i’m gonna start listening to the albums now and i’m gonna thread it (mostly for me but feel free to read) because these are the ones i haven’t listened to before, starting with oldest: 2 Cool 4 Skool.

i’m so excited lol such a proud baby army moment

Intro: 2 Cool 4 Skool

this started off sounding like those pacer tests we took in high school PE yikes

OKAY way different than today's sound but still awesome! seems like namjoon was the only one on this track

We Are Bulletproof: Part 2

"look carefully at me, placing a period on impossible, I’m possible"

if only they knew that nothing was impossible for them.

Skit: Circle Room Talk

yeah I always love the skits it's a nice ambiance like you're sitting with them or near them overhearing a conversation

No More Dream

I started watching the mv and OH MY GOD it's like different people! compared to today anyway.. WHATTTT

ooh the old bts logo on the baseball

ALRIGHT JIMIN WITH HIS ABS BOY ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

no but this just screams "I'm a manly man grrrr" the whole mv ah goodness! nah I love it and I love them :)

as an aside, I'm trying to think if my bias would be different than yoongi in this era... not sure yet.

anyway, onto the lyrics:

a similar type of hype about Ivies in America... probably not as much anymore but I know my family was very disappointed I didn't go to an Ivy but a state university instead... ah well lol

wish I could say this to my family who pushed so hard for me to become a doctor... didn't happen as I flunked my pre-meds lol

definitely going to go back to this one... resonates to hell and back. Anyways! Onto the next,

Interlude:

okay no lyrics, but I LOVE it! I wonder if they put in beats for other albums. I think it's neat they put it in there :)

좋아요 (Like)

ooh I likeeee this!

I don't know which one of them does the sultry "oh pretty woman" part but ahhh wow I am falling in love haha

Also I appreciate the honesty of that guy that checks up on his ex and sees she's doing better without him. uh huh uh huh uh huh!!

Outro: Circle Room Cypher

what I got out of this one was "I gotta pee!" sorry lol also I didn't know that seokjin being handsome started that early on, that's cool :)

OH and and and tae roasting the rapline goodbye oh I love him

Skit: On the Start Line

ooh I love the piano! can't wait for the lyrics :)

"Though I came here through a certain confidence and belief in myself, what awaited me was a different kind of reality."

If only you knew what awaited you, Namjoon...

"Even now, after three years have passed, even as I occasionally gain the self-certainty to think things like 'Once I debut, I will conquer the music industry.'"

You didn't just "conquer" the music industry, you redefined its existence

"It's as though before me lies the bluest ocean, and if I turn to look back, a vast desert"

- note to self to make some type of something with this. either art or something else. I'll think about it.

"I am not afraid, because what has made me who I am are the oceans and deserts I have witnessed until this moment. I will never forget the oceans and deserts I have seen."

- okay I'm starting to cry let me pause a beat.

길 (Road/Path)

OKAY BYE I AM OFFICIALLY FUCKING CRYING I AM SO DAMN PROUD OF THEM

I wonder as well...

What will happen when they come to the end of their path? How far can they climb? I wonder...

all I know is when that end comes, I will cheer them as loud as I can and send them onto the next step in their life, whatever that may be.

okay that's it for this thread! I might do expanded threads in the future for individual songs but I'm not sure yet. I'm gonna go listen to some of these again to reflect some more but then start a second thread on O!RUL8,2?