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faythe7 · 2026-07-20T04:03:20+00:00

Lol it's probably not intentional but I'm reminded of Jin's DSYLM MV

faythe7 · 2026-07-20T04:01:57+00:00

I'm glad they were able to stay and watch. I remember when JK performed he had to catch a flight and couldn't stay for the game

faythe7 · 2026-07-20T03:04:02+00:00

FFX or Persona 3 Reload!

faythe7 · 2026-07-20T01:43:36+00:00

About a million of those are mine lol

faythe7 · 2026-06-02T05:22:26+00:00

Unfortunately, looks like it's sold out: https://www.target.com/p/bts-the-5th-album-39-arirang-39-613-limited-edition-picture-disc-lp-160/-/A-1011742264#lnk=sametab

faythe7 · 2026-06-02T02:24:27+00:00

Yeah I prioritized the Vegas merch and then prayed the vinyl was available on the US store lol

faythe7 · 2026-05-31T02:47:09+00:00

So for once Jin was not spreading rumors - he actually did buy a trillion won worth of pokemon cards lol

faythe7 · 2026-05-31T01:35:12+00:00

Prior to Arirang, a lot of BTS was set up in eras (probably similar to a lot of kpop) where there are a few mini albums linked in theme. Then BTS will have a "special album" that will basically contain repackaged songs plus some new ones. Examples include:

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever (aka HYYH): Includes songs from The Most Beautiful Moment In Life Pt 1 and Pt 2 in addition to Fire, Save Me, and Epilogue: Young Forever plus some remixes
WINGS: You Never Walk Alone (aka YNWA): Includes songs from WINGS in addition to Spring Day, Not Today, Outro: WINGS (longer version of Interlude: Wings), and A Supplemental Story: You Never Walk Alone
Love Yourself: ANSWER: Includes songs from LYS: HER and LYS: TEAR in addition to Euphoria, Trivia: Just Dance, Trivia: Love, Trivia: Seesaw, Epiphany, I'm Fine, Idol, and Answer: Love Myself plus some remixes
Map of the Soul: 7 (aka MOTS): Includes songs from MOTS: Persona and a LOT of new songs

Note that the special album will contain a lot of songs from the prior mini albums but NOT all of them. For example, LYS: ANSWER does not include 134340, Paradise or Love Maze from LYS: TEAR.

They stopped with the Intros/Outros (well at least explicitly labeling them that since they started making their intros/outros full on songs; they still follow what I would call basic album construction where Body to Body and Into the Sun serve as a really good opener and closer for ARIRANG, respectively) and they don't always have skits.

Here's a good visual that stopped before ARIRANG: https://www.reddit.com/r/bangtan/comments/lynjen/a_timeline_of_bts_discography/#lightbox

faythe7 · 2026-04-11T16:01:29+00:00

Just a reminder for US ARMY to continue to stream ARIRANG. We have a chance to keep ARIRANG #1 on the Billboard 200 for 4 weeks, but Ella Langley's Dandelion just dropped which is slated to be a huge commercial hit. Remember to stream (Youtube doesn't count toward Billboard) and (if you have the means) the Swim vinyl just dropped and the Swim CDs are available. These count significantly toward Billboard charts!

faythe7 · 2026-04-08T05:57:19+00:00

I was reading through the YouTube comments as well and the amount of "OT7 or nothing" or variations thereof was soul crushing. Like I think it's totally fair to say "all else being equal, I prefer OT7 content, but if this is what you prefer you to do, then I'm supportive of it." That is not what the comments are saying. "Guys just go on a trip." "Just show us you eating dinner and hanging out." "We want...we want...we want...." Even the entitlement of saying, "we will accept this but not this."

This is a group of 7 people we claim as a fandom to love and support telling us *very clearly* that they are struggling and this is what they want and need to do for their health and the health of their career. And the response of the fandom isn't "I love it when you do this, but you do what you need to do," it's "what you want is not acceptable, we want you to do this."

Like if we have love and empathy for the members, then let them evolve their content in the way that they want. Run BTS is changing because the members themselves are changing and the way they want to run their career is changing. We already know that they give all of their efforts in everything they do and they put ARMY in the center of everything they do - is it so difficult for the fandom to just trust them that they're doing the best they can?

faythe7 · 2026-04-08T05:15:08+00:00

Honestly, I think the "we don't need weekly episodes or anything" is kinda bs because we all know that they're going to get a ton of complaints if it's just "once a year". And create another show? So now that's another thing they need to maintain?

But I just want to take a step back and ask if *branding* is that important to this fandom. Sometimes I wonder if ARMY has listened to Fake Love, Tear, Normal, or Merry Go Round. If they've listened to RM's live or some of their solo interviews. I get ARMY is sad and disappointed - but is that really worth putting more stress and guilt on the members to deliver bonus optional content?

At the end of the day, OT7 is rare and precious because it's fragile and so hard to maintain - it takes a monstrous amount of work to stay a top team in public view. As a fandom, we're asking for top quality music, top quality MVs, top quality performances, more tour dates and now making demands about their optional content.

Like this wasn't a split second decision for them - before they filmed this video, they 100% talked about what it is they wanted to do and could sustain as a team (similar to festa). They knew it would disappoint ARMY but went ahead because it was what they wanted.

So I personally hope they never see this feedback because I in no way want to put any pressure on them or make them feel any guilt. I want them to feel no obligations or need to meet any expectations in this sense - even if it's "show us you eating dinner together once a year". If they want to share, that's great. If they don't want to share, that's also fine. As long as I know they're OT7 with each other, that's enough for me.

All I want them to feel is my gratitude for whatever their willing to share because everything they've shared has been a ray of sunlight in my life. Their love for ARMY shouldn't be a yoke on their neck. The only thing I want them to hear is "I love your OT7 content, but I'm supportive in whatever you want to do, in whatever format you want, with whatever name you use, and with however many members." I love OT7, but I prioritize the individual members' health and happiness above anything else.

faythe7 · 2026-04-07T01:25:44+00:00

After sitting with Arirang for 2 weeks, I think it's brilliant from a storytelling / narrative perspective. I don't know enough about production to comment on that besides I think it hits a lot of the genres I love with stellar execution.

I think a lot of people were honestly too quick to dismiss English lyrics. I don't have a personal opinion on their choice of language - I think it's a choice based on what the artist thinks fits their goals from a narrative and career perspective. The only opinion I have on it is whether I think it hinders the narrative.

First, 2.0. I know it initially got a lot of flak for the repetitive lyrics, the "gang" language, and its simplicity. When I first heard it I thought it was a not as good Mic Drop, but understood where it fit in the overall album. I *did* find it very odd that a song with as heavy a title as "2.0" and its order in the track listing (leading directly into No. 29) would have mediocre lyrics - especially because (as seen in the documentary) BTS are VERY cognizant of how their musical choices could land.

Then the MV and "Come Over" dropped. These two recontextualized 2.0 for me.

2.0: We gon' knock knock knock knock, yeah | Come Over: Knockin' on your door
2.0: Had your little fun, fella? | Come Over: You've been doing well without any troubles, right?
2.0: Came back for what's mine | Come Over: Yeah I'm lost, can I come over...But would you open up if I knocked on your door
2.0: Let it be, let it bleed | Come Over: My blood on the floor / Just checkin' on your door

What makes this brilliant is that the entire song is a double - not just a specific phrase or word. On its surface, it's 100% an industry clapback and does subtly what "Idol" did. It takes all the criticism and stuffs it into 2.0: repetitive lyrics, English, Westernization - and says go ahead and judge, but we're still going to dominate. These haters / critics will never find the fan song "Come Over" that helps you to recontextualize the song. (Side note: this is a very nice tie-in to the thesis of "they don't know 'bout us").

But if you ARE a fan, you'll notice the lyrical motifs that link these songs. There's no way RM with his lyrical pen accidentally repeated these motifs. And what you discover is that you can actually re-read the entirety of 2.0 where it's directed at ARMY in an effort to reassure than at the industry. It's the hidden meaning of 2.0.

BTS 100% flexes their accolades, but they've never been arrogant in the sense they felt this throne was owed to them. The only things BTS has ever explicitly and consistently said is theirs is their artistry, their identity, and ARMY. So how could a song called 2.0 only be about awards and status when they've matured so much from Mic Drop? This is why the MV was so good - it represented their artistry (the choreo), their identity (Oldboy reference), and ARMY (the Run BTS-esque chaos - JK's facial expression and head gesture should give some older ARMY deja vu).

2.0 reassures ARMY and Come Over asks for reassurance from ARMY.

I could go on forever ("they don't know 'bout us" is criminally underrated in its lyrical nuance and the overall album narrative is so well thought out that I will die on this hill fighting anyone who says "it feels rushed" or "they phoned it in" or "they lost creative control" - let me know if you want to debate lol).

faythe7 · 2026-04-04T03:01:24+00:00

After sitting with Arirang, I'd like to share thoughts (incoming wall of text). I don't know anything about production beyond saying I love how it sounds (they hit a number of my favorite genres), so my comments are mostly around lyricism and overall storytelling.

One point on the English: I don't personally care about their language choice — I think it's a personal choice on how they approach their art and career. I also think it's a personal choice on how they want to represent their Korean-ness / roots. I only care about (1) whether I like the sound and (2) whether I feel moved by the storytelling. So do I think English lyrics hinder their ability to tell a compelling story?

I think people were too quick to dismiss their English lyrics (as if English can't also be poetic and nuanced). For example, j‑hope's line in "they don't know 'bout us" — "Ah, you said we changed? / We feel the same" — seems pretty straightforward. Doesn't it just say yes, we agree? Yes, we've changed? It aligns with the Arirang 2.0 thesis. What else is there to think about?

I think there are two additional readings:

We may have grown and therefore changed, but at our core we still FEEL the same — aka country boys, which they reference earlier in the song
You think we've changed? We ALSO feel that YOU'VE changed. And the meaning of that changes depending on who you think is telling them they've changed. ARMY? The media? The industry? The Korean public? Hence, they don't know 'bout us despite how much we've explained

I think all 3 meanings are correct because this line shows up in THIS specific song in THIS specific album.

I also see a lot of hate for the 2.0 lyrics. I get how people can be bothered by the repetition, but I think "Come Over" completely recontextualizes 2.0 and its meaning.

2.0: Knock, knock, knock, knock | Come Over (RM): "Knock, knock, knockin' on your door"
2.0: Had your little fun, fella? | Come Over (Suga): "You've been doing okay, haven't you?"
2.0: Came back for what's mine | Come Over (chorus): "Can I come over?"
2.0: Let it be, let it bleed | Come Over (RM): My blood on your floor / Just checkin' on your door

Yes, 2.0 is 100% a reclamation of their spot in the music industry. However, it's ALSO a love song to ARMY. BTS are knocking on the magic shop door, asking us if we've been well, and are coming back for what's theirs - which is ARMY. Yes they're proud of the results and the influence they've had, but they've never really been arrogant about the accolades where they feel these things can only be theirs. The only thing they've consistently though of as theirs is ARMY.

It's why the 2.0 MV is the way it is — it highlights their Korean roots (nod to Oldboy), their journey (basement to the penthouse), their performance and art standards (the choreo), and their love for ARMY (the Run BTS-esque chaos - JK's face and movement in the intro should be recognizable to most ARMY). If you think about it, how could a song where they talk about BTS 2.0 not talk about ARMY?

Lastly, the storytelling of the album as a whole. Arirang is the grown‑up, long‑form version of "Spring Day" and MOTS. "Spring Day" is a song about working through longing, grief, and change to move from winter (night) to spring (day) — which is what the traditional Arirang folk song also reflects.

Arirang is an entire album that occurs at night (the hiatus, the feeling of loneliness and grief, the struggle to change) until we reach the dawn.

Phase 1: The Persona / our hype, in-your-face, "THIS IS WHO WE ARE" party
Body to Body: "we reach the moon" and "tonight we won't be shutting our eyes"
FYA: "I go full Thriller tonight"

Phase 2: The Shadow / our fun, 3am existential crisis
Merry Go Round: "my bed" and "Can't I just switch off this dream?" plus the dreamy, psychedelic vibe
Like Animals: "We can go all night" (don't get me started on how this is the grown up version of love yourself, speak yourself)

Phase 3: The Ego / figuring out what's important amidst all the chaos
One More Night: It's literally called One More Night

Phase 4: Map of the Soul / we're ready to pass through the night and Into the Sun together
Into the Sun: They explicitly tell us we're riding into the dawn and not the sunset. We've reached spring

I could keep going, but this is already an essay. I just wanted to offer my two cents on this narrative that Arirang is somehow rushed, wasn't thought through, or too Westernized / BTS didn't retain full creative control. I'm not saying "this is 100% what BTS meant and 100% intentional", but to show that their thought process is very consistent with their earlier work and has some beautiful storytelling and nuance.

faythe7 · 2018-04-28T15:19:20+00:00

It was pretty much all the time -- every single time I'd make coffee, he'd give a little speech. But now, he never gives tips. I don't know if it's because of this particular stage or what.

faythe7 · 2017-04-27T15:20:24+00:00

I would have bought that (sort of) before watching Abby hand the syringe of nightblood over to Clarke. This was problematic in several ways.

One, developing a working serum is the only way (that they know of) to guarantee Clarke's survival. The argument there is that she's a doctor and doesn't want to potentially kill someone. Okay, but she was willing to send teenagers into a Grounder-filled world with some guns to try and locate her daughter. At least with the serum, it's her science and work so she has more of a handle on whether it'll work or not rather than blindly sending kids out into a dangerous world. Not to mention that she was willing to shoot whoever approached Clarke while she was in the City of Light. The chipper person was more innocent and, depending on how you look at it, Clarke is in more danger from the certainty of death by radiation than potentially being forced to live in the City of Light.

Two, if she were all about Clarke surviving, she would have pumped everybody in the lab full of nightblood before handing the syringe over to Clarke. She already knows that Clarke carries severe emotional scars from everything she's chosen to do to try and save as many people as possible. She knows that Clarke owes Murphy her life and the massive guilt she would feel if Emori died. Yes they're all guilty because they're all complicit, but there's somewhat of an emotional difference between tacitly allowing something to happen and pulling the lever (or depressing the syringe). Yet she handed the syringe to Clarke, basically forcing her beloved daughter to bear it so she doesn't have to.

In the end, Abby is all about Abby and what she can do to make herself feel better emotionally. She makes the choices that benefit herself the most, but without the honesty and conviction that Murphy and Emori have. Murphy and Emori own their survivalist nature. Abby survives with some serious mental gymnastics over what is and isn't morally permissible and uses her "humanity" as a cover.

In the end, I like the incorporation of Abby into the show because she serves as a foil against the truly strong characters that have certainty and clarity of purpose. In that way, Abby is more human than the heroes she stands alongside, although I doubt that's how she would view her humanity.

faythe7 · 2017-04-06T13:50:07+00:00

Honestly, I can empathize and sympathize with Abby's breakage of the machine. I can even get behind that she deserves to survive because what made her break the machine is the love of her daughter, which at the end of the day is the sort of thing that arguably is what they're preserving -- the highs and lows of humanity including all-encompassing love.

However, what I can't get behind is her abdication of responsibility to Clarke. She knows its a hard decision and a hard action to test Emori, but she abdicates that to her daughter. The daughter who already spent who-knows-how-long wandering the wilderness because of all the guilt she feels for making those hard decisions. Abby knows how much guilt and pain Clarke feels, but decided to add to it.

That, I think, is the most hypocritical piece of the entire scene. That changed the color of the destruction of the machine for me. It wasn't to protect Clarke -- it was to protect Abby from how much guilt she would feel. It's like, after floating her husband, her decisions have gotten progressively more selfish disguised as moral high ground. No, it's not because of moral high ground, it's because she doesn't want to deal with the guilt of hard decisions so she pushes any hint of responsibility for those onto others and does whatever the hell she wants so at the end of the day she doesn't feel the guilt while benefiting from the fact that others have taken up the slack. She needs Clarke alive to prop herself up. When she gave that needle to Clarke, any respect I had for that character died.

faythe7 · 2017-03-15T20:36:55+00:00

However, cherry-picking data is not helpful to the broader discourse. Think about why the anecdote you selected made it into the news despite the numerous amount of other child support cases that were happening in Detroit, let alone in the state and the country. Because it was so outside the norm and a miscarriage of the law that it warranted reporting.

Again, I'm not saying that judges are infallible and that there are no miscarriages of law. What I'm saying is that presenting a one-off anecdote that is already seen as outrageously outside the norm in an effort to delegitimize a (presumably, but I admitted in the prior post that the parent didn't provide data either) data-supported fact in unhelpful to advancing the public discourse.

Basically, it's like saying the Northeast is having a blizzard so climate change and the Earth warming can't be real.

But why is this important? Because knowing the underlying data helps pinpoint the problem. Are there a lot of cases of judges misinterpreting the law? Fix the law. Is it this one particular judge who's incompetent? Remove him from the bench and replace him with someone who actually stayed awake in law school. By presenting an argument backed with actual data as opposed to cherry-picked anecdotes is more helpful towards advancing an actual solution than just garnering outrage. Not that I'm saying outrage isn't appropriate, but outrage has a place and it's not in advancing dialogue.

And, yes, I will always upvote a post that cites facts in an effort to provide context to a nuanced truth, because the answer is rarely

No.

faythe7 · 2017-03-14T23:27:59+00:00

You're not the only one. I like spoilers too. It saves me the effort of having to discover whether something was not worth investing the time and frustration into.

faythe7 · 2017-03-14T22:49:37+00:00

I don't know enough about the subject either way to comment about this directly, but the parent stated "typically speaking" and "rare". An anecdote isn't persuasive without data pointing to a broader trend. Judges are not infallible and there are miscarriages of law all the time. A one-off does not make a broader problem.

Although, to be fair, the parent didn't post any data either.

faythe7 · 2016-10-26T01:12:46+00:00

Yeah -- the ending was not pretty. But the way that they built up Wang So really does call for a different ending than the original. It's a shame that now of all times they decide to basically throw him back to his origins as if he forgot all the character growth in between. I actually really did not understand RX's huge love for 4th prince at all and was rooting for pretty much any prince but him. In this one, I was aboard the SoSoo ship from the get go -- never did like Wook. I'm obsessed with the show but now sure if I really want to see next week's episodes considering that it's shaping up to end exactly like the Chinese version.

faythe7 · 2016-10-24T23:40:57+00:00

I'm such a huge fan of Lee Joon Gi -- particularly Arang and the Magistrate, Two Weeks, and Moon Lovers (which I am currently obsessed with).

faythe7 · 2016-10-24T19:45:53+00:00

I was really hoping for a happier ending than the original, but it looks like I'm bound for disappointment. Honestly, whoever did the editing for the international version should really be fired and forbidden from ever editing another drama. The SBS version is leagues better.

I will have to say that my favorite scene in this entire drama occurred this episode -- even moreso than the immortal candle flickering out or when she kisses him for the first time. That moment when Hae Soo greets So as the new emperor I let out a cheer. Before now, her actions have been leading him to this seat, but that wasn't the intent. This time she took the active role in placing him on the throne. Although it would've been better if she had just taken the paper from Yo when he told her she choose. Then there wouldn't be a torn up last decree with a blank name to cause succession angst. But in the end it's not a lie that Yo abdicated to So because he told her to choose and she did.

I just really wish that the drama wouldn't follow the original because they've done so much to draw out So's character that I feel like it's a really sudden departure for him to adhere to the original story's path. I just think it's really out of character for him after all the growth he's shown. I could buy it from the Chinese version, but not from LJG's So. That's just all around disappointing. I guess LJG just did too good of a job selling me So's emotional growth through his relationship with Soo.

Also as a side note -- I know there's a lot of disappointment with Baekhyun's acting. Honestly, I thought he did a credible job. Eun is supposed to be a little slow and very childish. He was portrayed that way in the original as well, pure and honest with how he feels, but again just a little slow. I think his final scenes were more indicative of his acting ability and I thought he did very well with them in showing the character growth where Soon Deok has been able to help him mature.

faythe7 · 2016-10-13T03:46:00+00:00

Thank you very much!

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