Thread by @btstranslation7

namjoon is live!
"namjoonie's behind [livestream] for 7"

vlive.tv/video/179339

joon mentioned that he's alone at the studio, as some members are still filming, others are done, but he doesn't expect anyone to come in during the live.

(he also mentioned he hasn't been able to get much sleep)

"it's a little all over the place right now, it's already been 3 weeks since the album release, run! bts will release today, and since promotions are over, yoongi-hyung's birthday was yesterday, etc..."

i sat here and listened through the entire album, mots: 7...

i'll start now.
mots: 7. we already mentioned in our interviews, but.. we planned on releasing shadow separately. we ended up combining them, between leaving for vacation and such.

we had no idea what to name it at first! but you know, it's been 7 years..
the album process was a bit longer, the practice was a bit longer, and i started working before bon voyage.
this album really has the whole "answer.."
oooh~ 1 million hearts! thank you!
what was i saying..

about how we grew up, the answer to all questions.

about the darkness, about what we should be thinking, and how we're on the same boat, the seven of us, going in the same direction. this was an album that really made me think back to the past.. like "on" and "n.o." and "ego"

we practiced for around 25 days in the us, three weeks in korea.

music was the beginning of everything for us, it's a relief [i got into music], it makes me feel i'm happy.

listening to shadow, i thought, suga-hyung is really cool, and the lyrics to shadow are really quite sad.

it made me feel that it's more beautiful because it's sad.
it sampled o!rul8,2.. & i heard suga-hyung really spent a lot of time working on this, and i think the song is really representative of him.

hyung also asked me about helping him with the english lyrics at the beginning.

i can't tell you much about this song, as it's yoongi-hyung song. the only story i can tell you is that i helped him a little with the english at the beginning.
[...]

next is black swan.. i hope the track won't be too loud. i really listened to this one a lot..

i guess you could say "black swan" has become a common expression, with the movie and all.. of course, i watched the movie again. on netflix? anyway, i watched it again to work on lyrics. maybe because i'm older, i tear up a little easily. it's not exactly a "happy" movie, so+

i initially didn't want to watch it again because of the ending, with natalie portman and the nails.. i cried. watching the dancing.. though i'll never quite dance amazingly well or anything. my friends kept asking me about the english pronunciation, & we sort of help eachother.

wow, i keep saying strange things, now that i'm doing a live about the behind process. i personally like the lyric "film me now"...

i didn't work on "filter" personally, i watched jimin practice this, listening to the guide, changing it to his liking and all. i think this track+

..fits him quite well. "filter" had already been finished before i even thought about touching it/working on it. jimin will probably explain this better in the future..

sorry about my voice.. it's raining so i guess it's fitting?

the solo tracks came about because..
i worked on persona two years ago, so i didn't work on another solo.. i believe the themes and tracks were decided through multiple interviews, and we, of course, wanted to show our sincerity through showing you our current feelings.

as mentioned in an earlier live, taehyung had a sort of a certain framework/outline for what he wanted to create.

jin and jungkook asked me here and there about their tracks, jungkook changed it a bit to his liking.

the guide track was difficult at first because i wasn't sure how to work on lyrics.. it started "ding" and went straight into english.. like would i write "hamburger something something milkshake~"...?

("louder than bombs")

troye sivan~ troye sivan~~
the lyric "louder than bombs i break"... it's very poetic. it used to be "walls crashing down," but we changed it to "pouring sadnesses..."
this song is, how should i say, it made me think about.. exchanging letters?

like on weverse, some tell us about their hardships/sadnesses. the feelings we feel.
"that expression you made was not that expression"
it's sort of like something you tell yourself.. each his own sadnesses. can i, just a small human, comfort these sadnesses?

hobi was supposed to continue from the last part of my verse, but he found it difficult to match the same tone i used in my verse. sorry hope-ah!

finally the title track!
oh no.. it's already been an hour. ten minutes per song...

We had a meeting, if BWL changed BIL, how should we change "N.O?" And Jungkook was like... how about "ON?" And I was like... let's do it! Jimin always jokes "bring it here!" Initially "bring the pain on" sounds a little strange.. It meant "bring the pain &.. i'll figure it out."

I never thought we'd do a choreography harder than IDOL. "You can stay out during the rap, come in during the chorus and all."
But there was a dance break. I didn't know. We didn't know. PD-nim probably didn't know either.

Looking at our friends who are good at dancing, watching Sienna and all. We practiced really hard, but.. it was a little regretful our ARMYs couldn't see us perform it live.

"If you don't want to go insane, you have to be insane."
You have to be crazy/passionate about something to not go insane. A hobby, or anything, just you have to have that something to stay sane. That's what I wanted to tell you all most. I tell my friends this all the time.

From Jungkook's passing idea, we had fun working on the track. I wrote my verse first, so that's why I ended up with the first verse. The bridge is.. I really like it. I was worried that it would be too high, a lady sang the guide for it, but Jungkook really did great.

I'll keep going, since you all know the title track well.

("UGH!")
This makes me think of all my friends who have "wook" in their name. Choi Seong(?) Wook. Kim Min Wook.
The chorus wouldn't come out easily. Like "ON," Yoongi-hyung said, that would be fun, so we worked on it!

The three of us, working together, we felt the same way and essentially wanted to talk about the same thing. As you can see in the lyrics. Even my mother doesn't "know" me, I can't truly say I "know" Yoongi or Hobi.. it's dangerous to say that, it's hard enough to know myself.

"UGH" - the lyrics tell all.
Even if you do this, you get criticized. You do that, you get criticized. It made me think back on myself, thinking, did I ever say "oh they're just like that.. it's not a big deal" etc...

I think Yoongi-hyung would be able to tell you more.

("Zero O'Clock")

I think I love this song best.. it's really good. Something like, whatever happens, life goes on. It was so fun to work on, and it was just how I felt. "Is it my fault?" But it's not! A bus could have sprayed dirty water on me. But what we encounter, and such..

Jimin told me how much he liked the track, & thanks to that, I feel I was able to love it more.
These days, it's touching to hear someone genuinely be thankful, expressing vocally how they feel.
Completing the song with other voices, sounds like someone is telling me how I feel.

I felt so comforted from our members singing how I felt about myself, to me. I think that's why it's such an important song to me. Titled 0:00, it's like the days go by, and hoping the new day is better, like ... happy new year.

("Inner Child")
I love this genre so much. With the guitar!
We had a lot of precious memories together.
We have similar taste, like elementary kids..
When we had nothing, we went around together, going to the Han river. Baby Taehyung and Baby Namjoon..

(jungkook called)

joon: i'm doing v-live..
jk: I wanted to say I'm watching! you look cool!
joon: isn't this the first time you've called me?? call me often, i'll call you often too!
jk: i finished filming and.. ARMYs, i love you!! i'm watching the live too!

I was just talking about young Taehyung.. wow.. Jungkook's eyes were really so big and round, and now he's bigger than me! When Taehyung makes a cool expression, it makes me think, we were all babies back then.

The part about not believing in a galaxy.. I don't know if this was aired, but in Bon Voyage Taehyung told the members, "I've never seen a galaxy before. I didn't believe in it, but I can't believe I actually saw one!"
I wanted to write about it. Of course, I'm promoting Galaxy.

I wanted to fill it with the lyrics I wanted to tell little Taehyung. The orignal lyrics in the guide were "We don't change." But I wanted to give hope to the growing Taehyung, so we changed it to "We gon' change" instead.

At first, Taehyung seemed a troublemaker, but he laughed so easily. The child who smiled. I want to give 3 claps to him. In the bridge part, he wanted to tell little Taehyung, grasp my hand, and I'll show you my galaxies. It was hard for you back then, so I'll give you my world.

You know, all the sincerity you feel from this track... I also admired how he showed me, part by part, what he specifically wanted to express.. Listening to this track takes you back straight to 2010. The fan chant is great too!

("Friends")

The melody is great! Jimin always carried around his phone, listening to it and showing it to me. I couldn't write the lyrics.. it's so.. personal. It would be strange for me to write about his friendship between him and Taehyung. I said, I can't.. it's about family.

Let's say we're a family of 7. I couldn't just write about the relation between two of the kids, right?

It's such a happy-feeling song, and it's such a perfect song for the two of them, watching by their side for 10 years.

("Moon")

This is my favorite genre! Why do I love the guitar so much? As I mentioned before, these tracks are the sincerities of the members, discussed through interviews with the company. It made me realize Jin-hyung really thinks these thoughts.. and he wrote the melody!

The guide version, without real lyrics.. the melody was so good! I told him, the song is great! And someone told me that he wrote the melody himself! Wow, Jin-hyung grew so much to write a great melody like this!
Oh.. my dad.. called me.

These thoughts he has, looking at the moon, and Jin-hyung's voice. It was nice to see these other thoughts he had. Originally the lyrics were in English, "Yeah I'm staring in your light~" or something.. but I think the Korean lyrics suited him better. A love letter of sorts.

("Respect")

It's been a while since I heard my own voice.
I think this came up when we were drinking. It's such a heavy? word. We worked in a light mood, having fun together. Yoongi wanted those adlibs so I followed! We thought it best to have a fun, rather than a serious one.

("Eternal")

I cried a lot writing this song. We are Bulletproof. We are seven, but with you all, we're a team now. We're going to just.. go to Heaven, go to paradise holding hands together.
Memorizing, writing, those endless lyrics/music. I think I'll cry listening to this song.

I can't remember any other story except crying a lot while writing this.. It might become too hard to listen to this song now, looking back at the beginning. The very beginning.

("Ego")
It's such a relief J-hope did this song. A person like J-hope.

J-hope worked really hard on this track, his blood, sweat, and tears. I didn't work on it, but I saw him constantly writing, recording, etc. We could have finished with "Eternal," but this song is like.. a World Cup song, starting a festival that things will get better?

If people question things, or about our future, our past, our success? Everything is answered in this album. Why did we gather here together again? Crying, smiling, embracing each other. From the beginning of the question to the end of the answer, this album has it all.

This album is our beginning and our end. The processes we went through, and I can't say more or less about us. Our start, finish, and present. Our Ego. That's our ego. I wanted to tell you all that - I also want to say thank you to Sia - and I've finally finished [the review].

Why are we together? Because we're on the same boat together.
Doing our promotions, we thought, we can't lose strength. We need to be happy. We need to smile, it's the best we can do to help. We need to be okay. Just like our concerts. It's very difficult.. preparing so much..

We truly prepared for a long time, practicing really long.. and it's a shame we weren't able to personally show you our performance. But we are still here, talking. Because life gets better. We get better.

Through two weeks, when our broadcasts finish early, I would suddenly act like strange, yelling because I was angry..upset.. it's upsetting. There's not much we can do realistically. But to make this album, the hours we ran, the practices, the performances we did.

At least, I can use media, communicate with you all. Offline, there wouldn't be anything. We should continue to get better, I hope there will be good news.

I didn't intend to do this live.

I wasn't going to do it this time, but because there aren't many times we can see eachother, I thought about it over a week. I should! No.. Should I?
So I decided to just do it in my own way.

Within what we can do, practicing, we saw ourselves, working even harder than we did seven years ago. I feel we still have strength, I believe in us, I believe in me, and I believe in you all, who show us love. I think, there will be good things where bad things come.

Someone will be comforted, someone will understand my lyrics. I can show you just as I am, all because I know someone will understand my sincerity, and it will help in their lives. Thinking, how can I repay the love I received?

I'll continue to make music, use music, practice with this goal in mind. I believe in sincerity and love, so I think I'll be able to continue this work. Sometimes sad, sometimes hopeful. Even if we can help you in the smallest way, I want to keep my sincerity.

Even if I couldn't see you and talk to you personally, I love you. I'm loving you a lot, with all the love I know, & I am so thankful for you all listening to our album. I felt I needed to do this live to continue working. I feel refreshed. I'll continue to work hard to show you.

Since we're together. That's all I have my faith in. To stay sane, you gotta be insane. Thank you for tuning in, please stay healthy. Let's continue to endure through together. I love you.

//end.