[SPEAKER_01]: Consequence Podcast Network
[SPEAKER_00]: Bora, hey, I kind of got to talk about BTS in the cover of the TQ magazine with the article going along with it BTS begins again.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was so exciting to have a whole cover and then this massive article written about BTS as they are preparing to come back post military.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just a few things that we really want to talk about that stood out to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved the part where RM was talking about what their days looked like as they were creating the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: getting up at 6 am, going to the gym together, you know, going home from lunch, going to the studio by 1 until 8 pm.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just felt like it really paralleled and the author pointed this out to it paralleled their debut days and like trainee days when they all lived in a dorm together.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she talked about how it inadvertently recreated their old days, while they were working in these music camps and living in the same space, and it just made me really nostalgic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been thinking about this next album for BTS is almost being like a second debut for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that has been so long, and I just love that that parallel was drawn because of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The article was...
[SPEAKER_00]: quite lengthy, which I appreciated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it being a feature piece of this magazine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like the article did a really great job of recapping all of their history and their impact is a group and then it dived into a bit of each of their solo journeys and their military service and now what they're preparing for with their new album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was really all encompassing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I thought it was really well done and I love that you also pointed out and really enjoyed the fact that she paralleled their old days and their song camp experience in LA and how they basically reconstructed that like inadvertently with the same format like how cool like I had not thought about it in the lens of this is like a second debut for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And their debut was such a critical moment in time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how memorable that part of their growth as a group, just like right before they were about to debut.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then now they're working so hard to have this next comeback after this time frame.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it really does feel like a debut, which is crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's more than a comeback, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, the article was fantastic, something else that she pointed out in the article was that BTS's journey and just how it kind of compares to some other pop stars and other pop groups, she compared like the excitement of Elvis Presley returning after a military service to that of BTS's return post-military.
[SPEAKER_02]: again, like I vaguely kind of remember that Elvis Presley had to serve too and when he came back that the girls were going crazy and everything for him and it really does parallel a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It also drew parallels to Beatles and Beatles Mania which I love any time that someone in bigger media talks about that because I feel like we have talked about that for like seven years about this parallel between BTS and the Beatles and like the excitement around them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something that to me was really monumental is that never has any group ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boy group,
[SPEAKER_00]: and then come back together to make music once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every other group who's tried to like, you know, one or two artists break off to do solo time, or they've had to take a break because of, you know, X, Y, and Z reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they've done this, they have not been able to successfully reunite.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the fact that BTS are doing it, I think, is another historic thing for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think another reason why I feel like this is another debut for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they first debuted in 2013, you know, all of that work 2011 to 2012, up leading up to debut, they were learning how to be a group, you know, coming together as individuals and how to make a cohesive group.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now once again, they've done all of this individual work, three of the members have done their own solo tours.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've all put out one or two solo albums in this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now they're figuring out how to come back together again as a cohesive group.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that's so unique and so special and something to be so proud of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are making the, you know, like they made this commitment and not only that they committed to it, but they want to, they want to be a group again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, that's a really excellent point, really, truly.
[SPEAKER_02]: They kind of talk about this, too, in the interview with GQ, just like how they grew so much as individual artists over this last, you know, couple years while they've been serving in the military and how coming back together, they're also
[SPEAKER_02]: such brothers and that they're so happy to be back together.
[SPEAKER_02]: But just noting that even though they enjoyed that separate time, they also really prioritize and enjoy BTS as a group overall, like the most, which is really good to hear.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you were saying, like it's just,
[SPEAKER_02]: When they were about to go into military service, there was a lot of, and this was coming from the media a lot too.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot of speculation of, are they going to come back together, like after all this solo work?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it kind of seems like it's a band curse or something, that once solo work gets introduced.
[SPEAKER_02]: They just the group cohesive cohesion just breaks apart and that just again is not BTS BTS Continuously is Showing us how different they are how unique they are and that they just don't Meet the the norm and the standard.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like and so it's huge that they're coming back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It really should be called their second debut because
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're back as a group and they're about to blow our minds with this album, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a few quotes from the band members that stood out to me with what you were just talking about is Taehyung said, we all treasure BTS more than we treasure each one of us separately.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we debut as a group, so I think that's the core identity we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Jungi later on said,
[SPEAKER_00]: If we can keep this going, then maybe we can be dancing in our 60s, as long as we're really in, I think, maybe into our 50s and to our 60s, we can always be together as a band.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is not, like, both of these things are not new sentiments.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we have heard these from BTS before, but we haven't heard them from BTS since, you know, pre.
[SPEAKER_00]: that Festa dinner and you know, hiatus and military service and to hear it a new right now I think is so powerful and so exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's talk a little bit about these photos.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to talk about like one of the very first photos that you see in the GQ magazine and it's all seven of them and oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to say, like, a lot of armies have been pointing this out.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had, like, solo shots, solo GQ covers of some of the BTS members, but now we have all seven of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's OT7 again, and they're all sitting at kind of like a, like a,
[SPEAKER_02]: Head table for his table, yes and every single one of them has their own mic and it is very reminiscent of mic drop like when they're all sitting in that music video in a line like that it also reminds me of Dionysus I feel like map of the soul seven they had a lot of photos like this too where they were all sitting in this like press conference kind of style and it's just
[SPEAKER_02]: really impactful because Namjoon the leader is right in the middle of everyone and he's looking right at the camera where it's like all the other members are like turned to each other and like chatting together and yeah it looks like they are getting ideas from each other just like
[SPEAKER_00]: each of the other members kind of being in their own conversations or, you know, things going on and RM being front and center just staring right at the viewer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the composition is very Renaissance photo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this could be painted in acrylic and could be in a museum where people are like studying each individual member and like what they're supposed to be conveying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting Renaissance art.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This article had so many great photos, like another really awesome photo we got.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought it was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see like Jim and Rm playing ping pong, like just hanging out, you know, I'm like a sucker for many money, pairing anytime, and I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that we get to see this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to do those.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love all of the OT7 shots too.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a really great shot of all of them on a set of stairs It kind of looks like stairs that would go up to either a trailer Where they would be like getting ready in a studio or something like that It looks very like Movies set production set and they are stunning like the lighting around them is kind of dark And then there's a flash on all of them and they're looking right at us and it is so model-esque
[SPEAKER_02]: Yungi looks fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jen is just like smoldering look.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jungle looks so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like kind of like leaning against the rail.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tango, don't even get me started.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this red sweater, I think he's peacocking in this with this red sweater, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Jay Hope in this pantsuit and Jim into like, I mean, dirt on my jaw.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you, it's hard to know who to look at here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all like they're serving so much face.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like it's kind of overwhelming to see the shot, you know, of all of them and it's like one of those you need to break it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to spend time looking at each person.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a glamour shot of OT7 and one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's hard to know where to look.
[SPEAKER_00]: God damn, this picture's just too much, and they all look so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and now their photos that I really loved was the solo shot of Jungkook.
[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of looks like he's kind of reclining back in a chair and he has his hand up, you know, kind of resting on his face.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you get to see his whole sleeve and, you know, kind of like, it's rare that we get up close shots of his tattoos.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what stood out to me is like that in his teeth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his lip ring, the lip ring is still here, but the BTS symbol on his hand and the army symbol, you know, I just love that that's kind of like on display with his hand up by his face.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you're gonna look right at a space.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna see that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The lip ring is everything, the stair he's giving us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's wearing this suit, like his waist looks so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he just waist is snatched.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, absolutely very much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate it this jungle shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the other like two member shots that is so iconic that everyone was talking about was the Jen and John Gook on the couch slouched down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Both of them have like their right arm up overhead where they're kind of like leaning back, resting their head on their hand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, I just, this pair like Jen and John Gook made just...
[SPEAKER_02]: They are so brotherly, like a big brother, little brother, energy, and to see them like this Uh, like slouching on this couch, like the pose is a bit provocative.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so hot.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, this shot is so Diabolical to have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is like one that wrecks me the most because Like it is so suggestive.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean spreading.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like it's just yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's tough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the solo shot of Yungi with the guitar and like his bangs falling over his face.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's giving, like, play the acoustic version of Seesaw on tour.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks so soft and also just a little retroie too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like with the guitar that he's holding in the jacket.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then, yeah, again, check it all the AT7 shots because they look great.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of them, there's like, the shot is from up above and they're down on this lower level.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, some of them are hanging out on those stairs where it kind of looks like production, like concerts at that type situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: But to me, the shot is giving like the Louis Vuitton fashion shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was wearing the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like looking up at us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is just, I mean, it's working for each one of, again, this is one we can really need to study every member.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, John Guck is like, oh, like not like, aggressively glaring, but just the look on his eyes, you know, you can kind of see like his eye whites at the bottom.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, I don't know if he's holding his bow, stop looking up at you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taehyung has his arms crossed, like he's like, what, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: In a perchable?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM also looks very unapproachable, Genesis handsome, as hell standing at the top of those stairs, you can get it coolly leaning against the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Jin has this like long red ass cut on his neck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a scarf?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's probably a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's part of the shirt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that he has that pop of red because it goes along with Tae Young's pop of red.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the color scheme.
[SPEAKER_02]: It all goes really well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It works super well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, these were just these were great photos by GQ and of course we live for the OT7 photos.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but if you haven't gone and read this article yet, go read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll link it in the description.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so, so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And very enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Recapping all of the amazing things about BTS and also all of these wonderful lovely photos of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we still have so much to talk about today, including everything going on with the what is your love song.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll be right back with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back where you're hosts.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Kayla and I'm Bethany and this is Standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're favorite informative fan-girl podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, like Kayla was saying, we are going to be talking about the what is your love song promotions that they've been doing for Arty Nong.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get into all of the playlist, all of the events that kind of have been going on and just some of our theories around possible hints at the album or the title track and such.
[SPEAKER_02]: So
[SPEAKER_02]: Excited for this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lots of theories.
[SPEAKER_00]: So much to dive into before we do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's talk about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is your love song?
[SPEAKER_00]: The promos that I've been going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first thing that started happening was buildings in Seoul, London and New York, popped up covered in designs that looked like giant red and white tape that had the words on all caps.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is your love song?
[SPEAKER_00]: This immediately, I mean, it looks similar to the Auditang like logo that we have, and obviously we knew it was connected to BTS, immediately built speculation that the Auditang album has themes of love and fans started to get excited about this global and super public promo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Soon after that, a six song album dropped on Spotify with the title, what is your love song?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's voting options where
[SPEAKER_00]: You can vote.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe the voting closes on 2018, but every day you can vote for one topic, but all of the songs were just dead air.
[SPEAKER_00]: No actual music.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were six songs and six different types of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was self love, fandom love, romantic love, healing love, unrequited love, and nostalgic love.
[SPEAKER_00]: So every day on Spotify you can go in and be like, what is my love song I'm going to vote for?
[SPEAKER_00]: fandom love or healing love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Being able to get one vote a day and so people are kind of sharing or talking about which one they were voting for.
[SPEAKER_00]: And speculating what is the purpose of this now, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know if this is of no at all, but each of those dead air quote unquote songs were 58 seconds long, just like why 58?
[SPEAKER_00]: you know why not one minute exactly or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: But just another interesting aspect to the promo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, like why 58 seconds?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why not 60 seconds?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know exactly one minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just kind of an interesting take.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also I remember when this first dropped my sister was like, is this the out?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well like are these the titles of the song?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: No way.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do love that it's just showing the different types of love that can be represented and I'll love song We talk about this a lie in our album reviews when we go over any kind of music from BTS that's talking about love We try to apply it in other ways because you can apply it to self love or romantic love and such so
[SPEAKER_02]: I am kind of excited about nostalgic love.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is going towards.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really excited about healing love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like in so many, like in all of BTS's music, we have gotten these different types of love before.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just excited to see where they take.
[SPEAKER_00]: this direction or what they're going to do with it or is every and our different songs on the album going to represent these different types of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are they going to have just like one big love song that because of like the lyrics and like the themes you could apply it to all these different types of love.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are all of these types of love in mind when they wrote a love song created like the hit track is a love song and it's just all of them shared
[SPEAKER_02]: very cool yeah so shortly after that then there was a what is your love song radio which ended up being a silent playlist with some BTS tracks in it but it was a playlist specialized for you like Kales playlist was different from my playlist and all of the songs were totally random and it was either they were just like completely quiet or there was a high frequency pitch that you could
[SPEAKER_02]: hearts or whatever, but there were some BTS songs that were scattered in there, and then for my playlist in particular There was Ardiedong was on it, which I thought was just so bizarre because some of the like BTS songs like obviously I've like listened to before, but Ardiedong was not silent, and I'm not like I haven't been going in listening to
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a version of this, so yeah, yes, so this the version that popped up for me was by Ma here young here young and I was just totally surprised it was a gorgeous version of Auditong and I was super happy to see it on my playlist, but I was like oh my god, it's not silent But it's not a BTS song like it was just so interesting so this kind of confirmed to me that like
[SPEAKER_02]: BTS is definitely up to something with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I surely could not have been the only army who had already done pop up on this silent, otherwise silent playlist, it was so bizarre.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, the only songs that weren't silent was this song and the BTS songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all the other ones, even if they had a name or they were titled as an instrumental, they seemed like they should have music but they didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Bethany said the playlist were kind of tailored and it was interesting because I don't use Spotify I use Apple music, but I just like read download and log in to Spotify just to go look at this because you I clicked on your link that you texted me and it took me to this what is your love song radio
[SPEAKER_00]: And same type of thing, it made me a radio and it had like a piano version of Audit Nong that was really beautiful, had a handful of BTS songs but different ones in Bethany had, and then just a ton of dead air or like silent songs from Korean artists or like Spanish title instrumentals, like instrumentals that all had Spanish titles.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for me, maybe it's just because it personalized that to me, not that I could say, I listen to Spanish music on Spotify.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I have all
[SPEAKER_00]: Apple music, but like I really don't use Spotify.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was just coming up so much that it made me wonder if the album will have some Latin Flair like why would those songs be there if this radio was curated like by BTS to have these songs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, when we went back, again, yesterday doing research, first of all, I want to say Bethany was re-listening to her Auditoring that was on her playlist and she was so lost in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's beauty that she forgot we are face time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she looked up and she was like, oh, I can smell that really listen to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't until the song was starting to fade out that I was like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh shit, I haven't said anything for like minutes on end and I look over and I'm like it's been like three minutes It's just like typing notes and just like, you know, vibing with a song which I thought honestly first of all it was a little bit funny But second I just thought that was beautiful that you were so
[SPEAKER_00]: absorbed by this song that, you know, you're lost in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I looked back at my playlist today, I noticed that all of the silent Spanish songs were by this artist called Diosasle, they are so strong which is like goddesses of the love assumption and they specifically only make silent songs and you're just supposed to kind of like manifest while listening to the song
[SPEAKER_00]: because I went to their actual page and literally all their songs are silent.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do think it was BTS's intention to put silent songs on these playlists and whether there's any rhyme or reason to why this specific artist kept coming up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was like, why is the law of assumption coming up here?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have, if you haven't heard of it, the law of assumption is an idea that whatever you believe to be true becomes your reality.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like if you believe that, you know, everybody hates you and, you know, like that's a self-fulfilling prophecy, basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like that while the church doesn't know it, it's, yeah, it's akin to the law of attraction too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But BTS are not strangers to getting into philosophy in their music.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, are these, is this like artist and being called this intentionally put on this radio to make that connection to have that little easter egg that maybe they're gonna dabble in some love assumption, love attraction, you know stuff like that, especially if we're talking about love.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like an interesting theory kind of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, red string theory.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so and I don't know the Latin flare sticks out to me too because like Jim and did a little bit of like Latin with like his filter song and they had a little bit of Latin with like airplane part two But the members have like RM and Yungi have talked about that this album is going to sound different than their other ones and I think that putting more of that flare in their like a Latin flare would go in that direction
[SPEAKER_00]: But what was interesting is that if you try to look at this plate this what is your love song radio now Post Valentine's Day this radio became a personal mix of love songs and are no longer silent.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, there are still a few songs on there that remain silent.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really fascinating, and I think it's just so clever how they're going about promoting this album and this like very unique Get you thinking wheels turning why this in the way that they're doing it, you know like why after Valentine's Day?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we now have a personalized mix of different songs that are no longer silent, but some are still silent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fascinating.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been all about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Artee-Dong was still on my radio mix, but a different version after, you know, from the very first one with all the quiet tracks.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just so interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so then next, there was what is your love song playlist that popped up on Valentine's Day?
[SPEAKER_02]: And, or after Valentine's Day also, and it was potentially comprised of songs from Army all over the world from what people had voted on or submitted as their favorite song.
[SPEAKER_02]: there was like this whole like submission that you could do and basically it was like you went to Hype's website, I think I'm jumping ahead here Kayla, sorry, but I can just have to explain it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So on Hype's website, they had like a submit your love song and so army could go in, you filled out your information and you just put what your favorite love song was.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it was kind of shortly after this that they released the What is your love song playlist after Valentine's Day, and like Our theory is that potentially this list of songs because it's just a bunch of random like popular love songs Some of them not so popular some of them more Korean some of them are like Western artists, so but it was just
[SPEAKER_02]: Kerry is to see like people.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if it was like the submissions that people had put in and then they comprised like some of the time submitted love songs onto one playlist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they really feel seemed like from all over the world and like kind of different eras and some different genres.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that that's like a good theory too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially like why else are we submitting that the you know what is your love song if not to create those
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, maybe get some of our information.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had to put your email in your name.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: You did have to put your email in and they were like, here's the... Who's the BTS fan?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's where the link was located.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but it was just cool to see this playlist pop up and what I really appreciated about this playlist too.
[SPEAKER_02]: That I thought was interesting was they had a description on the playlist that said,
[SPEAKER_02]: theme.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was also written in Korean after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm kind of assuming it was written in Korean after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, just like translated into Korean.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we translate it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what I like about that is that obviously that someone who is so curious is BTS and love song was capitalized.
[SPEAKER_02]: which has to be intentional so it comes off like it's a title like is it a title of their hit track what is you know like that might be too obvious or too simple but I do find that like love song being capitalized is showing that like it has a significance and then also that it says theme to like no longer are we talking about just like what's your favorite love song what's your
[SPEAKER_02]: the original EP album of like, you know, the nostalgic love, the healing love, like, which theme of love or type of love song, do you want to vote for, like, which one are you most looking forward to or connect to?
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's just really interesting stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I feel like it's been very thought provoking the capital love song like really stands out to me like if the hit track or like I feel like BTS could do a pre release single if that is not titled love song that it's
[SPEAKER_00]: Clearly going to like to me at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be love related.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna like the main theme of it is going to be love And right now that title capitalized love song is kind of like a placeholder for it most recently like yesterday as of recording this episode BTS posted their own love song playlist for each member on YouTube
[SPEAKER_00]: And, at the same time, this is my love song, Billboard went up at Times Square, potentially again to me, like hinting at a hit track title or a pre-release single title, or that could just be promoting these new playlist on YouTube, because at the end of it, the Billboard said like, YouTube beats yes at the bottom.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for that Billboard promo, this is my love song was All In Caps.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that could be the whole title of a hit track.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or it could be as if a member is quoted saying, this is my love song, or this is our love song, hinting at the actual song that they will come out with.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we just wanted to talk a little bit about each of the members' love song selections that they went with because they're all different.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all unique.
[SPEAKER_00]: We feel like they all reflect their personal music style.
[SPEAKER_02]: They really made this playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like each member made their own playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it is such an interesting way to look into their lives because we all have so many love songs that are near and dear to our hearts that have gotten us through hard relationships or relationships that didn't work out or relationships that are still like, you know, so blissful and happy and you know that so many different types of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also feel like throughout all of their playlist, first we were wondering, did each member make a playlist with one of those EP ideas in mind, like self-love, nostalgia, glove, fandom, and whatever?
[SPEAKER_00]: But as we dug into more of them, we felt like multiple types of love are represented on each one of their playlist.
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, on RM's playlist, not only does I have a variety of genres, but I do feel like there's some healing love, like there's fix you by coal,
[SPEAKER_00]: play.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like romantic love, like love by Kendrick Lamar.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is I feel like a fandom love song.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all in this together from High School.
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, we're all being on our legs and playlists.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes me feel like you know coming back together is a group.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like listen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are all in this together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I just feel like it's
[SPEAKER_02]: maybe some nostalgia in there, but I just love the idea, the picture of Namjoon being inspired by we're all in this together, at his like, leader, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's so funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also has, of course, he has wildflower on here, which is all about self-love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I also just have to point out he has a song by Epikai in here, and we know he loves Epikai.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love love love by Epikai, which I think gives credence to that they made these playlists as individuals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That it wasn't just by.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, give them some pack in there too, which is also very telling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very much so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Jen's playlist, he's got di with a smile by Lady Gaga, which some of the other members also put that on there, like I'm pretty sure John Gook did.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe someone else.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I can just appreciate Jen so much for the self-love of putting Super Tuna on his own playlist, like, who else?
[SPEAKER_02]: I also really appreciate that he put a lot of
[SPEAKER_02]: Korean music on here too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I just feel like he is like Korean sweetheart, you know world-wide handsome And it just I think is very telling for him to have just that and then also windy like he collaborated with windy on his album So to see windy is like water on here and then also cold play of course ever go by cold play is on here, too Again, like I just I know that they made these playlists.
[SPEAKER_02]: They actually made these playlists for themselves
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, like on Yungi's playlist, he has immediately what stuck out is flowers by Milay Cyrus and then like Mr. Brightside.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, this is some, this is a self-love right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has his own song from D2 People, which I think is such a great song for that kind of like connection love and like, you know, like not maybe
[SPEAKER_00]: He has his own first love on here from the wings album definitely giving that nostalgic love A random song for me that I wouldn't necessarily expect from Yungi is let her go by passenger That one yeah, that's first of all.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's such a millennial song and second of all It is like I so I mean we all know it right we grew up with it It's very telling that BTS are our age like they are literally our age so like these songs were like, oh
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I know that one, but that's like a, you know, like an unrequited love or, you know, I just, I really love his playlists, like, I, it makes me want to listen to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that he has boy with love with Halsey and he is eight with IU.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just like two legendary collaborations that I associate so much with you, and I was just thinking about this like boy with love is a little bit of a healing love.
[SPEAKER_02]: kind of song, like a matured version of the songs, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about J-Hope's.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was a little surprise to see love story by Taylor Swift on J-Hope's, but I guess it kind of makes sense because I do think that he is just
[SPEAKER_02]: Really with the times in terms of just like modern music and he loves big pop music right now Yeah pop music he's got Sizzon here, which makes so much sense a door you by Harry Styles Yes, he's got his own music on here, too So sweet dreams is on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that he put trivia just dance like Absolutely and then bring day
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he put spring day till.
[SPEAKER_02]: He also, we were talking about millennial songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: He put a thousand years by Christina Perry, which is, ooh, that is a heavy love song.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a romantic love song.
[SPEAKER_02]: That immediately takes me to the soundtrack for Twilight or Brickdown or with her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes, very light romantic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another song that he did, were you going to say, put your records on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, put your records on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like that matches him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very, really healing love, self-love.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, matches his vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I could see him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's getting ready to this song in the morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like kind of dancing around getting dressed.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, Jimmins.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love so many songs on Jimmins playlist like he did Easy on me by Adele like that is giving self love.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's giving healing love all of me John Legend.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like one of the most romantic songs
[SPEAKER_00]: um you know the last decade yellow by Coldplay that song first of all will forever make me think of Bethany because when we first met Coldplay was one of her favorite bands and her favorite colors yellow and I just can't listen to that song without thinking of you um it's one of my all-time favorites yeah it's a phenomenal song I love that it's coming up on here it's truly a gorgeous love song
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely that's kind of healing a healing song too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think so too, and then but he also has like happy by For all Williams like such an upbeat song And then like by the end of the playlist, we go to love outro love is not over That is like one of the most painful like unrequited love songs of all time I heart out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes So gosh, yeah, so good
[SPEAKER_02]: And then as we could expect with Taeyang, he has a lot of like all the classic lunar music like Love by Nat King Cole.
[SPEAKER_02]: That song I will forever associate with the parent trap, because that's the parent trap.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that was probably one of the first times I heard that song ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: He also has songs like Take to Cheek by Ella Fitzgerald.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has my funny Valentine by Chet Baker.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Tae Young went through a whole Chet Baker phase So I just feel like it's so fitting that he has it on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: What kind of surprised me a little bit to see from him that I'm just like, ooh Okay, Tae Young was creep by radio head
[SPEAKER_02]: A really great song, but like if you want to talk about like unrequited love, like I feel like that that is it Like it's a Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just noticed he also has I put a spell on you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is also a very crony
[SPEAKER_00]: but then like from the flip side he has I'm yours by Jason Razz like very much romantic cutie you know what makes you beautiful in direction yeah uh classic story arcs a college days um
[SPEAKER_00]: Jungkook's might be my favorite one just because like his top two on the playlist die with a smile and birds of a feather like these are songs that are like for me and Jeremy like are probably right now like top two love songs on our playlist and I think these are such powerful romantic love songs you know just about like epic
[SPEAKER_00]: Love or like that love that sticks together.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has I mean, he has never let go his single and still with you I love to see these come up on his place.
[SPEAKER_00]: So happy he puts still with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I raved I think we were going through kind of what episode was it was that they're um soundcloud singles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, maybe
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so with you came up or we were just talking about some of their solo work before like chapter two and so with you is One of Jungkook's best So good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I it's so good so underrated.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like Yeah, yeah, yeah, so put soda pop on here, which is just hilarious too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So funny cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel he maybe did that as a joke, but not a joke
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but it's so funny because like the first time I watched Kpop demon hunters and they start performing soda pop I was like a BTS redoing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I they would have me you know like Like I would be my soul would be eaten for sure
[SPEAKER_00]: He also has like, see you again, was Cliff a Charlie Pooth, which I think is great because him and Charlie Pooth collabed on left and right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Pooth is written some other songs for BTS and that's definitely like an nostalgic love song, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: His playlist is so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you mention magic shop?
[SPEAKER_02]: oh yeah magic shop that's phantom love right there that is that is phantom love and that is jungle to the core like we worked on that song and how special that song is to them one of the things that we mentioned to going through these playlists is they put a lot of they're like some of their older stuff like magic shop being from love yourself here and then also like a first love their solo songs from their BTS discography right so like first love and
[SPEAKER_02]: Reflection and trivia, trivia, just dance, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is just, yeah, I'm just I'm just busy because we love those songs so much and then to see BTS themselves putting out on their own love song playlist that are like near and dear to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely, I was just thinking it's interesting, RM Denitput, trivia, love on his playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he didn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: He put persona intro persona.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which persona is definitely like introspective about who you are and who you want to be in like loving yourself for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you would think that he would.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, because I was thinking trivia just stands on Jay Hobbes, but I just said trivia love out of nowhere because that's where my mind went.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I do think that these playlists, I really believe that these were made by each individual member that they curated them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely enjoy that it, the songs that they chose to include from
[SPEAKER_00]: like their own or BTS' dysgography seems so purposeful and then the songs that they included from other artists encompass different types of love but also each member's own individual style.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think Taehyung is a really great representation of that where he has so many oldies, so many like kind of cleaner you know and the other more modern songs are peppered in but like it wouldn't be Taehyung if it didn't have those oldies on there so
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought this was a really neat idea, the continuation of like this is my love song and like their tip for them to share their own love song connect or selections after asking us what ours are.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do tell like they're participating in it as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they're doing alongside us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe we should all make our own playlists.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Kayla's love song selections, you know, and I'm sure people are doing that on Spotify or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another thing that BTS did for Valentine's Day was a pop-up event in LA and London where they gave away roses and I just want to say we got a lot of our information here from an article from Christine Turries who is an iconic so we'll link her article here from her sub-stack.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the description because there was a lot of great first-hand photos.
[SPEAKER_00]: She went to the event.
[SPEAKER_00]: She talked to people that were organizing the event there and we got to see like different army photos of them getting their their roses but in both LA and in London they had huge like IV green walls with over 6,000 red roses like they were supposed to have minimum 6,000 but when Christine talked to the event coordinators they were like oh yeah there's more than 6,000
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and they were installed in these locations where fans could go and pick up a rose and they kind of, you know, wove through the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they got up there, the rose wall was lined with red velvet ropes just making it feel super personal, intentional.
[SPEAKER_00]: and staffers were running the event at a nearby table where you could after you picked your rows you could go and get your rows wrapped up in a white paper and they would like wrap it with a sticker that says what is your love song and then you're given this little card that had a QR code to send them to that website that Bethany talks about earlier where they you know we could share what our love song is and it made us like a little photo that we could post on
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard that they were supposed to get like little hidden messages from the roses too, but I didn't see anything about that in her article, but that's what was going on like going around online about this event.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think that it's really sweet that BTS are spoiling army with like roses on Valentine's Day.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, we love you, let's share your love, you know, share our love with you, come get a rose.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was so fun to see all of the army that got to get one and experience this together.
[SPEAKER_02]: So beautiful and moving.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love to sing all of the compilations of armies going and getting their roses with their friends and taking pictures together with their like single red rose.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just really beautiful and it's just, that is just one of those like timeless,
[SPEAKER_02]: Love gestures of like giving a red rose for to express love and it just yeah, it was meaningful I also thought it was funny seeing Armies who were not in LA and London joking about like being jealous like oh You know, you got a rose from BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not jealous, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I also just thought about that I know it's like Red Rose is typical for Valentine's Day, but do you remember the boy with love music video from their school of a fair where they were fighting over that one girl and they give her a red rose in the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like all those shots of each member like extending a singular red rose to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like BTS giving us a red rose like that and that song is about love and they're talking about love after all this time after all this time Since 2014
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the love for army is never wavered.
[SPEAKER_02]: Never that ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's just kind of recap some of the promotions that we were talking about here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just common themes that we found to be interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of them was silence.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so many directions that they could take with this theme of silence.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a song title?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it just there's going to be some silence and some tracks or their themes about silence?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I always think of like the quote like silence is golden or just like silence can be louder than words like things like that So I just I'm curious just
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also found it interesting on the playlist that we had BTS's music you could hear But the other songs were silent.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like are they just like honing us in on BTS's music right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's where we need to be focusing was like some subliminal messaging.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: like the subliminal messaging of the law of assumption, but also on okay so the first time that I went to that playlist with all the silent songs, I had songs on there that were just like 10 minutes of silence, you know, like clearly they wanted like this intentional silence,
[SPEAKER_00]: and which makes me think it's not just about silencing other artists for BTS like blocking everyone else out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel like there's going to be more on this like a song that is titled silence or silent or you know something like that or some sort of theme around that I feel like we'd make sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: but maybe it's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it just seems so out of place.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot that they could work with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm just thinking, like there's other songs that have like, I think of like silent night, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I just, the moment of reflection in silence.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Solidarity, things like that could be coming up in some of the themes most of the songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be so cool for them to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I would like flip my shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: If there's a song about silence on the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I think it would be so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, we can't get over this 58 seconds thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why, like, why 50 seconds on this silent playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, why not just one Amendment one minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: So is that number going to be coming up again?
[SPEAKER_02]: 58 seven is in between five and eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, I wonder.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to say that other what else is in between five and eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: six seven yeah so i i think six seven is dead now like at least with my middle schoolers it's dead it was so funny whenever i do it now like they cringe so hard they like glare at me
[SPEAKER_00]: Because like some of them were still saying it right at the beginning of 2026 and then others were like Adamant that it would die at the end of 2025 and now like if I throw it in there There's like one hold out.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like one kid.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like oh, yeah six seven like they'll still go crazy
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy and I were like at Chick-fil-A a couple days ago, and there was this kid like probably like a third grader and In like the ordering line, and he was just spamming in six seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing the gritty and saying six seven just over like he was stuck in a loop And that's like goodness not done for everybody, but
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what's with the 58 seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I particularly fixated on that like it just seems Why not just one minute is my main question, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we also really feel like just based on what we're getting here on these different playlists even on the members love song selections playlists so many different genres represented
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we feel like this album is going to have a variety of genres.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM and Yugi have both told us in lives and in the GQ article that the album's different and uses genres they haven't delved in two before.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that they did this big album creation writing camp where they got to handpick.
[SPEAKER_00]: different songwriters and producers to work with that could definitely expose them to other song types.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen over the months of them creating this album that like on their Instagram.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all posting different songs on their Instagram stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: they might like we saw multiple members posting the same song in an Instagram story as if they one of them had listened to it and they were all sharing it around.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that each of the members like individual styles are going to be represented.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was one thing in the gq article that said when they were in the studio.
[SPEAKER_00]: sometimes they would just do like two or three members in different rooms with different writers and producers and then maybe like halfway through after like an hour so they would just swap and so the members would switch up on who was in the different studio rooms working on that specific song and then they'd like swap the groups up so they do totally random groups different people working on it which I think again is going to give us different styles, different genre,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that is just such a full way to approach it, it just it makes me think of just something that is true in education, which is when you can do random groupings with students.
[SPEAKER_02]: of fresh perspective like different like new ideas and sparks when you have so much like just like new minds refreshing you know switching up topics like yeah definitely a lot of also can come from that
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think so too.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I also wonder if they'll use like really specific or obscure samples in this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's very classic BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think back to H.R.A.H.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Whale in 52 that high-pitched repeated sample that Pete August, which made that song so iconic and so catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something that I feel like is like a watermark of BTS' music.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with them having all of these different influences or potentially, you know, on these different Spotify playlist that, you know, like the silent playlist that we had, there were very few songs that weren't silent, you know, and are those songs samples songs that they're going to sample for their, you know, because they were a lot of them that weren't silent were instrumentals.
[SPEAKER_00]: like the Audirang instrumental that I had or I had a couple like Latin vibes songs that were instrumentals that some of them were silent some of them weren't.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I just wanted to so need to see them if they're sampled or resurface in the actual album that I see that there was even more intention with some of the song selection.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I hope to see a lot of the sampling too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like creating a new like iconic sample that stands out just like
[SPEAKER_02]: something else we've seen a lot of too is just red and white.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we've seen it, it's a part of the like icon that John Gook made for Auditong the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: And with all of this promotion around Valentine's Day and the album just having the red and white and the banners and things.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just really is making us feel like love has potentially is going to be a very heavy theme on this album or at least the hit track.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we talked a little bit to about how artied-ong in and in itself is about love.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it just really makes sense to see them taking this route and doing a lot of promotion in this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: The colors of bread and white originally took me to
[SPEAKER_02]: which again like maybe they do have some of that speckling of their older days like the classic nostalgic BTS that we know but creating a new and fresh and having themes of love on this album and having bread and white presented in that way because love is
[SPEAKER_02]: heavily influenced on the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a big theme.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see overall like all of this promotion has been extremely clever and creative and the way that it's gotten listener engagement and participation before the album has even dropped.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we're all hopping
[SPEAKER_02]: on Spotify and engaging with BTS' music again, listening to Spring Day, going and listening to trivia, trivia love, or trivia just dance.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all of that, like it's just really built up a lot of hype and also mystic around the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we have gotten what seems to be clues at what we're going to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: on the album but there's just it's so vague and broad at this point that we could go any direction with it and we love to theorize so it's been a lot of fun on armies and to be participating sharing our love songs that we really enjoy discussing some of these songs on the playlist or like oh what silence song what silence tracks did you have what could it mean you know it's just created a lot of engagement for the fandom a lot of excitement and anticipation
[SPEAKER_02]: how they went about promoting this album before it's released date and March, like even though it has been Valentine's Day, I think it's very doubtful that they just went this whole love route because of Valentine's Day.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they already have the themes of love on the album and saw Valentine's Day as like an opportunity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, how would we just go ahead and use that to our advantage that it just so happens to be within this promotional time frame, like let's even adds more mystic to it, you know, I think Valentine's Day was conveniently there for that to do this promotion.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, and
[SPEAKER_02]: this has been so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of this promotion really is making me think back to like the butter promotions and talking a lot about like the pop art that came with it and the hour-long butter melting live stream that we all watch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's instead of just staring at a melting stick of butter for an hour.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been talking about our favorite love songs of all time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really so excited for the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to get even more promo.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to make some more sense of these different theories that we've been having and all of these little breadcrumbs, clues of what the album might shape up to be based on what they're showing us right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, like you were saying, it has been so fun to have that engagement not only with BTS, but with Army and see whatever everybody's talking about when how we're all.
[SPEAKER_00]: being able to get involved in it already.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been such a blast definitely something that we've missed so it's felt really good to be able to get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We hope that you all enjoyed this episode and us talking about what is your love song everything to do with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course the GQ article could not just breathe past that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to get into that for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll put links for everything that we mentioned here in the description and of course for everything else that's usually there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.