rishy 🧸

remember when we survived 2022 festa dinner? This was truly one of the most devastating events in BTS history.

whole time it was "baby, baby i need" and not "body, body to body" or wtv ?? bye😭

Namjoon about Merry Go Round💜 🐨: Next is ‘Merry Go Round,’ and this one is similar to ‘SWIM’ in a lot of ways. They kind of share the same emotional core. 🐨3 Do I still have enough battery? I’m not sure. Maybe I should at least lower the screen brightness… 🐨: Anyway, when we first started working on songs, there was a producer named Sam who came in early on. While we were working and just casually talking, the topic of Tame Impala came up. I told him, ‘I’m such a huge Tame Impala fan. I’ve always wanted to work with him, even during my solo projects but never got the chance.’ Then Sam told me he was actually friends with Tame Impala and had worked with him before. So I don’t know whether this beat was purely Tame Impala’s or if Sam had worked on it together with him, but while listening through tracks, he played me this beat. And I immediately thought ‘Wow, I really love this.’ 🐨: This is another example of how sessions work. I heard the beat, but then I had to leave for another room, so before I left, I asked Aldae — one of the songwriters who contributed a lot to this album, and someone incredibly talented who also worked on songs like Flowers by Miley Cyrus — if he could try writing a melody around the topic of a merry-go-round for this beat. 🐨: Because during military service, and honestly while living as an idol or singer too, every day feels repetitive. You can’t really escape the cycle. If ‘SWIM’ is about hope, then ‘Merry Go Round’ is about the fatigue and despair inside that repetition. 🐨: I told him, ‘I always thought about a merry go round. During the military too, and even living this life, I kept imagining a merry go round I couldn’t get off of.’ 🐨: Then I went to another room for about an hour, and when I came back, Aldae had already completed the melody and lyrics. It was so good. 🐨: I played it for all the members and said, ‘This song really has to make the album. To me, this feels like another “Spring Day.”’ And that’s how it got included. 🐨: It’s a sad song, honestly. Probably the only song on the album that’s openly, unmistakably sad. Aldae wrote the lyrics based on the things I told him. 🐨: I wish that I could tell you that it’s over
I wish that I could walk away from pain
My life is like a broken roller coaster
But maybe I’m the only one to blame” 🐨: Yeah… it’s my fault, right? In the end, everyone feels like their life is their own responsibility. I think that was the emotion behind it.

🐨: Into the sun...always been a good song but at the concert its so good. we can see the army bombs and the lights on your faces we can see every face & slogans so clearly. Taehyungie wrote this well. Namjoon about Into the Sun. 😭😭