Recently, you celebrated 300 days since your debut. What, if anything, has changed the most since your debut?
Jin: After comparing the kids’ faces before and after debut, it seems like they’ve changed a lot. It may be because of the camera massage, but it seems like all of them look more refined now, except one person. That one person is….Jimin. He looked his best at debut, and he’s maintained his looks since then.
Rapmon: So are you saying that Jimin isn’t good looking? (laughs)
Jin: No, it’s not that- The other members have changed a lot-
Jimin: Don’t try to fix it- it’s said and done already!
What is Something you still can’t get used to?
J-Hope: Music shows are still difficult. There is a lot of pressure, and we need to figure out where the cameras are. The leader tells us what we need to go over before going and stage and reminds us of what our dance instructor told us.
Rapmon: We can’t relax. I’m rapping one moment, and then dancing the next. (laughs) And because we’re still rookies, there are times when our performance time is cut short. For ‘Attack on Bangtan,’ from our last album, our performance was different on Wednesday than it was on Tuesday, so we had to be very focused.
You recorded your highest success so far with ‘Boy in Luv’ being a 1st place candidate. Did you get the company dinner that you wished for? is Something you still can’t get used to?
Rapmon: We had it a few times before, but this time, before our album promotions, Bang Shihyuk PD took us to the garusogil. He told us he was confident in our album and that we would get a good response as long as we didn’t make any big mistakes. I think he had some kind of foresight. That day, we ate a lot of meat, and we went to a coffee shop that doesn’t seem like a place for a bunch of guys to go to.
Jin: But we didn’t just order a few pieces and have a calm conversation- We ordered a whole bunch and ate it as soon as it came out, and then we ordered more.
The songs you promoted before this were all about the defiance, wandering, and conflict of teenagers, but this time you song is about love, so some say it’s like you’ve made up with the world. (laughs)
Suga: This time we couldn’t make up with the girl. (laughs) But we’re rooting for all the couples in the world. Those people need to love each other so they can use our song.
‘Boy in Luv’ is a has a strong sound and beat that does not fall short of ‘No More Dream’ or ‘N.O,’ but it was interesting that it is a song about a confession for a girl. What was the process of making this song?
Suga: We tried to make it so that it would be catchy and easy to follow along with. We put in lyrics like “Bbarim bbarim bbarim,” “dwegopa,” and “bad bad girl” because they are easy to copy.
Rapmon: We were hoping at least one of these would stick in peoples’ minds! (laughs) Lyrics like “I want to be your oppa” and “You make me huff and puff and whine” can be seen as childish, we wanted to give an intuitive feeling. We felt like we needed one big push to get our name out there, and it fit well that the third part of our school trilogy was ‘love.’
You showed a romantic performance with the new performance for your follow-up song ‘Just One Day.’ You had to express love through not only the choreography, but also your facial expressions as well. How was it?
Rapmon: For our past performances, we were always either mad or excited, but we needed something different for ‘Just One Day.’ We tried to think of the camera as the woman we love, especially because we have never done a sweet concept like this before.
Jimin: But it didn’t work very well. I kept on making a strange smiling face whenever I imagined a girl to be in front of me. Hahaha!
Rapmon: Because you’re thinking of obscene things. (laughs)
Jin: I though I was staring very lovably, but some people were asking me why it was so greasy.
Unlike other idol groups, you seem to promote albums, as opposed to singles. Does this make you focus more on the overall positioning?
Rapmon: Many people learned about us through ‘Boy in Luv’ and our follow-up song ‘Just One Day’ is a style that is popular with the general public, so we payed more attention to songs like ‘Spine Breaker’ and ‘BTS Cypher PT.2:Triptych,’ which shows our colors.
Suga: We tried to match the ratio of easy-listening songs to songs that show our colors. I wrote the song ‘Tomorrow’ when I was a trainee because I wanted to write a song with a similar feel to Epik High’s ‘Fly,’ which is the song that made me start music. The non-title tracks are music that we really want to do.
J-Hope, whose specially is dancing, got more rapping part and V stood in the center this time. It seems like you are trying to show newfound skills.
J-Hope: I was able to work harder with the help of my friends.
Rapmon: J-Hope has never rapped before, but if you give him a part, his skills increase rapidly. I was disappointed that he usually got the bridge parts of the song. So in the song ‘Where Did You Come From’ I took the bridge and left the rest to J-Hope. And V has a special talent. In the beginning, he would do adlibs on stage without realizing it, but now he purposely shows off his charms. He learn from watching him.
V: Ah, it’s embarassing hearing this kind of stuff. (laughs)
When we watch the videos uploaded on your blog, your aegyo has gotten better. Which member has improve the most?
Everyone: Suga hyung!
Jimin: Normally, Suga hyung couldn’t do aegyo anywhere, but now he always throws hearts and says things like (imitates his voice) “Suga~” “Suga Suga~” very well.
V: Before, at fansigns, he would just smile and look around, but now (imitates his voice) “Suga Suga~!”
Suga: It’s because I have to be professional!
You really had to be professional to dress up as girls on SBS MTV <Rookie King>
Rapmon: Ah…there are still pictures of me dressed up as Sailor Moon floating around.
Jungkook: But he really was like a girl. He was sexy.
V: I’m traumatized that I had to dress up as a ladybug fairy. I think Sailor Moon was better than that. Or maybe Rapunzel?
Suga: I was shocked because I really didn’t want to dress up as a maid. It was even harder because I could not understand why fans would want to see that. We don’t want to see girls dressing up as guys, so why do they like to see us dress up as girls?
Jimin: I saw everyone become very flustered after seeing themselves, but I think I would be pretty as a girl. Once, at a school festival, I wore a traditional girl’s dress and won first place. But that doesn’t mean I want to dress up as a girl. Really.
Suga: There’s going to be news that says “BTS’s Jimin likes dressing up as a girl”
The maknae Jungkook entered high school this year. You all went to the entrance ceremony.
Jin: I looked down into the auditorium and, objectively, Jungkook stood out the most.
Suga: I think Jungkook was the handsomest. All of us dressed up that day.
V: But we’re not saying that the other students were ugly! It may have been because he is tall, but Jungkook stood out.
J-Hope: After the ceremony, Jungkook bought us all jjajangmyun and sweet and sour pork. It paid off for the hyungs who bought him a lot of things in the past.
Jungkook: I spent the money I was saving up. (laughs)
Did the hyungs give you advice about the high school life?
Jimin: I told him the secret that while taking your midterm, if you don’t know the answer, it’s good to pick #2 or #5. But Rapmon hyung, who was in the top 1%, said to choose #4, so I think he will take hyung’s advice. But you shouldn’t listen to the top 1% for this kind of stuff. Hyung would’ve guessed after at least trying to figure out the answer- I’ve chosen randomly a lot!
Outside of shows, you use various methods to send notices to your fans. It is especially easy to make a mistake on a social platform like Twitter, but you seem to have no problems while sharing one account.
Suga: We are careful of what we say. And we only use it to show our fans our daily lives that they are so curious about. Usually we post current things, like where we are at the moment or what we are doing.
V: When another member is posting, we wait so we don’t overlap.
Jimin: Everyone likes to upload selcas and brag. Lately, I think the maknae is the best at selcas. Because he’s cute. I was last, but I practiced a lot, so I think I went up to 6th place. Last place is Suga hyung now. (laughs) When we were trainees, we even got a little competitive about the number of retweets we got. Maybe it was just me. Even if it was only a difference of 6 retweets, I would think “Ahh….I lost!” and was disappointed by myself. Ahaha.
The school trilogy is now over and it is almost your 1 year anniversary. How far do you think you have come?
Jungkook: I’m slightly disappointed that it has already been almost a year. I wanted to show myself improved a lot in a short amount of time, but it didn’t work very well. There are more things that I couldn’t show than things that I could, and I felt like I didn’t improve very much, so I need to try something else.
Suga: I think we just got to the starting line. I think we’re at the point where we can’t get away with things that we could get away with before just for being rookies.
Rapmon: Sometimes it feels like we’ve come here too quickly, and sometimes it feels like we still have such a long way to go. Among ourselves, we would say ‘We’re doing well,’ but when we go to places like awards shows, we are like specks.
Jin: So it is very complicated, but I think the right thing to do is just work hard at what’s in front of us right now. I want to go not too slow, and not too fast.
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