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[SPEAKER_00]: Bora, hey, iconic army.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bora, hey!
[SPEAKER_00]: Auditong is officially out and we have not been able to stop listening to this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been non-stop every waking moment that we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't put it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are so excited to review it with you all in this episode and in the next one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we just want to start by sharing a little bit of our
[SPEAKER_00]: Listening story, how we experienced it for the first time in our initial thoughts.
[SPEAKER_00]: So luckily, the album came out during my spring break from work.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I traveled to Kansas City to be with Bethany so that way we could listen to it together in person.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it came out at 11 p.m. our time here in Central Old Time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we watched the swim music video three times of a row and just I mean obsessed with it immediately and immediately fell in love with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, just could not get enough and we were like we got to move on to the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then we listened to the album two times through just sitting there in your living room.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish we would have recorded our reactions because it was like
[SPEAKER_00]: no other BTS album listed in experience I think that we've had before.
[SPEAKER_00]: The songs shook us.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were throwing us all over the place.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were taking us on all these different journeys.
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS were not lying when they were talking about that it really covers every single genre and that it's like nothing they've ever done before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they were not, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: When number 29 came on, we truthfully had to take a couple of deep breaths because we were like, well, we were grateful.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so hard with all this fantastic music, but also like trying to comprehend what we had just heard with our ears.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, wait a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So much to process, especially at like 11 30 PM.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was amazing and finally we were like, okay, we have to go to bed because we were getting up early the next morning to go to Target, to get in line, to get our army bombs and to buy any album and any vinyl that we wanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we got up at like six a.m. Got the target like six 40.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a line and we were like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, like half of the line was for a Pokemon trading card game, but there was a good amount of army there too because when we got back there in that aisle, I feel like it was swarmed with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And our store had maybe 20 army bombs, and we were standing there for like 10 minutes just like shit chatting, picking out what we wanted, and within that time they were all sold out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, they were gone like first like 15 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I would say seriously.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's first 15 minutes of the stormy and opening like thank goodness that we were there at that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so funny standing in line because Kayla you turned to me and you're like, I mean, I just not to judge the demographic, but I feel like there's a lot of dudes in this line right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I don't know who like what this is about.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you just like turn to the guys behind us and you're like, hey.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you all hear for it?
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, oh, yeah, these Pokemon trading cards.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were like, what are you hear for them?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like BTS, and they're like, they're basically like, thank God, because then they started to block the, okay, half the people in this line are not here competing with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is funny that there were those two drops at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but it was really fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to, we went to Target with a Brit, your older sister, met up with us, who is one of the people going to Tampa to see the concert with us, her Carolina both coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that was really fun just all of us going and we all picked out different finals that we wanted and we each got like different albums.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we ran into a fellow army who's also going to Tampa.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I walked so fast back to the back of that target.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, I, I collected, I had a job to keep up with you like it was wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like full BTS army mode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you guys, I'm a nightmare to be at at a concert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm like, we gotta be there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So early, we like I am, I turned into a different person and like my anxiety comes out in the worst way.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but like I appreciate it so much because I think of myself like I'm definitely a very punctual person, but even like before going to target like the night before I was like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know like we're at least some it like is there really gonna be a line like do we can we just get there at seven Or do we have to get there early and you were like no, I think we need to be there early and like thank God because other There will be a line.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there will be a line.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were so right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like when we were walking now We weren't just commenting on that was like Bethany think goodness for your anxiety about this and you were like this is gonna be beyond Contour day.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna be on the schedule like yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was just, it was so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, leaving for Target in the morning was one of my favorite core memories of just like experiencing this album and BTS come back together because it's like the sun is not even up yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are both sleep deprived.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting into my garage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the light is like stinging my eyes because I'm so tired.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I look over there and I'm like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, yeah, like this is BTS sleep deprivation.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is BTS come back like I haven't felt this in a long, long time and it felt good and it's just become a core memory for me Like when I think back on our experience listening to Audit on like I'm just going to picture that moment of like driving your asses to target at six a.m. And then you put on who will again and we were like, oh yeah, yeah, oh yes, I just love that a bit so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, another thing that we did later on in the day is we went on a hike, and it was beautiful, whether sunny, not too hot, and we just listened to the album on the hike.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that was really fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like a core memory for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then later that evening, my sister ended up having a Korean food night and, like, a little listening party.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got the whole group together who's going to be going to Tampa.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Caroline Brittany, Kayla and I all got to listen and talk about the album together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just fun getting to, like, share our different opinions.
[SPEAKER_02]: What songs we were really vibing with are thoughts of just, you know, the album together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just so fun that we're all going to be going to the concert together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then after that in the next morning we went back over to my sisters and when we went over to my sisters that morning Caroline had made a bunch of really nice food for breakfast and I unfortunately had to work that day and I was really really bummed because I had to leave at like 645 the it started at six central time and then 645 a.m.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to start going to work
[SPEAKER_02]: And thankfully it was only an hour long.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really got to experience most of the content.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was that just phenomenal, getting to watch all of these performances for their comeback stage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Literally and they did so well.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll touch a little bit on the performances.
[SPEAKER_00]: as we go through some of the songs, just what stood out to us and what we loved.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was really lucky for you because you ended up only missing dynamite and microcosmos, which was beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you, you know, you didn't miss any of like the new music there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I ended up listening and pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I kept telling you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I hope I at least get to see Swim, like I just want to see Swim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that was like our whole weekend together experiencing the album and we just like I said at the beginning of this, we haven't stopped listening to it since then.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're very excited to begin reviewing it with you all here today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back where you're hosts.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Kayla and I'm Bethany and the sustaining BTS your
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, today we're going to hang out for about an hour and if you're new to our album reviews, we go through each song sung by song, we talk about the producers, the writers, we talk about the general production vibe, genre of the song, and then we get into the lyrical meaning.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, just kind of share.
[SPEAKER_02]: our thoughts and what we like about the songs, what maybe we think could be better about the songs, but to be fully honest, like we love this album from start to finish, like truthfully.
[SPEAKER_02]: We really, I know there's like some controversial opinions out there, like different opinions from different armies, but like Kael and I are both just really obsessed and in love, like truly not lying when we say we have this album on repeat constantly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brittany's like you.
[SPEAKER_00]: guys already know all the lyrics of the song like how do you know this we're like every waking moment we're listening to it we love it yeah that's exactly what it is so we are so enthusiastic to be able to share just our thoughts and feelings about each of these songs we just want to say first thank you iconic so so much for being here and for coming to us for your Audit on content
[SPEAKER_00]: We really love doing album reviews and we love putting out these analysis of BTS' work that we appreciate so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we appreciate you guys being here for the listen and along side of us, if you want to support us for all of this work, then you could join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, thank you for being here for all of your support and of course for listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go ahead and get into this actual album.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to like, premise, you know, the overall like genre and vibe that we're getting from this album, us as fans that have been.
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, like really picking apart their music for the last seven years, the first half of their album is very hip-hop heavy, which to us is giving classic BTS like thinking dark and wild or you late to even their debut album.
[SPEAKER_00]: But matured, you know, this is them now with that classic hip-hop style that
[SPEAKER_00]: They love to pay homage to that they they personally all love this style that they put in the work in their early years to learn about what it means to make hip hop music and the the history of it in the background.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now they have their matured 30 year old style and all of their experience that they've garnered over the last, you know, 12 years of making music together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the that hip hop style flows into the second half of the album with a more rock and alternative part all of this album though.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's quite a few songs that lean towards an experimental sound that BTS has a group hasn't really done before.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, we do hear a lot of influence from their solo work.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like they took their individual journeys during their solo work.
[SPEAKER_00]: They dipped into different genres.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Jay Hope and Yungi really digging.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, really dipping into.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well for Ian Slip, like Jay Hope and Yungi dipping into like some rock music in their solo albums, like thinking like more thinking about like amygdala rm getting super alternative with his right person rotten place album, uh, even Jim and like showing a totally different side of himself getting into like his lower register and more like alternative.
[SPEAKER_00]: different style with his face album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel that we hear those influences here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they grows individuals and then they figured out how to bring it back together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you feel like this album sounds super different, then you know, map the soul seven or love yourself answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they've evolved.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is different.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they've had different experiences that makes them want to make different music.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like you were saying, like, they have that foundational hip hop, you know, which is where they began.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have them where their roots really are showing here because of that hip hop origin.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then when you go to listen to the album, not only does the hip hop really stand out and that speaks to the sound of BTS, but then you hear all of these different members who have done all this solo work and you, all of a sudden, I'm being taken to golden.
[SPEAKER_02]: or I'm being taken to face or I'm being taken to J-Hope's more like it's just you get it all right and it's so so cool and experimental and shows a lot of growth and development.
[SPEAKER_02]: If like this is BTS 2.0
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what they told us to.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, this is us going back to our roots.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the exact music that we want to be making right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that they have such a unique opportunity coming back as a group after six years since their last full studio album to be able to evolve and to be able to break out of the mold that the industry has put them in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Since they got super, super popular with H.O.A.H.
[SPEAKER_00]: and love yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, persona and getting to that amazing high level, but now because they got there and they reach that precipice, they have the freedom to be able to be a little bit more off the wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is, you know, kind of like our analysis of.
[SPEAKER_00]: how they, the direction they took this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, a big reason why we're loving it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: So with Appian said, let's get to the first track, body to body.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this song was produced by the Picard Brothers Diplow, Ryan Teter and Peedog, and you really hear the Picard Brothers in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They took some ownership over some of the main beats there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see RM, Yungi and Jay Hope all wrote on this song as well as some of those producers and teas of touchdown, wrote on this song as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: really this is like this is pure hip hop and some electronic pop style in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even we could even argue there's a little bit of a dance genre in there because you cannot help but to move when you hear the song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so high energy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the ultimate concert song.
[SPEAKER_02]: The song was made for concerts.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like BTS went into the song knowing that they wanted and needed a hype song to kick off the tour and the album as they were coming back after
[SPEAKER_02]: So, first listen through, we both immediately vibed with the song we were dancing and envisioning BTS body roles during the choreo, like we were just fully immersed in this song, first time listening through, and honestly, so happy to be hearing that classic hip hop in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, loved it, loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the impactful drums and bass line of the song that really pull you deeper into it, paired with that repetitive high-pitched B-B-B-B-B-Hoddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's so addictive and catchy, and we know that we can think the Picard Brothers specifically for that beat, since they posted it on their Instagram.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh uh and then you hear that like the drums that you were talking about that are so impactful and then you hear them go into this more classic traditional Korean drum and then you can hear the Auditong chorus start to play in the background.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean how
[SPEAKER_02]: Epic, is it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it brings such an appreciation of Korean culture when we were listening on the hike, especially That's when it really set in for us that the audit on section is not only an appreciation for Korean culture But it's so intentional and that it is meant for army to sing to BTS at the concert
[SPEAKER_02]: it was also during the studio notes later on when we watched it that Yunkie and Taehyung had talked about wanting to hear overseas armies especially singing Audit on to them and Yunkie even went on to like convince us like oh it's simple it's easy to learn you know like basically like just go do it like yeah yeah and
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to be in Tampa to be able to sing this to them so they get to feel the impact of all of us singing to them in their native language.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so the original Audit on chorus truthfully just gets stuck in your head like Kayla both you and I not only do we love buddy to body but then after listening to it we'll just be like going about our day and Audit on is stuck in our head like we're just singing that chorus over and over
[SPEAKER_02]: And so yeah, we're already working on learning it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kayla, you sent the romanticization to the BTS Army Sound Check group chat that we have for us going to the concert so that we can learn it before we go to Tampa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just love that they included this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they talked about also in the studio notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went back and forth on if they wanted to include it or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can be saying he initially wasn't for it because he didn't feel like it fit the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but then Jim and Jay Hope were very for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They talked about how vocal they were about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we just think it's perfect for being the first song on this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: This album named Auditon to include this chorus here in this first song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what a way to introduce it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now, because they've encouraged us to learn it, they want us to sing it with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: This traditional Korean folk song is going to be saying worldwide.
[SPEAKER_00]: like in stadiums of you know thousands and thousands of people at once like that is such a level that I don't think that BTS ever thought that you know they would get to 12 years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just think it's perfect here to introduce the rest of the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Think about those Korean Howard University students seeing this happen now, where like stadiums full of American armies are singing Auditang.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's why it almost makes one a cry because it is so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: It does, it's a full body chose just thinking about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So during the comeback live performance on Netflix, they had a full traditional Korean instrumental orchestra, and they had live female Korean singers dressed in traditional Korean hand-buck, and truly it does make me so emotional.
[SPEAKER_02]: The song makes me emotional when I hear it come on, but during the live performance.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like almost about to start crying at Brittany's place at 630 in the morning, honestly, 605 in the morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the first song.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is like definitely the kick off song for the the two where I believe too.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like I've never cried at the beginning of a concert, but I feel that come into April when we're seeing them in Tampa.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will be crying within the first song.
[SPEAKER_02]: that they perform if they come out with this, because never in my life what I had have thought that we would be seeing this like very like unison unifying song at the beginning of the concert to like kick it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's usually at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but I think it's a perfect song to start a concert especially with the lyrics that it has.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's such a concert song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's start and kick off the concert.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's a good time to start getting into the lyrics at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just love Jay Hope saying like I need and then RM, what you need to win like these two this do Well, I will never be over how they pair together, and I love it so much that's how they kicked off the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're very president and vice president.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Always how I see that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the very first verse, we hear RM say, I need the whole stadium to jump, which, yes, hype.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he says, put your phone down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get all the fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love saying put your phone down because, hello, we're at the concert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's like, be in the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Be in the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: Enjoy being person to person, we live through our phones.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just feel like this is a huge shout out to like, hey guys, like, you've been looking at us through a phone for so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take the moment to really look at us with your eyes while I'm in front of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, not through a screen.漂亮.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he says, I got my eyes on the row in the front.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like this just needs to be go crazy because we're about five.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm like, oh my god, I just want us practically.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yes, 1000% then like Yungi switches into it and it says BTO from everywhere to Korea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love the rhyme there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guns knives keyboards put all that away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like life is short, ditch the hate.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's big and real life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why get hung on saving face?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so much going on here.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, he's literally saying, like, okay, we don't have to hate here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we just like chill?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we just have a good time to be have to like pick everything up or and be negative about things?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, the keyboard warriors and like actual physical weapons of violence, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also love this is like,
[SPEAKER_00]: little sexual innuendo word play.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's big in real life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why get hung on saving face?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's big and getting hung, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: But also like don't get hung up on like, that's what I, you know, like he's like, yeah, no, I see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the also that line like breeds for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's big in real life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he goes on.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also don't get hung up on like acting cool or, you know, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just like get together and have a good time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I love the the dual
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Jim in at this first pre-chorus, he says, I need some body to body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love your body, but I can't not think it's all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So good.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the lyrics here, I feel like, yes, this song can be taken sexually, but this to me is just the desire for them to see armies like body to body, like looking in the crowd and seeing us.
[SPEAKER_02]: all together, dancing, having a good time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, they're desire to want to be with Army, like all of your body beside me, and just really being in that moment of Army BTS finally back together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, totally.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just have to say before I say this next line, I totally agree with you that this is not supposed to be like a sexual song overtly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, it's really about beans at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's body in the concert.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he clarifies, I mean, the things between us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, our own different style.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we live in the life.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's freaky.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what's up?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gay.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just dying over that line.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just love his delivery.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, oh, let me walk that back.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's the things between us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, he's giving it a little.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably the instrumental drops, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: To give the emphasis there and like, you should think about that line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, I mean for him to go on and it gives like that BTS together with army army altogether the things between us our own different style and like truly when we are at that concert with them we will be live in the life like that is what we all dream of is going to a BTS concert again, so
[SPEAKER_00]: Later on in his verse, he says the spirit of our kin surging up and I just love that because here they are performing body to body under, you know, this addedon album addedon course is going to play later on in this song and he's saying the spirit of our kin is surging up like really carrying the weight of their culture and wanting to share it and like the pride swelling as they are doing so.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love that he's sharing that in his verse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I just would be remiss if we didn't mention in the chorus where a jungle could sing somebody like you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, jungle could sing enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck out of this chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is when I was like, it's golden.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Beeping through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they literally, and honestly, like, I'll just say this in general, entire, like, first half of the album we really noticed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, Jungkook was just literally, like, a spotlight on these entire, like, all of these first half, like, heavy hitting rap songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Jungkook, his vocals were just gorgeous shining, like, all over the place, phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, cannot preach it enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were just like, oh my god, Jungkook, the whole time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this song, the outro, what's really cool is it's just like the intro that RM starts off with saying, I need the whole stadium to jump, but they split up these lines between the rap line.
[SPEAKER_02]: So RM says, I need the whole stadium to jump.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sugar then says, put your phone down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get all the fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Jay hope ends it with you at the side, you at the back at the front.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's basically saying like everyone here, like, bring it all the fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Super cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely a song made for a concert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Jay helps that it's either going to be at the start of the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: I anticipate this star, like it's just too perfect to kick off the concert.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be, but laterally, yeah, laterally it just feels like they're desired to connect with BTS Army again, touring the excitement to perform again, have a good time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very digestible, easy and fun to sing along with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go ahead and get into Hula again.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the song that we have, like, El Gingshow, fake Gito on a lot of, like, Hispanic writers and producers, Mark Lowe, and then, of course, we have, like, RM, Jay Hope, Shuga, P-Dog on here as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: This starts with strings that are almost sickly sweet that swell into this crescendo and come in and out to support these beautiful high register vocals
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is so bizarre to hear and contrast with the rest of the production here, but this swelling of these strings really reminded me, like, first I'm listening to them, like, I feel like this could be in a Disney Princess movie, like, sleeping beauty, or, like, a vintage classic cinematic movie score.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it has this kind of, like, old-timey, really beautiful, classy movie-esque.
[SPEAKER_02]: component to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the vocal line really is just so gorgeous with their vocals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they are so wounding us with their very pretty and smooth vocals.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we also have to mention that John Gook wrote the chorus in the melody.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he has so many writing credits on this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, I missed that that he's one of the writers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually listed above the rap line, which means he wrote more on here than they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: So um yeah insane melody that he made there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I just and those those strings are contrasted by this insanely heavy beat full of eight awaits and super metallic sounds sounds like like knives being sharpened and then there's this like ha ha ha ha ha ha that the rap line is doing that's insanely addictive and kind of taunting the knives are making it aggressive the rap line has like this classic 90s hip hop sound and flow which is totally them to their core of like the music that they have always loved and then
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like this slower intentional flow during the Hello Rappline Hook.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Rappline Hook to this song instead of a, you know, a vocal line chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the Rappline that has the chorus of this song, which I just think is so fucking cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, change it up, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is just an absolute crazy beat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like whether you like the song or not, there is no way that you can deny that this beat is sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a total banger.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bass has you bump in your chest and shake in your ass.
[SPEAKER_02]: The dichotomy of this song alone just makes you feel like you're being thrown around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, can't get, cannot get enough of this contrast of like these beautiful strings with the beautiful vocal line and then these harsh knives and this very metallic and then like real aggressive like ha ha ha ha ha ha like in your face from the rambling like it's just
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot to take in.
[SPEAKER_02]: This song alone, I just like getting first I'm listening through like getting into alien in the songs after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, can we pause?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what did I just listen to?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I already need to listen to it again.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need a break already.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just love.
[SPEAKER_02]: the end of the song too, or all of the elements are overlapping as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the production of the song is so intricate, it is so dynamic, there's so much going on, yeah, we love it, we're obsessed.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get into the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Jay Hope kicks it off with the refrain.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says, watch this, watch this beat, go and hooligan.
[SPEAKER_02]: We pop out, we act in a fool again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this line, it's repeated throughout the entire song.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this makes me think.
[SPEAKER_02]: a lot about just the title who again and them saying we go and who again and how BTS have always been rebels and they've always challenged the norms.
[SPEAKER_02]: So who begins are just another way of them referencing themselves as ones who reject the norm and go against the the current and I grew up this song with songs like Spine
[SPEAKER_02]: All of the BS in the world and that they're like, we're not going to listen to it and it feels like they're rejection to conform to traditional radio play pop music of today.
[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like this song was them really like sticking to their true selves kind of going against the grain doing their own sound
[SPEAKER_02]: and it continues to be such a bang or like you don't have to go with the norm.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're innovative and they continue to make really fantastic music and I think that the song was they could it could have gone one way or the other but they really executed it perfectly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think like the high level of production on this along with like the actual rap lines delivery makes it work so well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes it so addictive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And absolutely like they could have conformed to even their music style that they've had for like the last three or four albums that people are expecting from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like again, if that's not the music they want to make anymore, then you know, why conform to it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like let's pop out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's act to fool again.
[SPEAKER_00]: then getting just into the chorus that we first hear from Jungle.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, why is this baseline slap and so rude?
[SPEAKER_00]: Drop it lower than chopped and screwed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just love that this chorus is so meta.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's not a chorus about anything other than, oh my god, do you hear this fucking song?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you hear how hard this song is going right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it just really supports like the rap line message of the song and like the total
[SPEAKER_00]: for us as if we were like him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the chorus is supporting these verses, which is so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: So cool, definitely something that I haven't done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay Hope starts with the first verse and he says, he's about to blow a fuse out of control, head banging, jumping up like a mad man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me everywhere, also, which is a popular Korean expression meaning like hooray or bravo.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we know this from BTS previously using it in the chorus for,
[SPEAKER_00]: idol.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just love that he like brought it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a little reference to idol into like one of their biggest most iconic songs ever going through to like of course because the chorus isn't everything again but going through to Yungi's second verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, I go kuku crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Loko saved me referencing their save me song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like a like a kuki, I don't spell it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh to know what's good and it's just insane he definitely got this line like this line was definitely written by like elgincho or fake weed or something because elkooky is like the Latin American version of the bogey man so like to me it makes sense that those people were on this song and where he got this line because I don't think you and ge would have known about that like
[SPEAKER_00]: on his own.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it makes for like a sick like wordplay like kuku crazy loco, a kuki in the next line, like I, you know, I thought it was like delivered very, very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then I also just again, cool again, like literally going crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also just have to talk about like,
[SPEAKER_00]: John Gug and Jen and Jim in at the end of verse two when they say, take you out what's the future?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where's the now?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is international.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make it unforgettable.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm most like about this is the line that says what's the future?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where's the now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Normally, like they're like, first of all, we're not looking at the past at all, we're saying, what's the, what's ahead of us?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on right now in this present moment and what's ahead?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, I just love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, we had the past, like we don't have to go back to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Jimmins, like, perfect, beautiful delivery of,
[SPEAKER_00]: This is international.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just am obsessed and I just make something about how they're going on this massive international tour and they are going to make it unforgettable like that is their goal that's their desire that's you know what they're going to execute for sure so beautiful little vocal line part here in the verse I just live for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then in the refrain and then we've got the bridge from Rm.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bridge from Rm is a fantastic part of this album or another something we got this song because it drops a lot of the instrumental and it gets real simple and stripped down and his flow here is like
[SPEAKER_02]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's very like staccato es.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, yeah, we the mess got to get a better mop here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, got to get a bigger mop here.
[SPEAKER_02]: This that K got to get a better pop here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to hear this one playing around the clock around the clock clock clock.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like making a mess.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're hooligans got to get a bigger mop for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: This that K killer.
[SPEAKER_02]: We talked a lot about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: RM has had a lot to say about like what is K-pop and you know they're Korean and he's acknowledging that he still sees that K in their music and he's just saying we got to get a better pop here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just, I feel like it's him really making a statement that like Korean pop is the better pop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says you're going to hear this play and run the clock, run the clock clock, which is again, not only is he speaking in reference to time, like yes, like you're going to be listening to it all the time, but I also feel like he's using some dual meaning here of like clocking it, like that's the truth, like yes, better.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're making a bigger mess where the better pop and you're going to be listening to this all the time and that's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to compete, you need to get better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: K-pop supremacy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what he's preaching here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I this is absolutely one of my favorite songs in the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so hard to say like any given day what your favorite song is.
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS were so right about that that it changes depending on your mood.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is such a consistent one for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's top three consistently for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, tell y'all.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's get into aliens So this is one of the songs that Mike Will made it is on as a writer and a producer We have Rm working on this album.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have Rm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I keep singing album song John Gook is also credited as his Jay Hope and Sugar and Peedog like you see a lot of these same names But the vibe in genre for aliens
[SPEAKER_02]: The very beginning, you know, you can hear that it sounds like there's gunshots in the background, but it's not exactly a gunshot.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a dold banging sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: It could be like hitting a wooden table, but definitely there in present to replicate the sound of a gunshot without actually being a gunshot.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just simulating the sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then along with it, there's also a really nice bass low bass track.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anytime there's a gunshot, I'm like, this is Buntun's on you then.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Bulletproof Boy Scouts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is part of their music that's been around since 2013.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they said we gotta keep it, but like put a spin on it and make it new.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they always talk about it and around it and yeah, I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, there's also this high-pitched sample as part of the beater track that's looped in the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like a horn sound or a siren sound but not quite, but just super consistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just fucking love this because I asked for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure I said on one of our podcast when we were like theorizing, what are we gonna get?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: like give us some constant sample that's all the way through it like how wailing 52 has that just repeats from start to finish because that's that shit you know that's the stuff that like BTS rarely does anymore but when they do it it's so good and addictive and it's really like attention getting it's like hey look here listen to this like don't turn away
[SPEAKER_00]: This is an important message that I want you to hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just obsessed with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then at the end, there is sounds like they're doing spitting sounds like, oh, two.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're really saying one and two in Korean, but it makes like the way that they're delivering it makes it sound like they're spitting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just love that it's all seven of them doing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like when they go into that like,
[SPEAKER_00]: land on it put a stamp on it part you know it's just like it's another like desk on the you know on the hands absolutely and then it absolutely sounds like they're all in unison spitting yeah they're saying one two in Korean yeah it's fucking genius um they're like spitting on you with Korean like with their Korean culture with their language they're like
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like respect us, um, another element of word play is when they're sailing, when they're saying aliens, sometimes it sounds like a list like they're like, yeah, we're aliens, but yeah, we're a list.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that this is super intentional on how they're bringing in across, especially where is in context.
[SPEAKER_00]: But overall, we feel like the song comes very much off like a cypher.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't name it a cypher, they didn't have to, but it is a diss truck with a lot of confidence and a lot of ego.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I totally get the cypher elements, like it makes me think of a cypher 2, cypher 3.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's really much how it comes off, it is so rap, heavy, the rap line is aggressive with their rapping and the vocal line is being very fly and sexy with their delivery as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it just, honestly, my only critique for the album, oh my god, for the song.
[SPEAKER_02]: the, the only critique that I have for the song is that I wish that the ending with the, the, ah, do and they're thinking we hand on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wish it was in the throughout the whole song, but I mean, it leaves you wanting more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you want to go back and listen to it again, just get to that ending part because it is so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the impact of it at the end personally.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it makes more of an impact just being at the end than if it were all the way through.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love it too much more of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get into the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sugar starts off with the first verse.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says, this gonna be the jam of the year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything's so boring and lame.
[SPEAKER_02]: Time goes way too fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tick-tock to the stadium.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gather up.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love these three lines at the beginning because there is a He's basically saying there needs to be a change in the music.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything's boring and lame or like the life that he's been living has been kind of mundane as well And that he's ready for something different and creative with this new album and music scene And then he mentioning just like
[SPEAKER_02]: Time goes way too fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: TikTok, like I think it's very clear that the word TikTok is kind of wordplay because not only TikTok of a clock, but also like the social media app and I feel about just like how fast
[SPEAKER_02]: Reoles and like just really short videos come across that people even like put on times two speed like you can speed through these videos so it's like He's just talking about like time really is going too fast and relating it to just like short TikTok videos Yeah, and so he's like I'm ready to get to the stadium right and start being with people on gathering Yeah, let's have some real like presence here
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah he then says born different seven aliens green with jealousy those civilians.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the the dual meaning here in the mention of a green with jealousy but also aliens are known for being alien.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says for no danger.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't leave his for green.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I say alien.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got too many thoughts, so then he says, why are you so worried?
[SPEAKER_02]: He says this like three times in his verse and we really think that he's referring to the haters being worried or concerned about BTS being popular and he's asking what is it that has you so worried about us and it's very clear that he's making them think about just like being threatened by them or loss of control of their
[SPEAKER_02]: their place in the music industry.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes me think a lot about like the grimmies and the academy and just having concerns with BTS being a part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's asking, why you worried?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why you still worried?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's because they're a threat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay, help follow this up with his pre-chorus saying, hello, this is your new honey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Clap and shake it to John Morrie rhythm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, do I look too funny?
[SPEAKER_00]: So what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just move for me, yeah, move for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if anyone is like, this album is a Korean enough?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I just feel like this song is just like absolutely thick with Korean references in just this song, um, because him saying the junk mori rhythm, this is a traditional Korean 12 beat rhythm used for storytelling, known for its slow strolling beat, which is like to me, like the modern version of that would be Jay Hope rapping, if it's a 12 beat rhythm used for storytelling, um, and him saying like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're just going to move for me, move for me, like it, you know, my insecurity about, like, do you think I look funny because I am, you know, like, from Korea and will I be accepted?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's questioning his looks and his style as accepted in foreign countries around the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then he's like, you know, whatever, you're moving for me anyways.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're caught up by my beat, by my rhythm.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, like, I just love that they're putting this, like, reference this Korean traditional beat reference into these lyrics, continuing on with that theme in the chorus, Jung Kook says, from the Kana to the Ha, watch and learn from us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, the Kana and the Ha are the first and last letters of the Korean alphabet, referencing the Korean language and writing system, and basically saying, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like this is this is like we are the reason why it's on such a rise like would there have been a K-pop demon hunters without BTS fuck no, you know, like I just you know, they they really have like been paving the way in the Western world for so many years and they're still within their lyrics bringing like these like Korean references
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, they go on to say, yeah, we aliens if you want to hit my house shoes off at the door and you know, we know that this is like a stereotype of Asian household to take your shoes off at the door, but he's saying respect him respect us if you're in my house fucking take your shoes off like you're not going to walk all over me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to drag your dirt in like
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I just, I think that that is such a line of like you better give us respect here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Respect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: They go on to say the nerve on you, shameless.
[SPEAKER_00]: Show some respect.
[SPEAKER_00]: We aliens out of the sun, or sorry, out of the east, the sun's rising.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: This fucking line.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, this shameless and aliens rhyme here is really where it sounds like they're
[SPEAKER_00]: rhymes and so it's like really a word play there and then out of the east the sun's rising they're from East Asia they're the beginning of everything like saying like the sun fucking rises with us you know like who are you we're starting at all I just feel like that's such a powerful line
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes, the sun rising in the east and then, you know, goes over to the west.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just feels like they're bringing all of the, the Korean culture over their music over.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're bringing the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: The influence, you know, the power, the warmth, everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: bringing the Korean to the West like, yeah, going back to what you were saying, this song is thick with Korean references.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, the fact that anyone has ever said that this is not a Korean enough album from BTS is insane.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really think I just feel like when it's literally titled Auditong.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's and they feel like well, how could you title it Auditong and then have all of this hip hop?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, it's BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: They make hip hop music.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's seven Korean men.
[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot say that this album isn't Korean enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: They made it like Korean people made it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the Koreans too, to like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Make hip-hop music, no, definitely not it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just getting into RM's verse here, he says, everybody now know where the K is.
[SPEAKER_00]: How far are we taking this damn it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah, because of them, everybody knows where Korea is.
[SPEAKER_00]: They talked about, like, I forget if it was in their studio notes or in a different interview, but they were like, yeah, no one asks us if we're from like North or South Korea anymore, because they know now, and they know like not to ask us, like, an insane question.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like they used to get questions like that, um, yeah, and then he says like there was the respect has become more prominent exactly more and more success.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, pardon me, Kim Gu, tell me how you feel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the only one who can speak English, but that is how we kill.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kim Gu was an activist for Korean culture and a former, former head of state in South
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the leader of Korean independence movement from Japan and so basically RM is asking like are you proud of everything that we've done carrying Korean culture here with us and I just have so much to say about him saying speaking English that's how we kill it because
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Bethany and I were pretty vocal like we weren't big fans of like permission to dance.
[SPEAKER_00]: We liked butter.
[SPEAKER_00]: My personal opinion is like dynamite is fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like it's a good song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll sing along to those songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed hearing them at the permission to dance live on stage in LA.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I support BTS by
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it just wasn't my favorite because I didn't feel like it felt like BTS' music.
[SPEAKER_00]: It, you know, really moved away from their rap and their style.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here in this album, they're speaking a lot of English, but why it works for me is because it feels like their music.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like they really had an integral part in making it and how it sounds and, you know, the the verses and the lyrics that are in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are not just songs that were all written and given to them, but they actually worked on them and made them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a big bad bunny fan and he made history last year for having the number one album in the world being a Spanish speaking album.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's never happened in the United States for a fully Spanish album to be number one, number one album and number one song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why he was able to do that is because of artists that came before him, like Mark Anthony and Reggae Glacius Shakira, Luis Fanzi, who had to make their music in both Spanish and English to be able to break through to the norm.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now because of that, people like Bad Bunny can be successful just in his native language, without having to change.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so BTS is saying, like, that's how we kill is by playing your game by switching into English because we know that that's how we can have this influence and make this impact.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe, you know, 10, 15 years from now, there could be another massive K-pop group that never has to sing a word of English and can be even more popular than BTS
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but this is the, the way that they carry as being someone from this era of progressing Korean music into the Western sphere.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just, I feel like that is, I just can't overlook that lyric at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you
[SPEAKER_02]: can and it truly the English truly is how they kill and how they kind of play the game to make their music, seep into radio play and be more popular in the States but yeah here on this album they didn't feel like they had to fully commit to the full English, they've already done it, they know how they've created such success at this point in the States that they don't have to do that and I was talking to you Kayla too like because of their English's geography and because of just
[SPEAKER_02]: their success in the states by having more English than their songs like now they have not only are they, are they, are they, are albums are being sold at Target and Walmart, but it's also allowed for a lot of other K-pop artists to put out Korean music and be on those shows too and just like the most major like stores here in the states that everyone goes to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you talk about Kim Go?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll keep going on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the very ending of the song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's break down the stamp on it, stamp on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The, uh, do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we land on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, to, yeah, we stand on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do stamp it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Put the stamp on it, stamp on it, stamp on it, stamp on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, this is like a major flex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, we fly to like overseas to international countries.
[SPEAKER_02]: We land on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We stand on it, put a stamp on it, like putting it on their passport.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just an absolute flex for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we stand on it is like, we're on, we're on your turf.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're owning this shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, that feels to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are the a-list aliens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very fucking go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this song so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the tune behind it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go ahead and get into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's get into fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So fire was produced by Diploflume.
[SPEAKER_02]: JPEG Mafia is on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have Rm and John Cook writing on it along with sugar.
[SPEAKER_02]: So for the vibe in genre, this is like ultimate house music, like immediately dancing, immediately fist pumping first time listening through.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were vibing in dancing so hard next to each other in the couch at 1130 at night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this was a banger from the from the very start.
[SPEAKER_02]: when you first put it on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, going into like this hook chorus of everything lit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything big.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: She want a dance on fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything gas.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were immediately fist pumping, just like vibing so hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: him saying or like they are upset in the studio notes that they got the song title fire from JPEG Mafia who as they were working on the song just kept saying that's fire to everything and BTS had never heard that slang term before and they loved it so much that they decided to like incorporate it into the song and made it get the title of the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I just think like what a cool sharing of culture there and it makes for a great and super catchy hook.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jungle hook actually has the first verse here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love how BTS are using all of their members in such different ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: chorus, pre chorus versus, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally different than how like the traditional structure of like vocal line pre-chorus and refrain Always a rap verse, you know like back and forth like they're really switching it up here John Gug just the line that gets me as he says give me that make me fiend like
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know, I can you imagine making Jungkook fiend.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he says, like, give me that make me sweat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something that I can't forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the way that he says can't is like so breathy and like sexy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just like sticks in your mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, my god, Jungkook, what are you doing to me?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this sweat really stands out.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's delivering on that line.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm obsessed with the pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think a lot of people are obsessed with the pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_02]: These lyrics seem club-go psycho might take you viral.
[SPEAKER_02]: I go full for the riller tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Club-go crazy, like Britney, baby, hit me with it one more time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like all of the pop culture references are phenomenal here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think of like the psycho movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think of thriller with Michael Jackson.
[SPEAKER_02]: And obviously Britney Spears hit me baby one more time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it is so phenomenal hearing this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is total early 2000s.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this is what Yungi was saying a little bit too with like the ending of the track of the song has this like reverse tracking and then it and then it fades out and we just recently saw a TikTok video of an army who put that fading out that reverse track.
[SPEAKER_02]: That then fades into spine breaker, which is like the exact same sounding track.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's theories that potentially they'll perform spine breaker like right after Faya.
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be how fucking cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a vibe to just dance, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lyrically, not much more to say, but it is such a vibe.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of my favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like top five for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, let's get into 2.0.
[SPEAKER_02]: So for the producers on this, we have Wilk made it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have P-dog, of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: The entire rap line is on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: V and Jungkook as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, worked on 2.0 so this song is just nasty like it makes you want to snarl your face the trap style mix with like classic hip hop, especially like This like trap flow in arms verse again killer be killer baseline.
[SPEAKER_02]: You cannot bump your chest
[SPEAKER_02]: dance, you know, the all the body rolling we got to see in the choreography.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is body rolling in 2.0, so like I can't wait for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The pointing in the choreo is awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's sexy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like people are like, they're like putting people in their place.
[SPEAKER_02]: um the members all fall to the ground and like turn around one after another during arms verse like the choreography for 2.0 really stood out during their Netflix comeback performance um there's also this electric sound in the beat of the sounds when they're like just kind of like in the background but it sounds almost like transformers like it's a very like electronic sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and Brittany, my sister, who's in music therapist, brought up how the album in general is very metallic sounding, and it just makes a lot of sense, especially with 2.0, with this being like the upgraded rebirth and fresh BTS.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it is just like we just got an upgrade of BTS here, and so the electronic sounds really highlight that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, the vocal line in here, like very confident vocals for the chorus, it's just a great song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, honestly, like the song makes you feel like such a bad bitch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you want to shake ass.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are super confident.
[SPEAKER_00]: You own everything when you listen to this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like, I mean, BTS have said this too.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song is like them declaring who they are in this new era.
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS 2.0.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is who we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yes, I fucking love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, in Sugar and Jay Hubs first, first, they say, yeah, like Bulletproof, that's easier said than done, were a vault.
[SPEAKER_02]: Always someone vaulting over us, kind of funny, but really, it ain't at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: 10 years doesn't even scratch the surface.
[SPEAKER_02]: And,
[SPEAKER_02]: This just really is a show that they keep setting the bar higher and higher with each combat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like vaulting over the bar that BTS just keeps setting higher.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the visual of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mention of how long they've been doing this doesn't even scratch the surface of their experience as BTS and their history and that being bulletproof all the time with every passing year for having such high expectations that keep getting higher and
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this length of time, the duration of time to have to continue to keep jumping over that vault.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like nonetheless, like yeah, they're just talking about how much pressure there is to continue on and keep out doing themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I just, I love how Yuki gets us into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's answered with RM here in this pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect amount of repetition to like, really, like, this is where you're, you're, you're, want to get your snarl in, your face gets dusty with his like, yeah, yeah, yeah, pull up at your block.
[SPEAKER_00]: We go knock knock knock knock, yeah, had you a little fun, fella.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he says pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Came back for what's mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: For me, like first of all,
[SPEAKER_00]: I love, it's like he's showing up to the doorstep of anyone who thinks that they're competing with them, or that they've taken the crown in their absence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pulled up at your blog, knocked on your door, or you had fun, you had fun when we were gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you had a good time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you were successful in our absence because, like, unfortunately for you, we're back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, like, the pop pop pop pop pop
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this is driven with the gun at the beginning of dynamite going bang like this is I came back for what's mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I came back from my crown for my title for my place at the top of this industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am obsessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then it goes right into the chorus with the first chorus is like Jim and and Tay out and but all of the vocalists get aligned in these chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just switch it up there on the song saying you know how I do do do do do do do and then light the fire brand new light it brand new yeah we on that brand new you know how we do
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, perfect amount of repetition that just ooh, it's so catchy and then I just love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The light the fire because it makes me think about their first song fire from age where my age.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me think about Jay Hope in arson saying, I've burnt myself out completely.
[SPEAKER_00]: All I have left is like the smoldering charcoal of my heart, but now they are ready, light the fire, light it, where brand new, and it really goes along with that metallic sound that you were talking about, like it gives it, it's giving, we're in the future now, yeah, I just have a chest and yes, I love it, how I do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Jay Hope and his verse, he says, specced out, stepped in, we miss in step two, step two, two after the two point.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, update.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I had to kind of like look into what specced out means, but like it's really just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: a blueprint and planned out and he's talking about how much they planned out their update to their sound for this album and then stepping back and just like stepping back out for part two, he goes on to say like throw away the unusable junk going to collect, take the time to get back to the grind, stop ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like yeah, he's talking about the process to make this album
[SPEAKER_02]: He's saying throw away that unusual, uh, that unusable junk, saying that they sifted through 120 songs to basically make this collection of 14 total for the album and how they also talked about the, the time to,
[SPEAKER_02]: collect themselves like they all came back from military service and they really took time to make this album and make the best version of themselves before fully stepping back out and I love this stop ride like this stop is them making this album and then riding as like this new future cells and like riding forward
[SPEAKER_02]: as this 2.0 update.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and I also love the ride line here because it makes me think about their song run BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all of the different references in those lyrics that they had to like driving the car super fast stepping on the gas pedal and just like going pushing pushing pushing pushing and it's like they had that time to stop and now once again as a group they're riding they're riding forward they're going.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love RM and his in the third verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like what really gets like the trap sound where the trap flow really comes through where he says, raw, raw, raw, raw, hit him up like pop, hit him with the truth like raw.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just the his delivery there is that classic like triplet sounding trap.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these have time to pay your debt, fear me or fear me not, let it be, let it bleed, hit a lick in a split.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the raw raw raw raw to me, he's hyping up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, listen, you know, hit him with the truth and he's telling them, here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're on top, you know, the fear me or fear me not, like BTS were taking over, whether you're ready or not, whether you're going to take them seriously or not about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then saying let it bleed, like let the industry bleed,
[SPEAKER_00]: because hit a lick, hitting a lick is a slang term for like making a bunch of money, making a ton of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's like, let's make a bunch of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's bleed this industry for everything that it's got, then in our own way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck, I just, I love that so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song to point out, I feel like it's truly them being like, here's how, here's who we are now.
[SPEAKER_00]: like here's who we want to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what we've been like holding back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what we've developed into as individual artists and bringing coming back together as a group like both J-Hope and RM like within the actual Auditong albums like in the notes that they gave us in their like reference like 2.0 like this is BTS 2.0.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this song means a lot to them and says a lot about like who they are now, who they want to be now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I love this song so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I keep saying, oh, yeah, top five, top five.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like every song is top five for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember texting you like, can I pick one favorite and then every other song ties for a second?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because, and it's truly, and even, I don't want to say my favorite right now, but even the song that I picked is my favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, oh, maybe this other song is my favorite and it's just, they'll change day to day honestly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love 2.0, but the performance really, I'm like, oh, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so fucking good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't wait to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Killin' me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: All tricks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and Shanan again.
[SPEAKER_02]: So great.
[SPEAKER_00]: How dare you?
[SPEAKER_00]: So talk about number 29.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this song was like quite the shock for us, like Bethany said, we really needed it when it came in the album our first listen through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number 29 is in reference to the 29th National Treasure of Korea, which is called the Bell of Kingsong Duck, or also the Emily Bell.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a massive, over 12 feet tall and almost seven and a half foot wide bronze bell that was cast in the year 771 AD.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just think it's so cool that this bell is like had so much history behind it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And RM said that this track was a minute and 37 seconds long because that's the amount of time that it takes the bell to fully ring out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the size of the bell keeps a really low resonance that tends to evolve because of its shape and its material throughout the ring.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you might kind of feel like it's gone like 20 seconds in and you keep listening and it starts to come back and it sounds like a really low hum.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's rarely wrong for its
[SPEAKER_00]: preservation because of its age, and it was recently rang, and RM was asked to ring it, but he couldn't because of scheduling conflicts.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it was rang for this recording, that was the first time in 22 years that it had been wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I saw like Korean Americans online talking about how now anyone at any time can go and for all of history listen to the sound of this bell because they ring it so rarely and now it's immortalized here on this Auditong album.
[SPEAKER_02]: how cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not Korean enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so unique.
[SPEAKER_02]: So our interpretation of this inclusion is that one of the inscriptions on the bell is quote, it sounds, it sounds pierced the heavens above and reached the depths of the sea below.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it made us think about
[SPEAKER_02]: Number 29 really feels like an inner-lude that transitions us to this E, it's the bow that historically signals the time to return home or find P is very oddied on theme of just like returning home.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like a cleansing on the album, especially after hearing all of these very hype energetic hip-hop based songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: This cleanses the palette and prep for the remainder of the second
[SPEAKER_02]: When we first listened, we felt like we could take a moment to breathe, kind of digest what we heard, and the bell ringing definitely acts as this like interlude or even like an intermission in the middle of the album, and it creates a very obvious divide in the two separate parts of this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think they structurally the way that they decided to place this here works really well.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be able to give that break, give you some time to digest all of the heavy hitting songs in the first half and then it does make a really beautiful transition in the swim and I love the idea of talking about how it reaches the depths of the sea below and then going into swim next.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this inclusion here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's like such a cool way to do it interlude and again bringing like that Korean culture through in this Audit on Album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Should we end with swim here?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we should do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that this was running a little long, but I feel like we got to talk about swim.
[SPEAKER_02]: But so this is going to be the last time we talk about before part two guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: So swim the producers are Tyler Sprite, the Claire, a lot of the writers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Ryan Tetters on this, RM, uh, P-dog, you, you name it a lot of the same producers here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So for the vibe and genre of swim, this song is incredibly poignant and has a very, very powerful build to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The low-fi, like, sound synths build with the song.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a very warm electric guitar that we heard, Jen, and Sugar Talk about, it's not your typical strong electric guitar that you would hear.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very warm.
[SPEAKER_02]: such a lovely song.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's powerful and a beautiful way without being like crazy in your face energetic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like powerful and that it's moving, it's encouraging, it's hopeful, it's very lovely and sensual.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is really a masterpiece of a song.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it really works as the hit track of the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see why BTS chose it as the hit track of this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love that it's so different than every other hit track that they've ever had.
[SPEAKER_00]: Historically, their hit tracks are songs that they can start the concert with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Super hype, BTS coming out to idle, lights,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, colors flashing, crazy high energy, and I love that this song gave them the space to be able to give that like hopeful and encouraging sensual, but beautiful vibe within this, this hit track.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it really is deserving of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that the wrappers versus in this song that they're singing in their verses.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM singing here is reminding me of his work on Indigo where he was really like, I'm going to try singing, I'm really insecure in my singing, but like, I feel like the song needs it and I want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we got so much singing from Yungi on D2, like in Amigdala in snooze, things that just really moved us on a fundamental level, and he sings the entire verse two here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only Jay hopes of verse is the true rap style and
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just like, oh, since we were watching the music video with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like yeah, we were dying.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were we were a wreck, but there is a great backup vocals throughout from the vocalist where they are harmonizing with the members.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one that also just the live performance from the comeback stage was so beautiful because you couldn't really hear those backup vocals.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we just love that this song has this calmer vibe we're floating along.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim and said that he was a little bit apprehensive with this being the hit track because of that calmer vibe, but obviously it worked out really well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's something fresh.
[SPEAKER_02]: They need it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: The song is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also just have to highlight that Jim ends the song and
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of them all go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like the way that Jen ends it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like just send me to heaven now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, you're so right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I hear Jen in this song, it's like, oh, that's that warm rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's like dialing back the powerhouse to fit the vibe of the song, but it is still so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: It suits him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it really does suit him.
[SPEAKER_00]: The song suits him very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk a little bit about RM's verse at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just lyrics that personally stood out to me, where he said, name a place I could breathe on this map world.
[SPEAKER_00]: To me, this really harkens back to a lot of his solo work that like personal struggles that he talked about and into go or write person wrong place because of like struggling to be happy with where you are at.
[SPEAKER_00]: and like enjoy this present and not be like stressed or like bogged down by the things that are, you know, really bothering you in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he goes on a couple lines later to say, I'm in the deep, tell me where the hell you at girl?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm in the deep, like I'm in the thick of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm in this deep ocean.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sinking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, you know, and like where are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I need help.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you could interpret this like romantically.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or you could just be like, where are you at, where are you at, like, this thing that I really need?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those two lines just really stood out to me as like very classic RM, but also lines that I personally connect with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, in the pre-chorus, John Gugg says, like, this is the second part of the pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, right here with the moon and the sharks, I ain't got to think about a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I just, and then it goes into the chorus, swim, swim.
[SPEAKER_00]: This to me is some standout lines where when, before the song came out, RM said, like, this song goes beyond just romantic love.
[SPEAKER_00]: This song is about, like, self-love and preservation and continuing to, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, keep swimming.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the term that they keep using, like keep pushing through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This with the moon and the sharks with this beautiful and this dangerous element at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have to think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to swim.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to keep going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't have to let all of that affect me and get to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can just move on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love that message.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very encouraging.
[SPEAKER_02]: The right here with the moon and the sharks means me thinking about like the good and the bad, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the second verse, Ashaga says water, water, so deep, water, so deep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take it off the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ain't never getting cold feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, and then he goes on to say, too, why you run away, you can run in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's so encouraging here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like if they talked about a lot about how this album
[SPEAKER_02]: this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: This song is a lot of like a love for life and he mentioning like getting so deep in this water.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can think about getting deep in a relationship, but that he's not going to get cold to feet, that he's going to stick with it, take it off the ground, and then why you run away?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can run in is very much of like if you're coming across any kind of challenge in life, it could be so scary or intimidating that you might want to run away from it, but you can definitely just immerse yourself in and run for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's super encouraging.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right before that line too, he says sitting on the shore, now I'm ready for the whole sea.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for me, I really get like that relationship vibe to like never getting cold feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like sitting on the shore is like, you know, you're in this relationship.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm ready for the whole sea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm committing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm into it totally.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I can feel the high waves coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: especially going on to that next line while you run away is like, you know, the problems in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can feel how those things come up, but like you were saying, like, you can navigate them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can get through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just have to swim.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Jay hopes vers the rap verse here.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... what he says in the second half under here we don't chase the time baby everything can't be so sad turn my face from the land i just want to dive i just want to dive and for me i feel like that we don't chase the time is like what's the pressure you don't have to
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no deadline here to solve your problems or to solve this issue or to conquer this X, Y, and Z, and everything can't be so sad, meaning like you shift your perspective a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it doesn't have to all be gloom and doom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try to focus on what we can turn my face from the land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try to focus on what we can float with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: How we can float with it and be flexible and adjust with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to dive in deeper to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I feel like that's a really encouraging message on super uplifting and helpful.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very much about facing challenges in life, taking chances, taking the risk.
[SPEAKER_00]: and continuing on, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll definitely, we'll talk about the swim music video and probably more about swim in general in its own episode, but we just really needed to cover it here in the album review as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is our first half of our album review we will as soon as possible get to you guys with the album review part two covering the rest of the songs on Auditong that we are so excited about and also love so much we appreciate you all listening along with us let us know your thoughts on these songs here in the first half of Auditong because
[SPEAKER_02]: Because when you're favorite song, let's hear a song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you choose one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Clearly we have many thoughts we'd love to hear yours as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: As always, you can find links for all of the things in the description.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.