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BTS & THEIR SOCIALLY AWARE SONGS: a thread
Disclaimer: this is what I’ve read from multiple different sources and translations of the songs. I’ll be starting from the first album & so on...enjoy and don’t let it flop!
1) No more dream; the lyrics talk abt the pressure of young people being forced to take a certain career path rather than their dream, especially by their parents. Or to hv big aspirations at such a young age. Fav lyric: "Take care of yourself. Please don't force me."
2) Intro O!RUL8,2?: a song about being yourself and enjoying life without regret and not living it by other people’s standards, “why am I not in my life and in some other persons life?”
4) N.O (I forgot omg): this song criticises the education system for trying to turn students in to study machines & a desire to see change, how the system is robotic.
5) Can you Turn off your phone: this talks about the obsession with technology and social media and the lack of verbal communication. “Everyone says it’s smart but we’re all getting dumber”
6) Rain: so underrated in terms of lyrics, it expresses the feelings of lack of motivation in a repetitive life, loss of thoughts & identity, pain & the fact you have to confront YOURSELF in order to change. “If not, am I just someone who came and went like a rain shower?"
7) DOPE: we love her, the lyrics are pretty political, it talks abt the horrible and competitive employment system in Korea and how it causes young people to give up & Korea’s unemployment rate, again I guess they’re criticising the system and the GOV
8) Whalien 52: describes a feeling of loneliness and being misunderstood and not listened too, I feel this deeply connects with depression especially for me. It’s the feeling of being pushed away or pushing something away and essentially having no one. I love the lyrics sm
9) BAEPSAE/SILVER SPOON: this song comments on the social hierarchy, social privilege, and the gap between the lower and upper class and how society limits your opportunities based on the class you’re in, the privilege one gets from being rich & the frustration of it all
10) House Of Cards: everyone thinks this as a sensual song, purposely manipulating us, because it’s about an unstable toxic relationship, they keep breaking eachother, even tho they know it’s toxic they don’t stop the endless cycle of toxicity and thus they fall like a H.O.C
11) Boy Meets Evil: has many interpretations but mainly I think its abt greed and the desire to be loved or loving ones self. It can also be abt how greed can make you lose yourself & everything around you. “Because of my childish love, I lost my way on a path of dream”
12) Am I Wrong: another dig at the Government WHEW. Basically talks about how the public is treated poorly & how corrupt their gov is & that they focus on pleasing the best & how they ignore what’s going on in this crazy world. “Have ears but don’t listen Have eyes but don’t see”
13) 21st Century Girl: a rather empowering song about women, comments on the unjust expectations of girls and tells us we’re perfect just the way we are, a message of strength and self love.
14) Spring day: spring day heavily references the Sewol Ferry incident and comments on it while dedicating some things to it in the mv. It also can be about missing a friend or accepting the loss of a loved one & missing them too.
15) Pied Piper: comments on the consuming life of fan culture and how we should prioritise our personal life’s and stay self aware as they’ll still be there when we’ve done what we need too.
16) GOGO: talks about the YOLO mentality in our generation and how we use money to escape reality & this purposeless feeling, money we don’t have. It’s actually mocking this generation, telling them to go out and enjoy life instead of wasting money on meaningless things
17) Paradise: this song tells us it’s ok to not have a dream, take things slow because life isn’t a race. Don’t adapt someone’s expectations as your own, because it doesn’t matter who gets there first because the end is the same for everyone, take it slow. Self actualisation
18) Airplane p2; quote from bang7an “about the satisfaction of observing their haters from the sky, as they fly to higher success. also about not forgetting where you come from and continuing to work hard with your initial intentions in mind”
Im now going to do unofficial songs and mixtapes, there are SO MANY SONGS so I won’t add all of them just the real deep ones. Dm me if I’ve missed out smth
