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RM shared that “they don’t know ’bout us” was inspired by conversations with Jimin about emotions, perspective, and how people perceive them!
🐨: “Um, ‘they don’t know ’bout us’ is a song that Jimin really checked up on and worked on a lot.
Jimin always said that through this session, he really improved a lot. Not just in singing, but also in learning vocals and writing melodies too.
Before making this song, me, Jimin, and the songwriters there had worked on another song called ‘Weak.’
While talking about what kind of story we should tell, I brought up the phrase, ‘You make me weak.’ That was what I had in mind. But actually, it was something directed toward you guys.
‘You make me weak.’ It’s something you’d say to someone you love. ‘You always make me weak.’ But that feeling can be both bad and good, kind of like normal emotions.
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Then Jimin asked me, ‘Hyung, why is it “You make me weak”?’ Why does it make you weak?
And I said, because people… they actually don’t know us. They can’t know us. Even I don’t fully know myself.
While talking about that, I think Jimin found that idea really interesting.
The idea that:
‘People make me weak because they don’t really know me.’
The next day, Jimin and I ended up splitting into different rooms, and I think there, with DOC and some sampling they brought in, they turned it into ‘they don’t know ’bout us.’
If you watch the performance, there are all those eyes and faces appearing on the iPad or tablet screens.
So originally, this song actually started as something written for ARMYs, but in the end, it became a really aggressive song directed at people outside who don’t really know us at all.”
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