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“I just want to say that I’m always grateful, and I truly love you.”😭💜 🐨: That’s why I deliberately take the time — even spending an hour like this — to talk to all of you. And I believe the fact that as many as 3.7 million of you came to watch this live means that this struggle of mine is meaningful. 🐨: It’s because you love us. And I hope this album helps you understand my decisions, my lyrics, and my inner self. 🐨: Anyway, I’ll stop here for now. We have another performance tomorrow, so I feel like I’m going to lose my voice. Thank you for watching. I’ll keep reminding myself what truly matters and what I’m doing. 🐨: I just want to say that I’m always grateful, and I truly love you. 🐨: I’ll be going now. Tomorrow is the last day. Bye.
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Namjoon about Like Animals💜 🐨: Like Animals.. 🐨: This was another song that originally came out of the pre-sessions, and it was actually a really sexual song at first. The lyrics were kind of like… you know? ‘If you wanna be animals, baby we can be animals…’ 🐨: And then what was the next line again? Something like ‘living in pain is beautiful’ maybe? It had this whole sadism-masochism kind of vibe — basically a song about becoming wild like animals together. 🐨: But we felt that releasing something overtly sexual wasn’t really the right timing for us right now, so we changed it into a song more about drawing out instinct and raw emotion instead. 🐨: Though honestly, I do think going fully sexual with it could’ve worked too. The sound itself already has this naturally sexy atmosphere to it. I personally really love ‘Like Animals.’ 🐨: I really like psychedelic music, and this was a style we’d never tried before. Artemas helped a lot with that kind of sound too. We felt like we needed sounds like this to move forward and evolve. We can’t just keep doing the same things we’ve always done. That’s probably what we were thinking. 🐨: But at the same time, performing ‘Attack on Bangtan’ again today also felt really good. Like… wow, this is genuinely exciting. There’s really something romantic about our team. I think that’s what I felt.
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Namjoon about No.29💜 🐨: Next is “No. 29.” 🐨: It’s actually about the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok. While we were working on the album, I met the current director of the National Museum of Korea, Yoo Hong-jun, and that’s when I heard this story. 🐨: Apparently, they were going to ring the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok again for inspection purposes for the first time in something like 15 or 20 years, and they wanted around ten notable figures to come and strike the bell. So they invited me to Gyeongju, because that’s where the bell is located, and said they hoped I could come ring it too. 🐨: And I was like: “Whoa… I really want to hear that.” But I think the schedules didn’t work out at the time, so I couldn’t go. I still feel really disappointed about that. 🐨: Then I think this idea maybe came from Bang PD. Since this topic came up, instead of doing skits the old way like us joking around in cars and talking randomly, we thought: “What if we included something like this instead?” It could create a meaningful divide between the first section of the album, which is more hype and intense, and the later section, which is more emotional and pop-oriented. 🐨: So there’s this part where the frequency slowly disappears around 1 minute and 37 seconds. I’m really sad I never got to hear the bell in person. Someday, if I ever get the chance to strike it myself, I’d really love to hear it properly. And honestly, someday I’d love to even play it during a concert too.
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Jimin saying it’s heartbreaking to see Namjoon got hurt😭😭 🐿️: Knock, knock, knock, knock. 🐥: I love you. I love you. I love you. 🐿️: Wow, why is this like… Ah, I really want to show you the performance of all seven of us on stage, the one where we dance together soon. Right? Once Namjoon recovers quickly 🐥: Exactly. 🐥: I hope we can show it to you. First of all, it’s heartbreaking that he got hurt, but at the same time I don’t like it, so today I’m going to give him a playful spanking, like ten times on the butt. He deserves a scolding. 🐿️: Intensely, okay? 🐥: I’ll do it properly.
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Namjoon about Swim💜 🐨: Next is “Swim,” and honestly, I really love this song. I think a lot of people were probably disappointed by it. Like, it’s not exciting in the way “Dynamite” was, and it’s not an intense hip-hop performance track like “Hooligan” or “2.0,” so some people probably thought, “Why did they release such a subdued, low-energy song?” 🐨: But the reality is simple: No better song than “Swim” came out. We never originally intended for “Swim” to be the title track. But we had to think about radio play too, whether the song would have longevity, versatility, and lasting appeal. And in the end, “Swim” was the only song that checked all those boxes. 🐨: Honestly, I think title tracks themselves barely mean anything anymore these days. There’s more of a “lead single” concept now. Especially in American pop music, there really isn’t this rigid “title track” idea anymore. 🐨: So what made me really happy after “Arirang” came out was that it wasn’t just “Swim” getting attention. Of course Jungkook charting happened and ARMY worked incredibly hard streaming and supporting, but I also loved seeing “Body to Body” becoming a hot topic “Hooligan” getting talked about, “2.0” getting attention, even “Normal” being discussed. For an idol group album, it’s honestly really hard for so many tracks from the same album to all get talked about and chart simultaneously. 🐨: Maybe “Swim” felt less sonically stimulating compared to the others, but I was still so happy that the album as a whole was getting that much discussion and love. 🐨: Writing the lyrics for “Swim” took a really long time. And honestly, it feels sad to say this in 2026, but I wanted this to become a meaningful song too. Since it became the title track — because no stronger radio song than “Swim” came out — I wanted it to carry meaning. 🐨: The truth is, I’m actually not very good at swimming. But I think I started seeing life itself as swimming. Even during military service, counting down days one by one… waiting, wandering, just swimming forward through each day, one breath at a time. That’s why this song feels really sad to me. To me, it feels like the song of BTS in their thirties: becoming more mature, building deeper rapport with fans, living more adult lives, each person carrying their own life forward. 🐨: So lyrically and emotionally, this song means a lot to me personally. Of course, maybe it would’ve been nice if there had been an even better title track. But I think this is the kind of song that will stay with me for a very long time. Honestly, I wish it received even more love. 🐨: Of course, performance is such an important part of who we are, and BTS grew from intense hip-hop sounds and powerful performances, so I understand why some people might find “Swim” underwhelming. 🐨: But for me… “Swim” is the kind of song I’d want to hear at my own grave someday. It sounds like a love song, but it’s also about life itself. I wanted it to feel open enough to be interpreted both ways. Looking at “you” beneath the moon and the sharks — that “you” could be someone I love, the fans, myself, or even my own life. 🐨: I think it’s a very rare song that contains all kinds of emotions together, joy, anger, sorrow, happiness. So yeah… that’s what “Swim” is to me. Personally, I just wish more people would love it a little more. And honestly, after finishing this album, I think I came to a sad conclusion: people don’t really listen to lyrics anymore. So if anyone hears what I’m saying now, I hope they’ll go back and look a little more deeply at what we were trying to say through this album. That’s my personal wish. 🐨: I still have a lot more I want to say about “Swim,” and I think I’ll probably keep talking about it in the future too. But anyway, I really love this song. I also really loved the “Keep Swimming” campaign. Because honestly, life isn’t all that extraordinary. There are happy days, sad days… and all of us are just swimming forward one day at a time.
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“So what if I’m an alien?” The man you’re Kim Namjoon🫠 🐨: This song got a bit of a cheesy vibe but it was intentional, and I wanted it to be straightforward like this. 🐨: Of course, I could’ve written those lyrics about being Korean in a more artistic or more ‘fancy’ way but I wanted to preserve the nuance and texture of the original lyrics. 🐨: This song is just ah.. 🐨: Like, ‘So what if I’m an alien?’ — hearing international ARMY sing along to this song together feels really moving somehow. 🐨: You know how there’s that interesting phenomenon where things kind of get reversed? 🐨: So honestly, whether these lyrics became a meme or something people mocked, I think I actually wanted more people to hear them. The lyrics of this song are actually very straightforward and direct.
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Hobi’s message for fans💜 🐿️: Actually, yesterday I tried learning an instrument for the first time. Playing the drums, I felt my heart beating along with it. It had been so long since I felt that thrill of learning something new. So what I want to say is if there's something you want to do, it's not too late. Try anything, take on the challenge. And something you didn't even know about yourself might just come alive in that moment. That's exactly what happened to me yesterday. I don't know if it'll last, but... it's always good to try, right?
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Love you Jin😭 👤: What’s your biggest personal ambition for the next five years? 🐹: My biggest dream has been to go on tour with BTS and meet as many fans as I can from all over the world. But when we first got our tour plans, it didn't have very many stops, and it was only going to last about three to four months. I said now that we're back, we promised so many people that we would come and meet them, and I feel like this is breaking our promise. I'd like to restructure this tour so that we can touch on more cities than this. So that's how we landed on the final tour schedule. We were able to extend a four-month tour to over a year.
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So Jin said that Yoongi bought Nintendo but couldn’t play because of the payment failure and the chaos began😭 Q: Would you tell me something about another member maybe none of us knows? 🐹: So one of our members bought a game machine like 🐨: Nintendo Nintendo 🐹: Nintendo yeah, like console, yeah, and but couldn’t start the game because of the payment failure. 🐱: It’s me, it’s me! 👤: Which one was it? 🐨: Suga, Suga 👤: I got you 🐨: That’s so generous 👤: Wait, anybody else need money? He’s giving it away 🐥: I also had a payment failure 🐹: To think about it, I also had a payment failure
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Hobi talking about the tour😭 🐿️: I was honestly just really happy coming here. I mentioned this earlier during my ending ment today when I was speaking in Korean. It’s our first time touring together as seven again in a long while. It’s been such a long time since we last toured while living away for over a month at a time. I was really excited. Leaving for the tour felt really exciting. 🐿️: I was excited thinking about what kinds of things would happen and how the tour would go. At the beginning, I changed my hair too, and I kept thinking about what kind of styling and look I wanted to show everyone. I was really excited, and it was exactly as much as I had expected. Honestly, I think it turned out to be an even more enjoyable tour than I had imagined. So It was kind of different. 🐿️: I think it felt quite different from the tours we did before our military service. I think we were able to enjoy the performances more and just be happier on stage. Honestly, when you think about it, a concert only feels complete because there are people there watching us. 🐿️: But these days, I’ve been uploading our soundchecks a lot, right? As I keep posting them, I’ve also been saving them to my stories almost like little records or memories. And while looking back on that journey, I found myself thinking, ‘Did we really do this many concerts? It just felt so surreal all of a sudden, coming back here again. 🐿️: I feel like we were able to create some truly beautiful moments. I loved it so much.
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Namjoon about Into The Sun💜 🐨: Into the Sun 🐨: This is the final track. The song was already good on its own, but during the concerts… that’s where it truly revealed its value. 🐨: Even today, just a few hours ago during “Into the Sun,” I felt so many different emotions all at once. I think a truly great song is one that can give you that kind of layered mix of feelings; joy, sadness, longing, gratitude, everything at the same time. 🐨: There are seven of us walking toward the sunset, toward the fading sun. But that “sun” is really the ocean of ARMY Bombs, fifty, sixty thousand fans. And during that moment, the lights shine toward the audience too, so you can actually see everyone’s faces one by one so clearly. 🐨: The slogans people hold up, the atmosphere… honestly, this is one of the moments I look forward to the most during a concert. 🐨: Taehyung worked really well with the other producers on this track, and from the very beginning we all said, “This song is too good. It absolutely has to be on the album.” 🐨: And Jin’s voice on this song is incredibly beautiful too. 🐨: For this track, I decided I wanted to write entirely in Korean. After working on RPWP and going through my solo projects, I had moved away from my older style. I stopped trying to write in overly literary or poetic ways, stopped painting elaborate images with words. But with this song, I wanted to return to that original side of myself. So I wrote lines about: “the hour when dogs and wolves can no longer be distinguished,” “the beasts’ compass breaking,” “human escape,” “rebelling in front of noise and regret,” “wanting to return to the home where you wait for me,” “the grass growing there, the stars fading,” “suffering inside the fire but still wanting to return,” “wanting to go back to a night where the moon never rises.” 🐨: To me, this song is a really good example of what this album became: it’s more polished and modern, but it still carries the emotional flavor that has always been uniquely ours. 🐨: And the hook; “Follow into the sun is something anyone can sing along to instantly. Just like “You call, I run.” I think it’s the perfect song to close the album. Honestly… I don’t think there’s anything I’d want to criticize about it.
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“So I tried very hard to forget about V of BTS for a while, so that I could concentrate on living my life as Kim Taehyung.” 🥹🥹 Q: How did you feel when you in 2022 when it became clear that there was going to be a break? 🐻: Well, while we were in the military, no matter how much we wanted to perform, it just wasn't something we were able to do. So I did really yearn to perform. I wanted to release an album, I wanted to sing and dance. I definitely felt that... Desire? Let's call it desire. But since we were needed by our country, we had to do the best with our situation at the time. So I tried very hard to forget about V of BTS for a while, so that I could concentrate on living my life as Kim Taehyung.
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This part😭 🐻: If I think about Army, Army is BTS itself and also our identity because we just didn't know that we would be, you know, like this much of a success at the very beginning when we started off. We just wanted to let our music speak for itself and then we got to meet Army. Army was the one that marketed us and spread our music. Because of that we’ve gotten bigger. So when I’m given this question I’d say they’re BTS itself and also our identity.
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BTS WON “SONG OF THE SUMMER” AWARD WITH SWIM AT THE 2026 AMAS! CONGRATULATIONS BTS!😭
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Namjoon about Merry Go Round💜 🐨: Next is ‘Merry Go Round,’ and this one is similar to ‘SWIM’ in a lot of ways. They kind of share the same emotional core. 🐨3 Do I still have enough battery? I’m not sure. Maybe I should at least lower the screen brightness… 🐨: Anyway, when we first started working on songs, there was a producer named Sam who came in early on. While we were working and just casually talking, the topic of Tame Impala came up. I told him, ‘I’m such a huge Tame Impala fan. I’ve always wanted to work with him, even during my solo projects but never got the chance.’ Then Sam told me he was actually friends with Tame Impala and had worked with him before. So I don’t know whether this beat was purely Tame Impala’s or if Sam had worked on it together with him, but while listening through tracks, he played me this beat. And I immediately thought ‘Wow, I really love this.’ 🐨: This is another example of how sessions work. I heard the beat, but then I had to leave for another room, so before I left, I asked Aldae — one of the songwriters who contributed a lot to this album, and someone incredibly talented who also worked on songs like Flowers by Miley Cyrus — if he could try writing a melody around the topic of a merry-go-round for this beat. 🐨: Because during military service, and honestly while living as an idol or singer too, every day feels repetitive. You can’t really escape the cycle. If ‘SWIM’ is about hope, then ‘Merry Go Round’ is about the fatigue and despair inside that repetition. 🐨: I told him, ‘I always thought about a merry go round. During the military too, and even living this life, I kept imagining a merry go round I couldn’t get off of.’ 🐨: Then I went to another room for about an hour, and when I came back, Aldae had already completed the melody and lyrics. It was so good. 🐨: I played it for all the members and said, ‘This song really has to make the album. To me, this feels like another “Spring Day.”’ And that’s how it got included. 🐨: It’s a sad song, honestly. Probably the only song on the album that’s openly, unmistakably sad. Aldae wrote the lyrics based on the things I told him. 🐨: I wish that I could tell you that it’s over I wish that I could walk away from pain My life is like a broken roller coaster But maybe I’m the only one to blame” 🐨: Yeah… it’s my fault, right? In the end, everyone feels like their life is their own responsibility. I think that was the emotion behind it.
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They’re planing to have Hobi for the next live and have a discussion about Hobi’s Seokcheong honey😭 🐨: Next time J-Hope comes, we’ll discuss J-Hope’s Seokcheong honey. What exactly are the effects of J-Hope's Seokcheong? 🐹: It’s so good 🐻: We really talked about this a lot too 🐹: We really need to get seokcheong 🐻: Why can’t we get this rock honey abroad? 🐨: And why does J-Hope’s rock honey have a texture that’s different from regular honey? 🐻: Why is Himalayan rock honey toxic? 🐹: But now, Hobi’s honey is almost finished, so we need to refill it. 🐹: Taehyung and I felt a bit guilty about the rock honey, so we played rock-paper-scissors and agreed only the winner would eat it, but even though Taehyung lost, he still ate it. What do you think about this? 🐨: Well, actually… 🐹: Isn’t that… kind of a pretty shameless thing to do? No matter how well you have to perform, if I can’t eat Hobi’s rock honey in that situation, I feel like my condition for the day might be off—kind of like a superstition… right? 🐻: I have that kind of superstition 🐹: But we made a promise, didn't we? 🐻: A promise? Hyung. Ah, right 🐹: We made a promise, remember? 🐨: If we were going to play rock-paper-scissors, we shouldn’t have done it then. 🐹: Exactly! 🐻: Ah, the promise. 🐹: We made a promise. 🐻: A promise, okay. 🐹: So what are you going to do next time? Are we really going to let only the winner of rock-paper-scissors eat it? If you say no, then we don’t have to do it anymore. But that wouldn’t be fun. 🐻: But to me, rock honey is like a kind of adrenaline shot for the concert. 🐹: When did you start eating it? 🐨: At first, it was like, “why would anyone eat that?” “What even is that? 🐹: “Just eat normal honey.” 🐹: I clearly heard it, “why would you eat something like this?” “Just eat honey” I clearly heard it during the concert in Korea. 🐨: “The aura is leaving” “ You kidnapped a great honeybee just because you wanted to eat some great honey." 🐹: “At some point, this rock honey started to mean something to me” 🐨: “If I don’t have this rock honey, I get down right away.” 🐻: The effect of Seokcheong was truly remarkable. 🐹: It was amazing 🐨: We’ve been eating J-Hope’s rock honey so much lately that 🐹: There’s not much left, just this much 🐨: Next time, let’s do a J-Hope special guest segment and bring out his rock honey
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NAMGI😭😭 Tablo: He (Namjoon) came to our studio saying he had a lot of worries for the team and for about two hours he talked by himself Yoongi: Then left? Tablo: He did. You know what’s even funnier? Yoongi: What? Tablo: The very next day you came. As soon as you got there you said you had a lot of worries for the team
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