[SPEAKER_01]: Consequence Podcast Network
[SPEAKER_03]: Bora, hey, Iconic Army.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bora, hey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Congratulations to BTS for their success so far with this album.
[SPEAKER_03]: Auditong is a number one on Billboard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hot 200, the album chart, like we are just so ecstatic to see it there at number one, and anticipated it's gonna stay there for weeks to come.
[SPEAKER_03]: Swim got a global kill all, meaning that it earned number one on every music chart in the world, which is just super incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: An example of this is like Billboard Hot 100, and so yeah, Apple Music, Spotify, Melon, YouTube Music,
[SPEAKER_03]: across the board.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all the differences.
[SPEAKER_00]: Freaking and accountable.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was like, I had to tell my co-workers about this before I left.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, by the way, BTS got a global kill all, which means blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because I'm so proud of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this album, swim, the songs in this album, deserve this high of tardy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then on the Billboard Global Chart, which excludes US streaming, it deserves the spot of the top 10 songs are all auditing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like all 10 are just from the album, which is incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: And BTS are the only musicians
[SPEAKER_03]: effort to do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one's ever done this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible and insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, swim is their seventh number one song on the charts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, that is so perfect.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's an acoustic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, T7.
[SPEAKER_00]: 7th number one track, like literally perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: It makes me so happy to just see the success of this album and that everyone is loving it as much as we do, because
[SPEAKER_03]: This song continues and not the song, this album continues to be on repeat for both of us like we can't stop and it's been a couple weeks now and I anticipate even past this going to the concert, the end of April will still be listening to this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: This album is...
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be in the top zero zero like 0.001% of listeners of this album this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this album will most buy far surpass any other music that I listened to this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I already know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that could compete is if BTS dropped more music.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's what I'm at because it might listen to anything else right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't even want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're Spotify wrapped is just Auditing on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a tiny bit of like bad bunny from the beginning of the year from pre Auditong and then post Auditong It'll be only Auditong for the rest of the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean I want to see that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you I think that this song swim will stay at number one for weeks to come
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS here are only breaking in their own records at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had like the biggest day views as far as album sales for the whole year.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had their biggest amount of albums like units sold ever going back to like what people would call the height of BTS, you know, that pre.
[SPEAKER_00]: COVID, 2018, 2019, 2020 era before their hiatus in 2022, where, you know, they were at the absolute top of the world and this album has outsold those albums already.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's incredible to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so as much as we're loving this album, we're excited to get into the second half of our album review because we have so much to say about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So stay tuned for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back, where you're host, I'm Kayla.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm Bethany, and this is Standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're favorite, informative, free and girl podcast.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, today we are going to hang out for about an hour, and we are doing our part two of our Auditong album review.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to be going through the rest of the song starting with Mary Go Round.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to be talking about the producers, the writers, the production, the instrumentation, get into the lyrics and meaning of each of these songs and just share it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Our general thoughts and opinions on each of these wonderful songs here today.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So excited before we get into it, just want to say thank you so much Iconics for being here and for listening and for all of your support.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like to support us a little bit extra for all of this work on Auditon, please consider joining us on Patreon at patreon.com slash standing BTS.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, thank you for being here for all of your support and of course for listening.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let's get into a merry-go-round for producers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have Sam Homey, Sarah Erin's, and Kevin Parker.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a pretty familiar name if you know, Tamim Paula.
[SPEAKER_03]: The writers for this, a lot of the same people here, but we also have the entire rap line, Derek Milano, and Pedog, of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all day, all day kept coming up, they kept mentioning all day of saying, oh yeah, all day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, like this guy was really integral in helping them get across the message that they wanted to, especially with English lyrics here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The, I mean Kevin Parker from Tamimpala, being the, he produced and provided the base demo for the song that Sam Hommay put them in contact, put like
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel like I need to be like listening to Tame and Polymer because I love the sound and the vibe of the song so much and then, you know, I feel like there's Tame and Polymer songs that everybody knows but it makes me feel like man I need to get into their discography.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, this song, you said I could see you liking the music.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be right up my mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just gotta go to one of the albums start to finish, but you would really vibe with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I totally think so, especially after hearing the song and hearing their influence here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this song has super dreamy vocals coupled with the drums in the sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it also reminds me of Joe, like Joe Carrier, the guy from Stranger Things, whose music I felt in love with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hobie Poulosa when we went we saw Joe set earlier in the day and I just love the vibe of that music It's like this song is not quite psychedelic like Joe's music can lean a little bit psychedelic But it's almost leaning that way with the the way that the guitar is in the sense like kind of linger and
[SPEAKER_00]: come in and come out especially with the dreamy vocals.
[SPEAKER_00]: The vocals though have a really clear smooth tone which can convey a bit of a withdrawn feeling of acceptance as you listen through especially in those main verses.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a somewhat funky bass guitar that also reminds me of Joe's music.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so this song, the best word I can use to describe this song is it's very atmospheric with how you were describing a lot of those synths and the dreamy vocals and not quite psychedelic but giving you that that atmospheric
[SPEAKER_03]: kind of slowly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: First I'm listening through there's this organ S keyboard that you hear at the start of the song that immediately took me to Jimmie's face off and also took me to Augusti is what do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: The organ is haunting and a little scinty, it starts and ends the song and that funky bass guitar is also a core element too that is playing along with it and again it just kind of brings you in and takes you out of the dreamy like state.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it totally guides you through it and it tells the organ cues you in to like when your emotion is going to build here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listening to the song, it makes me feel really emotional.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel heavy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel somber and I feel what they're conveying and like very much personally connect with the feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel that the part of this album, this is like the second part of the album, we covered swim in our last episode, but the second part does become more emotional and you feel that connection to the lyrics a little bit more because you can tell that their words are healing and the way that they're delivering their lines.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear that a lot in this song,
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just had a little thought to the organ going back to the organ with like the merry-go-round.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we've talked a little bit about just like organs and other.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like carnivaly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, definitely a little bit of the usage there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that's, we should have mentioned that, but yeah, I'm glad you did, because I feel like that's the intentional use of the organ here is to bring in some of that kind of like carnival like vibe, you know, that's like what face off or like what do you think brings with that vibe too for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, um, I just, I have to hand it to BTS because you were saying that this is the part of the album where you really start to connect with like the healing tones and messages that they're conveying through their lyrics, but also their delivery, you know, we've really talked a lot over the years about how BTS focuses on what emotion are they conveying through their song.
[SPEAKER_00]: because before they ever sang in English or when it was, you know, just a couple hooks in English in the rest in Korean, that's how we always connected with their music initially before looking up the lyrics was just the feeling of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did it make us feel?
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is definitely the part of the album that makes us bring us through a bigger range of emotions instead of like we love like the hype badass vibe of the first half.
[SPEAKER_00]: but this is where we're like connecting with what BTS has traditionally done for us, is like bringing in the thought provoking feeling, but also bringing us healing and peace, and, you know, ways to express it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also in this track, I love the use of the background vocals, especially when they say like, Mary go round during the chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: After they say that, they say,
[SPEAKER_00]: around and around and like I don't know if like my brain was filling this in before I really realized that this was a part of the song but I just felt like it had to be there and then as I was listening for it it was there and I was like oh literally perfect like it's a perfect way to use like that echo because it
[SPEAKER_00]: it really drives home that this is a cycle that they're stuck in going around and around and around and the way that's at the end of course being into the distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the vocals being in it too, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just feels so perfect for what they're describing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also really love the tone and the flow in J-Hope's verse and in RM's verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you can really hear the helplessness and the weight of the relentless anxiety in there two verses, especially I feel like J-Hope at the beginning of his verse he sounds really raw in his voice like you didn't tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like in his throat he intentionally made it raspy to add to like this worn out feeling that they're trying to convey about being on this
[SPEAKER_00]: So just all out, I feel like phenomenal and really well thought out vocal delivery, whether it was the rap verses or the vocal choruses here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree completely.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tone, the flow, like you were saying, especially Jay, I hope it's the verse.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like it really stands out with that kind of like worn out feeling you were talking about.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just exhausted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, okay, let's get into some of the lyrics here, lyrics a meaning for a merry-go-round.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the pre-chorus, Dr. Gook and V-Share, they say, I wish that I could tell you that it's over.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wish that I could walk away from pain.
[SPEAKER_03]: My life is like a broken roller coaster, but maybe I'm the only one to blame.
[SPEAKER_03]: what I like about these lyrics and the message of the song with Mary go around is yes it's being caught in this cycle but it's there's so many different ways you can relate this to your life what you're going through.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that I tend to ruminate a lot and these lyrics really stick out to me and how I can ruminate and the line of maybe I'm the only one to blame really stands out because it's like
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of putting myself here into this like re living these moments replaying them over and over in my mind and like I can break myself free from that But like feeling like a broken roller coaster like I don't have the capability and that it's just kind of like Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
[SPEAKER_00]: But I like that there's a little bit of ownership over the situation that, you know, this brings to mind, right, of like when we are trapped in this kind of like cycle, because it definitely makes me think of stuff like that for me too, like what I'm urinating on or things that I'm struggling with with my anxiety and thinking that like, if you're not proactive about working on it and working on a way out of that cycle, then
[SPEAKER_00]: you can blame yourself, like you can be to blame for perpetuating it at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if it's happened to you and it's not your fall and you didn't deserve it, like, you still have, I just like the idea that that line gives you some ownership and some power over like this Mary go around that you're stuck in.
[SPEAKER_03]: It gives you a little different perspective on it too.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's easy to see like all the external factors that are affecting you and they're really looking kind of question your own behavior, your own thought process and what your part is in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Going right into the chorus from that, where Jim and Jungkook and Jin say, I can't get off this merry-go-round.
[SPEAKER_00]: It spins me around and around.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do my best, but I can't slow down this merry-go-round.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I like, what stands out to me is the I do my best, but I can't slow down of, like, again, acknowledging like you're doing your best with what you have and, you know, the tools that you have at hand and what, you know, you can do in the moment, you know, things that you can change, things you can do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that even if you're doing your best that can't always completely change the situation or slow down the cycle that you're trapped in I feel like, you know, some of this is a fourth thing about this from the perspective of BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where I think about like them being in that kind of rat race of like the constant Prehyatus pre-military service when they were
[SPEAKER_00]: album tour album tour no breaks you know just like constantly going because you have this immense pressure to not only compete with everyone else in the industry but compete with yourself and what you've previously put out so not having the opportunity to slow down and thinking about it from like BTS's perspective but also
[SPEAKER_03]: And struggling to get off, like there's a part that really loves it, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: They love it so much too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it also the thing about like a merry-go-round being a ride that has different speeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, like if you ride it and you think about like if it got out of control, if it was just going way too fast and how dizzying and horrible that would be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so even wanting to not get off the ride, but to slow it down and have that desire to like can we just can we put it on, you know, speed one or two right now instead of speaking I feel like that this is what they're asking for you know
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, even in the post-course, uh, John Goek and Genetly's in the first time that we hear it go on to say, I try this happens every time I can't get off this ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the part where they're really drawing out the vocals, where they get super dreamy and they are really extending every single one of these words, which I feel like brings a lot of wistfulness and like helplessness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I try but this happens every time, you know, um, no matter what they do, they're they're still stuck in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, shook as worse.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like because I feel like it speaks to both these parts of just like them as BTS and like go-go all the time But also speaks to like the internal struggle and like thought process of like getting stuck in the same thought.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he says
[SPEAKER_03]: Feel like I'm growing up now, but my words are just the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every day the same routine, merry-go-round, or hamster wheel, don't matter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Racing through a labyrinth of questions with no answers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone putting on smiles pretending to be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a lot, Kayla, about the feel like I'm growing up now, but my worries are just the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were taken back to the age-by-age era, and even before that, where BTS were so concerned, there are like, they have like circle room talks, where they just discuss
[SPEAKER_03]: They're worries and concerns about their album business.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's going to like it, are they going to like it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are we like, are we done?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are we going to make it or all this hard work for nothing?
[SPEAKER_03]: And here's Shogga saying, like, I'm going up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm still having these thoughts with this album release.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then goes into that more mundane everyday routine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mary, go around.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a little bit about how in the BTS, it's called the Road.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Return.
[SPEAKER_03]: The return, the Netflix documentary, how Namjoon talked about how he doesn't like to be in the same routine every day, so I feel like they must have been in this kind of routine when they were making this music.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then I'll check it right this line.
[SPEAKER_03]: But then he says, racing through a level of questions with no answers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like again, are they going to like it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they not going to like it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they and just like Reminating on that and not being able to stop thinking about that over and over and not Not ever getting to really know if the answer is but everyone putting on smiles pretending to be fine like
[SPEAKER_03]: internally struggling so much, but acting like, yeah, everything's fine and dandy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be so hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like we saw that from them during the documentary as they were creating this album, too, of like, Jen kind of despairing, feeling like, oh, like, I don't know what I have to offer being here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I feel like a lot of the works already done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, Taehyung being like, young, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know what I'm doing here either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we'll figure it out and it'll be okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: or they're all sitting around at dinner talking about like we still haven't made a decision on this song or that song or what we want to do and then it's like Jim and or one of them will be like but we'll do it guys like we can do it you know right put it on to bring the positivity even when they're in the middle of the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why the seven of them is perfect because when one of them's down there's another one he's like it will pick them up and they all help each other out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, going on to Jay hopes for us a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says at the beginning, this is when he's really raw spinning up down just round and round I'm following a part still bound to the ground and then you continue stuck inside a loop that just won't stop the child inside me is crying out
[SPEAKER_00]: to me, like bring up your inner child as something that's like crying out for help.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, usually when we talk about inner child work, it's healing deep parts of yourself that you know affect you in adulthood.
[SPEAKER_00]: and when your inner child feels unsafe in a moment, how much that affects you even as an adult, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And for him to feel like, oh my gosh, like maybe he's reflecting on how he felt during debut and all of the fears and like even the pressure and the amount of work that they were doing, you know, that same fearfulness coming out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for him too, and his verse with, please take me out, Ma.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just makes me think of his song, Mama, so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how he has praised and thanked his mom and been like, look at me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now look at what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, thanks for all of your love and support.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's like, you know, like a child calling out to his mom for help because it feels like he's so stuck.
[SPEAKER_00]: and like needs, like the care and the love that only a mother can give.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that's so poignant.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the reference back to Mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just taking the song maybe little too literally, but I'm just the I'm picturing.
[SPEAKER_03]: a young Jay Hope stuck on a merry-go-round and, you know, like it's going too fast and just having enough of the ride and needing his mom to come and get them off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's feeling so vulnerable and helpless that you feel like a child needing the care of a mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and I feel like he's showing that, and like him being able to be so vulnerable with this first two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, BTS are definitely showing that vulnerable side that we love them so much for because although here, we're relating a lot to like what they must have been going through when they were writing the song or like the themes that they wanted to talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this is so applicable to so many different people's experiences for what you're going through in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like we've all felt stuck in this cycle before and I think that the vibe of this song and these lyrics help you process it and explain it so well.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM want I just want to share a couple lines from his verse he says my bed is my coffin and to me I'm thinking like he is so.
[SPEAKER_00]: like you know when you're so worn out that all you want to do is go lay down and do him scroll in your bed like you know the phrase sleeping like the dead like that's what I feel like he's referencing here and he's talking about my bed is my coffin and then he's he goes on to say to again thoughts on thoughts on thoughts on thoughts I'm thinking about how to stop thinking
[SPEAKER_00]: This line struck me so hard because, oh my god, how many times have I felt this way?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, with anxious thoughts or racing thoughts and like, remanating on something like, how can I stop thinking about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the even him saying thoughts on thoughts on thoughts, I feel like that repetition feeds into like the merry-go-round vigil at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, I think so too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, really smart lyric writing here from all of the rap line and
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a super powerful song here, really brings you into some deep and heavy emotions.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it really is so relatable to so many different situations in life.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can get stuck in a cycle like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, should we move on to normal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We love Mary go round.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's head into normal here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So normal is produced by Ryan Teder from when we're public and Sean Cook, a writer on here, Sean Foreman from 303.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Livy Blanc, Ryan Teder again, Sean Cook, the rap line, Kirsten Spencer, Derek Milano, and Pete Og, man, the vibe for me personally,
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm obsessed with the local ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, I'm really, if you guys know me, I'm really not the person who can be like, that's my favorite song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, like, normal is my favorite song on the album, but like, it really depends on the mood that I'm in, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I really get what BTS were saying with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm obsessed with the entire vocal lines delivery with this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, every fucking vocalist eats this song up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes it so addictive.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're tone and the melody that they sing during the chorus and the pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so unique.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I can't get enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like, Jimin's super soft, melodic vocals in the first verse, deliciously contrast with the punchy passion of the chorus vocals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they are almost haunting.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're just, oh my gosh, it's beautiful to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: it is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like every single song on here obviously is an OT7 song, but there are some songs on here that I just feel are pushing the envelope of maybe it's really just a vocal line song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Normal to me is one of those songs that could be potentially just a vocal
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like Hooligans, maybe even Aliens, I don't know, who's kind of pushes that with like, it's a rap line song, but like the vocalists are in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: But, yeah, absolutely love the vocals they're seeing out in normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: During the pre-chorus, the melody is vocal runs are so intricate and way more intricate than a typical melody that you would hear.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of just a couple notes, it's a series of notes they run on their lines.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just really stands out beautifully, like you're just like, wow, that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like they could just be ad libbing or making up these runs as they go, but it's a part of the melody, but it's gorgeous, absolutely stunning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That that melody specifically is what initially hooked me on the song, where I was like, oh, I've got to learn how to sing this because the way that they mess with the syllables of words to be able to stretch.
[SPEAKER_00]: the notes and the way that they want to is just genius.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like this song demands that I sing along passionately whenever it's on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am like throwing my fist in the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm beating my chest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm throwing my head in my hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm performing when I'm listening to this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm feeling like I better not be driving because I'm going to crash the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, I'm so into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The chorus is so catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's ridiculously catchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also what's crazy too.
[SPEAKER_00]: The vocals are what really drives the song because production-wise as far as background instrumentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this is one of the more stripped-down songs on the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it just lets the lyrics and the vocals
[SPEAKER_00]: and the verses speak for themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a heavy bass all throughout that like starts a song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like shaking you and that gives the song a very profound feeling like this deep, heavy bass that's in the forefront is saying this is a deep song but to me that's the main stand out like there is some guitar and the guitar has some echo on it giving it some more weight there and there's some muted clapping that comes through during the chorus like bringing
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's really, like, there's not a lot of craziness going on with the instrumentation here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all vocally driven in the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which is kind of surprising because normal, it really comes off like a song that would be more highly produced.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's really not.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is truly all vocals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like you're saying, the instrumentation in this really supports all of the vocals, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just there for the support.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like the bones of it instead of the like the beat the production being heavy hitting on this one It's like the vocals and the rap lines versus that are yeah Which the rap lines versus they are mostly sung and not wrapped it's very vulnerable and bra and honest How they deliver their lines this song overall has a more alternative pop sound and makes me think
[SPEAKER_03]: like it's something you could hear off of Jin's echo.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that they talked a little bit about like the genre of this whole album being more alternative pop or rock pop and this really caters to that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like this song they had in mind when they were describing this album's genre.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is like more alternative pop.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get into the lyrics of normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in Jimman's first verse, he says, heavy is the head when you're chasing true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will you color me red?
[SPEAKER_00]: Will you color me blue?
[SPEAKER_00]: Two sides of a coin and they both ain't true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it different for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it different for you?
[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, I just feel like
[SPEAKER_00]: heavies the head when you're chasing true.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is them pursuing the music and the direction that they want to take this album, knowing that it's like their true north, but also feeling the weight of that, the worth of how it's going to be accepted or if it will be.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if, you know, like, and like just knowing, I mean, applying this to your real life too, like when you are following your truth and how weighty that can be, how heavy that can be to carry, it when it goes against the expectation or the norm.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to talk about this while you color me red and color me blue because I was like these are two very specific colors to put into these lyrics and we had just watched the drone show promoting the album that was over a soul and at the beginning of that they had the drones performing body to body and it turned into the Korean flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just thinking about that and how there's the middle of the flag is almost like a yingyang sign, but it's like half red and half blue.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to look up the significance of the red and the blue and that flag and see if it applied to these lyrics at all and guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: feel like it really does.
[SPEAKER_00]: The red is the upper half, the yang, and it represents positivity, active, often associated with the sun or heaven, and the blue, the lower half, the yang represents negative, passive, and calm cosmic forces associated with the earth or quiet stillness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like are you going to call me
[SPEAKER_00]: like active, like how are you going to label me?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, are you going to label me with these trades or with these trades?
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you put them together, they signify all the things in the universe are created and developed through the interaction of these opposing forces.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I just think like again, BTS bringing their Korean culture,
[SPEAKER_00]: like literally referencing their flag in the song as a way to say like how are you going to describe me?
[SPEAKER_00]: What adjectives are you going to place on me for me following my true path here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to basically think that I'm wonderful?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to think that I am terrible?
[SPEAKER_00]: and then him going on to say like, is it different for me or you like really genuinely wondering about each other's perspectives when you're on opposite sides of an opinion in a situation, you know, what is your perspective?
[SPEAKER_00]: How is it different than mine?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that it's such a poetic verse.
[SPEAKER_03]: it is super poetic.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like there's so many ways you can take this first.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really appreciate all of the the Korean flag history and the red and the blue because absolutely like when they're talking about like chasing their true selves, of course they're going to mention just their nationality and where they come from.
[SPEAKER_03]: And not only is it just like a big part of them, but it's a big part of them as BTS, you know, and how they're presented to the rest of the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're a K-pop group.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I really appreciate the chasing the true, the two sides of a coin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like two people can go into a situation and come out with two totally different.
[SPEAKER_03]: stories to tell.
[SPEAKER_03]: So chasing the true, it can be a little bit harder than it seems to know what the truth is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in the pre-chorus, V and John Glug, oh, vocals here, they say that got me feeling things unusual and I live them all, got me and my feelings up on this wall and on my knees.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I love the use of the word unusual for this song being normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really calling out that like these things aren't unnormal.
[SPEAKER_03]: The things that they are feeling are quite unusual.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I live them all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's this kind of like potential hate-love relationship with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But also like it's a lot to take in, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also this I prefer thinking it in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they're not taking it in.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not pushing it out and trying to not, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not trying to avoid it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, got me and my feelings up on this wall and on my knees like I just feel like it's a lot of up and down, too, with what they're feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in the chorus, the super catchy, kicky chorus.
[SPEAKER_03]: They sing, caracene, dopamine, chemical induced.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like we just have to get into this line right off the bat, like Kayla, I kind of asked your opinion on it and we just talked about where they are like when they were writing this song, like the things that they kind of do to like evoke inspiration or to get through, like we were thinking about just like drinking like caffeine or you know any kind of like dopamine rush to kind of get them in a mental head space of writing and producing and being creative.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fantasy and fame.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the things we choose.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the life that they they chose as artists Show me hate show me love make me believe proof.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We call this shit normal and this just makes me think of all of the rest the ways that they are perceived by others whether People love on people hate them
[SPEAKER_03]: Either way, they have to call this life normal, where it's hard enough for us as just individuals going about our normal lives and having other people judge you or have things to say about you that either or true or not true, but this is something that they have to deal with on a very mass drastic global level, and the line of make me pull it proof, I feel like
[SPEAKER_03]: in order to like absorb this shit that is normal for them like they really have to kind of be bullet proof to take it all in.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they say run away out of sight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't know what I want.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wish I had a minute just to turn me off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Careously end up with me what I got to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we call this shit normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And
[SPEAKER_03]: It really is addressing their fame and the costs and effects of fame on their lives.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the desire to just want to run away and hide away from it all.
[SPEAKER_03]: How do they get out of the spotlight?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, wanting to have that moment to kind of shut it off, but they really can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or I'm sure they have like techniques that they probably use and coping strategies.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like it's not normal and it's very hard to cope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really like the line that sticks out as though like having a minute to turn me off like to just To get away from it all and I think it's like really poignant that Jen has this line the first time through because he went from coming off of like Supporting and continuing like BTS for a whole year Practically on his own
[SPEAKER_00]: and touring for, you know, his solo tour, but again, to like keep BTS' name in the media and like carrying us on their, you know, carrying them on his back while they were still finishing up their service, going straight from finishing his tour right into
[SPEAKER_00]: direct to LA, direct flight, you know, creating this all the other day, had already been working on for three weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, just like, he had no time off and he had to just dive right back into it and like adjust to the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: So major kudos to Jen on just like being such a team player and like doing the hardest job here with going back to back like tour into album creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to talk about some of the lines from verse two, which is where the wrappers have their verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the one Jay Hope kicks us off in the couple lines that he says that I really resonate with is used to think I was built with a heartmate of steel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I understand the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some pain don't heal.
[SPEAKER_00]: If everything's just happy, that ain't real.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, this is how I feel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I've, you know, my life has 100% changed in the past two years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people often, like, before that, even, like, while everything was happening now, like, they tell me, okay, like, you're so strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're so strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you do it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And, like, I think that I'm a strong person from, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: how I grew up and how I was raised and like the different life experiences that I've had.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I used to like think I had a heart mate of steel without really you know thinking those specific words and going through what my life changes have been in the past two years like I realized that I really don't and like of course things get to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course things get to me and like I can't just be
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, with things all the time and him saying like some pain don't heal for me is really helpful right now Like I have been going to therapy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've really been working on myself and I just I like this line of to me It's not pessimistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like
[SPEAKER_00]: reality.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something there is pain so bad and so deep that like it's not just because it doesn't get better doesn't mean that you won't get better, you know, like things may always hurt but it like his next line like if everything's happy that's not real, you know, like you're not really living your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think this is especially powerful coming from J.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hope being that member who historically has brought us like all of the hope and the happiness and the positivity for him to address like I really can't be happy all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not real.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not like who I really am like that's who I want to be and like I really embody
[SPEAKER_00]: the hope, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But like it's not realistic to live that 24-7.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it kind of just reminds me of like there's there's a part of comfort and knowing that like pain doesn't always heal and it's kind of like someone who doesn't have a diagnosis yet and once you receive the diagnosis like yes it can be
[SPEAKER_03]: Really hard to accept the diagnosis, but there's some relief because it provides some answers So you know, if you continue to have this pain and feel like it's supposed to go away And that not being something that realistically can happen You're just gonna be stuck in a miserable cycle of like so desperately winning the pain to go away Instead of just Accepting that this is something that's a part of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and that's when the healing starts Yeah, I totally agree with you
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a very real verse.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that this is Day Hubs first with the, not everything can be happy all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yungi goes on to say, I breathe everything out like a thousand times.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like, oh my gosh, to me, this is your stuck in the merry-go-round.
[SPEAKER_00]: and you're trying to process it, you're trying to, you know, you're trying to do box breathing, you're trying to do everything that you can to like let it go, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is how I feel if I'm ruminating or trapped in like that anxiety spiral of just having to keep breathing it out and him saying like a thousand times, it's like this over exaggeration of how many times you've tried to get over this and let go of it, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: and for him to go on to say normal and special are just some lines as him acknowledging like whatever people are going to call me and I don't really care about that, you know, like if you think like my life is normal referencing, you know, like this this song itself or that BTS themselves are special like to him that's that's not what it's about here, you know, being able to like have that perspective, you know, not being affected by that or not being affected by that or
[SPEAKER_00]: yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: His verse is just meditative and general.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we've kind of talked about him having meditative lyrics, but I breathe everything out like absolutely like on that exhale and then him saying one deep sigh, then slips away, fades away, everything's gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, with that one exhale.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: RM rounding out this verse to run away, pushing me, pulling me, said you wanted all of me, but what is even all of me?
[SPEAKER_00]: That question, what is even all of me?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you, like this is what really resonates with me too, like if you go through something that you feel like drastically changes who you are, to be able to discover yourself again, what even makes up who I am,
[SPEAKER_00]: To the core I think that's without question says to me and it's also so are in for him to say yes You know this whole verse is very him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like persona coming out here Who the hell am I right but what even is all of me right and how can you say you want me if you don't even know I don't even know all of me, you know What do you want for me and this is like
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this could be him talking to, you know, it could be a romantic interest, it could be him talking to the fans, it could be him talking to the company of just feeling pulled in so many different directions, and everybody has a different perspective of who he is, so what even is he, you know, then him saying, like, part of me has haunting me, heard the things they call me, but what the hell you want for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: like that part of himself, maybe it's like what was previously referenced in this album, the shadow, you know, or maybe this isn't like animals coming up, but like your shadow's haunting you, what your, you know, those parts of yourself that you really don't want to uncover coming out, creeping out because of this kind of trauma that's bubbling up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very impactful to me, like the his versus so impactful.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: the delivery, the plan words, the rhyming, it's poetic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's very like pleasing to the ears to listen to with the rhyming and like the rhythm of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is like first time here in the song, I was like, I got to learn that verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to learn this chorus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like, I got to know what he's talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a thousand percent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Such a good song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I do too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's get into like animals.
[SPEAKER_03]: So producers, we have Diplo, Artemis, Dane Tree, and Kevin White.
[SPEAKER_03]: For the writers, we have a lot of the same people as the producers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We also have Jessie Fink, our M, Kristen Spencer, and Bo Knox.
[SPEAKER_03]: So for like animals, vibe, and genre,
[SPEAKER_03]: We loved hearing the live version of this song in their comeback show.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like this was true for a lot of armies, like this song, yeah, you liked it on the album.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like, oh, okay, yeah, this is a big change out from the rest of the music.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that live performance was really striking and it especially with the vocal line and how they stacked the vocals and the backup of the verses and the chorus at the bridge, like we'll just talk about it, but like truthfully this performance live game changing for everyone totally different perspective on the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1,000 percent.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at the bridge, they're saying heart untamable, go and take it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's so impactful is the music completely drops out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it makes it so emotionally raw.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taehyung is singing the heart untamable as Jin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jin starts us with owing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Taehyung comes and Jin's beautiful oos, like setting up, like he is the musical track at that point, because all the music has dropped out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taehyung comes in with heart and timable, then Jungkook back up vocals with the take it all supporting Taehyung with the main lines of this bridge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the same time, as they're each singing, these three parts, they're all harmonizing at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's beautifully stacked.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so, and it's like not until we heard that live performance and we could really see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: that we appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so impactful and then like of course, Jim and comes with the chorus right after that as Taehyung finishes up the bridge.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just it demands an emotional response.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is emotionally loaded for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Listening to the song immediately made a think of Yung Yis, a migdala from D-Day, like very same kind of heaviness that you get from this song, there's a weight on your heart when you listen to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Yung Yis, though, unto actually start singing the song, and the instrumental is very garage band.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is like the first thought I had Kayla when we were listening on my couch, like, you know, ooh, it's so garage band, like it's it's very
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like super grungy, but slightly grungy because these classic drums, the guitar, the bass guitar.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can literally picture a band playing this in your garage for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the kind of raw instrumental classic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're happy to be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and then there's vocals of the vocal, uh, like at the intro, which is like hauntingly beautiful, um, and just gorgeously takes you into the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then at the end of the song, we get this amazing guitar solo that really drives at home and What's so masterful about the song Bethany, I forget which one you said on our on the first half of the album that you wanted another chorus at the end of it, but this is another one of the songs
[SPEAKER_00]: That's aliens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh on aliens.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I always want to hear the chorus again after the Skyshar solo, but it doesn't come or even just one last like stacked heart untamable.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's what makes the song so addictive too that I want to play it again because it would be 1,000% satisfying to hear the chorus one more time after that guitar solo and it doesn't come and just the song fades out, which makes you like you need to listen to it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: So listen to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's get into these lyrics here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry with verse 1.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_00]: The lyrics are so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yungi says, take me into your deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to lay in your world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what your shadow's a mess.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm walking with my own dirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just love like,
[SPEAKER_00]: So what your shadow's a mess, like Min Yungi referencing his own intro shadow or interlude shadow from map of the soul seven and how much we really dug into the meaning of like shadow persona and ego and talking about like, hey, like we all have our problems like I want to be in it with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what his versus telling me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm walking in my own dirt.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, like, yeah, he has his own bag.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has his own flaws.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's like walking with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But take me deep with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the pretty chorus they say, we can go all night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't close your eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you fear the light all night?
[SPEAKER_03]: And so kind of going off of Yungi's verse, I feel like this is really them saying, Hey, they're giving us the confidence to really be you, to not be fearful of where you're headed, to not close your eyes and kind of like move backwards and tend to instead keep your eyes open, don't fear what's ahead, and that we can go all night with you, that they're here to like kind of support us through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, sure you want.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then in the second verse, our image on Gug, they say, six feet down in the sand.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's creatures that made a hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't speak.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm begging you, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's beauty outside control.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we talked maybe a little bit about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't remember Caleb, but just this album, they were in LA, and all of the ocean references in water references.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now we have RM here, who is known for loving crabs, talking about creatures that bury down into the sand.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's basically saying that, you know, there's beauty outside control.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I'm begging you, please, to kind of like let loose.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't stifle yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't hide away, do embrace who you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: to not try to control at every facet of your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't be wearing these masks and pretend to be someone else to kind of lose the control and just be an exists.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love to mine interpretation of the being able to make a hole, like making a home even six feet down in the sand, takes me back to like,
[SPEAKER_00]: His, um, one of his main messages like in wildflower from his end to go album of like, I'm standing in my grave of like, I'm giving you everything I have here, but this time it's a different take on it, where it's like even down in the, the pits of despair in your lowest point, you could still make something out of it, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: if you just keep trying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Going into the bridge which just had us buyer are next so much in the life performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay Hope says, got you in the wild somewhere so far with your claws sharp and then fangs out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So to me, this is him saying like, hey,
[SPEAKER_00]: You're out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're primed and ready to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do with it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you see a whole land full of animals.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to let the fear hold you back?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or do you know that you have all of the tools and the capability to go and to compete and to be part of this, you know, this land where then he goes on to say none of us are tamable.
[SPEAKER_00]: None of us are
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we don't have to be controlled.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can do what we need to do, but it's up to you to commit to that and to not let the fear, you know, grasp you and hold on to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to control the fear or is it going to control you to me as what?
[SPEAKER_00]: this is saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like it dropped you off here and now you have a choice of what you're going to do with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Going into like the rest of it heart untamable, go take it all and take it all like saying you don't have to tame your heart, you don't have to curb who you are by letting your fear hold you back from being truly yourself and pursuing truly what you want and then saying go and take it all like
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the fangs and the sharp claws like, oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Jim and you can keep going.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I love this message so so much and I love that you pointing out like
[SPEAKER_03]: you have the cause, you have the things like you have the things that can make you successful and this world where we're all trying to do our best and like, yeah, none of us are attainable.
[SPEAKER_03]: We all are meant to be your true selves and just go for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't be fearful of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, doing heart desires are hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: can do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tame it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just have to end with the course because we feel like the chorus itself perfectly summarizes the main message that we get from this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to be animals, baby, we can be animals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Manion like we can be untamable, we can be free.
[SPEAKER_00]: we don't have to be controlled and then these lyrics eat this life till your heart is full.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want you can have it all meaning take and take and take what you can get it from life and happily do it until you feel satiated and satisfied with what you have out of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want, you really can have it all, like it's up to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Bethany, I feel like yesterday when we were talking so much about the song, we were really feeling like, man, with normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds so passionate, but the lyrics are, you know, so heavy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and this is like the kind of almost the opposite where the song itself has that little bit of like haunting vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that grunge rock vibe.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like a sad song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like a sad song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little bit of a sad song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a weight on your chest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like, dear legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: are like very motivating.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
[SPEAKER_03]: It still works like I'm not complaining like no really works.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really works.
[SPEAKER_03]: It really works.
[SPEAKER_03]: It took me by surprise that this is the message it's it's telling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go be fearless.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a middela is a really sad song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a totally really talks about like trauma.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it feels like a song about trauma.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whereas like this song is like has that that kind of sad heaviness in your heart and these lyrics are just not
[SPEAKER_03]: they're deep and meaningful, but they're not sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're like inspiring.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love that coupling here of the, to the middle of the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is the, the hidden gym on the album.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I was the hidden gym.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They needed to perform that for people to recognize that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think so too.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've heard from so many of our listeners that their favorite song is like animals Like I mean, there are so many armies who this is their favorite song and there's a lot of people who've come around to it, too And no, like oh, yeah, this is my favorite song now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a top draw and I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is totally good
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't know about us.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: For producers, we have P-Dog, Ghost Loop, Y2K.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some of the other writers we have here are Rug UK, Curtis Wells.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gemin is heavily a writer on the song, R.M.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shrego Jay Hope, of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so for the vibe and genre of this song, there is a sample that is so standout that starts at the beginning of the song and kind of plays throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: And first time listening through it for a lot of armies, it sounds like this vintage song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like a song that kind of came out of like the 50s or something that 40s are 50s that they repurposed here and it's not.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually German.
[SPEAKER_03]: and they kind of filtered his voice through this old-timey effect, and it is sampled not only at the beginning of the song, but you hear it subtly in the background as the song plays to its entirety.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, makes a lot of sense that Jim and started this song during Auditong's, the studio notes are in told Jim and to get it taken away because this is his baby.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was Jim and song that he really worked a lot on.
[SPEAKER_03]: And after the initial beginning of the song, there's a trap beat that comes in with Tang's verse that really has you vibe in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Immediately, immediately it vibes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the switch-up between like this like old timey sounding and into like modern trap style music.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim in in the chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: He owns the chorus lower register.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim in vocals makes me lose my fucking mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like, oh, this is when his face album slips through that vocal range and register that we got to like hear and appreciate so so much on his face album that previously like we really only hear him and his very upper range on a lot of BTS songs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that it makes it so prominent and so stand out with these lower register vocals for German.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eat it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also love the auto tune that they use on the post chorus, like the, yeah, damn, damn right, damn right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel that that type of auto-tune is traditionally heard in Trapped Style music especially during the choruses and I think it's perfectly done here Like it's perfect for the style it's so sexy and coffee It's so pretty Yes, and sing the catchy you are so vibe and when you hear these lyrics here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's perfect
[SPEAKER_00]: Jen also in the second verse he starts off the second verse like I can show you love I can show you he has first of all beautiful Siren vocals incredible like I don't I we can't praise Jen enough on his vocals here They are just absolutely phenomenal and all of these songs every kind of background
[SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, but this like he has this little vocal filter over him in this part, and it reminds me of the same vocal filter that they used in rain from dark and wild, and the way that he's delivering this, he has this like gorgeous perfect soft tone with this like slight sexy arrogance that only a Kim suction can do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just I ended up every single time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Intimate.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We hear this verse a couple times, but Jen's version of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's so terrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it just everything gets a little quiet, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's like a little wrestling vintage kind of like static in the background, like a record.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's just, it's like he's whispering into your ear.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's the thing in these lyrics?
[SPEAKER_03]: So you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing a lot of this song was so needed by the way after Mary go around normal and like animals like they really got us and our feelings with those three songs and Yeah, they reminded us like say true to ourselves, but then they brought us right back to this like very confident and be like a mantra Asked her mind is like damn right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know who you are and like anyone who says they think they know you can fuck off like this
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very confident.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a super self-assuring song.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like this song is this album's like this half of the album's 2.0 Like it's another this is BTS.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is who the fuck we are song, you know, yeah, get on board.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get on board Get on board get on our auto-dong ship that we perform.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, let's get into the lyrics here
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's talk about this little intro that Jim and does.
[SPEAKER_03]: It says or he says they don't know about us how your voice can calm the sea.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I feel like we needed to talk some about just like again the continuous theme of like sea and ocean clearly such an inspiration for them when they were in the L.A. And like I just feel silly that it's just now and it's like in half of the album that we're really like picking up on this like a low swim, you know, crabs,
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello my voice can calm the sea, you know like I just I don't know like clearly the beach and the ocean and LA was such an inspiration to them and I love it and I think the sample here at the beginning of they don't know about us like I immediately think of like
[SPEAKER_03]: He's referring to BTS and Army, like no one knows about really the relationship between us.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't know how your voice can calm the sea, whether he's talking about how Army's voice calms his treacherous times and also how their voices calm our treacherous times.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't know about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't understand it and they never will and that's okay, you know, like that's not the point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's totally love it so much so much get into the first verse when Tae Young says I can show you love I can show you if you want to know me what can I do for you to me this makes me think of the black swan lyrics like do your thing do your thing with me now
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's like, yeah, if you want to know BTS like you want something from them that's been like how they've kind of like portrayed it historically or even them like being a service right like how can I change myself to like be like beneficial to you, you know, what can I do for you basically and then jump going in but this attitude I love this attitude from the Machnae everybody here's the story that they want.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then this quote, they popped off because of this one thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're just big boys, aka country kids, just writing the wave, oh, just shut up, just shut up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, here he is being like, you know, it's like they're referencing like dynamite or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they popped off just because of this one thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why they're so famous now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we're, yeah, we're just big boys, like we're just, you know, country kids from Korea, just writing the wave, just writing the Hollywood,
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you, you know, reference in the wave here of just this wave of popularity just and then he's stopping them in their tracks shut up Like you know, that's not what it is like we're we're you don't know you don't know Yeah, you're talking about us Shut up exactly right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You sound dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: You sound dumb to say to reduce their success to like those two lines, you know Rm saying
[SPEAKER_00]: Call up chill, take a bubble bath, bae, like, calm down, go relax.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll move yourself from this conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do the math and go, just say what you say, basically talk whatever you want to say, like, I don't give a fuck what you have to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's hard, and we cannot explain every time we try to find, every time we try to explain we find, and then it goes into the chorus, they don't know about us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, it's like, knees like, I could explain to you till I'm blue in the face about who we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our connection with Army, why we're successful, why we love our fans, why our fans love us, why like, we, you know, why we know that they're going to trust us and stick by our side, but like, are you really going to understand?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you really going to get it?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you're not going to get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in verse two, they say, they keep asking just what was so different.
[SPEAKER_03]: I answer, I don't know either, and this gradual, I just think about like the gradual progression over time, like, and when you're asking like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
[SPEAKER_03]: what is different from you now versus you before and I just think like how do you really answer that question?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like can you really pinpoint something?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like when it's a gradual progression of change over time, everyone does change, but it's
[SPEAKER_03]: it's so it's not so finely pinpointed like oh this is one thing it's not an overnight change right it's kind of harder to put your finger on it and so they keep asking what's so different that answer I don't know you know I truthfully don't know other than we've just continued to grow right
[SPEAKER_03]: Always chasing the easy way out of no reason, Pacific deep in my business, you sit like clown.
[SPEAKER_03]: Should I break it down for you, baby?
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't need to know why you so pressed to find out.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just like an ultimate dysromune game.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is all right here.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I love the Pacific deep in my business.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the like, right next to the Pacific Ocean.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are so, you are such a fool.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are so deep, like you look like a clown, getting so deep into trying to figure me out and just being like, do I have to break it down for you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, you don't need.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why are you so impressed?
[SPEAKER_03]: You won't even get it anyways.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying why you so pressed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they go on to say those guys are so special, special among Asians.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some some kind of heroic beings to hard to break.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't relate.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're just seven people, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: You said we changed.
[SPEAKER_03]: We feel the same shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is Jay Hope's line.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like you said we've changed.
[SPEAKER_03]: We feel the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that really stands out in his first.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the line of like those guys are special among Asians.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a lot about how this is a bit of a microaggression here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's minimizing their accomplishments.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not just that these guys are special.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's their special among Asians.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just really...
[SPEAKER_03]: degrades them and diminishes their accomplishments by just saying oh among Asians that is a microaggression and then I just really can appreciate his like words of seven people though you said we've changed before the same like a few years they've changed like acknowledging they've changed they're the same people the same group but their music of course is going to evolve and the story is going to evolve
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love how it could be like we feel the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like as people as individuals, we feel like we're the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we know that we've gone through stuff, but like we know who we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the same person I was 10 years ago, obviously, you know, but like they, they also, yeah, we feel the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: We agree with you that we have changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have evolved, you know, their music, your style, what they want to do and how they do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that kind of
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the power of like they don't know about us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like people can speculate all they want.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can try to explain themselves all they want.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can try to say what's changed, what this, that, you know, but it's not going to really make it different.
[SPEAKER_03]: So never going to really know them.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the calm delivery that Jim and has during that course of, they don't know about us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so chill.
[SPEAKER_00]: it's so like it's a it perfectly aligns with what the rappers are saying in these verses of like listen just brush them off don't heed them any minds like they they literally just have no fucking clue and they're not gonna understand so you know I love it it's such a major fuck you it is yeah so it's getting to one more night one more night
[SPEAKER_03]: P-dug, we have bonocks, R-M-Sugar, J-Hope, you know, the same usual people and comments.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this vibe is very tropical.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is like this scinty chill pop track.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the kind of song that you listen to while you're driving it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sunset and some warm weather with the windows.
[SPEAKER_03]: down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your best friends all right there next to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: It takes me a little bit to the tropical like dynamite remix a little bit of the kill.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're say like 24 seven heaven.
[SPEAKER_03]: You were on 24 seven heaven when we were.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do do do do do like one two one two three be at the beginning and immediately like even as I'm saying this my shoulders are moving Like it has me dancing immediately.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am obsessed with it from the first second the song starts.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has this like
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of electronic steel drummy sound that's giving it that topical vibe but it's a little bit scinty like it's not a very punchy steel drum you know it's like it's it's smoothed out and then there's like during j-hope's part there's a little dance EDM vibe that is there's a very similar sound used in the background that kind of choppy sound that's very similar to j-hope's just dance bridge and all those swim is a
[SPEAKER_00]: is a pretty poppy song, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we think that this is the most pop song on this whole album.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's much more epic than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the super kind of pop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the first verse with RM, these lyrics that he shares contrast with the vibe of the song in the opposite way that like animals did like he kind of has some pessimistic lyrics here, even though the song itself is very
[SPEAKER_00]: this might come to an end at some point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like one day I might be crying because of you but you know, I feel you back to me, fallen back to me and it scares me and it already saddens me how our shadows grew to a like, like the issues that we both have, they're too similar and that will like, likely be the end of this relationship, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: By just setting us up into, well, let's just have this, you know, this fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's, let's pretend like that's not happening right now and instead pre-chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the part that hooks me so fucking hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 25 hours in the tub, like 24 hours of your thought.
[SPEAKER_00]: ZZZ, don't wake me up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't wake up my going to the chorus fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love, I absolutely love.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't wake me up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think those ears are so cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so obsessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I just need it up every time.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's fun to sing along too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, really, this song is, I don't know how else to take this long other than romantic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, definitely like.
[SPEAKER_03]: this one more night.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're my fantasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your fantasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's repeat one more night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give it to me one more night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me one more fantasy fantasy with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like even if like with arms or it's like even if we're maybe bad for each other and I can already see how our shadows are growing to it like.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still can't help but to like slip back into you and use the back into me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like let's just give it one more one more night, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who sucks you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: mood up there all day like cloud nine all day walking it side by side these changes surprise me to a gift just by existence a morning together with you it's all understood without words so instead of something grandiose just stay right here next to me and i love his first because it is like
[SPEAKER_03]: We just being in each other's existence is a gift.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't need to do any like large gesture.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to do anything big.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we just got to stand here right next to each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: We understand each other without even words.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's perfect.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wouldn't change your thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we don't even need to talk baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can just be together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then in the bridge, Jay Hope has the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says Celine, you resemble, which we kind of speculate that he's talking about Celine like,
[SPEAKER_03]: the jewelry or like the brand, and he says stay beautiful as you were last night.
[SPEAKER_03]: By my side, break the darkness.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I could see you just one more night, past Don's Light, hit it, get it, do it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jay, how big!
[SPEAKER_03]: He is a freak.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's the one with the lines that are so like there's no other interpreting it than just Hit it get it do it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I was just right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go for it as long as you are I just have to say in the outro like vocal line beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's gin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's tang
[SPEAKER_00]: saying close your eyes to me what you see, baby, I give it to you all night every night is our fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what cracks me up every time and like not in bad light, I love it is RM in the background.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ain't nothing but a dream baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's like, I mean, this is like when people are like,
[SPEAKER_00]: calling him daddy nomging like of course he's in the background being like one by one and none but a dream baby like he's like give it to me you know this is like expensive girl RM like sneaking out here just like it makes it so perfect it's so fun it's so funny and cute and yeah I'm obsessed with the song
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a vibe, it's a total vibe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's get the flees.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, all right, producers, we have Tyler Spray, James Sien, Ryan Tetter, RM, Sugar, and Jay Hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so for this song, we really feel like this truly is classic BTS.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, please, is absolutely a song that you could hear on one of their past albums.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this, this song is the 24-7 Heaven from Dark and Wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like that vibe.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, it's the third time we've mentioned 24-7 heaven in this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just a second, it's only the second time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is like, because it's like the RMB and that's what we get with from that song and from Dark and Wild so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, the beginning of the song reminds us of like a similar beat and like melody of moving on from a to a each part one.
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, like a classic R&B S song from BTS, so it very much feels like them.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is so seductive, like it is a total in-between the sheets song, the level of R&B.
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got the R&B rhythm.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got like the clabs during the verses and then this like nice piano comes into Carious into the chorus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's delicious.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we talked about this being the song where BTS is gonna come out Sure listen the concert.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like
[SPEAKER_00]: J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J
[SPEAKER_03]: Scary territory if they do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like army will be more than blushing in the audience I mean if you thought we were a feral before oh Yeah, yeah, well, let's get into the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_03]: So jungle cuz the intro he says if you want it If you want to I'll do the thing for you if you want if you want it's hard not to sing it like just like Yes, and honestly really it's just him saying like if you're ready I'm ready like just say the word
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me which one we want me to do to you, you know, the chorus, baby, oh, please, when the world divides us, baby, oh, please, I'll take another step closer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm on my knees, stay with me on my worst day, hold you tighter right now, even hell, I'm down.
[SPEAKER_00]: All I want is you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love this, like, when the world divides us, I'll take another step closer, such a beautiful message of like, we're just going to keep, I want, I'm choosing you in every moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay with me on my worst day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold you even tighter now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we just talked about age 12, age part one with moving on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean hold me tight reference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, it is a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then I'm saying like even hell I'm down like even through like the worst situation you can imagine the worst that life condition is like I'm down as long as we're here together.
[SPEAKER_03]: And sugar kind of goes off of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he says any place that you are I'll surely follow Path of Thorns I'll tread right over the world's always getting in between us going in circles Where we getting started and I just feel like yeah like truthfully wherever you are Even if it's on a path of thorns that I have to go over like happily I will walk right over it It's on me can be with you
[SPEAKER_00]: And then RM pre-chorus, you want me just all day?
[SPEAKER_00]: All night, hold me from the front, back, left, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I need you like, oh me, oh my, you got me like, you got me like.
[SPEAKER_00]: And okay, Bethany, I have to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stage, concert, middle of the of the stadium, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: middle of the stadium.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a front back left right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be body rolling in all directions.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're going to be given it to the crowd all over the fan service.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold me from the front back left right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me they're not doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: A thousand percent.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is also the second time.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the album that they've referenced like front-back left-right because they did this during um we we didn't mention it but during body to body in the rainforest when they're like front you know I got it for the front-back left-right Jay helps live so they're clearly referencing like being in the stadium here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I didn't know about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really, they planned it all out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said so, but I mean, this was a really suggestive pre-course from him here, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, Diana wrote, yeah, Jay Hope goes on to say in his verse if I,
[SPEAKER_00]: ever new happiness, it was only you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, my cup runeth over, come and get a sip.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my God, suggestive as hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, praying on it for eternity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your soul and mine find reliance in you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baby, baby, please.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like, oh my God, he's like preaching true love.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, this is true love.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and only you, you're the best part of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is such a love song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a love song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean it's it's a sexy song.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a sexy song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a sexy love song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean I mean you could you could spread it to like yeah The BTS and army relationship to you know, like they just really they would do anything to be with us Right This is that like her it is yes, and is suggestive But I love it and I mean that if you want it if you want it, I'll do the thing for you like
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but I kind of saw some of the song at the beginning, but I really love the song now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a vibe too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't get over it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bethany, I told you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I knew this was going to be an hour and a half long episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Into the sign.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a way to end this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have heavy hitting producers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peatog.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one producer on this album, or on this on this song, Peatog.
[SPEAKER_00]: Diplo Tyler Johnson, Ghost Loop, Nitty, some some of the same writers, but Taeyang, the third highest credited writer on the song, followed by Jimin.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got Tizo Touchdown back in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got some Ghost Loop, RM, Yungi, Jay Hope, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have some work on this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people, great, great combos here, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to see Jim and Tae Young there towards the top of the right of the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: To tell how rare what an opportunity here for them to really have worked on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The song starts with whistling and an electric guitar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when the song ends with the same whistle.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it kind of brings us full circle here to build and to wind it back down.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then at the beginning, Tae Young used a vocoder, aka a voice coder, at the beginning of the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is an audio processor that analyzes a voice and then synthesizes it, creating a robotic talking, synth effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of people were making memes like with the robot emoji or like,
[SPEAKER_00]: putting a fan in front of their mouth like in front of the microphone to go record, but this is like an audio tool.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not used very often.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you hear it, it's like, whoa, that's very different.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first time listening at like, you know, midnight when we got to the song, we both snapped our heads and looked at each other in shock.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like how to say, we started laughing just because it was, we did not expect the sound to come from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then,
[SPEAKER_00]: we restarted the song and once we like knew what it was going to be we immediately acclimated to it and we really liked it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the initial shock was just not expecting to hear that type of vocal, layering and editing but really like I keep going back to like I really was hoping for some sort of experimental push and edge for BTS to really get some weird shit
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just feel like after processing it, we love this experimental edge that this use of the vocoder gives.
[SPEAKER_00]: It pushes the envelope.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love when music has non-traditional elements that give it a unique texture.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why the use of the vocoder does.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just am obsessed with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: it does give it a unique texture and like tambour on it and this is probably one of the songs that has a lot of mixed reviews on just the sound of it because it is jarring first listening first time listening through.
[SPEAKER_03]: I personally really love the layered vocals and I think Kaylee you do too but
[SPEAKER_03]: With the effect it immediately took me to the Beatles because like something about the harmonies and the layering of the voices really took me there The general like experimental overagement of these vocals took me to the Beatles Abbey Roll Road just over all like I Immediately pulled up Abbey Road and was like Kayla like trying to make you listen to like so many different songs on Abbey Road But I was like this song just is like taking me there and
[SPEAKER_03]: The song ending the album, like, it's just really a time of reflection here at the end, like as a whole.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to hear this experimentation, you really see the growth and development and evolution in just this matured sound of BTS now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it really makes me excited for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the albums succumb and the music to come from them here and out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I really hope that
[SPEAKER_03]: The success of Auditong gives them the confidence and reassurance they continue to make the music that they are called to make and this song
[SPEAKER_03]: is that experimentation that maybe this song isn't everyone's cup of tea, but this is kind of where they're leaving off on this album.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like really starting to just do what they want and what they feel is right in the moment and the song overall I think is really bright and happy and positive.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very hopeful with its delivery.
[SPEAKER_03]: These vibes that we were guessing we'd get from
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and also like ending on this experimental note, they also started the album on a quite experimental note with Champlain, Auditong, and Baudit Abadi.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the B and like the production and who again is just insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: for a lot of risks and I love that they, you know, really pushed it here at the end to make this song the new spring day make it the new spring day we're not we don't have to wait for spring anymore for, you know, the skill amount for me just get past that vocoder though.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: BTS all follow you into the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so fucking beautiful and positive and like it's every it's all of the messages that we could get from spring day, but it's it's the 2026 version.
[SPEAKER_00]: Overall, this song itself, as far as the production, besides the vocoder, is stripped down.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a classic strumming guitar, there's simple drums with a lot of kick in there, and the rap verses are very, very calm.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the rap verses bring us down between this massive build-up of vocals that comes during the choruses, with all of the layering, and with all of the crescendo and loud voice that it's coming through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so great balance here that kind of like brings you through the ebb and the flow of the song and brings you up and down, which makes for a great vibe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is the song where you get, and how you get.
[SPEAKER_03]: J.O.P's voice is like a hug.
[SPEAKER_03]: It really feels like a hug.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so many past BTS songs.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is, it's just a really comforting loving song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It ends with this electric guitar that really takes us out of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, this takes me to echo with the more alternative rocks sound, the vocoder drops off, and it's just pure bright vocals.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree, Kayla.
[SPEAKER_03]: I make it the new spring day.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get into these lyrics in the first verse.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the and John Gug, they say, baby, remind me, I want someone like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fires are never dying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want someone like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody knows me, honey.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to go there, I'm ready to be with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just reminded, it's reminded by the fans why they do what they do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I feel like baby you remind me, it's like they see army and they remember why their fires are never dying, why they keep doing what they're doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's someone like us and the audience, it's the listeners who listen to them that
[SPEAKER_03]: knows them and I think this goes back to like they don't know about us like now they're saying like nobody knows me like you know me and I want to go there I'm ready to go with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you remind me of why I'm on the merry-go-round, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: like why they go through all the pain, the abnormal lives, the judgment, the haters, because they remember the people like armies who love them for their authentic selves.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the only person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, of course, you call, I run, I love it, it's simple, it's commitment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dark days and find the sun, no matter what we go through, we're finding the positivity.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how far, just wait, Dawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't care how far have to go, how long it is, just wait, and then we will have this beautiful bright, happy sunshiney warm moment together, the Dawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: The, you know, the new beginning, the new light, so much that Dawn can represent there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, this is where Jay Hubsverse comes in that you said sounds like a hug.
[SPEAKER_00]: I totally agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Him saying, baby, what do you want?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you need?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me how you feel.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, I just, I talk about the parasocial relationship between these guys in arms, but like,
[SPEAKER_00]: But really, I mean, when we feel like we get comfort from them, it's like lines like this of, you know, feeling like what we need to hear, we can hear it from them through their music.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the wind, when the sun sets and the warmth as it rises up, what you must feel, the sunlight from dusk to dawn, him relating to army, him questioning and wondering and trying to get into our shoes a little bit through these lyrics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Until the break of dawn, I will be guarding you into the sun, saying we beat us, we're here to take care of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're here for you to support you, to love you, to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, no matter what, and I think that's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to try.
[SPEAKER_03]: The injury and the gorgeousness of these barracks, truly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can keep going on to say 24 seven feels like 24 like I think he's relating like you know the youth of feeling like you're 24 or years old and how you could like literally run on like two hours of sleep and you know pull over and I just all the time when you're that age
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we make them feel young again 24 seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: We make them feel young Him going on to say don't be afraid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that it's only for a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh Giving me like animals vibes giving me the love and the support don't be afraid knowing that moments can pass Passing through the dark night.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says greeting the morning as it comes
[SPEAKER_00]: Just knowing that we're going to get through this darkness together, we're going to find that dawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be, again, beautiful, super-positive, hopeful imagery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Open the right to sign.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That new beginning, the start of a new day, the freshness, the two-point-out, the future.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's so compassionate in loving these lyrics.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they're just really being so tender with their words and what they're saying to our me here.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the second very space, it's RM and Jen.
[SPEAKER_03]: RM says that our of the dog and wolf, the compass of the broken beast, the refuge that we seek, a human with a breath, rubbles.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to go home to where you are, where the grass grows, and the star set, please pass the fire into this oil you are wonderful.
[SPEAKER_03]: The moon probably won't be coming out today.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just feel like that his whole verse is really so beautiful and how it's describing that, you know, even
[SPEAKER_03]: kind of like, and dark times, I want to go home to where you are and that's where you are is where the grass is growing.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's where things are beautiful past the fire into this oil.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like we can ignite something within him and how wonderful we are that the moon probably won't come out today.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's just like going into the sun.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just the beautiful
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, Jen, guys, this is important.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the most important part of the song.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jen sings.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if we run out of time, I'll chase the feeling, never too far behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: And oh, my God, guys, I need this, Jen, live.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone better be looking at him, appreciating him.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure you will be.
[SPEAKER_03]: But his live vocals here are going to be killer, than never too far behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to blow his eye.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the way, and now there will be tears streaming down my face, like ugly singing with him, belting, I can picture it, and it's going to be iconic, monumental, life-to-thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to hear it alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking forward to it, it's like absolutely something I'm looking forward to.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm never too far behind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, after this too, all of the vocoder drops out and we go into the outro of the repeated all follow you into the sun, into the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is such a perfect way to end the album.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means so much thinking about all that they've gone through as a group, as solo artists through military service and even through making this album that they are finally back, OT7, here with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the song, all throughout reaffirming why we love them so much and why we love their music and that, yes, we'll follow them anywhere, just like they would with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I let get chills and I think it's such a beautiful way to wrap up this entire phenomenal iconic album from this much-awaited group returning from all that they've gone through.
[SPEAKER_03]: it did not disappoint no at all and they really did something special here with all of the pressure in the world on their shoulders they truthfully managed to do it all stay true to themselves bring the the appeal globally to make hits yeah i think it's absolutely fantastic and
[SPEAKER_00]: my favorite BTS album.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's my favorite BTS album too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I don't I mean you could say oh, it's just Reciency bias and I'm not saying that I don't absolutely love their previous albums, but I feel like every single time we hear something new from them we're like oh my gosh this was this is the best they've ever done.
[SPEAKER_00]: But man, what they put into this album, the ranges that they gave us, the authenticity that came through, I just, I'm astonished by it and I truthfully didn't love, can't stop listening like for me, this is a 10 out of 10 album.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a 10 out of 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a no skip.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's one that I will always think fondly of looking back on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it is a declaration of who they are of coming back together after all the same apart.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think it is a beautiful representation of who they are today.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's so embodies who they were in 2013, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how they did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, just many congratulations to BTS for this album.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just incredible album that they were able to give us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't wait to see it on tour.
[SPEAKER_03]: but we know this is a longer episode than normal but I think we was just looking like the album is 41 minutes and we managed to talk about it for three hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen there's a lot to say we said we could have talked about just Hooligan for three hours so it's amazing that when you talk about the whole album and three hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but we, we just, we love being able to pick their music apart like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us know your thoughts about the songs on the second half of the Auditang album.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, tell us in the, the Instagram comments or on Spotify comments or email us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, everywhere anywhere that you can find us on Twitter on X.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us know because we're definitely interested in your thoughts and what you think.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if any of your thoughts were changed or, you know, deepened by our analysis of this, too, because there's a lot to go off of here for and these songs here, we appreciate you listening and, of course, you can find links for all of the things in the description.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.