Generation BTS: All The Albums

We’re going back to the School era! Join us as we talk through everything O!RUL8,2?, the second ever mini album by BTS. In this one we discuss academic pressure, love as coffee, dragon memes, Korean dialects, watermelon babies and what the boys would do if they ruled the world (thankfully they didn't at this point in time at least..). There’s obviously also still time for some calling out the haters, some ridiculous outfits and some very literal dance moves to keep us entertained. 

What’s the most energetic dance? Who had the worst fur coat? Which member has a future career in props if the idol thing doesn't work out?

You’ll find out in this episode! 

*Also, sorry this one is a bit late, it took a while to edit*

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Borahae!

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Welcome to episode 4 (aka the third official one) where we discuss all things Map of the Soul: Persona! In this one we talk about everything from Namjoon's amazing lyricism, to Jungian concepts of the psyche, through to JK's amazing hair in this era and the life-changing performances of Dionysus. We also manage to find meanings of romantic love, longing for ARMY, and connections to the BTS Universe AND the actual universe, and we discover how through following the teachings of the Map of the Soul era we can truly find ourselves, love ourselves and be at one with ourselves in a way that we hope would make Joonie (and the rest of the boys) proud.

We'll also awe at some amazing looks, performances and give out our regular awards - who do you think is taking home best look, best lyric and best performance? Will we come to an agreement after our varied and controversial scoring of 2 Cool for Skool?

So strap in, because this one is a tad long and complicated - but we wouldn't want it any other way when it comes to understanding the meaning behind these genius boys and their lyrics.

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Borahae!

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Our second *regularly scheduled* episode! We look back on the great debut, the very first BTS album ever to exist, appropriately titled 2 Cool 4 Skool. Because they were.

We discuss the origins of the band and the concept of a hip hop idol group, and why the concept was quite different from what had come before. There's a few bits about haters, a few bits about the pressures of school, adults and society, some social media etiquette and some reflection on how the boys felt about finally having made it to debut.

Due to this album being on the shorter side, we also cover the three original songs from the Japanese album Wake Up, just because we want to make sure we cover the Japanese discography as well :)

Of course we give our takes on the sometimes questionable fashion and hair BUT often excellent makeup of this era, and we also crown our best looks, best dance breaks, best songs, MVPs and everything else.

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Links to the videos we talked about are here.

Borahae!

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Our second episode, which turned out slightly differently than we had planned... In this episode we review the three new songs from Proof, BTS's new anthology album. As a disclaimer, we recorded this episode on the morning of Friday the 10th of June UK time, about four hours after the album and the Yet To Come music video were released, when we did not know as much about what might be coming up as we do now. As we write this description on the evening of Tuesday the 15th of June, the day when the 2022 Festa dinner party video was released, we now do know that with this the boys announced that they will be taking a break from releasing music as a group to focus on solo projects. If you listen to the episode you'll hear that our analysis of the lyrics from Friday morning did touch on this as a possibility, so while we hoped we were wrong, what we had intended to be a fun and exciting special reaction episode of our brand new podcast turned into quite a sad and emotional morning of reflection on what might lie ahead for BTS as a group and for us as Army. Over the weekend we thought we might have overreacted to the hints in the lyrics and that the episode would be too sad, but when today's announcement confirmed that our interpretation had led us down the right path we decided to release what our initial takes were, just in case they might help provide some more context, and possibly also some hope and reassurance via BTS's lyrics that our most beautiful moments together are indeed Yet To Come.

We still do not know everything about what we can expect going forward, but of course we understand and support the boys in everything they do and hope they get some well-deserved rest and an opportunity to rediscover who they are as artists and as human beings. In the meantime we will of course be here to cheer on their solo pursuits, and we also plan to continue our deep dive into their past works and achievements and hope you'll enjoy celebrating them with us in our future episodes (which we promise to make more upbeat!).

We'll also take this time to remember what BTS have taught us in terms of taking care of and loving ourselves and each other, and we are forever grateful for those lessons.

Afo Bangfo & Borahae x

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Yet To Come MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpOEzNZ8hQ&ab_channel=HYBELABELS

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Our very first episode! We cast our minds back to 2017 to talk about the masterpiece full of bangers that is Love Yourself: Her. We discuss everything from Chinese idioms, atomic theory, German folktales, haters, capitalism and of course everything about showing yourself some love. We may also get to explore the hidden depths of the ocean towards the end of the episode…  Which song will be our winner, which one would we skip (ONLY if there was an evil criminal there forcing us to do so) and who will we crown album MVP? Tune in to find out!

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Borahae!

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