yeah, all of the members that looks like they're really enjoying their time in LA going out to dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM, I believe, went to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of just pictures of him with like Disney icons and stuff and amusement ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm assuming that's where he was at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also has changed his profile picture a couple of times on Instagram, KLAU, it ended up sending me like a screenshot.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, what is this recent one?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what is this?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, before this, he had like a golden retriever wearing glasses.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I felt like that was very RM coated.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it just felt like him.
[SPEAKER_03]: But now he just changed it to a cat that looks like it's like
[SPEAKER_03]: rear and back to throw a punch you know like little cat paw like in a fist up and like like I don't know I wonder why he is you know but also he's just this weird guy that yeah wants to make us think but I'm enjoying it
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that he's being his authentic self, just doing what he wants to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then lastly, we've been seeing lots of videos of armies in L.A.
[SPEAKER_00]: who are posting that they are at a restaurant or without shopping or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, oh yeah, I just have in Korean barbecue and then all of a sudden BTS walks in and they just are showing clips of them walking by.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's so funny because I met with two iconic listeners, Holly and Sam, really great friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: So nice to see them here in Kansas City.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was talking about this with them and Holly's like, you know what it is about American Army is we like to gatekeep.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like they don't say in the moment where BTS is and like the crowds come, they keep it to themselves and it's like a day later that they're like, oh, by the way, you saw BTS when I was eating Korean barbecue or whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: So true, this like we had exclusive, you know, exclusive, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I saw BTS, well, I was eating Korean barbecue.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I would choke on my food and I would just like, I would think I'd freak out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would just fully ascend in my life.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I would lose my appetite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't think I could focus on eating anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I wouldn't know what to do with my hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be able to contress with the people I'm sitting with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd be way way distracted.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can be like, should I go over there?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I can't go over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that really them?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you see what they were wearing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't imagine.
[SPEAKER_03]: You think they're doing here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: LA armies who are ever running into them in the same places, like truly blessed, amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's interesting right now to see all of BTS together because, you know, it's kind of getting to the point soon we're going to get new BTS music from them, you know, coming up here in the next few months.
[SPEAKER_03]: But for the past couple years, it's been all about their solo work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is something that we get to talk about today because of that recent Rolling Stone article.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're your hosts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Kayla.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm Bethany and this is standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're favorite informative fan girl podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to hang out for about an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we are going to be talking about that rolling stone article.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the article where they ended up ranking all one hundred and seventy seven BTS solo songs, which is a lengthy list of songs that's a lot under the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but there's been so much discussion around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM posted the link to this article on his Instagram story.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Kayla.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where it really caught your attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard all of the discourse from Army on Twitter and just on TikTok talking about
[SPEAKER_00]: how could this person possibly put this song, it this, you know, whatever, ranking.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we thought it would be fun to just go through and honestly bring justice to a lot of the songs that I think we and other armies feel deserve to be ranked higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get too far into it, we want to say things iconic so much for being here and for always supporting us.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you'd like to support us further, you can do that on Patreon at patreon.com slash standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for being here for all of your support and of course for listening.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so like Bethany said, we did find this on RM story originally, but yeah, the discourse around this article has exploded.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've even seen like, um, pop crave on Twitter like posts like these are J-Hope's top ten songs like ranked determined by Rolling Stone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but really, you know, we feel this was written by J.O.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kim.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we feel like she, there's a little bit of like her opinion in here, like music and art is so subjective.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and so she did have some criteria that she said in the article, but like ultimately like, how could you not let your own opinions get into this?
[SPEAKER_03]: I also feel like just going through the whole ranked list that she was trying to like put some deep cuts in there for like the you know OG armies or like you know like really oh wow like would never have thought about that song and I think that she was also trying to be fair like in my opinion across the board to like the different members like making sure that each member could have some songs that are ranked
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, in that top fifty and a little bit higher even if there are solo workers a little bit like smaller group of songs than other members.
[SPEAKER_03]: So she did say that every song on here had to be a solo song created after the debut in twenty thirteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: So any song after that time is fair game and songs with collaborations with another artist can be included.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the BTS member has to have received equal Billy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so like, stop the rain by tablo and RM is on the list because that was a total collab.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that by sigh, which is produced in featuring Shogga doesn't count because Yungi didn't receive equal Billy and on that song.
[SPEAKER_03]: So specific criteria.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean,
[SPEAKER_03]: When we're going through this and sharing it's so our opinion to of what we thought about these songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's the main premise of it is that for us so not only are we going to just like go through her list we're going to go through all of I mean not every single song but we're going to talk about like some of the ones that are like
[SPEAKER_00]: We just really don't agree with and the ones that were like, okay, yeah, this song belongs here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then at the very end, we're going to share our like top ten two.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, it's very much opinion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard not to be like we're twenty seventeen armies.
[SPEAKER_00]: there's a lot of influence going from that just like when we join the fandom just your level of just I don't know when you're first introduced to the group like that's such an impactful moment for you that you're going to remember a lot more vividly the music that was introduced to you and what songs you were really really obsessed with and couldn't stop listening to on repeat
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, there's just a lot of personal influence, yes, it's very subjective like you're saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I kind of really like that she puts here at the end of the article is not the end of the article, but before she gets into the list, she says, quote, the BTS universe is vast and rich and unlike anything else in the history of pop music.
[SPEAKER_00]: The seven musicians are prolific as a group and as individuals, creating smart, fun music that engages listeners to think and dance, laugh and cry, bliss out and emit primal screams.
[SPEAKER_00]: While these artists mesh together beautifully as BTS, there's something really special about what they are creating separately.
[SPEAKER_00]: This list is a celebration of that story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I like that because I think it just it just shows that like all of this music deserves to be celebrated and like you can't really rank you just can't you know like of more objective ranking that doesn't exist in music yeah totally it's just it's just it's more for fun yeah this is about your favorites
[SPEAKER_03]: I think so too.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that like the purpose of this article, like what she said right there, I think is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this is a celebration of that story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Their music being able to evoke thought and dance laughing and crying, blessing, like bliss and primal screams, like it's so real between all of their solo music.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and so we just want to celebrate it.
[SPEAKER_03]: We both think that it's like amazing that there's a hundred and seventy seven solo songs from BTS.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like yeah, and it's self like some artists don't even have a discography that big and we know BTS have a whole discography as a group that, you know, makes this number look small and comparison but still feels like such a huge number.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of work encompasses so many styles and genres that has created a vast list of different music for all of us to consume and enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we think about even J-Hope's Hope World compared to Jack in the Box are totally different, but also purely J-Hope, or Layover's vibe that RMP versus
[SPEAKER_03]: the pop of Golden and then even like RM's Indigo versus Mono.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yes, thematically, they have some overlap, but they have totally different sounds, sonically.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like Jimmins face in his muse, like, completely different sounds there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then if you compare two different members on, like, completely opposite spectrums.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, Yungi's D-Day versus Jins happy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, those albums could not be more different in how they sound.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so really as we were going through this list you're like man, there really is a BTS song for every feeling and situation moment that you're in and Any person could find a song that they love from this list and every single person is gonna read this list and be like that songs too low.
[SPEAKER_03]: What that song needs to go up higher, you know, yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: So obviously like we're gonna get passionate in this and we're gonna rage a little bit, but we have to say again like no hate to this author at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this is her opinion and lots of hard work and research went into her making this article, but we also want to share our opinions on
[SPEAKER_03]: these songs and how we appreciate them like we said what's beautiful about music is everyone in experience is it differently so these are just our thoughts on the rankings how we might change them and like the songs were specifically personally passionate about so this is just all our opinion on our favorite songs that we we had to share we had to like bring them justice here
[SPEAKER_00]: And as we get into it too, guys, and the Spotify comments on this episode, comment what you think should have been ranked higher or lower or what your top favorite songs are.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're gonna share our list of top our top ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Share with us what your top ten list would look like, what that would be.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also at the very, very end, I'm gonna give just like a list of, I made my own little criteria of like,
[SPEAKER_00]: comparing streams and we did a poll on Instagram and Twitter and just kind of combining streams with like a other army opinion to kind of come up with a list of some of like those fan favorite songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you might feel like your songs represented in there too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I did like how she structured this article because it's such a vast undertaking.
[SPEAKER_03]: She broke them into sections.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're also going to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to talk any of the songs that like came to mind as we are scrolling through one seventy seven to one forty two to start off with.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we just want to say we appreciate the mention of the interludes and skits.
[SPEAKER_03]: like we're okay with them being towards the bottom of the ranking a lot of them were like one of the first songs listed here as like the lowest ranking we think that they're often important yet overlooked parts of albums like in an album itself they hold a very specific place
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you're just listening to it by itself, it's not gonna hold water against the top fifty songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of them don't, yeah, and a lot of them don't have their own, some of them don't even have lyrics or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just instrumental or something of that sort.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just kind of hard to have them ranked high when they don't have as much substance as like a song that has been more creatively worked on with wordplay and meaning and such.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the first time that I invited them, I mentioned.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, me too.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad that they're mentioned.
[SPEAKER_03]: But then immediately after scrolling past a few scripts, skits and interludes, I freaked the fuck out because Jin's background is at one, seventy-three, like what that seems insane to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this is a fascinating.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like this is one of his best ballads ever.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it truly is one of his best solo songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's literally so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: The runs are gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's made for his voice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, one, seventy-three is like horrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's an attack on Jen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean truly though that is it's so devastatingly low when we know that like Ballads are his thing and also background just goes hand in hand with the same themes that we got from Moon and the Moon is one of his all-time best solo songs in the group of BTS so I just feel that background at one seventy three like with only a hundred seventy seven songs how I mean only but like of the hundred seventy seven hundred seventy three are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_00]: that is way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a newer release too, which I feel like this writer has a resency bias a little bit in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, even with the resency bias, like, how is it this low?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, horrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Equally is devastating.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jungkook's somebody is at one seventy two and I just don't understand this because somebody is, truthfully, I think one of the better songs on Golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of fantastic songs on Golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what gets me is that the writer mentions the use of that voice distortion at the start, which I know many people also did not like that distortion on his voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know Kayla, it really threw you off to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I like, vouched to the end for this song when we did our album review where I'm like, it's just a tiny section.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a couple seconds of the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna just completely throw the song out the window because of this voice distortion.
[SPEAKER_00]: One seventy-two is way too low on this list for a song off of golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like it's one of one of the better ones, one of the standout ones.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just love starting this list because I was like outraged my background and then right after I was like, oh Bethany, you're not gonna like the next one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like somebody.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right after like
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right after this one, I feel like Jimman's interlude show time should be lower.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's at one sixty nine, but how can it be above Tae Young's blue?
[SPEAKER_03]: That was ranked at one seventy one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, blue is a full song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: It evokes so much emotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's definitely better than an interlude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree completely.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the interludes, yes, they serve their purpose, but you can't say it's better than a full-on song.
[SPEAKER_00]: The meaning and that song, I think about the music video a lot and how just like, it was so interesting to dive into that music video too and all the symbolism and parts to pick apart of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, how could she possibly put interludes show time over blue?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I also feel like there is some D-II shade going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know, but she put on so at one fifty-six, which is truly a crime, truly a crime because no.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like any D to song should not be underneath top fifty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like me too, was a significant moment in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song, especially coming out during twenty twenty, it was such a difficult time for the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Hansel is like that song that's peak like adulthood and having to like cope and get through difficult times or just the mundaneness of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: it was like the mundaneness and just getting through getting by in any way that you could.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, I just feel like how could it be one fifty six?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's just such a significant song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also,
[SPEAKER_00]: Even worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think even worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one's worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is Burnett is at one fifty one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you went to the D Day concert, mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Immediately, Barnett will be ingrained in your mind, absolutely going to be in the top fifty for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that performance changed us from that live.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, we love Max, but that song is just so killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the bangers on detail.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a miniongy fucking song!
[SPEAKER_03]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not only has he performed it in concert with Max, he's performed it in concert with fucking junk guck, like it's impact.
[SPEAKER_03]: When we're talking about impact, like seriously, it's iconic.
[SPEAKER_03]: To go back a little bit, ranked at one fifty-four, just below this was Yungi's twenty-eight, which I also feel like seems way too low, like considering
[SPEAKER_03]: that BTS themselves have talked so much about coming of age and the struggle of finding their footing in adulthood and like not to mention in the song the rap that Yungi gives us so incredible and the vocals are incredible like that song's so good and needs to be higher as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess the D. too like why are why are all these D. two songs like in the one fifty right literally just twenty spots away from the lowest ranking song
[SPEAKER_00]: mess up.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's messed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, it's wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the lowest ranking section, it's wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: No human music here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Especially, I know that you've just said that like Burnett is the worst, but I think this is one of the worst like ranked Yungi songs is so far away was ranked in this section as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Featuring Surran, this song should be so much higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is one of the most iconic collaborations between
[SPEAKER_03]: Yungi and Seran, they also have collaborated multiple times since then because of this song.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hook, Seran's hook in the song is incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the first time that he was using that like mantra in that repetition of the word dream, which he again used later in snooze.
[SPEAKER_03]: In his day day album, like, the impact of this song is so vast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care that it's from twenty, sixteen, like it deserves to be higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is at least top one hundred, but it's not here in this list.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also yeah, people is crazy people is a hundred and forty-fourth like what the fuck I mean
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like, why is D, too?
[SPEAKER_00]: It just, all of D, too, is just way, it's ranked way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't understand it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: How people, the original people, is ranked lower than people, part two.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get, you know, like, people, part two wouldn't exist without the original people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, like, you were saying, snooze ends up getting ranked higher, and it's like, how can you rank snooze higher?
[SPEAKER_00]: shouldn't so far away also be up there when like literally the lyrics of snooze and corporate part of so far away.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just saying I'm so far away should be higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: It should be top one hundred.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I would be okay with it being in the nineties or the eighties, but like it should not be back here in like the lower twenty of this list.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree completely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so let's get to the next section, which is one, forty, one, two, one hundred and six.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is like still pretty low here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daydream at a hundred and forty is absolutely crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song, this, I can't even say easily top one hundred for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is top, this has got to be like top ten for me, sneak peek here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, at my list.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Hope World and granted, like, Hope World is in one of my all-time favorite albums.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that is a no skip album for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also am Jay Hope biased.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, like, I just vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: to his music a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also think that this album was just so significant with it being hope world and Jayhub's personality.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daydream is such a vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song is like an essence of who he is.
[SPEAKER_00]: The music video has all these really beautiful colors.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fashion is like a hundred percent Jayhub.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just feel like the rap style, the freestyle dancing that he does in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it can't be, it can't be beat.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is just
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, like one for me is way too entirely low for a staple song of Jay Hope's like an identity like set music sound for me like who he is as a rapper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's a slap in the face.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, airplane is also at one twenty seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I just can't put anything from hope world below top one hundred here because it's just one of those albums.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is absolutely fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with it being also Jay Hubs first makes tape like it was a huge step for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just remember how monumental of a moment it was for him to release these like hit tracks to right from like these are the hit tracks from hope world daydream and airplane.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, to be fair, I'm on my soapbox about it, but I am a twenty-seventeen RME in Hope World came out in early, twenty-eighteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I, at the, in my mind at the time, it was like, oh, we've gotten a mixed tape from RM and we have a mixed tape from Yungi, like, oh, there's gonna be a mixed tape I'm sure for Jay Hope, like, we were all speculating it and then it happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was very informative.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But still anticipation around it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even taking,
[SPEAKER_03]: like that out of consideration that that was such a formative experience for you as army at one forty is still crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this song is way above one forty.
[SPEAKER_03]: For me, interlude set me for you bright by Jungi, like it's brinked at one twenty eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I understand why she ranked there because she's ranking all of the interludes pretty low, but based on where she ranked other interludes, like I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just have such an emotional connection to this song and I think it provides like truly a different and unique listening experience than any other BTS solo song and for that reason it stands out and so I think that it deserves to be ranked higher than one twenty eight like I think as far as interludes go it's like the best interlude that any of the members have for their solo songs so there's a lot of
[SPEAKER_03]: substance to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just like an instrument all with like two phrases, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a full-on song, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like the birds chirping.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I also have to say, RM's still life featuring Anderson Pack is ranked at one, twenty-six.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just like, if you go back and listen to this album, this song stands the test of time as being one of the best, if not the best on the album.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the way to the hour breaks off into
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah off of Indigo.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and I love so many songs that Indigo Indigo is such a great album.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm R.M.
[SPEAKER_03]: bias.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I can't help but to love.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the way that this song incorporates like who he is to the core.
[SPEAKER_03]: It incorporates his love of art and his struggles with depression, but also like overcoming it and continually overcoming it and like the play on words between still life and still alive is just like it's such an upbeat and uplifting and beautiful way like this song is
[SPEAKER_03]: This song is easily, like, should be top-fifty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's such an incredible song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also have to say right after this, one-twenty-two is rope-it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I know before Jins album came out.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were like clowning on this song being a country song, like whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you guys know, we fell in love with rope-it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The day it was released.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, we know that it's out there, but damn, it's the only BTS country song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the biggest surprise of the album being like actually really fucking good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Jen executed it to a perfect degree.
[SPEAKER_03]: It deserves to be top one hundred.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Robin is so fucking good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll go to the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will have to say rope it too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think about the impact it had on the army community too with everyone doing line dancing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: and just really having such a wonderful time with it and for it to be one of with Jen being like the sillier member of the group like right super tuna is is the quirky yes but I hope it somehow manages to be quirky but not you know right it's like an actual legit song that's good on his album it's like a but also a little troll celebration it's so good right yes I agree yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, here I am, on my D-II, like, strange, strangers at one, twenty-three, and what do you think is at one, fifteen?
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, it is just such an iconic album from the pandemic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Strange literally has both RM and Chicago on it, which I just feel like if you've got two of the main rappers of BTS on one song together, covering topics that are complex, like societal norms, and expectations, and capitalism,
[SPEAKER_00]: You just can't be ranking it like it is like core BTS right as as rooted BTS as you can get it so it's just it should be in the top one hundred and I I just can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's like peak menu gate wrapping and what do you think yes?
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and then also Hanson is at one nineteen
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a top-fifty song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hanson, if you were at Hobi Palusa or you watched Hobi Palusa on streaming, I forgot what streaming service it was on, but you could watch Hobi Palusa.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he ended up releasing a whole album for his lava Palusa.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone knows of this moment where we were all singing Hanson and Jay Hope puts the mic out to us to sing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, you were talking about a mostly American crowd.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rapping the lyrics of Hanson to Jay Hope, you know, in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, spitting it so clearly and crisply, like in Korean rap.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was a huge moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could see the pride all over Jay Hope's face in that moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was for Hanson.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you just see him look so impressed and like he just is so much gratitude, but it's also like fuck yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, look at this crowd go wild for Hanson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I truly believe that it deserves to be in the top fifty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Piece of peace is also at a hundred and two and honestly this is a really great song, but on song needs to be higher than piece of peace for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love piece of piece and what it represents when I think of piece of piece.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's like a certain genre of Jay Hope's music like piece of piece and equal sign and future and safety zone that all kind of go together and they're like that lighter side of his music that really like gives you like that hope and like that safe space you know but when we're talking like really rocking out like songs like Hanson just
[SPEAKER_03]: take the cake you know I think that these two could like switch positions for sure um yeah and that would be at least a little better um yeah moon child was ranked one seventeen and I feel like in the grand scope of this whole list and all the songs like okay maybe this is a fair spot for it but damn okay I just have to say this song was a hit track
[SPEAKER_03]: on mono and it gave people a safe space to feel their feelings.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like one of the first not one of the first times, but it was a prominent time that R.M.
[SPEAKER_03]: was really sharing his feelings and his issues and how he's struggling to overcome them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it gave ever listener the ability to like listen to this song, live in it, absorb it, like reclaim it, you know, reclaim the depression in a different way and come back from it stronger.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this song just means a lot to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And for that reason, I thought it means a lot to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it should be higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: But no, I really do think that it deserves to be higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I think it's impact.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's truly a great song.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that the song could be a top one hundred song.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it can be a top one hundred song, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just to say like, you've got a loan in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of armies really fell in love with Moon Child.
[SPEAKER_00]: The song itself is extremely catchy and like it's a song that I've listened to like on repeat, especially when Mono first came out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it is one of those songs that's really truly enjoyable to listen to, but has the absolutely incredible message to four people who may struggle with depression or anxiety to not feel so, so alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the message of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: This whole time Bethany and I are saying, this song deserves me higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: This song should be higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we haven't really said like, which song should be lower.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll get to more of those like later on.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just have to say like, no hate to take on at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like all of his Christmas songs are on this list.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're kind of all over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like some of them are like a top fifty or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry, but all of those, like, I love telling so much, but all of those songs are covers, not original tracks, like, they're not, they, they should be at the bottom of the list.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, any cover either should be at the bottom or not on the list at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I feel like it's not, they're not really competing with these songs that we've been talking about.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if those songs were taken away and moved lower down, then all of these songs we've talked about would have spaces much further up to fill in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so that's that's for me that's a big difference of opinion and how Rolling Stone here ranked these versus like how I would like rank them if I were making this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so we're on to one oh five to seventy so I'm going to break the top one hundred and eyes have to say
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora's box at ninety seven like after going through this list and like when we were going through the article we were like raging so I was like man at least it's top one hundred but like Jimin's Christmas love is ranked higher than fucking Pandora's box like I feel like that's insane like are you kidding?
[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna put a Christmas song that you probably will listen to like only in the Christmas season like I could tell you I've listened to that song like two times in my whole life and I'm a Jimin bias and like
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora's Box at ninety seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a banger of a song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's like one of the best songs on that album.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it should be way, way higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: And don't get me wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love Jimin's promise.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was like, I remember him like working with RM so much and like figuring out what, you know, how to put together what he wanted to say and what he wanted the music to sound like.
[SPEAKER_03]: and that meant so much to Jim and being like his first single release that he originally released on SoundCloud.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think ranked at ninety four in comparison to all of these songs that we've been talking about, it's too high.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's personally too high.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it is a very sweet song, Yaksak forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Pinky Promise forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like me, my boyfriend do Pinky Promise is all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like it means a lot to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like over
[SPEAKER_03]: Over all these incredible songs we just talked about over moon child, over strange, over still life, over interlude, something free, like... I would say it is a very like strong, meaningful song for Jimin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, that's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an army, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's a beautiful song, but I just like, I personally, it's a little too high in comparison, just thinking about the songs that were ranked lower.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just some other bangers, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it's all in like this style of music that you're wanting to listen to or the mood that you're in because if you like like the more light and like fluffy types of songs like that song would be like very highly ranked for you And I mean, I'm not saying I don't love the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do love the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think in comparison to these other ways
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I have to add in real quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the other songs that I meant to put on this talk, too?
[SPEAKER_00]: That is like, ranked in this section.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is Jungkook's day alive?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is at a hundred and four, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I truthfully think that this is appropriate.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that this isn't appropriate ranking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that this is one of those songs that might be more of a deeper cut, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I love about stay alive is that, like, Yungi worked on the production, and of course it was for, like, a... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate... If it's like a chocolate...
[SPEAKER_00]: This song is a banger, like it's a really good song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really fantastic song.
[SPEAKER_00]: The production you can tell is Yungi, who's working on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a really strong bill to it, and you know that he knows how to write a song with Jungkook's voice in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say, say, a live isn't so much more heavy on the meaning and just really incorporating BTS' style, however, that's why I think like, okay, maybe it doesn't break.
[SPEAKER_00]: the one hundred, but I love that it's close to the top one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it fits right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's appropriate.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jim and set me free part two from a space album.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that ninety?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm personally offended.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I am a face apologist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, faces like so overlooked.
[SPEAKER_03]: This should be so much higher.
[SPEAKER_03]: The song is fucking iconic.
[SPEAKER_03]: The music video, the shirtless with the tattoos, the incredible choreography, the rap and the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: his vocals, he was like, I'm fucking here, I'm part German, like, I'm claiming this space.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's also a hit track, like, it should be higher than ninety.
[SPEAKER_00]: It should be higher than ninety with it being one of the hit tracks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I just think about the culture impact of, with the tattoos all over his chest and the symbolism with all of the choreography.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was extremely impactful.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I love that like Yungi was originally supposed to do the rap and it just ended up being Jim and doing it and he fucking killed it like it's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it also like the feeling that you get when you listen to that song is just like incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do have to say, I love Jin's another level, ranked at eighty eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's such an incredible song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is so wonderful.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's one of his top solo songs from his two albums.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm happy that at least broke the top one hundred list here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's really fitting there at that point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say, okay, I don't know if you saw ninety eight, but ninety eight is RM's question mark and allude.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just don't understand that one either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it ninety eight?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: That one I don't want from.
[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't even tell you what this song is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's from right people wrong places, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I feel bad that I didn't know that, but again, it's just not a song I listened to.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think like I said earlier, all the interludes have a place in like, server purpose and the albums and like interludes can definitely be someone's favorite song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I've like fallen in love with so many interludes of theirs and of like BTS as a group and other artists, you know, but like when we're hanging it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's still alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: when we're putting it all in a ranked list like this, it's hard to have something that may not even have lyrics like compete with a whole song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hope World is ranked at eighty three and I think that this is appropriate and maybe brings a little bit of redemption to some of the Hope World album however I think that the other hit tracks on the album should be ranked Above Hope World.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think Hope World is fantastic and it definitely is an army favorite But I don't know like daydream and airplane or just ranked so much lower than Hope World and it's just surprising to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like that's maybe a little
[SPEAKER_00]: skewed doesn't seem quite right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I feel like the the eighties area is like okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hope world could be definitely in this realm right totally
[SPEAKER_00]: Rainy Days is ranked at eighty-one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say if we're talking about all of the BTS's members solo work, Rainy Days is one of Tae Young's best solo songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in my opinion, eighty-one is way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think easily it is one of the best songs on layover.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's my personal favorite song in the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm absolutely obsessed with the low-fi jazz sound that we get from Tae Young, which is absolutely
[SPEAKER_00]: his specific style of music that he enjoys making.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just perfect in all of its elements.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the song shows a lot more depth than artistry from Taeyang, his vocals and emotions are portrayed so beautifully in the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: You feel his heartbreak and loneliness, which is like everything that lay over really is covering.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he does it in this very jazzy cozy light and it's just peak to young.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just remember listening to lay over and over and thinking who broke his heart and how is he like so
[SPEAKER_00]: just like so hopelessly romantic and sweet and couldn't say anything only of this person despite them breaking as hard like I just rainy days is like perfect of that where he's like taking a rainy day and kind of flipping it in a way to also be like not only is can you be sad but like a cozy a cozy place totally I love him okay anyways um anyone is way too low and then love me again
[SPEAKER_00]: Even this one, I'm like, it's at seventy seven and again, one of these absolute best songs on layover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love me again, like it's an iconic song that can instantly be taken to his vocals in that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just hearing the title, I pictured the sequence from the camera of him in the cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I drink.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jungkook's seven, I think, is also way, way, way, way too low.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jungkook's seven is ranked at seventy nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's arguably the most popular song of his.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's super catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great having two verses of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has great cryography for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The, the,
[SPEAKER_00]: feature with Lotto is very, very fitting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I just think seven is like one of his absolute best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you hear this everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I think it is one of, it's a love song by not only Army.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love seven so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's one of my favorites from him too.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to say Yungi's version of life goes on as at seventy five and we love it here like we think this is a really solid position for it like it belongs there because BTS is original kind of feels like the true version but we know that Yungi you know this was like his original intent for the song personally so we love that he still released the song and we think it's a great uplifting track really solid at seventy five there
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I personally think that hectic, which is ranked at seventy three from Indigo, should be switched with still life, which was all the way up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gosh, what was still life at one twenty six.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that's insane to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hectic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hectic is a very like ethereal sounding song and it's a great song like I like it But I think still life is way better and they could flip floppy all know I love RM but Hectic does not have as good of production or lyrics as still life Hectic is even ranked one above Tokyo from mono and even that feels wrong like and I think anything on mono
[SPEAKER_03]: is better than hectic so that's just that's my opinion there and then wild flower is ranked at seventy two and that's physically hurting me like I know that I have such a strong connection to the song personally
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the first time I ever listened to it and watched a music video I sobbed, which is not a normal reaction for me at all, but our M is just so raw and honest and open and vulnerable, and then like Eugene's chorus has powerful and emotive vocals, it's incredible, like anyone who's gone through depression and lost can relate to wildflower, and I just, I mean, it should be way higher than seventy two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I think this song should be like top fifty if not top twenty five, like
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it could definitely be a top twenty five song overall even considering everything we've talked about.
[SPEAKER_00]: yeah well it is the it's the hit song on indigo and yeah he's extremely rotten it has like its own music video the mantra and his vocals with wildflower the repetition of wildflower it yeah it's very impactful I think it's a very loved song by army too I think this is one of his apps like one of his most stream songs is wildflower so to see it here this low is just yeah not right I agree I agree try again try again
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, okay, so we're going on to the next section, sixty nine through thirty four.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just have to say just because of how iconic on the street is by Jay Hope featuring Jay Cole, it should be higher than sixty nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, Jay Hope's versus in that song, like just give me, fill me with so much warmth, like how much he loves Army and loves his members and like talking about how everything he does is for his members and for Army to enjoy and also how much that collaboration means to Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that that song deserves a much higher ranking, like that's impact to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that collaboration alone, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think would deserve a higher ranking with how much J. Cole means to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hear me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Smurledo, garden marching band is sixy six.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in my truthful honest opinion, I feel that that is too high of a rank for German's music, especially since he has so many fantastic songs from face and muse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there were a handful of armies that felt that Smurled of Garden Marching Man was a little bit of a miss for him, like kind of saw where the song was going in the message of it, but we just feel that the song really wasn't like a true portrayal of Jim in the artist.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, not at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can say we, because Jim and I are speaking right here, I feel the same way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, who is just so much better than this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Be mine!
[SPEAKER_00]: face off like yeah come on yeah yeah I I think that it should have maybe been lower like I feel like below a hundred I'm sorry guys I'm gonna say but it's it's here at sixty six bottom fifty it I'm sorry but it should flip with Hansel I yeah like that was not a favorite song of mine at all on the album like
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people, so there are some armies who really like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's why, but this is all just our opinion, you know, but it is opinion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, I'm just yeah, it's tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's tough with the rankings, but okay, I do have to say Super Tuna is at fifty seven and I think that's perfect because this is like such an uncereous song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not even formally on an album.
[SPEAKER_03]: So for it to rank so high, I think is incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's also definitely one of his best just because it totally showcases.
[SPEAKER_03]: his quirky personality, his ability to joke around and have fun and not take himself so seriously.
[SPEAKER_03]: And all of army loves this song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like try to find someone who doesn't love this song, they don't exist.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's great at fifty-seven, almost the top fifty.
[SPEAKER_03]: At fifty-four is Jimin's closer than this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think this is such a sweet song, and I really do love this song, but I think that it should be switched with set me free part two.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think those two should flip-flop, because set me free part two.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: It does.
[SPEAKER_00]: There to be higher.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lots of Jack in the box listed here, kind of in this area.
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, I feel like Jack in the box deserves to be in this kind of area here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like future, what if and stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels very appropriate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, these are all really, really love songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've gotten to see them not only at Hobby Palooza, but hope on the stage.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to see all of these songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's fantastic to see them being represented in this lineup.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I feel like it's appropriate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, they're not like hit tracks, but they're still in that like top, thirty five, seventy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like them here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot of them have great messages giving them a much deserved higher ranking, but also songs that just aren't like the hit tracks are like endlessly on repeat, you know, but like deserved because of their messages and just the significance of Jack and the box too for Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: totally um yeah Tableau and RM stop the rain is here at forty seven and this is where I feel like a little resency bias is coming in again feels a little high to me like we love this song we spent a whole episode covering it there's so much beauty and vulnerability and you know just like incredible symbolism and honesty in this song um by
[SPEAKER_03]: We feel like some of the songs lower on the list such as strange or what do you think deserve to be a little bit higher, especially because those two songs are with two BTS members, and that they are covering topics that are just so integral to who they are as individuals and as a group, and they're just great fucking songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not to say that the song isn't all, but I feel like it's a little high.
[SPEAKER_03]: It can be top one of your songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: It comes verbally, but yeah, a forties seven, breaking that top fifties a little high.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also have to say, Jungkook's three D at forty one free train featuring Jack Harlow is crazy to me because when that song came out, there was so much backlash about Jack Harlow's verse.
[SPEAKER_03]: Still to this day, I won't listen to that version.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll listen to the one without him or a lot of people listen to the three D with Justin Timberlake when that came out, but that wasn't until a month later.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe that this one's at forty-one and it's not better than seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: Seven should be up here instead of three-d.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the early two-thousands vibe of three-d, but because of all the backlash and honestly the sexism that was in the verse and even the writer acknowledges it in her explanation.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel just because of that deserves to be lower.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the collab with Lotto was way better.
[SPEAKER_03]: and seven is just a better song in general.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that should move up a make a make a lot is that thirty four and I know there's only thirty three songs left in this ranking but even with thirty three songs only above it I still feel like it's too low like a make a lot is incredible
[SPEAKER_03]: Incredible, I'll never ever forget like his road to today documentary and like the creation of this song and then like the performance of it in it and then like his live performance of it like fuck I mean this song is so fucking good
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree I would say amygdala is easily in the top ten menu gisongs like I think that's just it's just one of his all-time best and so just with how much music he writes for that to be in his like top ten it's still too low on this list like it should be it should be higher I agree sure
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally agree with you on that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Coming into the last section here, thirty three to one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was surprised and happy to see RM's change featuring Wallet at twenty nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have listened to this song actually pretty recently and like Wallet was listening to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was reminded about how phenomenal it was.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like damn it's been too long since I've heard this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lairically, it addresses racism and equality, social, political issues and humanity, and on top of that, the production is fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this is such a good song, definitely deserving of the spot at twenty nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it could be a little bit of a deed cut.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, you know, we said that she maybe intentionally was trying to put some of those deep cuts in, but this would be like truly one of those lost gems if you have not listened to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a total vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can rock out to the song, but it's, yeah, they're talking about a lot of really just a lot of really prominent issues today, still, even though the song is from, I think, twenty-fifteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: So really incredible song goes to listen if you have a
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, J-Hope's killing at girl is at twenty-seven, which again we feel like is a little bit of resenci bias, but I truly think that it deserves to be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like killing at girl is one of J-Hope's best songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he, this little trio that he released with sweet dreams, Mona Lisa, and killing at girl, all three of them are just so iconic in their own way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But with killing it be killing it girl being the last release.
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like it really was saving the best for last Mona Lisa is absolutely fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, Kayla, you think that this is verbal debate because I think Mona Lisa is better than killing the girl.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like when we recorded killing it girl, like we were all wrapped up in it, but like with more time to like digest and think about both and continue listening and like
[SPEAKER_03]: To me, like, Mona Lisa from the first beat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just like, yeah, I'm fucking here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: The choreo's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'm the Mona Lisa stand for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not that you are now tuned in with killing a girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pulled in right away with killing a girl.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like my girls pretty so fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's entertaining.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, I feel like both songs deserve to be in this top thirty range.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I would agree with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Heaven by RM at twenty two from his right person wrong place or I always mix up the title of the album, but you know what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that that's an interesting placement.
[SPEAKER_03]: We had a really great discussion about the song and the meaning on our album review of that album.
[SPEAKER_03]: And although we really like the song, and there's a lot of depth there, we don't think it deserves to be twenty two, especially in comparison to all of these other songs that we've pointed out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It should be a bit lower, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it could fit in like seventy five, you know, eighty five range and probably be solid there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you that I think it's just kind of surprising.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that he's just got a lot of other really great music that nothing against heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't feel like it stood out as much as, yeah, some other music.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jen's Abyss is also a deeper cut but this being a solo song release in twenty twenty I think that it really is one of his best.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's ranked at twenty one so
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I agree with that, like maybe not quite that high.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do feel that this is one of those very classic gen ballad songs, belting songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was very vulnerable with his inner struggles of depression and just relevance.
[SPEAKER_00]: as twenty twenty was hitting and they had like their concert got canceled and just like kind of not knowing what's ahead and all of those like inner struggles he really talked about in a bus like kind of feeling like in this a bus and during this time so it's just there's a lot of really just personal meaning for the song for Jen so I like that it's mentioned in like the upper
[SPEAKER_00]: rankings but honestly I feel like twenty twenty might be twenty one might be a little high but yeah but it's great it's a great song
[SPEAKER_00]: great song yeah okay arson i'm glad that it's at least here in the top you know because i'm like yes absolutely j hope um i feel like it should be above winter bear but they they're both like twenty and nineteen and so this is a really close ranking so i can't even really say but like
[SPEAKER_00]: Winterbeer is one of those songs that is just so special to Taehyung too is one of his identifying markers as not only him being like a Christmas baby kind of so like he's always like been like Christmas time winter bear was one of those first releases from him early on of him being like this like winter bear and that's kind of where his emoji the bear emoji came from so I appreciate it being higher just because of that like deeper meaning behind it and connection for Taehyung
[SPEAKER_00]: But I just feel like arson deserves to be just a little bit higher than winter bear here because arson is just so so catchy and it is like the visualization of him literally burning himself to the ground to bits from working so so hard this is when they're coming off of like all of their permission to dance concerts and just releasing all these American singles and yada yada yada where they were just
[SPEAKER_00]: Really getting burnt out and Jay hopes like I'm gonna take one for the team and be the first one to release the second chapter like album right, you know, I'm gonna take a break.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: I totally agree with you there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just have to say for the next one though.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she got it pretty right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love to see Jim and's face off at eighteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Finally some justice for the face album like this song
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like it was a fifty two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean like crazy probably should've been higher, but yeah, but I like this song more than like crazy like face obviously face off.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to say I made changes to my top ten while recording this podcast.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so hard to choose.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just took face off off my top ten, but like barely.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a hard fucking decision.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just so fucking good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean Jim is attitude the attitude he serves in that song.
[SPEAKER_03]: is top notch.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also have to say, standing next to you, but Jungkook at sixteen is perfect.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this is how iconic.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is probably his biggest hit as far as like streaming.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know Bethany, you'll tell us later at the end of the episode, but standing next to you is huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: The collaboration with usher.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, top sixteen right here is perfect for the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's peak pop song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just outstanding.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very, very much deserves to be at sexy and I feel like that is so so perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy to see baseline at fourteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of shocked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of shocked with this eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: with like so much um distaste for hope world I felt like but baseline is such a banger it's a beloved song by all of army and yeah I feel like potentially could be a little high but honestly I'm not gonna complain about it like I think it's great but here's what I am gonna complain about and I've already complained about it but Taehyung's Christmas tree
[SPEAKER_03]: at thirteen taking up a top fifteen spot with a christmas song like i just any of his christmas songs should be bottom rings like they're not just they're just not applicable to everyday life they're not relatable to like the general listening experience for like whatever you're going through
[SPEAKER_03]: And like, so many people don't even listen to Christmas music or observe the holiday or you're only gonna listen to it during that one time of year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, how is it at number thirteen?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's his best Christmas song and it can be like, you know, seventy-five or something, but taking a position of top thirteen from like, one of these other songs is crazy to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like, yeah, taking it away from, I mean, just, you have to go back to the core writers and producers of BTS, like, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many fantastic songs from D to and Jack in the Box and even Golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, just like, any of the solo albums even lay over here, too, like to compare like Tay Young's music to Tay Young's music.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel that Christmas tree love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great, but thirteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure where that came from.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know how shop-filled works.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's put a tag-ung song up here.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I felt like.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's appease the tag-ung biases at the top, you know, instead of being more objective with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little random.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dreamers is at twelve and we don't think that it should even really be top fifty.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think dreamers is a good song but like considering all of the other songs we've talked about especially like a song south of golden like yes or no and some of those really loved songs by army.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like dreamers
[SPEAKER_00]: might be getting this rank because of again, Recyncy effect and maybe just because he performed the FIFA World Cup, which had a lot of impact and it was kind of, I mean, not kind of, it was a really big deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true, performed at the FIFA World Cup, like that was such a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: It could be lower, like it's a great song, but it doesn't need to be right here at number twelve.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I have to say just kind of my last note here on these top, you know, thirty three to one rankings.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, people are gonna hate me for this, but Jins, I'll be there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you already know we weren't the biggest fan of this song when he came out with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But at number four in a list of one seventy seven is, I mean, this is the wildest choice here.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is more wild than Taehyung's Christmas tree.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: even comparing it to other gen songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: The astronaut running wild abyss.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those songs are so much better than I'll be there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those songs deserve the spot over the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's the best way to put it is that when you even just look at Gen's solo work in general to put it above.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just like running wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed running wild, and I feel like I'll be there as kind of in that same realm running wild, and I'll be there running wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just better, and the astronaut too, and even a best.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that there are some people who really like this song, but I'll be there just really.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think number four is just way too high.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Should we list off what her top ten ended up being?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm sure you say what they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let me go back here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't think they're all like, too, too terrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are just a little shocking, I guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, ten she has RM's groin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, nine is Jens the astronaut.
[SPEAKER_00]: That seems fitting to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eight is Sugar's snooze, which love, is love that amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven is Jimin's with you, which,
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I could argue with this one too too much, but I feel like who is better than with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Six is Jungkook's, my you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I just, I just feel like this better songs from Golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Five is V slow dancing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't totally argue with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I slow dancing is one of his absolute best songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, Jen is at four with all be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay hopes more is three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hundred percent yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two is sugar's hay gum.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then one is RM Soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Mamano.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which we thought was an interesting choice, like we love that song.
[SPEAKER_03]: But number one ranked, and it makes sense why RM posted this list of his story here too, because he had the number one ranked song here.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that just made us by the time we got to the end of it, we were like, what would R top ten be?
[SPEAKER_03]: And so we both wrote down top ten, and this was really hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: are only criteria that we gave each other because we did this separately.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't know each other's top ten right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only criteria was every member has to have at least one song represented and then for the other three like whoever you want.
[SPEAKER_03]: My, the personal way that I did this is I wrote down like my favorite songs from each member like my top like three to five songs from each of them that like when I think about their solo work from their solo album specifically that I really love these are the first songs that come to mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I had to just kind of like cross them off and like try to process of elimination until I had ten and then I tried to rank the ten.
[SPEAKER_03]: And even right after before recording this podcast, I was still struggling.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is incredibly hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I told myself, I'm not going to say any honorable mentions, I'm not going to do a number eleven or whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I even made a change like two minutes ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is so hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it is what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just like this rolling stone article where you just have to stick to your guns and put it out here in this is your opinion.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to go from ten down to one.
[SPEAKER_03]: and this is not me saying like I dislike any of these songs these are obviously my top fucking ten so anywhere from ten to one all incredible songs to me number ten I put rainy days by tang I think this is such an incredible song Bethany I totally agree with you one of the best songs on layover like to me I think this is right where I go to when I think about layover is rainy days my favorite song on the album
[SPEAKER_03]: Number nine, I did seven by Jungkook because I love this song.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the choreo and I think that like it's totally like overall of other Jungkook songs, I think this song totally deserves it here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number eight, I put the astronaut by Jen, because vocal king, I love the music video.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like the astronaut is like such a Kim Suck Jen song.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I, like, I just, I couldn't pick anything else.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though I do really love some of the songs from his albums, like I had to go with that one, it felt classic.
[SPEAKER_03]: For number,
[SPEAKER_03]: Seven, this is a little bit of a deep cut.
[SPEAKER_03]: I went with the last by Yung Yir from his album in XVI because first of all he is spitting in the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this song is so fucking incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rap is amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it is forever, ever burned in my memory of him performing this as the last song on his tour, standing there, staged, stripped away.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was soap.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like how chills are now talking about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was so powerful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like to me, for that reason, it will be forever one of my favorite songs by any of the members, but definitely by him.
[SPEAKER_03]: After the last number six is Mona Lisa.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I was like maybe I have some reasons to bias here because I was I mean I you have to consider all of hope world you have to consider all of jack in the box, but I had to go with like truly like
[SPEAKER_03]: what what I'm listening to lately what I'm like what makes me feel good what I want to put on and like where I feel like I love the most right now in present day so I had to go with my only set number six love it so much um number five I did set me free part two by Jimman
[SPEAKER_03]: let's go face you know like that song to me like that song is like tell me you can't listen to that song and feel so fucking powerful and like in control of your life and just like do whatever the fuck you want and no one can stop you the production is incredible like the blaring horns and like it's so good I love it so much yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, number four, and I just switched this with the last, but I had to switch them around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number four, I put wildflower because I do, I just have to be real with myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I tried to not include it on the list because I feel like I talk about wildflower all the time, but there's a reason for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And just because I do love this song so much, I think I have such a emotional connection to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's definitely like some of my top favorite solo songs ever, so it definitely deserves a spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: And number four,
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, um, you see you're gonna like I just feel like you guys are gonna think my list is crazy, but this is just my this is my now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is solid list.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a solid list.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: My number three is Pandora's box by J. Hope because that's long love it
[SPEAKER_03]: I love Pandora's box.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Bethany, you were talking a lot about daydream earlier about how daydream is like perfectly encompassing Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I feel the same for Pandora's box.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's him opening up saying like, I'm bringing my hope, but it's also him defining what hope is and also like using the power of hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's such like a banger at the same time as like the lyrics are so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of like good wordplay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like, I just blast the song in the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like this to me, I fucking love this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a large premise of the Jack and the box album concept and also for his hope on the Sage Tour.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it just love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of significance to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I had to put out number three.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was like one.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like one of the first ones I wrote down for Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, I'm keeping it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, number two, I had to put still life by RM because that song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, I think it's the best song on Indigo.
[SPEAKER_03]: That song anytime that you've like just made it through a hard time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're trying to get out of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like put that song on.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a good song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It never gets old when I think about Indigo.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's my first thought.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then my number one song, I had to do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know where it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: D-day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had to do D-day.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, that song is like the soundtrack to my life like no matter what I'm going through what mood it does not matter.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll get my card cranked that song feel just gone up there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay
[SPEAKER_03]: okay okay like it's so good right like it's incredible you really gave us like true like art with this song um i i it was like the easiest choice to put that one at number one so yeah that's my list
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, fantastic list.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate all of your justifications for all of your songs because I just agree completely with all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, truly it is so impossible to rank these songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we were texting going and like, I'm still changing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, how are we supposed to do this?
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you gonna know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what are you just doing your favorites?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you considering?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's just so much to consider.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here's my top ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number ten to no surprise.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's strange.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to put strange on this list.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this might be just more my preference.
[SPEAKER_00]: But truthfully this song, if you do not know BTS and you are looking at solo work, this is like peak.
[SPEAKER_00]: This just feels like
[SPEAKER_00]: Yungi decided to collaborate with RM outside of BTS and this was just these two sitting down talking but through rap and in a really interesting style like that Maramba sounding like percussion that's in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very like thought provoking and inquisitive and just makes you curious just the way that the production is and you hear these two just like
[SPEAKER_00]: isn't it strange?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it strange how our society is this way or that this is that way and it it really just sounds like these two really good friends having like deep conversation with each other and that's what the song is and I feel like it sets up the stage for a lot of what
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS is based off of and so strange had to be in here for me also so iconic to see that they perform this together during um you geese tour it just like is so iconic I am super jealous of all of the armies who got to experience that live how cool yeah lucky number nine
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I think you'll be surprised to hear this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: My number nine is come back to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM's come back to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I think about this song, I think it brings together all of RM's sound and just like common themes in a lot of his music.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of wordplay and come back to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the mantra of like
[SPEAKER_00]: Pain, divine, and just like the repetition of this is my pain divine.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's known for having mantras within.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me think of like everything goes kind of.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also can't help but to think about when he performed.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was so excited for the release of this song that he performed it at Jungi's concert because he just was so... So, it was finished.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, before it was finished, he was so excited to share it with us, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like right place one person or wrong person, it's so hard to remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's right person, wrong place.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that album, I feel like it's just so much interesting musical discovery for him and experimentation, but come back to me as one of those core songs that you're like, oh yeah, this is RM.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's doing that sing, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: sing talking style that he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, it has a really good builds when the drums come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just like a real slow, slow song.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's actually a lot of build in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The music video, I remember just getting so much into that, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about spring, which is just very RM.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could go on and on about this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, and I felt like when we did this album review, I was like, this is still my favorite song in the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, really?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not like, you're like, I just, I just love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so number eight, I could not decide Caleb, but this is what I went with.
[SPEAKER_00]: I put love me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like rainy days could have been here, but I decided to go with love me again just because I was thinking more about I feel like the song might be a little bit more loved by all of army in general, you know, I have such a and you understand too like rainy days is fantastic, but there's something about love me again that is like the true cruning deep register
[SPEAKER_00]: voice that we know too young to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that perfect mixture of jazz and R&B.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it makes me think of like serendipity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not serendipity on my God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Singularity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how he had that deep register R&B kind of sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like it's here again and love me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it just feels like true.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he just is like rocking this red sequin gold sequin outfit in a cave with like a retro mic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just, it's very Tae Young.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, number seven, I have the astronaut.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like I even need to justify this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone said the astronaut needs to be in top ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's no song into military service.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It got us all through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, six.
[SPEAKER_00]: I put daydream.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know it would be on your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just the epitome of Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've already kind of talked about it earlier in this episode why it deserves to be top ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just Jay Hope to be score.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then number five, I have light crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Justice for face, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like crazy is that post pandemic, you know, let loose.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when I hear that song clip from the music video at the beginning of like crazy, it instantly transports me back to that time of like post pandemic, like just right after,
[SPEAKER_00]: This is so Jim and I think about the music video a lot with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dancing with the female dancers, like I just kind of that gender fluidity that you kind of get from like crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is higher than what I had it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love seven, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that seven is a great pop song, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely one of Jungle Express.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love just the lotto feature on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven is just one of the songs that I'll, I could dance to, have a good time with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, maybe lyrically, not a whole lot of death, but I just feel like it is a banger.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely addictive.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is addictive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three I have still life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's probably my favorite RM's song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I talked about how like when I was really into biking a couple years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was like on loop for me was listening to still life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two is more.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, no surprise.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was so hard for me to not put more on my list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I get through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, again, it's just, I think about the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think about the significance of Jayhote going from a daydream hit track to more hit track.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think about like, just the music video to and
[SPEAKER_00]: The outfits he had, and the cinematic parallels that we got from that music video, just this whole new identity from G-Hope, and more with the gesture hat and everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, and the song is so incredibly catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I talked about, like, I got into a Beastie Boys phase after this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really vibrant with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fantastic, fantastic song and it's one of Jay Hope's best for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then lastly, I don't know if you'll be surprised if you're gonna love it, but my number one song is Daesh Fata.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah!
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an iconic song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely like, I feel like Hageum cannot exist without Desherataut.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Desherataut is released, we had the dual-ungees, you know, we've got the Bon Harry-ungee icon, the Korean representation, the culture, the representation of the music video.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I can still do the music video a lot for these.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like Desheretal, like getting the performance with all of BTS, like, you know, Tae Young, acting it out with like the silly mustache and outfit, and they're all like wrapping his first.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just, there's a lot to Desheretal that has created so many memorable moments for all of Army.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for this song to not be top ten solo.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it does our number one for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love your choices.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that we both have the wrap line and the top three here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, hard not to be, you know, they're like our main writers and producers here, but I love your choices.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those are phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that we have been teasing this statistical number ten the whole time, but we are running quite long here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, those episodes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So should Iconics go and find the top ten on our Instagram post release of the episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, if you want, if you're interested in like streams streaming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, then we'll post like we'll repost our own top ten just you can see them there And then we'll post like the streaming numbers top ten for like an official Statistical top ten of their solo work Yeah, yeah, that's lots lots is talk about today I mean there's a lot of music.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sweating my armpits are like
[SPEAKER_00]: We're worked up over here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very passionate about the music obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was questioning if we should even do it because I'm like I'm just going to be raging the whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think like we let a lot of the rage out during research and now it was just like more thoughtfully discussing the songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: We do hope that you guys enjoyed this and that it wasn't just like to like whatever to listen to because there's just been so much discourse on this ranking list and I think everybody is going to have a different opinion for how these songs should be ranked what they would personally rank them.
[SPEAKER_03]: like tell us what your top ten is like it was hard for us to do I know it's difficult but see if you could rank a top ten of their solo work um try to keep the criteria where each member is represented at least one time to make that true OT seven top ten right there um but like Bethany said make sure you comment that in the Spotify comments if you're listening on Spotify or when we post these to our Instagram reply in the Instagram comments what are your top ten or on our story we'd love to hear
[SPEAKER_03]: We are so grateful for you sticking around for this episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're so thankful that you listen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, remember you can find links for all of the things in the description.
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