do u remember when yoongi said suga and agust d are different people to him? i think the difference between them is how much they're willing to make their listener suffer. suga is never ending with a note of despair - each of his songs contains either the difficult +

growth that comes with acceptance in adversity, or the motivation to fight back, or the courage to rise above. furthermore, none of his songs are sonically disturbing. even when discussing the darkest of topics, his music will not leave the listener unsettled. it's +

almost as if suga is protective of the listener, the person on the other side of the song who has given him enough to respect to listen to his story. his music and lyricism is always, always about positive reinforcement one way or another. agust d, however, is about catharsis. +

take set me free, for example, or honsool. ESPECIALLY honsool. when yoongi was discussing honsool in his vlive, he said it made him feel good that the listener felt bad when he listened to honsool, because that was the goal. that's what catharsis is - it's a process +

(especially in terms of art) where you are purposefully put through tough situations and uncomfortable feelings to help you understand how to deal with them, or simply to remind yourself that you have a heart that feels. honsool is so sonically disturbing for this very reason;

there is no end to the despair in honsool, unlike any music by suga, and there is no ray of hope. it's just a dark, drunken stupor, and darkness always becomes a sensorarily oppressive thing where there is no ray to break it. honsool engages each sense of yours in the same way, +

because if you don't know exactly how overwhelming suffering and despair can really get, when will you find your own way out of it? agust d shows you the suffering, bare and terrifying, and suga shows you what lies beyond it. i don't think there are any better examples than +

the two of them to personify what the phrase "two sides of the same coin" really means, and that's the downright stunning genius of min yoongi.