I guess when I think about it, I should have expected “DNA” to surprise me, but I think it’s better that I stayed out of that oxymoron and let myself be wowed.įor me it’s a shame that many other K-pop groups (SM Ent and JYP Ent are particularly guilty of this, I think) give away the best part of the song in the teaser, so there’s not a lot to anticipate when you hear the track itself. And of course, “Spring Day,” last but never least, astonished us all by delivering an incredibly melodic and ultimately anthemic rock sound, the likes of which K-pop had never, just never ever, seen before. The sheer weirdness scale of the music video was astounding enough, but the placement of the song within the video added to the suspense: for example, the wait throughout the long introduction for the song to start, or the sudden return of the chorus after the dramatic reveal that V is the fallen angel in the MV’s story. Then came “Blood, Sweat, and Tears,” whose sound itself was new for Bangtan but whose concept was the real shocker. Back in Young Forever era, “Fire” focused almost exclusively on the sound of the beat-on making it bigger, harder, crazier-an exciting move given that their past releases, and K-pop as a tradition, used the beat to propel the rap and vocals, not the other way around. My personal favorite thing by far about “DNA” is the surprise factor of the chorus, which Bangtan has been bringing to their comeback titles in various ways for ages. To me, “DNA” is a perfect post-Billboard Award song to show the world who BTS are. It’s catchy, danceable, sonically interesting, and sufficiently melodic for my melody-craving tastes. While it by no means tops “Spring Day” or “Blood, Sweat, and Tears,” “DNA” checks all the boxes. First things first: This title track had everything I wanted from Bangtan this fall. Two songs stood out to me you can probably guess which ones: “DNA,” a dance track with more depth and originality than most recent K-pop of the same style and “Mic Drop,” which-well. The album lives up to the hype, channeling BTS’s creative energies in new directions and showing off their biggest strengths. As we all already know, these guys have been breaking records left and right since last year, but “Love Yourself: HER” has had extraordinary domestic and international success. In one of the most exciting moments in their career so far, BTS has released yet another remarkable mini-album.
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