BTS, With Sincerity
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One of our goals with “BTS, With Sincerity” is to build community around understanding BTS’s artistry from an ARMY pov. We’re on Twitter @/btswsincerity & Insta @/btswithsincerity. If you have a blog about BTS, we’d love to follow you, so let us know.
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In preparation for the release of #HOS_TOUR_Movie we are revisiting our essay “j-hope’s Daydream: Between Intimacy and Privacy, Artifice and Reality”— a look at the stage production of “Daydream” and how it represented a new level of openness and vulnerability for j-hope.+
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In preparation for the release of #HOS_TOUR_Movie we are revisiting our essay “j-hope’s Daydream: Between Intimacy and Privacy, Artifice and Reality”— a look at the stage production of “Daydream” and how it represented a new level of openness and vulnerability for j-hope.+
"j-hope enacts entering that world of fantasy... The dizzying camera work plunges us into this world with him, evoking the feeling that we are falling into the “hole Alice fell into” and have ended up in an upside-down world that is exciting and seductive in its subversiveness."
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"j-hope enacts entering that world of fantasy... The dizzying camera work plunges us into this world with him, evoking the feeling that we are falling into the “hole Alice fell into” and have ended up in an upside-down world that is exciting and seductive in its subversiveness."
#JiminsDanceTime & #ThisIsJimin videos dropped in 2023 like little love bombs, woven through with a subtle meta history of BTS & ARMY, told through Jimin's eyes. ♥️♥️ Our appreciation of the gifts of dance, humor, and memory he gave us ⬇️
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#BTS
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This is Jimin: Gifts of dance, humor, and memory
In keeping with our intentions for this blog, on each member’s birthday we hope to describe ways in which BTS’s artistry and sincerity move…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#JiminsDanceTime & #ThisIsJimin videos dropped in 2023 like little love bombs, woven through with a subtle meta history of BTS & ARMY, told through Jimin's eyes. ♥️♥️ Our appreciation of the gifts of dance, humor, and memory he gave us ⬇️
#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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“RM, With Sincerity (2025)” by
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
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September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“RM, With Sincerity (2025)” by
@btswithsincerity.bsky.social
A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
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Please enjoy our new birthday essay for Namjoon: "RM, With Sincerity (2025)"
We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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RM, With Sincerity (2025)
Image: @rkive Instagram, August 4, 2025. Captioned: “I really want to go home..”
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September 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Please enjoy our new birthday essay for Namjoon: "RM, With Sincerity (2025)"
We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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Happy 2nd Anniversary to Tae's indelible Layover💜
"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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V’s Layover: between dream and reality, outside the boundaries of time
Layover, V’s first solo album, is brief: six songs, including two versions of one of the tracks, spread over 18 minutes of music. An…
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September 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy 2nd Anniversary to Tae's indelible Layover💜
"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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“Everybody who has… tried to learn to play an instrument can see themselves in Jungkook’s patient and methodical Lives, where he chooses songs while commenting on them and the difficulties they present for a singer, often correcting his pitch and starting over…”
September 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Everybody who has… tried to learn to play an instrument can see themselves in Jungkook’s patient and methodical Lives, where he chooses songs while commenting on them and the difficulties they present for a singer, often correcting his pitch and starting over…”
“In contrast to the rest of FACE, which tells a story about the struggle to be free, “Letter” is an acoustic-based tonal shift to a mood altogether softer and accepting. The album version begins and ends with the sound of waves and the ocean.”+
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“In contrast to the rest of FACE, which tells a story about the struggle to be free, “Letter” is an acoustic-based tonal shift to a mood altogether softer and accepting. The album version begins and ends with the sound of waves and the ocean.”+
"Another moving & important moment in 'j-hope IN THE BOX' is when j-hope visits his family in Gwangju, a city in the south of the country, where he was born. 'Safety Zone,' a gorgeous R&B track from Jack in the Box, plays in the background. 'Where’s the ray of light to relieve me in the +
#BTS
#BTS
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Another moving & important moment in 'j-hope IN THE BOX' is when j-hope visits his family in Gwangju, a city in the south of the country, where he was born. 'Safety Zone,' a gorgeous R&B track from Jack in the Box, plays in the background. 'Where’s the ray of light to relieve me in the +
#BTS
#BTS
“‘Layover’ also bears this contradiction: V’s choices in classic sounds like a jazz piano or flute, in addition to his luxurious baritone, are juxtaposed with distortion, vocal effects, ambient sounds and electronic beats.”+
#V #KimTaehyung
#V #KimTaehyung
August 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“‘Layover’ also bears this contradiction: V’s choices in classic sounds like a jazz piano or flute, in addition to his luxurious baritone, are juxtaposed with distortion, vocal effects, ambient sounds and electronic beats.”+
#V #KimTaehyung
#V #KimTaehyung
"RM offers a respite among the ads, the transactional, or the algorithmically directed through his Instagram account."+
#RM #BTS_Artistry
#RM #BTS_Artistry
August 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"RM offers a respite among the ads, the transactional, or the algorithmically directed through his Instagram account."+
#RM #BTS_Artistry
#RM #BTS_Artistry
"Sitting on the other side of the screen, tuning intoJK's Lives in the middle of the morning, felt like catching up with a friend, even a family member, the kind you don’t need to dress up for when they visit or worry about having enough topics of conversation or…”
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Sitting on the other side of the screen, tuning intoJK's Lives in the middle of the morning, felt like catching up with a friend, even a family member, the kind you don’t need to dress up for when they visit or worry about having enough topics of conversation or…”
"This contrast is most compelling between Set Me Free pt. 2, the last song on FACE, & Rebirth (Intro). Both songs feature a choir, but their use is completely different. The choir of Set Me Free, which sounded like a dark force trying to hold Jimin down as he +
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Jimin’s “Rebirth:” The Promise of Blooming Love
On July 19, 2024, Jimin released MUSE, the follow-up to his first solo album, FACE. Moody and vulnerable, FACE is an album about processing…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"This contrast is most compelling between Set Me Free pt. 2, the last song on FACE, & Rebirth (Intro). Both songs feature a choir, but their use is completely different. The choir of Set Me Free, which sounded like a dark force trying to hold Jimin down as he +
#BTSart
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#BTSart
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“The video, a cinematic work of brilliant storytelling, is inspired by film noir and Hong Kong gangster movies, two highly subversive genres, which further foreground the mix of past and modern elements that come together in the message and sound of the song.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
August 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“The video, a cinematic work of brilliant storytelling, is inspired by film noir and Hong Kong gangster movies, two highly subversive genres, which further foreground the mix of past and modern elements that come together in the message and sound of the song.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
“BTS highlight the number in their artistry; on their first album, in the song “Path/Road,” RM raps, “I thought I was alone, but then I learned that it was seven,” and, in their seventh year, they named their seventh album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“BTS highlight the number in their artistry; on their first album, in the song “Path/Road,” RM raps, “I thought I was alone, but then I learned that it was seven,” and, in their seventh year, they named their seventh album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
From our blog, a review of Namjoon's RPWP:
"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
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"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
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RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person” is the right album at the right time
“I’m goddamn lost,” RM sings in “LOST!” the title track of his new album Right Place, Wrong Person, a fun, upbeat song about his struggle…
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July 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
From our blog, a review of Namjoon's RPWP:
"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
#BTS
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"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
#BTS
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“Divine as a descriptor can signify holy or God-like—an omniscient, timeless source as a companion in the search for meaning in life. RM describes it as divine pain, suggesting that even with the presence of the holy, the process of knowing oneself is still painful, like a fire.”
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Divine as a descriptor can signify holy or God-like—an omniscient, timeless source as a companion in the search for meaning in life. RM describes it as divine pain, suggesting that even with the presence of the holy, the process of knowing oneself is still painful, like a fire.”
BTS's "poetic lyrics, creative stage performances, story-telling ecosystem, (and) visual genius...will be their most long-lasting contributions to humanity’s winding journey toward loving and making sense of the world through art."
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Thirty-Nine Billion…Yet the Artistry
As of mid-July 2024, BTS’s songs have accumulated 39,880,785,654 streams on Spotify. Their music video for Dynamite has 1,852,952,520 views…
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July 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
BTS's "poetic lyrics, creative stage performances, story-telling ecosystem, (and) visual genius...will be their most long-lasting contributions to humanity’s winding journey toward loving and making sense of the world through art."
#BTS_Artistry
#BTS
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#BTS_Artistry
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“Throughout“Pandora’s Box” and the rest of Jack In The Box, j-hope presents a more complicated notion of hope, mainly in his relationship with how the word came to represent his ‘destiny’.”
#JHOPE #BTS_Artistry
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#JHOPE #BTS_Artistry
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j-hope, Pandora’s box and the burden of hope
BTS’s j-hope has often discussed the origins of his stage name and the tie to his stage persona. This exploration became more poignant and…
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July 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Throughout“Pandora’s Box” and the rest of Jack In The Box, j-hope presents a more complicated notion of hope, mainly in his relationship with how the word came to represent his ‘destiny’.”
#JHOPE #BTS_Artistry
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#JHOPE #BTS_Artistry
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From our blog: “Wild Flower’s themes of burning and fire are revisited in the first half of RPWP, where each song contains images of fire, beginning w 'Feelin’ high on a forest fire,' repeated three hypnotic times in “Right People Wrong Place.”
#Namjoon
#BTS_Artistry
#BTS
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#Namjoon
#BTS_Artistry
#BTS
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Fire Divine in Right Place, Wrong Person
RM’s Right Place, Wrong Person’s complex soundscape feels like a fire siren’s call to a divine maze, coaxing the mind into the unfamiliar…
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July 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
From our blog: “Wild Flower’s themes of burning and fire are revisited in the first half of RPWP, where each song contains images of fire, beginning w 'Feelin’ high on a forest fire,' repeated three hypnotic times in “Right People Wrong Place.”
#Namjoon
#BTS_Artistry
#BTS
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#Namjoon
#BTS_Artistry
#BTS
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“In this reciprocal, non-hierarchical relationship, BTS inspires the best of ARMY, who become, in turn, the face of BTS.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
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#BTS #BTS_Artistry
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BTS and ARMY: Paving the way to a new artist-fan relationship
Trying to describe BTS and ARMY’s relationship, even 11 years after BTS’s debut, is a topic of constant exploration among the fandom; BTS…
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July 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“In this reciprocal, non-hierarchical relationship, BTS inspires the best of ARMY, who become, in turn, the face of BTS.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
BTS and ARMY: Paving the way to a new artist-fan relationship medium.com/@btswithsinc...
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
BTS and ARMY: Paving the way to a new artist-fan relationship medium.com/@btswithsinc...
"We promise to always follow BTS in how they lead with sincerity and intentionality– for this reason, we chose to launch the blog on July 9, 2024, on the 11th anniversary of when BTS and ARMY established their connection."💜+
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BTS, With Sincerity
We want to spend all of our time writing about BTS. They make us stop and think about art and our own beliefs so often. That’s the simple…
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July 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"We promise to always follow BTS in how they lead with sincerity and intentionality– for this reason, we chose to launch the blog on July 9, 2024, on the 11th anniversary of when BTS and ARMY established their connection."💜+
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
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Our latest post, "Run Beautiful," is an ode to the three new songs on BTS's Proof: Yet to Come, Run BTS, and For Youth.
💜"These love songs- to each other and ARMY, were meant to carry us through enlistment as ARMY and BTS waited for each other." 💜
#BTS
#BTSArtistry
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💜"These love songs- to each other and ARMY, were meant to carry us through enlistment as ARMY and BTS waited for each other." 💜
#BTS
#BTSArtistry
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Run Beautiful
“You and I, best moment is yet to come” –from “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment in Life)”
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June 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our latest post, "Run Beautiful," is an ode to the three new songs on BTS's Proof: Yet to Come, Run BTS, and For Youth.
💜"These love songs- to each other and ARMY, were meant to carry us through enlistment as ARMY and BTS waited for each other." 💜
#BTS
#BTSArtistry
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💜"These love songs- to each other and ARMY, were meant to carry us through enlistment as ARMY and BTS waited for each other." 💜
#BTS
#BTSArtistry
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"Imagine SUGA’s character in the story as the root note of a chord [...] & the six other members’ characters being a new note added to that chord, each note adding a new emotion to that basic major or minor chord & creating a whole that is multilayered, undefinable, & complex."
June 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Imagine SUGA’s character in the story as the root note of a chord [...] & the six other members’ characters being a new note added to that chord, each note adding a new emotion to that basic major or minor chord & creating a whole that is multilayered, undefinable, & complex."
#RightPlaceWrongPerson was released a year ago on May 24. RM’s second album burns with nearly uncontainable intellectual and emotional energy. To listen to it, is to live it, and to live it means to be transformed by+
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#RM #BTS_Artistry
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May 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#RightPlaceWrongPerson was released a year ago on May 24. RM’s second album burns with nearly uncontainable intellectual and emotional energy. To listen to it, is to live it, and to live it means to be transformed by+
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@musingsbangtan.bsky.social
#RM #BTS_Artistry
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#RM #BTS_Artistry