WEBVTT 00:06.511 --> 00:12.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Consequence Podcast Network 00:31.537 --> 00:33.619 [SPEAKER_02]: Bora, hey, iconic army. 00:33.639 --> 00:41.128 [SPEAKER_02]: Bora, hey, guys, Auditong releases this week. 00:41.148 --> 00:47.134 [SPEAKER_02]: It has been so fun getting ready for this album and it's real that it's finally here. 00:47.154 --> 00:49.977 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just, we've waited so long for it. 00:50.018 --> 00:55.043 [SPEAKER_02]: And boy, do we have so much Auditong promo content to cover? 00:55.063 --> 01:01.290 [SPEAKER_02]: I know that when this episode drops, it's most likely gonna be the day that Auditong, the album actually releases. 01:01.270 --> 01:06.202 [SPEAKER_02]: But we're going to go ahead and cover all of the promotional content that we've gotten so far. 01:06.262 --> 01:12.678 [SPEAKER_02]: We just wanted to start and talk about the album cover for Auditong. 01:12.718 --> 01:19.093 [SPEAKER_02]: This happens to be BTS's first album cover that has their faces on it. 01:19.073 --> 01:29.372 [SPEAKER_02]: which Kayla, you had pointed this out and I had not even really realized or made note of that, but if you go back through all of the discography, their faces are not on their albums. 01:29.672 --> 01:42.415 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of just album art and we just find this to be so significant, so iconic, really significant because they not only have never had their faces on their album, but it makes me, 01:42.395 --> 01:47.120 [SPEAKER_02]: think about some of the most iconic and historic albums that we've gotten from other artists. 01:47.140 --> 01:53.847 [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think of albums such as the Beatles, let it be, or Abbey Road. 01:54.187 --> 02:10.984 [SPEAKER_02]: I think about albums like Michael Jackson's Thriller, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Fleetwood Max Rumors, like these are some of the best albums of all time that features the faces of the artists on the front of the cover. 02:10.964 --> 02:37.748 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's say 2050 like down the road in the future people talking about BTS and picturing Auditons album cover with their faces on it like that's where they go to when they think about BTS and it just makes me feel like it's setting the stage for how this album is going to be famous and legendary and historical and an album that will identify the group. 02:37.728 --> 02:53.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I love this idea that it's going to be the one that people look back on and for the masses, anyone who doesn't already know BTS and they can't already put faces to their name from this album they will. 02:53.835 --> 03:01.528 [SPEAKER_00]: And that this is going to be such a massive album that it's going to go down in history as that identifier for them. 03:02.370 --> 03:03.111 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 03:03.091 --> 03:10.850 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that is so cool and Sony, especially with this title of Adedang and all of the cultural importance and history that that carries. 03:10.870 --> 03:20.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I also feel like this photo, so the album cover photo of them is all seven of them, three of them in the front, four of them in the back, lined up, standing. 03:20.675 --> 03:35.655 [SPEAKER_00]: And to me it also mirrors the photo of the seven young Korean men who made the first recording of Audit on in 1896 in the US, that photo that we've seen from after that recording. 03:35.675 --> 03:44.607 [SPEAKER_00]: So I just think that that could be intentional too is like they want to represent that and kind of mirror or harken back to that. 03:44.587 --> 03:46.630 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it does seem like it's mirroring it. 03:46.670 --> 03:48.053 [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's look very similar. 03:48.213 --> 03:58.970 [SPEAKER_02]: I love that they're in these suits too, and they'll sit 7 Korean men back in 1896 We're also in suits and just yeah, I mean, it seems timeless. 03:59.371 --> 04:00.493 [SPEAKER_02]: It seems classy. 04:00.513 --> 04:02.376 [SPEAKER_02]: It just seems 04:03.082 --> 04:05.086 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know, it's perfect. 04:05.146 --> 04:06.488 [SPEAKER_00]: It really does seem timeless. 04:06.528 --> 04:17.529 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk about not only the suits that they're wearing, but the composition and like the placement of each member here Just starting with the suits because you mentioned it like gin is wearing a pinstripe suit. 04:17.730 --> 04:21.276 [SPEAKER_00]: That is very classic and timeless gin or Jimin has one too. 04:21.316 --> 04:23.841 [SPEAKER_00]: We see multiple like three piece suits very good 04:23.821 --> 04:26.185 [SPEAKER_00]: clean lines, very clean patterns. 04:26.205 --> 04:45.694 [SPEAKER_00]: This is all neutral tones, graze, blacks, whites, which I think like if you are comparing it to the original seven Korean men who recorded Auditong in that photo of it being black and white, like both of these photos could be in black and white and wood like transition that way. 04:45.674 --> 04:50.842 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I do think I think that the style of suits that they're wearing is very timeless and classic too. 04:50.862 --> 04:53.647 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the placement of each member here. 04:53.687 --> 04:57.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, our M is in the bottom row front and center. 04:57.212 --> 05:02.180 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the first person that your eyes go to, which I think is significant and being the leader. 05:02.220 --> 05:09.292 [SPEAKER_00]: But then immediately after you see the two people like right behind his shoulders, Jay Hope and Yungi. 05:09.913 --> 05:12.036 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have the wrap line here in the middle. 05:12.438 --> 05:15.342 [SPEAKER_00]: the main writers and producers, you know. 05:15.362 --> 05:17.144 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like on his shoulders. 05:18.746 --> 05:22.811 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's so powerful to see them like their at his shoulders. 05:22.951 --> 05:26.255 [SPEAKER_00]: And then surrounding all of them is the vocal line. 05:26.295 --> 05:31.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, um, Jungkook and then Jimin behind Jungkook, Jin and then Taehyung behind. 05:31.441 --> 05:36.808 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love like they're like wrapping around the core of this rap line. 05:36.788 --> 05:40.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Which I feel like the rap has always been the core of BTS, right? 05:40.692 --> 05:45.798 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they started, it doesn't feel like BTS if they don't have the rap in there too. 05:45.918 --> 05:48.881 [SPEAKER_00]: So, they're central, they're the core totally. 05:49.241 --> 05:52.885 [SPEAKER_00]: I think all of this is intentional in the placement in the lineup of you. 05:52.905 --> 05:53.886 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, remember here. 05:53.926 --> 06:00.654 [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I'm really, really enjoying this album cover, and they also all look fine as hell. 06:00.854 --> 06:01.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, mm-hmm. 06:01.915 --> 06:02.516 [SPEAKER_00]: each of them. 06:02.536 --> 06:14.490 [SPEAKER_02]: We talk about Yunkie's hair, hair is so fluffy and volumeless in this photo, it really caught me off guard so many armies were just like fan-girling so hard over a Yunkie's hair. 06:15.051 --> 06:21.098 [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, they all look timeless, they all look classy, the positioning definitely is very intentional. 06:21.318 --> 06:27.906 [SPEAKER_02]: I do think at Harkins back to the original photo of the seven men, Cree and Men, who went to Howard University. 06:27.886 --> 06:28.607 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. 06:28.647 --> 06:30.149 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just stunning. 06:30.189 --> 06:35.016 [SPEAKER_02]: It's already a historical album just with this cover. 06:35.257 --> 06:35.998 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah for the album. 06:36.198 --> 06:36.599 [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. 06:36.839 --> 06:37.921 [SPEAKER_00]: They all look so stunning. 06:38.081 --> 06:41.226 [SPEAKER_00]: I also have to say, you guys, I have a head cold right now. 06:41.366 --> 06:49.738 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm so sorry if I sound weird or like if I start coughing, like I'll try to mute myself, but it is, it's rough for me right now. 06:49.778 --> 06:51.320 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to, yeah. 06:51.380 --> 06:52.141 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to make it through. 06:52.222 --> 06:54.585 [SPEAKER_00]: But 06:54.565 --> 06:56.848 [SPEAKER_02]: for showing up, and I'm grateful that you're here. 06:56.908 --> 06:59.312 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's in court these days when you're feeling like this. 06:59.372 --> 07:00.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything for BTS and my condo. 07:00.974 --> 07:03.558 [SPEAKER_02]: You were like, it's such poor timing. 07:03.638 --> 07:08.305 [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, at least when the album actually comes out, you'll probably be feeling better. 07:08.646 --> 07:08.906 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 07:09.026 --> 07:09.867 [SPEAKER_02]: You're so open. 07:10.028 --> 07:10.268 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 07:10.889 --> 07:12.131 [SPEAKER_02]: Can't be sick for BTS. 07:12.211 --> 07:12.511 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 07:12.732 --> 07:12.892 [SPEAKER_02]: No. 07:13.533 --> 07:14.194 [SPEAKER_00]: No time for that. 07:14.354 --> 07:14.574 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 07:14.835 --> 07:15.816 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have time for it. 07:16.838 --> 07:19.942 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we are so excited to actually get this physical album. 07:19.982 --> 07:21.845 [SPEAKER_00]: And then also, let's talk about these promos. 07:21.865 --> 07:23.948 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about today. 07:25.784 --> 07:27.786 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back, where you're host, I'm Kayla. 07:28.587 --> 07:30.829 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm Bethany, and this is Standing BTS. 07:31.270 --> 07:33.592 [SPEAKER_02]: Your favorite informative fan-girl podcast. 07:34.293 --> 07:36.395 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, today we're going to hang out for about an hour. 07:36.716 --> 07:41.080 [SPEAKER_02]: And we are talking about all the promotional content that we've gotten for Auditong. 07:41.100 --> 07:47.287 [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to be talking about the decoding and scavenger hunts that we've gotten on Spotify and on Google. 07:47.387 --> 07:55.656 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll go into the messages that we've received from all of the members and some of this deciphering 07:55.636 --> 07:59.323 [SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll get into the Auditong animation trailer. 07:59.383 --> 08:02.067 [SPEAKER_02]: This is what I am particularly excited to talk about. 08:02.087 --> 08:07.537 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you guys are too, because this is where we actually get a little bit of a sound clip for one of the songs on the album. 08:07.557 --> 08:17.615 [SPEAKER_02]: So, to unpack there, also it kind of validates all of Army's theories about the 7 Korean men coming over, going to Howard University. 08:17.635 --> 08:19.298 [SPEAKER_02]: So, that's, we'll get into that. 08:19.278 --> 08:30.893 [SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll kind of wrap up talking about all of the Netflix promo as we've gotten and just their combat concert promo video and trailer and All of it. 08:31.294 --> 08:34.518 [SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna be so much to unpack and talk about here. 08:34.838 --> 08:41.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, before we get into it We just want to say things iconic so much for being here and for listening and for all of your support 08:41.367 --> 08:56.929 [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like to support us a little bit further, if you really enjoy how much we unpack every little detail of Auditong leading up to it and into the album, then please consider joining us on patreon at patreon.com slash standing BTS. 08:56.909 --> 09:00.314 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, thanks for being here for all of your support and of course for listening. 09:00.374 --> 09:05.182 [SPEAKER_02]: So let's start off with the Auditong decoding and scavenger hunt. 09:05.723 --> 09:12.994 [SPEAKER_02]: So just some overarching themes that we have picked up on since seeing the decoding and scavenger hunts that we've had. 09:12.974 --> 09:25.211 [SPEAKER_02]: There's been a lot of overarching themes for this album where there is symbolism of the sea, water, message and a bottle, ships, looking for treasure. 09:25.371 --> 09:38.128 [SPEAKER_02]: So it definitely goes along with that audience-ong original folklore, where it's a couple that's in love and trying to cross this river or body of water to get to one another. 09:38.249 --> 09:41.513 [SPEAKER_02]: So it feels like the imagery of 09:41.493 --> 09:51.792 [SPEAKER_02]: getting a message in the bottle, going and searching, traveling across the sea is very much goes hand in hand with that theme within Auditong's folklore. 09:52.694 --> 10:04.075 [SPEAKER_02]: And we also feel like we can anticipate possible themes of this and their hit tracks swim with swim already with some of the information we've got about it has themes of like 10:04.055 --> 10:11.187 [SPEAKER_02]: enduring through treacherous times or whether, you know, treacherous sees. 10:12.129 --> 10:20.022 [SPEAKER_02]: And then also, there's just, I find it interesting that the promotional content for getting different 10:20.002 --> 10:35.023 [SPEAKER_02]: clips of BTS talking about the album or songs or just information about like the trackless, we got it through having to like solve these codes and ciphers and unlocking treasures and looking for clues 10:35.003 --> 10:35.764 [SPEAKER_02]: searching. 10:35.904 --> 10:41.270 [SPEAKER_02]: I know that the Spotify decoding was irritating the shit out of me because I literally could not figure it out. 10:41.370 --> 10:49.739 [SPEAKER_02]: I was like actually pissed off of doing research yesterday and Kayla had to like look up TikTok videos for me to figure it out because I wasn't smart enough to do it. 10:49.759 --> 10:59.410 [SPEAKER_00]: Well I know how because I don't even use Spotify so I was like, I was like, you got a girl like hopefully you were like whatever and I'm like you're just so stupid. 10:59.430 --> 11:01.652 [SPEAKER_02]: I was so mad about it. 11:01.632 --> 11:09.708 [SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, kind of a fun idea to have to like go in and search and look through their music to be able to find all of these clues. 11:09.768 --> 11:20.670 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm curious if that will be a theme within the album or within songs, if there's any kind of cyphers, 11:20.650 --> 11:33.876 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, one thing that I did see people talking about online, that I personally want to debunk and I'm hoping that I'm not gonna be proven wrong like the second album jobs. 11:34.157 --> 11:37.984 [SPEAKER_00]: People are like, ooh, message in a bottle, treasure. 11:37.964 --> 12:07.279 [SPEAKER_00]: ships like they're like it's a pirate concept era like they're going to be just like pirates in the music video and i'm just like no i'm sorry but there's no way there's no way that they're going to do something like i don't know that does not feel very BTS to me and it doesn't feel very added on either um it doesn't go with their war either really no even if they were to go i don't even think they're going to be going 12:07.259 --> 12:09.602 [SPEAKER_02]: But even if it was, it wouldn't match. 12:10.323 --> 12:10.784 [SPEAKER_02]: I agree. 12:10.804 --> 12:11.945 [SPEAKER_02]: I agree. 12:11.965 --> 12:12.305 [SPEAKER_02]: I know. 12:12.406 --> 12:14.008 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be surprised if that's the case. 12:14.588 --> 12:23.260 [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you're going like BTS lore connection to this album, if you want to try to connect it, BTS were always time travelers, right, in their lore. 12:23.740 --> 12:29.908 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they could be like the original seven who recorded Auditong, and then they time travel, or 12:29.888 --> 12:39.909 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, could be that but I could I saw the the pirate thing and I was just like no like it I can't so I didn't see that theory. 12:39.929 --> 12:46.362 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw it a couple times and I just yeah, I don't think so I hope that I'm not wrong about that 12:46.342 --> 13:00.509 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely love the idea of like decoding or like the ciphers gives us maybe they're not naming any of these songs cipher part five, but maybe they are a cipher Yeah, there's some sort of it in the lyrics. 13:00.850 --> 13:01.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah 13:01.411 --> 13:05.817 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's go into the Spotify decoding added on the member's messages. 13:05.917 --> 13:15.429 [SPEAKER_00]: So each message got released in fragments of the phonograph cylinder and you could find them and then it would be like, oh, message one of seven. 13:15.469 --> 13:16.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's RM's message. 13:17.893 --> 13:24.381 [SPEAKER_00]: So in RM's message, he shares that the album is about the universal feelings that we all have joy, love and longing. 13:24.361 --> 13:28.106 [SPEAKER_00]: with the courage to keep going and the resolve to get through the waves of life. 13:28.627 --> 13:32.852 [SPEAKER_00]: He also says that this love is beyond the romantic feelings of love. 13:33.153 --> 13:40.602 [SPEAKER_00]: And instead, it's more so having a love for life and choosing to move at one's own pace without resisting the current. 13:40.843 --> 13:52.478 [SPEAKER_00]: This is really interesting to me because I hear songs about moving along with the current or going against the current, like mostly it's going against the current. 13:52.458 --> 13:55.461 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, making your own path by going against the current. 13:55.541 --> 14:00.566 [SPEAKER_00]: But not not resisting the current, but still moving at your own pace. 14:00.586 --> 14:07.934 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think this is an interesting take on like the swim and the water and kind of like moving through life at your own pace. 14:08.014 --> 14:18.645 [SPEAKER_00]: I also feel like this is something that feels so authentic to BTS to be talking about, something that they struggled with, pre-military was finding that pacing of their own lives. 14:18.705 --> 14:21.908 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's cool that this is like a primary 14:21.888 --> 14:37.367 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it makes me think of the Dow, like a heavy theme within like the Dow teaching, yeah, that they talk about not resisting the water in water is used constantly as a symbol. 14:37.407 --> 14:43.774 [SPEAKER_02]: And Dowism is more so going with the current and not resisting. 14:43.814 --> 14:50.983 [SPEAKER_02]: And I can't help 14:50.963 --> 14:56.972 [SPEAKER_02]: this not being a romantic feeling, a song about romantic feelings and that it's more so about having a love for life. 14:57.012 --> 15:03.622 [SPEAKER_02]: And the mention of love for a wife takes me to trivia love, where he says, I live so I love. 15:03.642 --> 15:06.526 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like inverted. 15:06.626 --> 15:07.047 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 15:07.367 --> 15:10.812 [SPEAKER_02]: I love so I love a love for life. 15:10.792 --> 15:11.554 [SPEAKER_02]: I just love it. 15:11.754 --> 15:12.536 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that too. 15:12.556 --> 15:14.680 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels very RM. 15:14.700 --> 15:27.568 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels very much like his personal journey with self-acceptance and love and finding happiness and I love that he's finding a place to talk about it here with the whole group. 15:27.548 --> 15:44.022 [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing that really stood out about RM's message, that was different than ever their members, is that in the background of his message, was this very, to me, ominous sounding slow, low-toned cello music plane in the background of this clip. 15:44.002 --> 15:47.326 [SPEAKER_00]: Which I love the strings anytime I hear strings with BTS. 15:47.386 --> 15:57.839 [SPEAKER_00]: I think black swan like I you know give me strings in there in their songs on this album and we're gonna be living for it But that just was like okay, why is this here? 15:57.859 --> 16:05.689 [SPEAKER_00]: You know it gave kind of this eerie feeling to what was Overall like a really positive message from him so 16:05.669 --> 16:07.911 [SPEAKER_00]: not really sure where that is pointing right now. 16:08.291 --> 16:13.396 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I feel like maybe it could be pointing to like a song in the album or something like that. 16:13.456 --> 16:19.181 [SPEAKER_02]: But it also just goes along with the feelings of mystery, solving a mystery. 16:19.201 --> 16:25.287 [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like background music that you would hear inside a escape room. 16:25.527 --> 16:26.408 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I think about. 16:26.548 --> 16:29.651 [SPEAKER_00]: That's fair, especially because this is the first message that you find. 16:29.711 --> 16:35.136 [SPEAKER_00]: So it could be kind of setting you up for that mystery or deep voting the rest of them for sure. 16:35.234 --> 16:36.677 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but no one else has it. 16:36.877 --> 16:37.478 [SPEAKER_00]: No, sorry. 16:37.598 --> 16:37.819 [SPEAKER_00]: I know. 16:37.879 --> 16:44.732 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought, okay, maybe every member is going to have a little bit of music behind theirs, but no So jins was message number two. 16:44.772 --> 16:50.543 [SPEAKER_00]: They released while they didn't release the messages in this order, but the order of the messages are fan chant order 16:50.523 --> 17:20.091 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Jins of the second one, and he said that Swim has an upbeat alternative pop sound, and that's really energetic too, and then he also mentioned that there's vibrant old-school drums that blend beautifully with a warm electric guitar, the sound's amazing, and he also shared that you feel strength, the strength of the song, the moment that you hear the guitar, sounds 17:20.071 --> 17:26.498 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we got pretty excited when we heard old school drums and we think of their hip-hop origins. 17:26.538 --> 17:29.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, it's giving in debut. 17:29.962 --> 17:30.763 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is. 17:30.803 --> 17:40.054 [SPEAKER_02]: So in Sugar's message, he said that Swim has powerful drums, low-fi synths and a warm electric guitar. 17:40.094 --> 17:44.239 [SPEAKER_02]: So there's definitely an electric guitar in this song that is warm. 17:44.219 --> 17:47.929 [SPEAKER_02]: And then I love the mention of low-five cents. 17:48.089 --> 17:53.403 [SPEAKER_02]: That sounds like heavenly production when they've got those like low-five cents in there. 17:53.443 --> 17:58.215 [SPEAKER_02]: And then he also said that the group of this track is a quote on kick. 17:59.579 --> 17:59.659 [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh. 17:59.679 --> 18:00.661 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, okay. 18:00.702 --> 18:01.283 [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh. 18:01.921 --> 18:02.322 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 18:02.943 --> 18:07.170 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know exactly what that means, but it makes me feel like it's going to hit your real heart. 18:07.250 --> 18:11.497 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to hit you and it's going to like make you get up and is it going to make you get up and move? 18:11.537 --> 18:17.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Going to make you get up and like be, you know, active with it or, you know, motivated? 18:17.687 --> 18:18.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 18:18.709 --> 18:23.857 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the mention of the low five since this again feels very classic BTS. 18:23.877 --> 18:27.844 [SPEAKER_00]: This is bringing me to like love yourself tear with like a low five. 18:27.824 --> 18:28.946 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, say no more. 18:28.966 --> 18:29.066 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 18:29.206 --> 18:31.610 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree. 18:31.650 --> 18:43.489 [SPEAKER_02]: So in Jayhouse message, he says, or at least reiterates that swim is about having the resolve to move through the waves of life as they cheer us on every step of the way. 18:43.549 --> 18:49.579 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's that that love for life, not resisting taking life as it comes at you. 18:49.559 --> 18:50.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 18:50.100 --> 18:50.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 18:50.681 --> 18:56.829 [SPEAKER_00]: For me, I feel like this is him being like, so this is us encouraging you, too, through this song. 18:57.009 --> 19:07.224 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe the lyrics will have a little bit of that, like, from us to you, type of BTS Army, you know, oneness, maybe, like, together we can do it. 19:07.524 --> 19:08.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Jimman's message. 19:08.546 --> 19:13.132 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that the album speaks about their roots, so it's cool to get a mention of what the whole album is. 19:13.292 --> 19:14.554 [SPEAKER_00]: We already kind of, 19:14.534 --> 19:26.126 [SPEAKER_00]: Guest at some of that with going through the track list, but for him to say like this is our roots for the whole album, and that swim itself represents their present and as the start of their new chapter, very exciting. 19:26.166 --> 19:40.201 [SPEAKER_00]: He said it hopes, or he hopes that their current as a group never stops flowing and that they're still moving forward at their own pace, and that the entire album connects their past stories with their future dreams. 19:40.942 --> 19:42.043 [SPEAKER_00]: So. 19:42.023 --> 19:46.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, I mean, that's a lot of the taste card in Album, but yes, so BTS coded. 19:47.049 --> 20:00.367 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and then in Tae Young's message, he said, well, first off, we have to talk about his voice, because Kim Tae Young, his voice is so soothing and comforting right at the beginning. 20:00.427 --> 20:03.591 [SPEAKER_02]: It's as if he's leading you through a meditation killer. 20:04.212 --> 20:10.680 [SPEAKER_02]: When you were talking to me about it, you were like, did you ever download the headspace app for meditation? 20:10.660 --> 20:34.373 [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like he's about to like send you into like a meditation that you like fall asleep within the first couple of minutes because his voice is so soothing and also like what he's talking about to like he's talking a little bit about like life can be heavy and scary and just yeah he sounds like going listen to it like you might just go into it and then like state but um he acknowledges that life can be 20:34.353 --> 20:43.169 [SPEAKER_02]: Scary and heavy at times, and he hopes that Swim can show us that they truly understand that struggle along with us, and that together we can swim through it. 20:44.171 --> 20:44.933 [SPEAKER_02]: Love that sentiment. 20:44.993 --> 20:45.594 [SPEAKER_00]: Amazing. 20:45.614 --> 20:52.547 [SPEAKER_00]: And then John Guck's message, he says that he's excited and curious to see our reactions. 20:52.527 --> 20:56.052 [SPEAKER_00]: and from the song wants us to take away two main messages. 20:56.572 --> 20:58.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Love for life and courage. 20:58.314 --> 21:04.402 [SPEAKER_00]: So reiterating RM saying that we also want to have that love for life through the song. 21:04.602 --> 21:19.041 [SPEAKER_00]: He also wants the song to feel like a gift but something that we can dance to as well with and he said quote, 21:19.679 --> 21:24.186 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm getting a mix of RM's still life with idol. 21:24.747 --> 21:28.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's like the messages I'm getting mixed together here. 21:28.173 --> 21:37.788 [SPEAKER_02]: Like the love for life, but also the courage to continue to cheer, like, I'm cheering us on instead of like, you can't stop me loving myself. 21:37.868 --> 21:46.041 [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like it's going to be them saying encouraging us to keep loving ourselves or not loving ourselves necessarily, but like to keep 21:46.612 --> 21:47.634 [SPEAKER_01]: Love you, keep it on. 21:47.654 --> 21:48.276 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:48.296 --> 21:48.997 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:50.180 --> 21:50.881 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:50.941 --> 21:51.503 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:51.523 --> 21:51.944 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:51.964 --> 21:53.908 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:54.068 --> 21:54.589 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:54.609 --> 21:55.652 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:55.672 --> 21:56.373 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:56.393 --> 21:57.415 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:57.435 --> 21:58.197 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:58.217 --> 21:58.818 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 21:59.279 --> 22:00.221 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:00.241 --> 22:00.983 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:01.103 --> 22:02.166 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:02.186 --> 22:02.667 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:02.687 --> 22:03.428 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:03.729 --> 22:04.671 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:04.731 --> 22:05.633 [SPEAKER_02]: Love you, keep it on. 22:05.613 --> 22:26.111 [SPEAKER_02]: And it leaves us with a surprise message saying, quote, I could spend a lifetime watching you, which we for sure think that this is either direct lyrics from the song, or somewhere on the album, like it's very clear that this was a sneak peek and a spoiler for us. 22:26.171 --> 22:31.636 [SPEAKER_02]: This was probably the biggest clue that we've gotten in terms of what's going to be on the album. 22:31.676 --> 22:34.118 [SPEAKER_02]: So I could spend a lifetime watching you. 22:34.098 --> 22:43.469 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm really excited to see where this ends up in the song, because I totally agree that that's the biggest hint to song lyrics that we're going to get for drops. 22:44.190 --> 22:44.470 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 22:45.391 --> 22:49.456 [SPEAKER_02]: So let's talk a little bit about this scavenger hunt that they did on Google as well. 22:49.777 --> 22:52.460 [SPEAKER_02]: This was actually like a week or so ago. 22:52.820 --> 22:57.726 [SPEAKER_02]: So a little bit longer ago than this most recent scavenger hunt that they did on Spotify. 22:57.706 --> 23:03.874 [SPEAKER_02]: But on Google, if you Googled just BTS, it popped up a little message in a bottle in the bottom right corner of your screen. 23:04.335 --> 23:07.138 [SPEAKER_02]: And it asked you a bunch of trivia questions about BTS. 23:07.178 --> 23:11.624 [SPEAKER_02]: And as you answered them, you unlocked each song on the, on the, on the album. 23:11.664 --> 23:13.146 [SPEAKER_02]: So you got the tracklist title. 23:14.027 --> 23:17.932 [SPEAKER_02]: And it was written like handwritten by each BTS member. 23:17.992 --> 23:19.935 [SPEAKER_02]: So each song was written by a different member. 23:19.975 --> 23:26.143 [SPEAKER_02]: So like body to body was written by RM, he even drew like two little stick figures 23:26.123 --> 23:33.133 [SPEAKER_02]: J-Hope wrote FYA with a little fire drawing next to it. 23:33.153 --> 23:47.473 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes us think like, oh, I was kicking myself so much because I wanted to say fire on the tracklist episode, but then I was like, no, like, there do have a very popular song called Fire, like, 23:47.453 --> 23:54.241 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine other would name a new song fire, you know, so I didn't even bring it up but seem like him putting flames. 23:54.842 --> 24:13.003 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's not supposed to be pronounced like fire, then at least from the flame drawing is going to be a hype ass song like we should have known that it wasn't an acronym because like we even compared it to, uh, it's just fire, like it has to be. 24:13.023 --> 24:13.123 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 24:13.103 --> 24:16.766 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but yeah, the flames that he drew, I feel like really gives it away there. 24:16.946 --> 24:27.015 [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, and these were all listed under the title, like all of the actual songs were listed with the title Love Buffet, saying, your love songs. 24:28.036 --> 24:37.164 [SPEAKER_02]: And this just makes me think, like, oh, every single song on here could potentially be a different type of love song, which was a theory we had back in our last episode. 24:37.765 --> 24:42.469 [SPEAKER_02]: So this just kind of, I think, adds a little confirmation to that, that each song could 24:42.449 --> 24:46.156 [SPEAKER_02]: Like basically which song is our love song which one's gonna be our favorite. 24:46.176 --> 25:06.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Which one is gonna resonate with you or like the type of love that you want to talk about And it goes back to like the the track list of dead air songs, you know with like the romantic love the you know all the different types of love Yeah, totally very exciting and I thought it was just cool to be able to see these in their own handwriting 25:07.475 --> 25:14.546 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, let's talk about the Auditang animation trailer that came out here. 25:15.167 --> 25:30.090 [SPEAKER_00]: So they did start with some texts like a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that this video was inspired by the story of seven young Koreans as documented in the Washington Post on May 8th, 1896, quote seven Koreans at Howard, 25:30.070 --> 25:36.936 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of who captured the first known audio recordings of Koreans in Washington, D.C. on July 24th of that same year. 25:36.996 --> 25:49.447 [SPEAKER_00]: As a modern, reimagining this work draws upon the profound cultural significance of these historical records, which preserve the authentic voices of young Korean men and the first ever recording of Auditang. 25:50.148 --> 25:58.575 [SPEAKER_00]: This production may deviate from actual historical events and does not serve as a formal evaluation or interpretation of any historical event or person. 25:58.555 --> 26:18.808 [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciated that disclaimer just being like, hey, like we're taking artistic liberties here in this animation, we are not going to, you know, because they're obviously bending it, even just with showing all seven of the Korean men recording it, we know that it was only like three of them that actually recorded it. 26:18.788 --> 26:27.297 [SPEAKER_00]: So, but just to have that stronger symbolism between BTS and the 7, you know, they show all seven of them here in this in this video. 26:27.418 --> 26:35.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I think of note to point out is that this video did not use any AI to create these animations. 26:35.847 --> 26:44.897 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go into the credits of the video, you can see all of the different animators and directors and artists that worked on creating this video, which I think is wonderful. 26:45.130 --> 27:01.063 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for human art history, human art exactly, no, yeah, yeah, so just real briefly we did cover the history of Auditong and then the visual recording. 27:01.043 --> 27:09.201 [SPEAKER_02]: and the seven-creen students at Howard University in our episode 276, the history of Auditong. 27:09.241 --> 27:19.103 [SPEAKER_02]: So definitely go back and listen to that if you don't know much about this story because we in-depth cover it and we also talk about the folklore of Auditong and the origins of Auditong. 27:19.083 --> 27:40.433 [SPEAKER_02]: But to summarize the Howard University's story, just so it to give context to this animation film that we got or this animation trailer and how it parallels to BTS is that yes, in 1896, the seven young Korean men came over to the US, they studied at Howard University where they basically termed the students with their singing at this university. 27:40.413 --> 27:55.435 [SPEAKER_02]: And therefore, got discovered by this American ethnologist, Alice Fletcher, who invited three of those students over to her home in Washington, D.C. to record the first ever recording of Auditong. 27:55.415 --> 28:14.250 [SPEAKER_02]: and they ended up recording the six-cylinder recording that now is at the Library of Congress in the folklore reading room so you can actually go and like listen to it and check it out there but huge historic whole significance and you can see the parallels to BTS with just even the number of Korean men. 28:14.230 --> 28:25.947 [SPEAKER_02]: and how they were known for their singing and they recorded Ardigh-Dong for the first time in the states and here we are having BTS with their album Ardigh-Dong who are seven cream in. 28:26.147 --> 28:26.848 [SPEAKER_00]: You're very cool. 28:26.868 --> 28:28.150 [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's just so much. 28:28.170 --> 28:28.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 28:28.670 --> 28:33.017 [SPEAKER_00]: This is also such a side note, but well not really, but it's just a random fact. 28:33.657 --> 28:42.550 [SPEAKER_00]: This specific cylinder recordings, there's a bunch of different cylinders that were made for the phonograph to be recorded only different materials. 28:42.530 --> 28:59.003 [SPEAKER_00]: There's was on a wax cylinder and it was red wax and I'm just thinking about the red graphics that we have in the album cover and maybe that was intentionally used because the original recording was recorded on red wax. 28:58.983 --> 28:59.925 [SPEAKER_00]: You can see. 28:59.945 --> 29:00.806 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that. 29:02.208 --> 29:02.509 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 29:02.589 --> 29:03.150 [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. 29:03.230 --> 29:08.960 [SPEAKER_02]: I really do because I've thought long and hard about what the red and white like why the red and white coloring. 29:08.980 --> 29:09.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 29:10.101 --> 29:10.803 [SPEAKER_00]: It's so prominent. 29:10.823 --> 29:12.005 [SPEAKER_00]: It is in the logo. 29:12.586 --> 29:12.846 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 29:12.866 --> 29:24.946 [SPEAKER_00]: I was just thinking about that because I had seen different video about the actual cylinders and the it was a librarian at the library of Congress talking about the wax cylinders that it was recorded on. 29:25.066 --> 29:25.547 [SPEAKER_00]: So I 29:25.527 --> 29:52.395 [SPEAKER_00]: um how cool yeah and so then you know in the sexual promo video we see BTS in a room with a photograph and they have the six different cylinders in the canisters on the table and they pick up open one it's a red wax cylinder and they queue it up they play it on the photograph I believe it's a young geohoo actually places it on the photograph there um and then as they're listening they kind of are all leaning in together and 29:52.375 --> 29:58.987 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they hear it, it kind of sucks them back and they're visualizing the history of this recording happening. 29:59.007 --> 30:13.995 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see a little bit of the story of the seven young Koreans boarding a ship traveling across the sea, going and singing at Howard University, and then like singing around a phonograph recording the first recording of Auditon. 30:13.975 --> 30:22.105 [SPEAKER_00]: And the whole time during this part, kind of soothing quiet audidong song is playing in the background of the video. 30:23.166 --> 30:35.700 [SPEAKER_00]: After we see the 7, the original 7 Korean men recording it, then we kind of get sucked back into the phonograph and we see BTS performing not today on stage. 30:35.760 --> 30:39.645 [SPEAKER_00]: In a stadium for thousands of fans, you know, 30:39.625 --> 30:43.630 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's just cool, they're like building that parallel. 30:43.710 --> 30:48.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, uh, of the, you know, the Auditoring then, and then now. 30:48.536 --> 31:03.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, then we kind of zoom out of that clip, which becomes a photo on the wall behind BTS now, who then pick up another photograph cylinder, which, in this case, it's also a red wax cylinder to cue it up. 31:04.056 --> 31:06.699 [SPEAKER_00]: And then that's when a sound clip starts to play. 31:06.759 --> 31:08.822 [SPEAKER_00]: The sound clip that Bethany was talking about. 31:08.802 --> 31:09.443 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 31:10.243 --> 31:23.937 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's just so exciting to see them using this story and paralleling them to this original recording of Auditong and the use of the phonograph and them jamming around to this music. 31:23.997 --> 31:36.911 [SPEAKER_02]: And there were armies who theorized about Auditong and the first recording in the Howard University Korean students and it's just so cool to see that that is actually accurate. 31:36.931 --> 31:38.252 [SPEAKER_02]: Like that was actually 31:38.232 --> 32:02.595 [SPEAKER_02]: inspiration for this album at some point and Yeah, I just feel like BTS and Army like we come up with all these crazy theories and this one was right Yeah, it's so satisfying and I remember when we were doing that episode We were like they have to know about this right like they have to know about the story and then of course They do of course They do of course They were gonna reference it in the promos for the album. 32:02.695 --> 32:04.797 [SPEAKER_00]: It just makes so much sense 32:04.777 --> 32:14.031 [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if they listened to the original recordings at the Library of Congress, that would be really cool to get a check on and listen to it or someone brought it to them, you know, when they were in LA. 32:14.612 --> 32:15.133 [SPEAKER_02]: Be really cool. 32:15.333 --> 32:27.272 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, so let's talk about this sound clip that is in this trailer because we immediately thought that, yes, this is absolutely a clip from the album. 32:27.292 --> 32:30.717 [SPEAKER_02]: Like this is one of the songs I was 32:30.697 --> 32:32.319 [SPEAKER_02]: for raking out. 32:32.359 --> 32:36.025 [SPEAKER_02]: This was released at like 930, 10 o'clock at night. 32:36.225 --> 32:41.934 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I was late and bed next to Corey and I'm like, oh my god, I'm listening to it. 32:42.394 --> 32:44.197 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like this hat, this this has to be it. 32:44.217 --> 32:49.805 [SPEAKER_02]: This has to be this song while I'm also freaking about how like, oh my gosh, this historical connection is actually accurate. 32:49.825 --> 32:59.379 [SPEAKER_02]: This theory is right, how cool, like army is so smart and I'm blowing up Kayla's phone and she's not responding at all. 32:59.680 --> 32:59.860 [UNKNOWN]: I'm like, 32:59.840 --> 33:10.701 [SPEAKER_02]: Like of all of the times within recent years, Kayla, you have been the one up and I have been the one to sleep and me waking up to like hundreds of texts for you and now it was my turn. 33:10.761 --> 33:16.853 [SPEAKER_02]: I was just like this is totally one of the songs like it's just a banger like I 33:16.833 --> 33:24.808 [SPEAKER_02]: put that sound clip on repeat and it's what not even 30 seconds if that But it just hits like I was dancing. 33:24.848 --> 33:26.090 [SPEAKER_02]: I was vibe into it. 33:26.110 --> 33:40.917 [SPEAKER_02]: I was I made three Instagram posts on our Instagram Like I was I was Crazy I was so incredibly excited about everything that was being released But yeah, a lot of people Originally heard 33:40.897 --> 34:10.853 [SPEAKER_02]: re re re re re in the in the sound clip, but we found out now that it's actually be be be be be body or be be be be be body and so we found out that it's actually a sound clip for body to body which is the first song on the album and that was confirmed by the Picard brothers on their Instagram that yes it is body to be there or some of the previous ones you guys like the clip like you're welcome 34:11.120 --> 34:16.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I mean, I'm kind of a woman who has been released in this animation trailer. 34:16.771 --> 34:26.469 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I mean, okay, I always feel like whenever they do a teaser, they have some great song, you know, music in the background of the teaser and that never happens to be on the album. 34:26.929 --> 34:32.660 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's really cool that we're getting confirmation before the album comes out like, hey, we made this song. 34:33.081 --> 34:33.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 34:33.682 --> 35:02.473 [SPEAKER_00]: I woke up to like 24 text messages in the morning and this was like the day that I was starting to get sick so it makes sense when I fell asleep so early because I never fall asleep that early but that that was like my I don't know Thursday morning or Friday morning I don't remember and before I was going to work I was like waking Jeremy up like look at BTS I was like shoving the picture of the album in his face I was like watch this video they talked about this 35:02.453 --> 35:13.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I just, I got it just a little bit delayed, but really, really amazing beat of this song in the sound clip is the point like that. 35:14.182 --> 35:18.529 [SPEAKER_00]: and then like in the promo video, you see BTS, they're kind of like suiting up. 35:18.589 --> 35:30.910 [SPEAKER_00]: Like they're, you know, pulling up their sleeves, they're buttoning their tie, you know, they're on a face jacket, and then they're like running out and you get like outlines of them, standing at Guanglaman Square, like ready to perform for the comeback stage. 35:32.272 --> 35:35.397 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like talk about getting inside. 35:35.377 --> 35:38.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that's a good promo. 35:38.281 --> 35:39.703 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good promo. 35:39.883 --> 35:43.128 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, it is so well thought out and planned. 35:43.148 --> 35:57.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is a phenomenal promo Damn, I'm so glad that they took like all of this time to make this album like we haven't even heard it But just you're seeing it's so well planned out like yes, it's gonna be The payoff is gonna be so worth it. 35:58.309 --> 36:05.198 [SPEAKER_02]: I love that the trailer shows something that hasn't happened yet But we know is coming you know them just a lot to perform how cool 36:05.178 --> 36:18.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this promo video trailer also ends with Auditing on Symbol and then a question at the bottom of the screen that says when the world feels heavy, when your heart feels light, what is your love song? 36:18.618 --> 36:28.553 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm also wondering are these potentially lyrics in a song somewhere because we're kind of getting that like what is your love song, the whole album is? 36:28.533 --> 36:36.065 [SPEAKER_00]: your love song type of thing, but I appreciated that question that they're posing to kind of build more anticipation. 36:36.125 --> 36:46.741 [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely a song on there that will help you feel better when the world feels happy and there will definitely be a song on there that will make your heart feel light. 36:46.781 --> 36:48.163 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah. 36:48.183 --> 36:50.627 [SPEAKER_00]: BTS always giving us what we need, what we need it. 36:51.068 --> 36:52.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, exactly. 36:52.630 --> 37:18.047 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go ahead and talk about the Netflix promos because this animation trailer kind of ends with that with, you know, showing what will come with BTS performing their comeback stage and this week, we also got the comeback concert promo video from Netflix where we, it's just like so fucking epic of a video man, at the beginning of the video, we just hear 37:18.027 --> 37:42.094 [SPEAKER_00]: like it's kind of like news and fan reaction to BTS going on hiatus and going into the military and then we hear RM's voice and he says we promised our fans that we'd be back immediate tears like crying right then because they did and you I mean we all remember how 2022 37:42.074 --> 38:10.680 [SPEAKER_00]: hopeless and how sad and how you just felt like even if and when they do come back it'll be such a long time from now and for them to be back fulfilling that promise I mean it just feels so surreal then we get like these just phenomenal shots of each member in Guangaman Square and they all look 38:10.660 --> 38:29.142 [SPEAKER_02]: these shots that zoom in on them with their name written in bulls lettering across the screen like you were saying it's just really epic and it kind of reminds me a little bit of Gosh like the studio tombs at the end of studio tomb where they zoom in on each member after their performance on his name 38:29.122 --> 38:33.828 [SPEAKER_02]: like we've never gotten that from BTS because I never done a studio tune because they're just, you know, we're doing their own thing. 38:34.309 --> 38:47.246 [SPEAKER_02]: But like it's like this Netflix promo is giving them that moment where you have time to take in their face and their name and I make something about like anyone who doesn't know who they are, they know who they are now, right? 38:47.286 --> 38:47.887 [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely. 38:47.907 --> 38:49.729 [SPEAKER_02]: Who doesn't know who they are, but right. 38:49.709 --> 38:51.773 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, there's still locals out there. 38:51.813 --> 39:13.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I love we get like we get a shot of like their full body and then like the most glamorous like up close camera panning across them shot like Incredible there's RM standing with an umbrella with a little like he has like a keychain on his pants that has a little silver spoon 39:13.351 --> 39:29.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like obviously referencing Bapsae, referencing their history, who they are, what they came from, referencing that they always talk about issues going on in the world, and also I just think it's so significant that RMS standing here with an umbrella. 39:29.618 --> 39:32.423 [SPEAKER_00]: It gives, it's like giving me forever rain, 39:32.403 --> 39:48.589 [SPEAKER_00]: it's like he's evolved, you know, he's gone, he's come so much since then as an individual and as an artist and I just love this imagery of thinking about him then and him now with this 39:48.569 --> 40:17.766 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm never gonna forgive Jen for the way that he looks on the trailer because he his glamor shot he's got his head and chin tilted of exposing like the length of his neck that continues on with this deep cut shirt and he's got this chunky silver like choker necklace on it I can't I cannot like lethal lethal visual way to handsome he he's beyond world writing in some in this yeah um 40:17.746 --> 40:19.911 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm out of him for that one. 40:20.472 --> 40:22.817 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but the menu game, I mean. 40:24.420 --> 40:27.266 [SPEAKER_00]: You were talking about his tussled hair on the album cover. 40:27.627 --> 40:28.869 [SPEAKER_00]: He still has the long hair. 40:28.889 --> 40:38.910 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like straighter here for these shots, but I love human game with long hair and the PC bangs in front of his eyes like just so fucking killers. 40:38.890 --> 40:45.160 [SPEAKER_02]: So much her hair, like, I produce her menu. 40:45.180 --> 40:46.562 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is what he looks like. 40:46.622 --> 40:48.945 [SPEAKER_02]: Also his Adam's Apple, I don't know why that's throwing my eye. 40:49.126 --> 40:53.172 [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, Jay Hope looks so stunning in his shots too. 40:53.272 --> 40:57.659 [SPEAKER_02]: He's got kind of like PC hair as well that's parted. 40:57.679 --> 41:05.691 [SPEAKER_02]: And his whole outfit and just his aura that he's giving is so, so, 41:05.671 --> 41:06.774 [SPEAKER_02]: stunning. 41:07.114 --> 41:10.603 [SPEAKER_02]: And just I feel like I could not approach this man. 41:10.643 --> 41:13.409 [SPEAKER_02]: He looks unapproachable to understand. 41:13.510 --> 41:18.201 [SPEAKER_02]: He has his hand like his thumb tucked into his pocket with how he's looking at us. 41:18.281 --> 41:22.672 [SPEAKER_02]: He has these dog tag kind of necklesses and this weather jacket. 41:22.832 --> 41:24.135 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's just serving 41:24.115 --> 41:31.169 [SPEAKER_02]: really intense visuals of her like unapproachable, giving her what I'm going to park gym and unapproachable. 41:31.189 --> 41:34.576 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like Judging Hoseok, this is like what we what we're here for. 41:34.636 --> 41:45.938 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about Park Gymn, oh my god, listen, he has like that light blonde, like blondie silver hair going on right now. 41:45.918 --> 41:49.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Immaculate perfection and these shots that we get a perfect form for hell. 41:49.983 --> 42:07.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, like it is it's it's a little bit It's not quite silver from bloodspotten tears, but it's like, you know, leaning that way The camera is getting him from this like low sweeping across the screen angle So he's just kind of like turning and staring you down from above So we're getting jawline. 42:07.404 --> 42:09.526 [SPEAKER_00]: We're getting eyes down cast at you. 42:09.606 --> 42:10.688 [SPEAKER_00]: It is it's everything. 42:10.788 --> 42:11.048 [SPEAKER_00]: It's 42:11.028 --> 42:15.794 [SPEAKER_00]: For me, it's really reminiscent of some of the shots from his face album, and I love it. 42:15.814 --> 42:16.995 [SPEAKER_00]: He looks so sexy. 42:17.015 --> 42:19.478 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I could see that. 42:19.558 --> 42:21.380 [SPEAKER_02]: It's also making me think of Black Swan. 42:22.261 --> 42:23.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a little bit of the angle. 42:23.242 --> 42:23.823 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, yes. 42:26.486 --> 42:34.575 [SPEAKER_02]: Taeyang also, like, tussled hair that's kind of wet and PC, but he is glaring at us. 42:34.655 --> 42:36.377 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, he is like brooding Taeyang. 42:36.417 --> 42:38.740 [SPEAKER_02]: The brooding Taeyang that we were related to. 42:38.720 --> 43:01.707 [SPEAKER_02]: he also looks like from his like friends music video where he's in like that kind of like leather jacket and looks a little bit more like edgy bad boy he's giving that with this but it's just that it's the dead staring into your soul brooding glare at us like it is peak tang he's so so handsome I mean perfection 43:01.687 --> 43:03.950 [SPEAKER_02]: as he's so good looking. 43:03.970 --> 43:07.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the brooding though is exactly what he's doing. 43:07.134 --> 43:19.869 [SPEAKER_00]: My goodness He looks like he wants to sing love me again at us in this in this shot and then John Cook me and so John Cook also has like the deep v-net going on that Jen had which is just amazing. 43:19.969 --> 43:23.053 [SPEAKER_00]: I love when Jen Cook are like mirroring each other and 43:23.033 --> 43:39.378 [SPEAKER_00]: Jungkook also has all of his piercings in the under the lip piercing the lip rings, all these earrings, the silver necklaces, and then his classic like perfect jungle character style like the bang's just falling a little bit behind like in front of his face hair pushed back. 43:39.778 --> 43:40.840 [SPEAKER_00]: He looks so fine. 43:40.920 --> 43:42.522 [SPEAKER_00]: He looks just incredible. 43:42.943 --> 43:51.015 [SPEAKER_00]: We also feel like all of these like black outfits that they're 43:51.738 --> 44:09.747 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because these outfits are what are in the animation trailer that you can see like I can tell especially because of Jin's sleeves on his shirt are kind of like fluffed out Yeah, I don't know if it's like feathering or a tassler or what Yeah, and you can see that in the animation trailers so 44:09.727 --> 44:13.434 [SPEAKER_02]: We think that it could very well be the actual outfits that they wear, but who knows? 44:13.454 --> 44:13.995 [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely. 44:14.155 --> 44:27.059 [SPEAKER_02]: One of the shots that is so, so cool is them walking in this square and they're like walking across in a line and they're just like perfectly spread out and you get just like a really neat shot of the red line. 44:27.079 --> 44:28.261 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not especially walking. 44:28.282 --> 44:30.165 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like the Beatles Abbey Road. 44:30.145 --> 44:50.865 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what makes it, yes, yeah, there was another similar shot where they're walking across, but it's nighttime and they're all carrying lanterns, which I also think was like a really cool shot, like they're leading the way, you know, but yeah, the shot with the rap line crossing the little of the square with the building in the background. 44:50.885 --> 44:54.268 [SPEAKER_02]: Is it like they're in their Abbey Road era? 44:54.348 --> 44:57.351 [SPEAKER_02]: Like this is where they are in the history of their 44:57.331 --> 45:13.112 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Abby wrote, it was like an iconic spot by their studio, and this is a pretty iconic spot in Korea. 45:13.092 --> 45:22.645 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can imagine people like going to this venue and recreating this photo, you know, yeah, I could see it too. 45:23.306 --> 45:24.608 [SPEAKER_00]: I really like foreshadowing. 45:24.628 --> 45:25.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it could be foreshadowing. 45:25.790 --> 45:40.230 [SPEAKER_00]: I really like the shots of like you see them all lined up, seven of them, clearly like it's how they're going to look when they're on the stage and there's like backlight behind them and they are just 45:40.210 --> 45:42.013 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, in a straight across line, ready. 45:42.033 --> 45:44.437 [SPEAKER_00]: They're ready to perform and take the stage. 45:45.038 --> 45:49.826 [SPEAKER_00]: And to me at this point in the promo, I just felt like, okay, wow, like it's happening. 45:49.906 --> 45:59.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm ready for the show to be on this second right now, though it was so epic, the entire promo video and then it just builds this point of seeing all seven of them together. 45:59.301 --> 46:00.042 [SPEAKER_00]: I just love it. 46:01.034 --> 46:01.836 [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. 46:01.856 --> 46:10.433 [SPEAKER_02]: The last thing that I have to talk about from this promo video is Yungi crouching down to the camera and reaching his hand out towards us. 46:10.594 --> 46:20.494 [SPEAKER_02]: I was told Kayla, I'm like, I don't care if it's his foot, his hand as long as a limb is reaching or coming at me from a Yungi unsatisfied, I'm right where I want to be. 46:21.115 --> 46:21.876 [SPEAKER_00]: Love it. 46:21.896 --> 46:23.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love it. 46:23.118 --> 46:25.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a really iconic shot from the promo. 46:26.944 --> 46:46.515 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so last couple things were getting these countdowns from Netflix of each member going up to a microphone and they're saying basically seven days, five days, four days, they're just counting down to the album release and they're going in reverse fan chant order, which is pretty neat to see just like the fan chant order in general, but 46:46.495 --> 46:49.078 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like it's it's nothing flashy. 46:49.238 --> 46:51.280 [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty straightforward, but it's effective. 46:51.420 --> 46:51.760 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. 46:51.920 --> 46:52.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 46:52.161 --> 46:59.108 [SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely effective in like building the anticipation and seeing each individual member do it Jimmins that came out today. 46:59.148 --> 47:01.890 [SPEAKER_00]: He kind of like cleared his throat before doing it. 47:01.930 --> 47:14.663 [SPEAKER_00]: And it reminded me of like in idle when I think it's jungle who does the little like clearing his throat and how like doing that. 47:14.643 --> 47:15.625 [SPEAKER_02]: Because do you remember? 47:15.685 --> 47:15.945 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 47:16.065 --> 47:19.992 [SPEAKER_02]: Jungkook does a little bit with, um, Oh, crap. 47:20.012 --> 47:20.633 [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm really good. 47:20.653 --> 47:22.516 [SPEAKER_02]: I have to go back to the video. 47:22.536 --> 47:23.498 [SPEAKER_02]: I do. 47:23.518 --> 47:24.559 [SPEAKER_02]: And DNA. 47:24.579 --> 47:25.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Mix up. 47:25.300 --> 47:25.421 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 47:25.481 --> 47:26.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Jungkook's at the minute of DNA. 47:27.304 --> 47:27.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, okay. 47:27.965 --> 47:28.866 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it is Jimin. 47:28.946 --> 47:30.469 [SPEAKER_00]: Before, like, the fan thing. 47:30.489 --> 47:31.571 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't. 47:31.671 --> 47:33.875 [SPEAKER_00]: But he, I remember talking about that. 47:33.895 --> 47:37.521 [SPEAKER_00]: And in Korean culture when you clear your throat, it's kind of like, keep your name. 47:37.561 --> 47:40.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Keep my name out of your mouth type of thing, you know? 47:40.225 --> 47:54.448 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, like haters, you can't say anything type of vibe and so for him to walk up to the microphone and clear his throat and then say five days like I was like, yeah, it just really Harkin back to that for me. 47:54.488 --> 47:58.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, mischievous my gentleman probably threw that in there. 47:59.516 --> 47:59.656 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 47:59.776 --> 48:01.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love the nod to it. 48:01.439 --> 48:01.980 [SPEAKER_00]: Love it. 48:01.960 --> 48:19.979 [SPEAKER_00]: And other news target is selling we already know that target will be selling the army bombs the light stick But they'll also be selling each members album Or sorry the album itself and then each members individual vinyl along with Auditong branded clothing I saw along with like T-shirt. 48:20.019 --> 48:22.322 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw hoodie a tote bag. 48:22.622 --> 48:29.149 [SPEAKER_00]: That's very exciting like we will be at the target when they open to purchase because 48:29.129 --> 48:34.378 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll be lined up outside, I anticipate they're being aligned here in Kansas City. 48:34.398 --> 48:35.059 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure. 48:35.299 --> 48:45.737 [SPEAKER_00]: I think so and you know This is just very exciting because I remember Being a brand new fan and you could not buy the albums anywhere besides online 48:45.717 --> 49:05.363 [SPEAKER_00]: And then slowly you could buy their album I think like maybe love yourself answer was the first one that was at Target itself and then from ever since then so that's like when like late 2019 when I started to or early 2019 started to buy their albums at Target 49:05.343 --> 49:08.307 [SPEAKER_00]: And each member's solo album was at Target. 49:08.327 --> 49:11.170 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a bunch of K-pop albums that you can buy at Target now. 49:11.551 --> 49:18.679 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just think like how fucking cool that it's continuing, but also now there's gonna be a clothing that you can buy. 49:18.719 --> 49:20.421 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get an army-bomit target. 49:20.542 --> 49:24.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Like this, I'm just still, my mind is still blown about this. 49:24.967 --> 49:26.629 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you don't just have to buy a bomb for a song. 49:26.649 --> 49:27.410 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget to take the way. 49:27.450 --> 49:29.072 [SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly right. 49:29.052 --> 49:30.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 49:30.334 --> 49:30.475 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 49:31.817 --> 49:32.478 [SPEAKER_02]: Incredible. 49:33.580 --> 49:33.861 [SPEAKER_02]: All right. 49:33.881 --> 49:37.247 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's mostly all of the audience on promotional content. 49:37.688 --> 49:39.551 [SPEAKER_02]: We hope you guys enjoyed this episode. 49:39.631 --> 49:41.675 [SPEAKER_02]: Taeyang has a TikTok. 49:41.695 --> 49:43.077 [SPEAKER_02]: We felt like we just had a throw that in there. 49:43.117 --> 49:43.719 [SPEAKER_02]: That's random. 49:43.759 --> 49:47.305 [SPEAKER_02]: But he has a TikTok and John Gook has been posting dance videos on TikTok. 49:47.345 --> 49:52.555 [SPEAKER_02]: So we like to see them be active there and just look forward to more content from them. 49:52.755 --> 49:52.815 [UNKNOWN]: No. 49:52.795 --> 49:55.220 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we hope you guys enjoyed this episode. 49:55.240 --> 50:00.431 [SPEAKER_02]: We know it's coming out right when Auditon comes out So enjoy the album. 50:00.471 --> 50:10.412 [SPEAKER_02]: We know we are gonna be just trimming out to it nonstop come this Friday Kayla's gonna be in Kansas City here with me She'll be traveling up which is so fun. 50:10.452 --> 50:12.897 [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll be together for the album release 50:12.877 --> 50:14.980 [SPEAKER_02]: Listen to it together for the first time together. 50:15.000 --> 50:16.342 [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do all of our research. 50:16.362 --> 50:20.467 [SPEAKER_02]: We're probably going to make two episodes for our Audit on album review. 50:20.487 --> 50:22.029 [SPEAKER_02]: So stay tuned for that. 50:22.069 --> 50:26.014 [SPEAKER_02]: Be looking forward to that because we love album reviews. 50:26.094 --> 50:29.979 [SPEAKER_02]: And this is our first album review for BTS as a group. 50:30.040 --> 50:31.421 [SPEAKER_02]: Since, oh my god, what? 50:31.501 --> 50:34.986 [SPEAKER_02]: 20, 20, 22, 22, 22, 23. 50:34.966 --> 50:38.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't even keep track of you guys. 50:39.151 --> 50:48.461 [SPEAKER_00]: When proof was like a few songs to talk about, so this is, I mean, this is the first full album review since map of the soul seven or B. Yeah. 50:48.481 --> 50:49.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably since B, since 2020. 50:50.023 --> 50:56.330 [SPEAKER_00]: So, very exciting, at least for an OT seven album review, we cannot wait. 50:56.671 --> 50:59.674 [SPEAKER_00]: So stay tuned for both of those episodes to come out soon. 51:00.852 --> 51:01.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 51:01.857 --> 51:05.295 [SPEAKER_00]: As always, you can find links for all of the things in the description. 51:05.315 --> 51:09.175 [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.