[YOUTUBE LOG] 200927 RM
Summary Translation

It's been a while so RM feels a little awkward in front of the screen, but it's time to film another, so here he is! He's just woken up and come to practice; he believes he's doing well to balance life with work. They're almost at the end of album prep, and have other promotions.

They've achieved great results on Billboard [Hot 100] due to the hard work of many; it's an honour and it continues to feel good, but it does come hand in hand with confusing emotions for they're unable to experience it more definitively.

When BTS first entered the Billboard Chart [200] in 2015 [with HYYH Pt. 2], receiving spins on airplay and radio was difficult, so fans would even send flower bouquets to DJs and the agency there worked hard -- +

and even whilst RM responded in an interview "music truly transcends every barriers like language", he wondered how much he himself believed what he was saying.

RM: There are songs that are good even if you don't know the lyrics, songs that are better when you know the lyrics, and songs that are a little worse once you know the lyrics, but anyway, though lyrics are important in songs, it is foundationally an auditory & visual experience.

-- And so RM believed that if they were able to give many people joy through sound and sight, their lyrics would at least partly be fulfilled through that.

[Reaching #1 on the Hot 100] was one of their big dreams, and because he feels as though they were able to achieve something in this period -- that they were able to leave something behind -- he feels happy, warm, and thankful.

They continue to have questions about themselves and have not been able to throw away their self-condemnation, but RM believes they're now able to ask such questions with a lighter heart now.

They've heard many a time from their friends around them -- fans, of course, but even non-fans -- that Dynamite is such an excellent song, a fun song to play while driving. So as someone who was able to help even a little for such a song to be released, RM feels super happy.

RM often thinks back to his beginning these days -- why he wanted to do music, why he began on such a path -- believing that in between having to do activities external to music-making, he's lost some of his purity of heart regarding it. +

-- And so RM's been reflecting on his younger self, when the simple action of holding a mic or writing lyrics brought such happiness, and trying to awaken his dead senses. It seems as though he should continuously be sensitive to his surroundings with his radar 'on'.

RM recognises he still does love music -- humming to music as he walks on the pathways makes him happy, and he still feels as though he wouldn't be able to live without it -- but he still holds an ambition to return to that pure heart, that earlier mental satisfaction.