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A limited number of production release tickets will be made available for BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ dates in London on Friday 19th June at 3pm (local). These tickets will be released directly through Ticketmaster and are expected to go quickly. Queues will open 30 minutes ahead of the sale, and fans are recommended to log in and join early to be ready. All tickets are sold first-come, first-served. For the official ticketing sites, visit BTSWORLDTOUROFFICIAL.com

i beg you to stream arirang like day one for a whole year and to talk about it every day. just talk about your favorite lyrics, mvs, why arirang deserves that aoty nomination and all. team work makes the dream work, we need everyone. be part of the story.

[NEWS] #BTS “Merry Go Round” MV is OUT NOW on Spotify! MERRY GO ROUND MV #BTS_MerryGoRound open.spotify.com/track/6t4JEAfg…

A visual depiction of how bangtan dragged me out of my depression.

🏆#BTS_ARIRANG | CRITICS OPINION & ACHIEVEMENTS 📀 Thank you #BTS for making a work of art album 👏💜 SPREAD 🔥 instagram.com/p/DZxHBaWDFf1/…

#JHOPE via Instagram Story 💜 MERRY GO ROUND MV #BTS_MerryGoRound

BTS has released the music video for Merry Go Round on Spotify. Rate it from 1 to 10.

In this mv, Members showed them reflecting on the years they spent separated from their real world, while asking whether the cycle that shaped them is a prison or a home. I thought it in 3 parts. 1. The literal layer: military service The endless corridors, identical rooms, flickering lights, repetitive movement, monochrome palette, and the carousel all mirror military life. A merry-go-round moves constantly but never truly goes anywhere. You wake up. Repeat the routine. Another day passes. Repeat. The ride keeps moving, but you have no control over its speed or direction. This is why the military imagery and carousel imagery feel fused together. 2. The psychological layer: each member confronting his own "shadow" This is where the Jungian theory and Fake Love connections become important. The rooms don't feel like physical locations. They feel like internal spaces. RM → awake room, insomnia, endless thinking. Jimin → chasing the carousel/old memories. Yoongi → storm, flying papers shows chaos, public scrutiny. Jin → crossing the corridors while darkness follows him as if He's trying to get rid of smtg (pain/past self or pathetic memory) but it keeps following him. Cause The black liquid is probably not a monster. It resembles what Jung calls the shadow: fear, guilt, loneliness, grief, exhaustion,entment. You can leave the room. But the shadow follows. Notice how it never truly defeats them. It simply exists. That's a very BTS message. Not "we conquered pain." More: ★We carried it with us and kept moving. 3. The meta layer: BTS's entire career as a loop. This is where HYYH, Spring Day, YNWA, Fake Love, Monochrome, Proof, and even the solo era connect. The carousel isn't just military service. It's BTS itself. A cycle of: ★debut ★growth ★success ★sacrifice ★separation ★reunion ★new beginning over and over. The spaceship, infinity imagery, doors, corridors, alternate rooms, and references to past eras suggest BTS are traveling through their own history. Not escaping it. Revisiting it. BTS constantly open doors themselves. Throughout their career: HYYH Wings Love Yourself Map of the Soul Proof now Merry Go Round doors appear whenever a new chapter begins. The message seems consistent: ★Nobody opened these doors for us. We walked through them ourselves. In Merry Go Round, the doors feel like eras, memories, and possible futures. Each room contains a different version of BTS. Jin and Taehyung This is the most interesting part. If viewed through HYYH: Taehyung is often the first to sense something is wrong. Jin is the one burdened with correcting the timeline. In Merry Go Round, it almost feels like a passing of responsibility. Taehyung disappears as Jin arrives. Not because they're enemies. Because their roles are changing. Almost like: "I've been holding this place while you were gone. Now you're back." Considering Jin was the first member discharged, this reading works both symbolically and emotionally. Why Jimin follows the carousel? Not because he's trapped. Because he's afraid of losing what the carousel represents. The carousel is: BTS youth memories togetherness He isn't chasing a ride. He's chasing a promise. The same promise from Spring Day: No matter how long winter lasts, we'll meet again. The actual ending This is where I disagree with the "they escaped the loop" theory. I don't think they escaped. I don't think they wanted to. The final message feels closer to: ★We discovered that the loop itself wasn't the enemy. The military years ended. The loneliness ended. The waiting ended. But BTS will always be riding another merry-go-round: new albums, new eras, new challenges, new universes. The difference is that now they're riding it together again. That's why the MV feels strangely hopeful despite all the darkness. The ending doesn't say: "The ride stopped." It says: "We're all back on it now." & for BTS, that is home.

"YOU NEVER WALK ALONE " 🥺💜 SPRING DAY - MERRY GO ROUND

BTS (방탄소년단) 'Merry Go Round' Official MV #BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_ARIRANG #MerryGoRound #SpotifyxBTS

The pieces of newspaper flying around just broke me all over again 😭💔

let’s all jump on the count of three

OMG KIM TAEHYUNG

THANK YOU BTS FOR ARIRANG! THE WHOLE ALBUM IS A WORK OF ART! EVERY SONGS DESERVE A MV! ALL OF ARIRANG'S SONGS DESERVE A BILLION STREAMS AND ALL THE RECOGNITION! 👏 👏

In movies & theater design, black liquid or ‘goo’ sometimes serves as a powerful visual metaphor for repressed trauma. here, it follows Seokjin out of the military quarters before he reaches the boys on the other side: it can represent hidden personal anxieties, fear or guilt that eventually erupts and consumes a character that he may have felt before returning. It was gone when he reached the boys.

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vendo o hoseok liderar o ensaio fica muito claro porque ninguém nunca vai conseguir replicar o bts.. só existe um dele no mundo

No one gets how precious this picture is.