A corroboration how their music has been transcending to today's generation.Īs the title is Black Swan it has connections to many deep meanings, one is it’s a graceful reminder to move from any position where you feel powerless and at the mercy of external forces it is time to reclaim your personal power. Watch BTS’s comeback trailer for “Persona” above, and read all the lyrics on Genius now.BTS released their single "Black Swan" on January 17, 2020, and in less than a day without any promotion, it's topping charts. If he were to identify with that role totally, he would lose contact with himself, with the boy he was, with the human being that he is.” You know, a star in the firmament of the entertainment world. “What impressed me about that was that he kept the distinction, carefully, between who he was a boy growing up in a small village outside of Seoul, Korea and who he is publicly and famously now. The author spoke about how RM’s United Nations speech impressed him.
In an unexpected twist, Murray Stein’s book Jung’s Map of the Soul-the album title’s namesake-is sold out on BTS’s online shop.
Keeps glaring at me scorchingly like a heat wave (oh shit)Īs Genius user milkmmxe points out, the “shadow” is a reference to Jungian archetypes, reflecting the darker part of someone’s personality. It keeps appearing under the stage or the light It has never hesitated after becoming that My shadow, I wrote and called it ‘hesitation’ On “ Uhgood,” he struggles to find the dividing line between what’s real and what’s ideal about himself: You can see RM searching for his real self throughout last year’s solo release, mono. Genius contributor milkmmxe notes that RM is seen as four different version of himself in the trailer: Kim Namjoon, an idol, a rapper, and a leader. That notion is reflected in the visuals of the trailer. During the first episode of their YouTube Red series, Burn the Stage, Suga noted that “we don’t want to show them the entire process.”īTS often complicates the notion between reality and fantasy-the idea of the self is not so black and white for them. BTS is the rare boy band that has a reputation for being authentic-but they’ve previously spoken about filtering what they show onscreen. There’s a common notion that K-pop idols put on personas for the camera. Questions of identity form the conceptual basis of a lot of BTS’s work. There’s also a dash of Jungian archetypes, the idea that people have unconscious archetypal traits: The new song is littered with references to BTS’s older material, like “Fake Love” and RM’s latest “playlist.” The trailer even features visual callbacks to the group’s 2 Cool 4 Skool era, the “Skool Luv Affair” comeback trailer and “Idol.” If you’re going to have your own “ BTS Universe,” it makes sense that the releases are intertextual.
“Persona” serves as an introductory song, and finds RM sorting through his different selves.
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Up to this point, the group has released albums as trilogies, and Persona marks the beginning of a new “era.” The septet creates whole narratives across multiple albums, and its latest Love Yourself series was their most ambitious to date.
K-pop supergroup BTS is preparing for the release of its upcoming album, Map of the Soul: Persona, on April 12, and they just released a new track where leader RM asks the eternal question: “Who the hell am I?” In a comeback trailer for their new song, “Persona,” RM dives back into uncertainties over identity.
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