Beyond The Story Quotes

“The digital single of “Butter,” ii released on May 21, 2021, entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number one and stayed in that position consecutively for seven weeks for a total of ten. And that was how BTS became, along with the Beatles, one of only seven artists in Billboard history up until then to chart at least four number one hits within one year.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Perhaps to the US, the advent of BTS was an invasion43 the likes of which had only been seen fifty-five years ago. But BTS had already been breaking unprecedented records in Korea since 2015.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“On May 15 (local time), 2019, BTS appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.i, j In introducing BTS, the television audience was informed that precisely fifty-five years, three months, and six days since the Beatles debuted in America, a new star from overseas had made landing on the same stage. There at the Ed Sullivan Theater where the Beatles had made their American television debut, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert broadcast BTS’s performance of “Boy With Luv” in black-and-white, just like the Beatles’ had been fifty-five years ago. American mainstream media was now directly connecting BTS and ARMY with the Beatles and Beatlemania.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“ARMYPEDIA showed that BTS by then had grown into a gigantic phenomenon that would draw a global response through something as humble as an event centered around the memories they shared with their fans.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“two months before the release of MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA by ARMYPEDIAa, b a kind of treasure hunt hosted by Big Hit Entertainment as a special treat for ARMY. Jumbotron teasers were shown in Seoul, New York, LA, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, and ARMY around the world looked for 2,080 puzzle pieces scattered across the globe and the Internet to piece together. The number 2,080 refers to the 2,080 days from BTS’s debut on June 13, 2013, to February 21, 2019—when ARMYPEDIA was revealed—meaning each piece of the puzzle was a day in the life of BTS itself.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“In 2019, 10.28 million Koreans used music streaming services, with Melon boasting 4.1 million active monthly users. For an entire platform of this magnitude to go down because of the demand for just one album was like a pebble being thrown into the ocean displacing all of its water into space.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“When BTS released their new album MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA on April 12, 2019, at 6 P.M., a large part of their Korean audience on the music streaming platform Melon were unable to listen to it right away. Melon’s servers had crashed due to the sheer number of simultaneous access attempts.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“This wasn’t, of course, something exclusive to ARMY when it came to fandom in K-pop. The K-pop fandoms that came before them were also proactive in their donating for all kinds of causes. But when BTS reached worldwide fame, other K-pop fandoms around the world began to echo this tendency. Through the particular form of unity that K-pop fandoms have, fans would express their identities and also speak out on various political and social issues outside of K-pop. And today, it has become the norm for any K-pop fandom to express their positions on not only the issues of the countries they live in but issues the world has in common.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“This wasn’t, of course, something exclusive to ARMY when it came to fandom in K-pop. The K-pop fandoms that came before them were also proactive in their donating for all kinds of causes. But when BTS reached worldwide fame, other K-pop fandoms around the world began to echo this tendency. Through the particular form of unity that K-pop fandoms have, fans would express their identities and also speak out on various political and social issues outside of K-pop.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“2018 where BTS delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly,”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The history of boy band fandom begins in the West. But bands like BTS with popularity that transcends national boundaries and can hold arena tours in Asia, North America, and Europe are decidedly few and far between.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“ARMY would now gather in large enough numbers to attract the attention of the media, even without the physical presence of BTS. Which is how, while MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA was a BTS album through and through, it was ARMY who became the star of the album.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“SUGA shares his thoughts about the word “idol”: ______I’m well aware that people talk about idols as “seven-year singers” and “manufactured products.” But it’s just a difference in how much you express yourself, and on the whole idols have similar concerns.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“From extreme praise to extreme criticism, they were judged according to every kind of standard, and like that, flipped back and forth between glory and despair. Now, however, no matter what the world might say, BTS are BTS. They no longer need any other word to describe themselves.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“From extreme praise to extreme criticism, they were judged according to every kind of standard, and like that, flipped back and forth between glory and despair. Now, however, no matter what the world might say, BTS are BTS.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“This is connected to the way idols are viewed within the Korean music industry, and also within Korean society as a whole. Idols were often belittled as having inferior musicality to other kinds of artists, for reasons including the fact that the company directs the production, that they don’t write their own songs, or even that they’re really good-looking or dance onstage. On top of this, there is also the highly misogynistic assumption that because fans of idol music tend to be women in their teens and twenties, the music must be of a poor quality.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS are an idol group. However, for BTS, this brief definition contains countless stories. They trained incredibly hard to become idols. As soon as they became idols, they were rejected and denigrated for doing hip-hop and for being from a small company. Even once they’d become stars, with all the attacks fired at them, they had to comfort the fans. Following that, they suffered through all the concerns that came with being idols, and they worried that they were wearing masks in front of their fans.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“IDOL” challenge was therefore changing this trend. People’s spontaneous participation and responses were an important part of the promotion, and this was something beyond Big Hit Entertainment’s control. Of course, because it was BTS doing the promotion, you could expect the reactions to j-hope’s challenge video to be good. However, it wasn’t at all possible to predict how many ARMY would really dance along with j-hope, or how many of the general public outside of ARMY would take part in the challenge.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Before the LOVE YOURSELF結 ‘Answer’ album, BTS would share the variety of promotional content the company had prepared for the new album, according to a detailed plan. Big Hit Entertainment’s intentions were clear within all of BTS’s activities—from the comeback trailer released first of all, to the stage direction at the end of year music award ceremonies—and these intentions were conveyed to ARMY and other music consumers.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“During its first week of sales, LOVE YOURSELF轉 ‘Tear’ became the first ever Korean album to make number one on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, the title song “FAKE LOVE” hit number 10 on the Hot 100—the fact that its music video reached 100 million views on YouTube in about eight days, breaking their record for “DNA” by a large margin, ended up being secondary.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Even when it was really difficult to write a song, when it came down to it, I went, “Pfft, whatever! Just do it!” Whether the song would get released or not, I decided to write it first and think about that later.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“LOVE YOURSELF轉 ‘Tear,’ “FAKE LOVE”’ s first teaser videou opens with the following sentence: Magic shop is a psychodramatic technique”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“lyrics tell the story of someone who is afraid that the one they love will turn away if they see their true face, and so, they wear a mask. There are various possible interpretations of “mask” here, but from BTS’s perspective, the mask could be the image they present as idols before the fans.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“FAKE LOVE,” opens with, “For you I could pretend like I was happy when I was sad.” These lyrics are saying that, no matter what pain the person is going through, they can show a happy face in front of the one they love.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“FAKE LOVE” is not, as the title would suggest, about fake, or false, love. As the opening lyrics convey, the song is about the intentions and concerns of a person hiding their pain before the one they love, trying to show them only the best of themselves. On the surface, these lyrics might appear to tell a universal story of the pain of love, but they also represent the BTS members’ minds at the time, standing before ARMY.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“RM even called his parents in advance to let them know there might not be another album. If the members ended up not renewing their contracts, Jin explains, he had even been considering leaving the entertainment industry entirely:”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Whether looking at BTS’s popularity, the financial gains that both the group and company were set to make, or the relationship between the members, there was no reason for them not to recontract. Paradoxically, however, this “relationship” became their dilemma. ______At the end of the day, BTS has seven members. I believed the team couldn’t stay together if even one of us left.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“all seven members re-sign, but they also agreed to a seven-year contract, longer than their first contract, which had in fact ended up as five years. Considering that the period for renewed contracts is generally shorter than the first contract, this was a case almost unparalleled within the Korean idol industry.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“2018, around two years before their contract was due to end, Big Hit Entertainment offered to re-sign the members. The company’s outlook was that, following the LOVE YOURSELF series, BTS would be able to do a worldwide stadium tour. Given that it was necessary to consider the schedule several years in advance, a decision needed to be made regarding contract renewal.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Most group members who were offered a contract renewal after seven years had been successful enough to have already achieved fame and fortune in their twenties. No matter how good the contract conditions were, they could very easily break away from the group and pursue a solo career, or even leave the entertainment industry entirely if they so chose. Or perhaps they had bad blood with the company or the other members and didn’t want to renew. This is why it is uncommon for all members of a successful idol group to renew their contracts. Their love for the fans aside, the members can’t help but consider their own lives before contract renewal.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS