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Baby Army. Music & book lover, writer, podcaster. I love to tweet as I discover BTS’ music. Ally. Safe space for all 🏳️‍🌈 ARMY.

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11 months

I’ve been Army for a year, but I have already written so much about BTS—they inspire so much thought and intellectual and human exploration. Their work demands analysis and serious engagement. Links ⤵️ Review of “Indigo”:

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RM’s “Indigo”: to be artful is to be human

“Still, I found myself glancing at the paintings and then looking at them. “The Potato Eaters.” “The Cornfield with a Lark.” “The Ploughed Field at Auvers.”…

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I’m quite obsessed by Yoongi’s deconstructed stage at the end of the concert. Everything is there, nothing is hiding, all the equipment, lights, all the tools that help create a performance laid bare for all to see. #AgustD_SUGA_Tour_in_oakland

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This is a bit crazy. But since we are all trying to process Jungkook’s latest extraordinary live, here it goes. Remember Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” performance piece at the MoMA? Where she sat in a wooden chair 8 hours a day, for three months and

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9 months

I can’t believe it, but I need to bookmark the bad take tweet because the qrt are an entire encyclopedia of ARMYs sharing their work on BTS & their accomplishments through it. Those hundreds of papers written, the art made, the ideas exchanged, that’s BTS’ & ARMY’s legacy too.

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4 months

BTS 🤝 Pink Floyd … still one of the coolest references ever.

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7 months

Well, the day has come. My husband discovered that inside my wallet there isn’t a photo of him or our son, but a photo of Dior Jimin and Hobi, the most perfect sight in the world ☺️ (he laughed 😅)

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3 months

I’m very afraid of posting this, but as new member of this community, ARMY Twitter, I feel the need to share my thoughts in the name of mutual respect, and the respect and love we share for BTS.

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4 months

I have never, ever, in my long life as a female music fan, felt so respected by an artist as a listener, as a deserving audience, as a worthy audience — Neither Yoongi nor BTS were ever selective of who they wanted their audience to be. ARMY didn’t have to “earn” their respect +

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I think the reason why eventually Yoongi becomes everyone bias is because you were already his…

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9 months

I think after the almost universal ARMY experience of “wanting to learn their names,” the next most magical moment is when as a baby ARMY, you are able to distinguish each of their voices in songs.

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1 year

Not a performance artist, he’s a musician. But we are witnessing something quite extraordinary from his quest, in the last several months, to understand what it means to connect with ARMY. He’s really examining the question. He’s testing the boundaries, he’s pushing

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9 months

It’s so sad to see some ARMY feel unsafe to be on Twitter right now. Nobody should feel guilty for liking a song. Nobody should feel guilty for not liking a song. Discussions are fun, necessary, stimulating, but they never should take precedence over our humanity 🙁

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1 year

himself and us, ARMY, to come up with an answer: how does an artist connect with fans? With what purpose? In what a ways? What is authenticity? How does technology allows for connection or not? My god, truly, truly fascinating questions, all so relevant for our times.

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1 year

I know nothing, I’m baby Army. But that was an artist in full command of his artistic choices, feeling so joyful, proud, and secure in his choices. But also, mainly, an artist feeling so safe in front of his fans. The trust JK shows ARMY is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

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1 year

heaven as a musician, but a young person — a mind — showing us what the future may hold for all of us. And if it’s in the image of his relationship with ARMY, in his way to show a new way of connecting, it’s so, so beautiful.

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1 year

Fandom studies experts will write about JK’s lives, the candle one, the sleeping one, and point to those as the moment in time when things shifted in our collective consciousness of what it means to connect in the 21st century. Brilliant JK. Not only a gift from

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1 year

Museum goers could sit across her also in a wooden chair and simply *connect*? It was a piece about many things but I think one of them was the nature of connection. What does it really mean to connect. To lock eyes with one another and stare. To let the time pass. I know JK is

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1 year

ARMY! I’m just a baby ARMY, but seeing the tl agonize every day about the toxicity of some accounts. I say: “Bond over what you love, not what you hate.” I tell this to my son every day. ARMY needs to do the same thing. Ignore, block, report & go back to the music!! #BTSARMY

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9 months

I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with my love of Bangtan at the moment. It’s been 14 months & the intensity truly doesn’t diminish. They are so many moments that have marked me as baby ARMY and I am reminiscing so much.

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1 month

A nebulous thought is forming, but isn’t interesting how Yoongi moved from rage to peace through time, but Namjoon, moved from mournful self-reflection to rage from Mono to #rpwp in the same time? Similar to Hobi in a way. I don’t even know if rage is the right word.

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9 months

I response to that super bad take about BTS not being worthy of academic work, here are some of the papers I’m constantly writing in my head and my notes app 😅: *BTS and the concept of youth: A comparative analysis of BTS early discography and the work of Herman Hesse. 🤓

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7 months

Today I learned the hard lesson of not being among ARMY in moments like this. I’m not the kind of person who can hide my sadness, specially with people very close to me. But there are dangers in showing vulnerability around people who don’t understand what we are going through 💔

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6 months

My loves. My writing muses. Is it too much for one purse….?🫣

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8 months

When everything fails, when the timeline is off & the discourse is toxic, when irrelevant awards try to distract us from their shadiness, just go back to the music. It’s all there. All the answers, the healing, the beauty, the art, the fierceness. Just go back to BTS’ music.

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6 months

I was listening to an arts and culture podcast were they discussed 2023 as the year of “the mid.” The host defined “mid” (I’m paraphrasing) as art that is frictionless, that doesn’t evoke any clearly defined emotions, inconsequential. I think of my year with BTS and it’s the

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10 months

I baked cookies to celebrate the news today and the ARMY donation matching campaign. I feel so hopeful. I have found my home, my people 💜 It’s about music, but so much more too. #APOBANGPO #MATCHABILLION #BTSARMYPROMISE2025 #ARMYLOVESBTS #ArmyforUNICEF

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2 months

Also, I can’t stop thinking about the #Comebacktome vd and how director Lee Sung Jin & his team captured Namjoon visually — there is vulnerability, the hint of being on alert for whatever weird thing will come next, bewilderment, fatigue. It probably has to do with the angle +

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Dear Jin, You worked hard, and Army missed you. But the day is finally here, Welcome home, Jin! 💜🎉🎊 KIM SEOKJIN IS BACK #WelcomeBackJin #WelcomeHomeOurAstronaut #TheAstronautHasLanded #진

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6 months

As a baby Army (16 months), I still have a very superficial understanding of BTS’ discography. But today, feeling as low as I am, rating my self-love a 2 out of 10, if at all, I’m in awe of the work BTS has done to explore this theme.

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11 months

I can’t believe my journey as ARMY started exactly a year ago when I watched Hobipalooza with my ARMY sister.

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6 months

One of the most exhilarating & memorable moments of my short ARMY journey was when last year my sisters are I were watching Yoongi’s D-Day livestream in different time zones and my youngest sister, a two-month old baby ARMY was just in total shocked disbelief when+

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7 months

I have a little story that may not seem BTS related but it is. Today is my son’s 14th birthday 😊💜 He’s my life, my best friend, my comedy partner, my light. We truly get along. But there was one thing he loved (loves) doing I never quite understood.

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9 months

I can’t believe it. But after reading the translations of Jungkook’s Station Head comments and replies to ARMY questions & comments, I’m reminded again of the artist Marina Abramović. In particular of a piece she did in 1974 called “Rhythm 0.”

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1 year

It’s my first FESTA, I’m not even a year old ARMY, how am I so lucky?? Life is beautiful. Thank you ARMY for welcoming all new ARMYs with such generosity & joy, you could very well gate-keep the genius of #BTS but you help it grow & spread like the ever expanding universe. 💜💜

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5 months

I have developed a new technique to not get mad at my husband when he does little things that bother me: e.g. not cleaning the counter after making coffee, or using a big soup spoon to eat a delicate dessert.

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6 months

I know we have sky for Namjoon, but do we have a #SnowForJimin ? Because we had our first big snow here in Vancouver and all I can think of is Jimin. So here, Jimin, look at all this beautiful snow. Thinking of you and thank you for the letter 💜

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10 months

Before Taechwita, there was the BE-hind story Interview, where Yoongi got to interview Tae and also each member interview each other. This is such a gem, a magical piece of the puzzle for any baby ARMY (it was for me).

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3 months

Finally: Yes, nobody asked for my opinion & truly, who am I to voice it? It is just my belief that thoughtful discourse is necessary in order to learn. And I’m hyper focusing on the issue we are experiencing here in online spaces in the hope that it contributes to make it better.

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9 months

Reporting comments under Bangtan lives has to become a concerted, multi-language effort. At least English and Korean. I reported so many comments, but I can only report the English ones, of course. We need a coalition.

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10 months

I wrote about Yoongi, again. But also about how certain works of art impact us in ways we cannot foresee. A very personal essay dedicated to the D-Day tour and its life-changing effect on me. Also, to all ARMYs who dream of being artists, like me. #AgustD

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The Euphoria of Beauty and the Compulsion for Art

Note: I wrote this essay over several weeks but wrote the main argument and narrative over the next few hours after the event I describe in the piece. I decided to keep it intact to respect and con…

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7 months

My big sister always says, “We can’t control how other people behave. You can only control how you behave & respond to how people behave.” Which is true, but really, really hard. BTS’ basic right to privacy is violated over & over again. Their basic right to dignity too.

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1 year

You have respected and listened to my opinion on music all your life, but now suddenly, I don’t know what I’m talking about: I’m being manipulated by pretty visuals (“it’s how it’s packaged”); I’m so blinded by love, I can’t objectively assess the merits and quality of

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7 months

I wrote about the New York Times’ “Popcast” episode in my blog. It’s the beginning of a conversation, as they are so many more people with knowledge and expertise that can discuss how highly problematic that podcast is. You can read it here:

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Racist Panic: How BTS and Jung Kook’s Success in English is Leaving the Western Music Industry Sc...

A recent music podcast episode discussing BTS and their youngest member, Jeon Jung Kook’s solo album Golden, has demonstrated once again the deep-seated racism of the American, and by extensi…

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1 year

On my way to see Yoongi in Oakland. Is this real life?? I want to stay in this dream. #AgustD #AgustD_SUGA_Tour

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5 months

Before #Love_wins_all ’s most devastating hand acting by Tae, there was Singularity Tae. A short 🧵 of Tae’s most breathtaking, heartbreaking, chills-inducing, fall-in-love acting. This is very personal, not comprehensive in any way. #TAEHYUNG

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7 months

A lot of ARMYs always talk about BE as the ray of light that rescued them from the darkness of the pandemic. As I’m a Chapter 2 ARMY, I didn’t get to experience that. But today, I think I understood. From the first notes of LGO, you can feel the deep comfort & warmth of BTS. +

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3 months

Note: as I believe this discussion concerns ARMY and ARMY only, I’m sharing screenshots rather than publishing on my blog. I hope the conversation remains civil and takes into consideration nuance of thought and beliefs. Text below.

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“There is nothing braver than forgiveness. I want to live a life with full forgiveness, not that I merely pat myself in the head, but one where I can eventually forgive all of myself. Loving myself may just be forgiving myself.” Kim Namjoon, Fan Café post, 20150927.

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ARMY had it from the very start. As a predominantly female fandom, this is so rare. To be considered a worthy audience not only for a genre dominated by men, hip hop, but for their very elevated, socially conscious, highly artistic, ultimately very personal music.+

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Sometimes, I feel guilty for loving BTS so much. Is this real? Shouldn’t I reserve this love for people near me? I’ve always struggled w/ accepting happiness, or joy. I don’t feel I deserve them. And yet, the emotions I feel when looking at this photo…how do you explain them?

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8 months

The thing with Standing Next to You is that it’s such a bold, huge song. It’s ambitious at every level. There can be no timidity and JK has absolutely no timidity in embodying this song. This is how you announce your arrival to those who don’t know you yet.

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6 months

I want to add my thoughts about this, which I know will change nothing. But, is there nothing sacred left? In all relationships there are boundaries that should not be crossed out of love, out of respect. Isn’t this one? Once again, it’s a process of dehumanization in the name

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After watching the first episodes of Beyond The Star and the members telling us that the pressures of fame have affected them so badly several times - shouldn’t ARMYs do everything they can so that BTS don’t experience those pressures at least during their military service?

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I am in awe once again. Today has truly been the darkest day out of whole weeks of very dark days. And suddenly, mere hours after saying the last goodbye, ARMY is back in force. Seriously, there is no more beautiful, pure love than the love between BTS and Army. #SpringDay

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10 months

How to articulate this? Namjoon is one of the most exceptional people of our times, without exaggeration. When I became ARMY, I was in awe that such a massive amount of people recognized that and celebrated him as the extraordinary artist and human he is.

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Yoongi very much embodies that, which is rare for a male musician in his position.

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4 months

I had to work all weekend, so I could not really celebrate as I wanted to. But, you know what, I wasn’t going to let capitalism kill my soul! So I made Yoongi a cake as I had promised. My poor catchwita, it suffered a lot on the fridge overnight. Still, #HappyBirthdayYoongi !

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I just had one of the best nights of my life. I spent seven hours with my baby ARMY sister watching BV Malta and then Yoongi’s concert livestream. We laughed, sang, cried a lot—never went to bed. What a gift it is to be ARMY. What a gift it is to love BTS.💜💜

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4 months

I’m sure this has been said before, but in a world of unscripted television (“reality TV”) that exploits dysfunction for entertainment, BV & ITS are about a group of people who are highly functional together, relentlessly caring & loving with each other. It truly heals the soul.

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4 months

Rewatching Bon Voyage NZ. Heard on the first episode: “let’s go all at once” (deciding how to use the camper van’s toilet). “Skip the body wash” (discussing the camper’s shower). “Jungkook, did you bring your dumbbells again?” (YG lifting JK’s luggage) 😅😅 #BTS

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OK. I have done some research and I can’t find this argument anywhere, though I’m sure it has had to come up at some point. I think that the, ejem, hip thrust in Bapsae, though it may read as sexy (for a large segment of Army, though not all) its purpose is not sexiness.+

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I saw a tweet and then I could not find it again, where an Army got her feelings of sadness about BTS dismissed by another irl “Army” telling her “they’re just celebrities though.” And it got me thinking about the word celebrity.

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I have a question: do you dance to BTS music? I dance a lot to it. I have an irl friend who I later understood was a 2015 ARMY. I once invited her to a BTS club night (they were amazing non stop dance parties) and she declined saying: “that’s not the music I dance to…” ☹️💔

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@SierraNicoIe It is one of my goals as a newer Army, to one day get to the bottom of Hobi’s lyricism. Abstraction is the right word. There is an elusiveness to his turn of phrases, his references, that shows he’s operating at a very high level. It’s conceptual.

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9 months

Tae is a whole vibe. He’s like an amazing but stern professor who comes in the classroom and starts writing on the board: « Ok, listen up. No chanting my name, learn those lyrics. And please, do not forget your ARMY vlogs » while everybody desperately takes notes 😅

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6 months

again and being in love with it together, gosh, one of the best, most beautiful moments in recent memory for me. We have loved music together all our lives, but life took us in different roads, and finally sharing this brilliant life-changing music later in life is such a gift.

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6 months

the #BTS rap medley started and people lost their minds and the band just brought their musicianship even higher and Yoongi just ferociously gave it all and we were screaming in all caps on the gc and I typed “THIS IS BTS” and the joy of being crazy in love with music +

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

I mean just think of Yoongi’s D-Day tour, a work of profound depth & artistry, Jimin’s devastating and masterful FACE, Tae’s idiosyncratic Layover, JK’s extraordinary journey for boundary-breaking lives to a global pop album with cinematic videos to go with it,

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@seeuinttukseom

3 months

I think I may, slowly, be starting to understand one of the qualities that makes Hobi, Hobi. I think it’s the celebration of the other, the recognition of what’s beautiful in others and his faith in others to uphold shared values that make all of us better.

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

It’s infuriating but also an amazing entry point into the discussion of majority female fandoms, the phenomenon that are BTS & ARMY, the question of whose values & opinions matter in music criticism, etc. It is my mission in life to change these views. I’m so angry. #BTSARMY

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@seeuinttukseom

8 months

Good morning ARMY. At this point I feel like I will never catch up with BTS: they are too fast, prolific, loving, beautiful, generous, productive. My bookmarks & Army recommendations are like the Library of Alexandria. I will never catch up & I need to accept it with grace.

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

a concert (“it helps that you are so into it”). No matter what women do, our opinions are not valid, they are suspect. And when it comes to BTS, they are double & triple suspect. Suddenly, a grown woman who writes about music has lost all her senses and critical abilities…

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

furthest from “mid.” They discussed music and the reliance of algorithmic recommendations, movie franchises that give people the same story they’ve seen 10 times, mid TV shows, etc. Where does BTS sits among all this? I think very much on the fringes.

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

Hobi’s collab with J-Cole, bridging two worlds seamlessly and bringing new hip hop fans into the fandom, Jin’s collab with Coldplay, reaffirming a way of being artists that places the heart at the centre of everything they do,

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

Indigo and everything Namjoon says or does, which goes even beyond the music industry.

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

Whether you are a fan or not, I don’t think any of the work BTS did this year (and for that matter, ever) can be qualified as “frictionless” or “inconsequential,” for example. All of it, from the solo albums, to the videos accompanying them, to collabs, promotional appearances

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

In a era when we are constantly being asked to separate the artists from their art bc of artists doing not-so-great to terrible things & failing to acknowledge them or apologize & become better (most recent ex., the wknd), this will never be the case with BTS.

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@seeuinttukseom

3 months

Taking a break from the computer to say I just learned about the concept of melodic rhythm and could this be the notion I have been trying to explain when talking about Jimin’s singing and melody style?? A subject to investigate immediately after work 📚 #Jimin

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

Anyway, in a world of mediocrity in the name of accessibility, BTS continues to create music and art at the highest possible level, respecting themselves and their audience, *while still being highly accessible* to a global audience. This is the case study that should be made.

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@seeuinttukseom

8 months

I’m missing Yoongi so much that I’m just listening to his lives while I work. Not watching, not reading subtitles because I can’t. Just listening to his voice and catching one word here and there. Yoongi, I hope you had a lovely, fulfilling day.

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@seeuinttukseom

5 months

When this happens, I ask myself: “Would I get mad if it was Namjoon?” And the answer is always no, obviously. I shared this technique last night with some friends after the husband served some drinks in a baking tray and the wife was mortified.

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@seeuinttukseom

7 months

I’m declaring this year, my first full year of loving BTS, my year of tenderness & learning. It’s such a privilege to be a beginner again, to have a whole road of learning ahead.+

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

Final final note. It seems to be a common side effect of loving BTS that everything they do is so remarkable, sincere, high quality, real, etc., that everything non-BTS looks…I guess, “mid” in comparison. This has happened to me & I don’t know if it will pass, does it pass?

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

it was all distinct, had something to say, was of the highest quality. I think there are much larger conversations here: how the world is still very much divided between Western cultural products, and the rest of the world. How BTS is not part of the conversation.

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

It’s been many months but I’m still haunted by the line “look at my stain” from Still Life in #Indigo . I know it means “look at my work, my legacy, my impact,” but did we ever figure out why the word “stain”? I actually think it’s a reference to Yun.+

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@seeuinttukseom

5 months

What’s interesting to me and that I’m only now starting to understand, is that BTS and ARMY cannot win from the two main perspectives they are being looked at: 1. The K-pop perspective, and 2. The Western music perspective.

@lsgrlr

𝓛𝓤𝓛𝓤 ⁷ ⟭⟬ BTS ⟬⟭ connected to 7G since ²⁰¹³

5 months

I watched a video today by Korea Now about how boy bands' popularity takes a dive when they enlist. However, BTS and its members don't have this issue and continue to dominate the charts. My response while listening was, "Please, Min Yoongi raised ARMY to be LOYAL."

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@seeuinttukseom

9 months

The amount of genius I have seen on the timeline today. Starting with this comprehensive video about the entire run of promotions for each member and their solo work. I loved all of it, but there were some amazing quotable moments that were just 👏🏽👏🏽 It’s excellent!

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@seeuinttukseom

2 months

I’m starting to understand that one thing that makes BTS videos so immersive and cinematic is the addition of diegetic sound — sound, sound design not related to the song. +

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@seeuinttukseom

5 months

*Disclaimer: I know Namjoon would never not clean the counter or eat a delicate dessert with a big spoon, but you do what you have to do. BTS making everybody’s life better, even muggles’💜💜☺️

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

“I wanna be a human ‘Fore I do some art It’s a cruel world But there’s gon’ be my part” — Kim Namjoon, “Yun.” No empty words. Never empty words. An example to us all. #KimNamjoon

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@seeuinttukseom

3 months

There is so much joy on the timeline. And it’s a pure joy. A joy made of connection, music, laughter, concert highs, mutual acts of love — between BTS members & Army, between Armys everywhere. This joy can coexist with the truths of the world, it doesn’t have to be either-or.

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@seeuinttukseom

7 months

Anyway, I could go on and on. So today I’m thankful for Jin and helping me see my son’s love for pijama & video games day in another light 😊💜

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@seeuinttukseom

6 months

I have to add that I always talk about BTS as compared to artists at the same scale: Beyoncé, TS, etc., not the indie, smaller artists, because at that level there are always interesting, non-mid things happening.

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@seeuinttukseom

7 months

Oh, wow, look, another rejected pitch for an article about BTS by a major magazine 🙁 But I won’t give up. One day, one day one of my pitches will be accepted. #writing #WritingCommmunity

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@seeuinttukseom

1 year

God. What if the chopsticks 🥢 as a weapon represent ki***ng capitalist hunger itself. What if he’s obliterating his own material desire. Thus the burning of the money. Notice how the detective pushes his head in a bathtub full of money, to drown him in it. #Haegeum

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@seeuinttukseom

27 days

This is not news to anybody, but my god, #Yoongi knows how to craft a song. I remember the first time I listened to D-2 I thought “wow, it’s as if I can hear his mind producing these songs.” It may sound contradictory, but you can “hear” every deliberate decision, all made

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@seeuinttukseom

7 months

PS: I am the kind of person who gets up, gets changed, makes the bed and has a to do list ready every day including weekends… so, Jin’s lesson really has had a real impact on me.

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@seeuinttukseom

10 months

A little thread 👇🏽with replies from French/Francophone ARMYs commenting on Tae’s French. I know some ARMYs have been curious to know how he did. Some of the comments: « I think he’s taking French lessons. […] He knows how to pronounce the accents » (super important in French).

@_ddaengtear

𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲⁷ ❁

10 months

Je pense vraiment qu’il prend des cours de français par contre car il a su prononcer les accents et il a lu assez facilement les mots

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@seeuinttukseom

2 months

I really thought the worst was behind us this year. I have never experienced this is any fandom. It’s relentless, heartbreaking. The unfairness, I can’t bear it. BTS and ARMY have truly been forged in fire.

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@seeuinttukseom

9 months

Namjoon, even in his most early, youthful writing, hits me with such waves of wonder & yearning: “The ARMYs here right now, you’re Bangtan’s first, right? After lots of time has passed by, I wants us to be a group you can proudly say you were a fan of since the very beginning.”

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@seeuinttukseom

7 months

I don’t know how JK did it, but if feels like there isn’t a minute when a song from Golden is not silently playing in my head. Song of the day: Please Don’t Change. And isn’t it amazing how whole songs or chunks of songs can play inside your head from memory?

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@seeuinttukseom

5 months

They changed it to Luis Miguel, because, Latinas, and they said it worked immediately. Try it with your partner/loved ones and think of the most appropriate Bangtan member for the situation. You will not get mad. It’s proven to work.

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