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My non-ARMY husband really has a point. It's not only the music, it's them, as amazing people.
He just told me of JK "He's
#1
worldwide and does his own laundry"? Also, a few months ago, he watched Tae in "Friendcation" and said: "they just go, cook, talk, go fishing+
Yoongi in Suchwita doing an amazing job at:
-women having time to talk at length
-women respected while showing how smart they are
-women knowing they can be serious or funny
-women being asked interesting career and artistic questions
-valuing trajectory over novelty
-listening!
I have so many thoughts on this episode, I'm really moved. The type of person Yunki is as a host, always observant and sensitive of guests, helping them open up and offering a safe space to share their stories. Letting them talk and really listening to them. Also,+
As a professional musician* I admire Tae as a vocalist and artist so much, and the recent “Le Jazz de V” just confirmed everything I already though and expanded it even more.
(Warning: long thread, this was very very good!)+
👀
ARCADES posted this story in IG!!!
They are a production duo Max Graham and Matt Thompson. And mentioned songwriter Gabriel Brandes as well!! They have worked on many tracks with BTS before!!! 😱😱😱😱
This photo!! This moment!! The connection it creates!! 😮🫠
The eye contact, the gaze, the light on the face, the touching hands, the moment this captures!!! At peace, relaxed, so much in-the-moment happiness. Like a kid in a playground. Complicity. Love.
Amazing 💜
From Namjoon's IG stories.
"어깨" (Shoulder) by YDG (양동근)
YDG is a 🇰🇷actor, singer and rapper. He once explained that he wrote this song when he was in the military working as an entertainer. That the song was created as part of a suicide prevention campaign.+
+ and not like go to Vegas, get drunk and create s3x scandals in a loud reality? He was so impressed.
Yes! They are like this, amazing artists that do laundry, clean, cook, talk interesting stuff, are funny or chaotic without scandals, recommend music and art.
I💜 them so much
JK is recording with Andrew Watt, 2021 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
Watt is a highly versatile and talented music producer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work in various genres. While he doesn't have a specific musical style exclusively associated with him,+
About the musical team in Layover. Because this album is a musical feast of the best kind. 🧵
First and foremost:
KIM TAEHYUNG. The artist whose voice, intention and vision connect and express everything that happens in this album, from inception to performance. +
From Pdogg’s IG
Working on an AKAI Professional MPC X (a standalone music production center used to create tracks and beats through pads, knobs and a touchscreen interface. It combines sampling and sequencing functions to record sound, modify it and play it back as sequences).🎶
This is a vintage mic!!
The Neumann U47 was especially popular in US studios. Frank Sinatra owned his own, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett and the Beatles also used it (…) it's hard to find an album recorded in the 1950s or 1960s that didn't have it+
Oh!!!! So this IG account will keep updating on Namjoon’s upcoming project!!
I’m so happy, my heart is bursting with curiosity and excitement!!
Now… I’m curious 🧐 what piece of equipment is this??
💜
Aaah!!! Dedrick Bonner (choir director, arranger and singer) just posted this!!’
So… “FRI(END)S” probably has a soul choir as well!!!!
(He also participated in Jimin’s “Set me Free”, “Yet to Come” live, and RM’s “Still Life”!!!!)
#V_FRIENDS
is going to be so good!!
+Thanks, BTS for giving us so much music and inspiration, thanks Tae, for giving us yet another road to enjoy your artistry and personality. This opens so many new musical options to connect with you and to understand our lives. That’s what great artists do.Can't wait your album.
+ First, and foremost, what a voice!
These two songs allowed him to show what a great instrument he has.A velvety profound baritone voice, that is sounding very well in all registers and that is very expressive. This is no easy feat. +
+ just to be able to bear with it. I remember Cho Se-ho's awful incident with JK, but him opening up about his life and career's struggles made a big impression on me today. It reminded me that none of us are perfect, that we are all fighting unseen battles, that we have to be+
+and highest note. He truly has mastered his falsetto to fit pop music and the rest of the vocal line in BTS (just listen to the amazing line sung by Tae towards the end of “Take Two”: glorious!).+
+ Having a voice that sounds well in all registers, low, medium, high, and falsetto, and that transitions well between them is a feature that is achieved with good technique and lots of practice.+
+ the life stories of comedians are always hard to listen to. People (all of us) have to find ways to cope with hardships in life (or just with life itself). Comedians take an extra hard step, and is sharing it all with the audience, laughing about life, and about themselves,+
+ compassionate as well. I really, really, admire Yunki as a person. These Suchwita episodes have let us see him beyond his musician person, and with different type of guests. You can tell that he is a person that goes beyond appearances, that has a strong critical mind+
+field that is flooded with reggaeton and trap fusions. This shows an artist committed to his art above any other concern (popularity, business, sales, streams, journalistic and even fan perceptions, etc.) He is trusting himself, going with his gut feeling, trusting his voice,+
+ In most BTS’s songs we get to hear a lovely falsetto voice from Tae, and this is because pop music is normally sung in high male registers (one of the reasons is because it allows women to sing along 😉). But he truly is a baritone, with a really ample range between his lowest+
+Singing jazz allows Tae to use his entire voice, to let his low baritone voice be heard, and to explore new was of singing and of communicating with the audience. The difference between the normal singing register (called “modal” voice) and the falsetto, is that in the normal+
+his musical tastes, honoring himself. And that’s what true artists do, because real art is not possible when you are fake. You have to love what you do and what you sing, and what you put out in the public, so that it is authentic and it connects to the public at a deep level.+
+Now, another piece of admiration for Tae comes from the fact that he chose to sing jazz, the music that he likes and enjoys so much. And he probably had to defend his decision, because he is in the middle of the k-pop industry, and in the middle of the current musical
+His voice delivers and completes the lyrics and the music. He makes the lyrics justice with his voice and expresses the emotions with it, by the inflections of his voice, by his use of different vocal colors, volume, and effects (such as legato, staccato, use of consonants+
+Going back to my admiration for Tae, it’s important to understand that a great voice doesn’t make for a great singer (or a great artist), just like a great violin doesn’t make a great violinist. The important thing is what the person does with the voice in order to express+
+the music, and to communicate with the audience. There have been amazing virtuosic voices who are not able to express or communicate.
We already knew this, but Tae is great using his voice to express the music and to communicate with the audience.+
+Now, baritone voices are very common and very appreciated in jazz (think Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, etc.).
So, this style fits very well Tae’s natural voice.+
+His voice is so good, and his musical mind so great, that he could sing many things well. I even think he would be great singing in a musical (theater or movie).+
+ that allows hims to make his own mind and his own decisions. A person that doesn't follow a path, but that is building one. He is observant, sensible, empathetic, and tunes in to the energy of guests. These are usually the traits of a great songwriter and music producer+
+register singers have more control over their voice, they can better pronounce their vowels, they can sing at different volumes, and use more singing effects (falsetto voice is somewhat limited compared to modal voice).+
+for expressive purposes, etc.).
People pay attention when he sings and connect to the music he is singing because his voice expresses something while singing that it’s not possible to understand it in any other way.+
I'm a musician with a lot of experience in vocal technique and performance, and I live in complete awe of JK's vocals. His vocal technique and ear are superb, and, most importantly, his singing is always connected to emotion and communication, not empty acrobatics and virtuosity+
+To me, his accent is an endearing part of his voice in these standards but I would also love to hear him sing in a jazzy style in Korean, and see how he sounds doing so as well. +
+I think these two jazz standards are a wonderful appetizer for what I’m sure it’s going to be a musical banquet soon. I would love to also hear Tae singing fusions of R&B, soul and neo-soul, with jazz and pop elements.+
+I also think Tae has a great artistic mind (I’m always in awe of his paintings and designs!), so it would be great to hear some songs written or co-written by him.
So, sorry for the long thread, but I was amazed by this and just wrote and wrote and wrote.+
I’ve been wondering what it must feel like being Jung Kook’s music producer, being with such a wonderful singer in the studio, hearing him sing raw vocals, building a vocal performance with him. It really must feel like you are in the top of the world and won gold! +
+Singing jazz standards is an important way for a singer to insert himself into tradition, not only of jazz, but of many other genres. Jazz standards are widely known pieces of music that are an important part of the jazz repertoire, and that are repetitively performed and +
+ hide or forget. It's such a great way to open up to different life experiences. Just like music itself.
I feel so thankful and privileged to have Bangtan as a whole, and every single member's magic in my life. They make it better every single day.
💜 love to all!
+recorded by jazz musicians, and that are vey well known by listeners. It shows that you know the repertoire, and that you are adding your own version to a long history of versions by other performers. Singers focus on showing their own strengths, both vocally and expressively.+
+as a non-native English speaker, and this is going to be noticed, more or less by the public. It’s part of him as an artist, it will always be, it is part of his color. +
+Jazz standards tell the audience you know the repertoire, but show your own colors with it.
Of course, there’s the issue that most jazz standards are in English, and many non-native English speakers sing these standards regularly.+
+ because it allows him to write either from his own point of view, or from other people's point of view, making his music have a universal feeling, that many people can relate to. Through his sensibility and his music we get to understand the world or our own things a little+
+in Portuguese, one of the hardest languages to pronounce well in the world. So, accents on jazz standards are usual and there have been wonderful singers with different accents. I think Tae does a great job with his English pronunciation, but of course he does have an accent,+
+ better. Suchwita is just like that as well, he helps people open up, and it becomes a window for us to see the world from other people's eyes, and even from Yuki's own eyes. And it helps us connect to him, to others and also with parts of ourselves that maybe we try to +
+Singing with an accent is usually strongly noticed by native speakers. For instance, in Latin America people notice the heavy accent on Nat King Cole’s voice when he sang “Bésame mucho” or other boleros. And Brazilian people also notice when non-natives try to sing bossa nova+
+There are some standards in Portuguese also, for instance “Garota de Ipanema” (Girl from Ipanema) and “Chega de saudade” (No more blues), and non-Portuguese speakers also sing them both in the Portuguese original with an accent or in English translation.+
+ ARCADES have co-written/produced “Inner Child”, “Mikrokosmos” and “Jamais Vu”.
Gabriel Brandes has co-written “Stay Alive”, “The Planet”.
“Take Two” it’s going to be GREAT!
FUNK not punk! 🪩🕺🏻🎶🎤
JK’s “Standing Next to You” is being labeled or translated as “retro punk” when it is “retro funk”. Korean language doesn’t have the [f] sound, and so there is only one word for both genres (펑크).
But funk and punk are really different musical styles:+
Completely full theater and awesome vibes all through the concert!! It was loud 😅. We had a great time and will go again to an IMAX theater.
(Missed some of the cut songs though 😕. And I’m not ready for D-DAY era to be over 😭)
💜 Yoongi
<SUGA│Agust D TOUR 'D-DAY' THE MOVIE> Special Poster
The cinematic cut finally arrives today in theaters &
@IMAX
around the world!🥳
📅 More screenings this Sat, April 13
🔗 Get your tickets at
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How great! Agust D “D-Day” was included in NPR’s top 50 listener’s favorite albums of 2023!
NPR’s (US National Public Radio) audience typically consists of intellectually curious individuals who value in-depth news coverage, cultural exploration, and diverse perspectives.+
And he goes to museums, reads philosophy, has wonderful music taste, takes a moment to take a photo of the sky, is taking hip-hop dance lessons, composes, raps, sings, his specialty is optimism and loves love?
😩💜
Yoongi’s “Strange (feat. RM)” and Namjoon’s unreleased song at D-DAY Seoul concert.
So much history and meaning in this encounter on stage and with ARMY. One of my top Bangtan moments in history. 💜
This is a must-read article about Yoongi's concert and BTS cultural impact. Written from a non-Western perspective, it addresses not only the excellent quality of both Yoongin and BTS's music and artistry, but avoids validating it against Western standards.+
As something of a gateway to Korean culture, dramas and music, BTS have redefined what it means to have cultural power for South Korea and their popularity has put openly racist mores of arbitrating culture under the spotlight, writes
@SoumashreeS
.
#Art
From Namjun’s IG stories.
“1. How to become a tree”. Page from the book “The Art of Transforming” (1997) by 🇰🇷 multi-media artist Kim Beom (b. 1963).
This artist book is an instruction manual on how to transform into a tree, a leopard, a door, and even an air conditioner.+
French director Aube Perrie follows both @/rkive and the @/rpwprpwprpwp IG accounts.
He has directed: “Thot Shit” for Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles’ “Music for A Sushi Restaurant” and “Satellite”, and a B-movie inspired by The Hives’ “Bogus Operandi”.
+
My brain can’t stop thinking and wondering why “FRI(END)S” and “Hope on the Street” album and docu-series are so close… 🤔🤨why, why? Why the rush? What’s coming up??
🤡🙈💜
From Namjun’s IG stories.
“1. How to become a tree”. Page from the book “The Art of Transforming” (1997) by 🇰🇷 multi-media artist Kim Beom (b. 1963).
This artist book is an instruction manual on how to transform into a tree, a leopard, a door, and even an air conditioner.+
Yoongi is singing “It's Not Love if It Hurts Too Much” by Kim Kwang-seok (🇰🇷 1964-1996, born in Daegu, a popular and influential folk rock singer).
He sang this same song on his 2023 birthday Weverse live (2023.03.08)+
Namjoon’s IG post.
“Dreams are limitless but time is not enough”
Art by Kim Whanki (🇰🇷 1913-1974). He probably saw it at the Ho-am Museum, which is currently holding the Kim Whanki “A Dot A Sky” exhibition.+
+ he has worked on projects spanning rock, pop, hip-hop, and R&B, among others. His ability to blend genres and create diverse musical landscapes is a hallmark of his production style.+
I arrived to New York then had the most hectic day of my life, but 10 minutes ago I was able to get tickets for tonight's concert at face value at TM!!! I can't believe it. Bangtan miracles do happen.
"SUGA took charge of not only writing lyrics and composing for all songs, but also producing the album, and led the overall work from planning to concept and composition of "D-DAY", telling his honest story"
(Translation by Google)
Just WOW!
You know what I love? The ARMY community around Bangtan, specially in this space!
Lately, with all the concerts, I just realized If we didn't have this space, we would never get all the videos and photos from other ARMYs, from floor, barricade, front, side and backstage views+
+ His love for jazz, R&B and classical music stands at the center of this protect, as well his love for great vocals and knowledge and appreciation of niche, non mainstream, artists from different genres, eras and provenances. +
About Tae’s performance of
“FRI(END)S”, and I agree:
“The effortlessness with which he elegantly careens through registers is nothing short of stunning”
👏👏👏👏👏✨
+ Tae’s voice in Layover is exquisite and I’ll probably write another thread about it.
The velvety tone in the middle and upper registers, the brilliance of the lower one, the transition between registers, impeccable tuning, and the intimate connection to mood and emotion.+
+ So, Taehyung can truly be considered musical director of this musical project, in all its concept and decisions, and, not less important, he is the voice, face, body, movement and soul that connects all the elements and presents it to the audience. +
+ Watt is particularly recognized for his guitar skills, which often feature prominently in his productions. He is known for incorporating both acoustic and electric guitar elements into his work, bringing a dynamic and expressive quality to the music he produces.+
+ Congratulations Taehyung. What an amazing album, artistic vision and intention, musical concept, and team of musicians.
And what a gorgeous and expressive voice you have found created to embody and transmit all of this!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
⭐️💜
+ He has a keen ear for catchy melodies and hooks, and his arrangements incorporate a wide range of instruments and sounds. He pays attention to detail, creating intricate sonic landscapes that enhance the overall impact of the music.+
+ Deeply connected with Tae’s voice and aesthetics are the musical elements of Layover (compositions, lyrics, beats, programming, instrumental solos).
And it’s so sonically interesting that I decided to look a bit more into the group of writers and musicians. Here they are:+
+ Watt has collaborated with numerous high-profile artists, including Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, Cardi B, Camila Cabello, and Shawn Mendes, among many others. This shows his versatility and ability to adapt his production style to different genres and artists.+
@BTS_Trans
@BTS_twt
It’s a YouTube reply to a video of the audiobook ”The Art of Wordly Wisdom” (Korean version) by Baltasar Gracian.
Thanks for the translation!! 💜
From Namjoon’s IG stories.
A screenshot of a reply to this YouTube video (machine translation in image)
The video is an audiobook of “The Art of Worldly Wisdom” (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracian.+
+ freekind.
🎵Composition and lyrics for all songs except Blue. Vocal sample in For Us, Piano in Slow Dancing (piano Vera.), background vocals. Prod. LMA and Slow Dancing.
Composed of Croatian pianist and vocalist SARA ESTER GREDELJ and Slovenian drummer NINA KOROŠAK-SERČIČ.+
+ Really looking forward to listening JungKook on this track. We already know his voice, expressiveness and musicianship are just fantastic. We will now discover the first bite in this new stage of his career.
Time can't pass fast enough for this!
#JungKook_Seven
Jung Kook is dancing with some powerhouse choreographers and dancers!
- Brian Puspos (“Serendipity” and “Own It” choreographer, the later covered by Jimin and JK)
- Nick Joseph (choreographer for 3J’s Butter, part of SUGA dance crew)
- Dom Lashawn
- Jake Roar Kodish
One of the greatest things of Yoongi’s concert was the amount of LIVE music (not track) it had! Live band, guitar and piano playing, the singing and rapping!
It was a musical feast of the best kind!
Nothing compares to true live music. Only the bestest artists can do it.
🔥💜
This is the superb type of singer that JK is. He makes the hardest things look easy.
The constant changes in vocal range (from low, to middle to high) and the melodic tuning to the jazzy harmonies in Still with You are really hard.
JK does it so well!💜
A couple of months ago I started sharing the BTS daily news and 💿 releases over breakfast, wether my family liked it or not.
At first they were so annoyed. Then a bit of interest…today they did ask me first!⭐️
They still confuse their names, but I’m calling this success! 😅💜
Here are Watt's songwriter playlists for reference:
And these are the photos published in April this year, with Jung Kook, Watt (producer, songwriter), Cirkut (songwriter), Scooter Brown (CEO of HYBE America) and Bang PD.+
I don't like it when people put down small accounts. I repeatedly see posts equating number of followers with level of wisdom, truth or importance. Not true.
There are wonderful small accounts, wise, witty, with lovely real interactions. And there are horrible big accounts.
+ Cautious Clay
🎵 Flute and background vocals in “Slow Dancing”.
American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Classically trained flutist. His music style is influenced by hip-hop, organic and electronic sounds. He also plays saxophone, guitar, bass, keyboard and drums.+
+ Although not a musician, an important collaborator in this connection between Tae’s vision and musical execution is Min Hee-jin, general producer of the project.
+
From Namjoon’s IG stories.
A screenshot of a reply to this YouTube video (machine translation in image)
The video is an audiobook of “The Art of Worldly Wisdom” (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracian.+
+ Park Jinsu (producer known as FRNK) and Kim Donghyun (rapper, known as Kim Ximya) from the hip hop duo XXX.
🎵 Park Jinsu composition in Rainy Days, Blue, Love Me Again and Slow Dancing. Prod. LMA, Blue and Slow Dancing.
He is known for his avant-garde beats.
+
+ Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt of Smerz, a Norwegian electronic music duo based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway.
🎵 Composition and lyrics in “Blue”
Their music stems from experimenting with moods, textures and sounds, +
+ Frankie Scoca.
🎶 Composition and production of Rainy Days.
American composer and producer. Has worked with New Jeans (“Super Shy” and “New Jeans”) and dhruv ('moonlight' and 'double take').
His music can be heard here:
+
I first thought: “j-hope takes the best photos ever” (because 🤯 true!).
Then I thought: the rap line is together in this photo,but in such a new, different way. It’s Hobi’s
gaze, Namjoon’s and Yoongi’s old and new paths together.
Past, present and future in one awesome photo.
Kim Yoongdae, ethnomusicologist and music critic, is preparing a follow-up to the book “BTS The Review: The Comprehensive Look at the Music of BTS”.
The new book will cover group and solo music from Map of the Soul to now and it will be out by the end of the year. +
+ This article was wonderful. It analyzes his vocal technique, range, abilities, styles, and the MV examples are just stunning:
Airplane pt 2
Euphoria
Still with you
If you - from Masked Singer😯
My time
Stay Alive
With such a great voice, he always makes sure that it never +
+ Absent Chronicles
🎵 Composition and production in Blue.
Danny de Vlugt is a Netherlands based producer, writer, trumpet player, visual artist, and sound designer. He makes his own music, music for score, sync and soundscapes for art installations. +
+ overpowers the message of the music he is singing, he just conveys it in the best way possible.
I'm also amazed at his composition skills and intuition. "Still with You" is my favorite of his, the melody is 🔥
JK makes the hardest vocal things look easy, and he even +