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omonatheydidBTS, “DNA”
We won’t talk about the fact that K-pop megastars felt the need to allow the Chainsmokers into their orbit on their new album. Dammit, I just did. Anyway, on to more important matters: BTS dropped an album this week and the only single you need to care about (in fairness, the Chainsmokers collab is fine), “DNA,” is absolutely not a Kendrick Lamar cover, but the sound of a boy band headed in a new direction plotted for crossover domination. I would venture to call this a pop emergency. Unlike so many of the songs that made them an international phenomenon, it’s barely rap and it moves away from trap and the plague of “trop-pop.” “DNA” recategorizes BTS by shrugging off genre entirely; it’s like acoustic(ish)-synth-house, or whatever. Definition aside, all you need to know is “DNA” is one of the better singles of the year, breaking sales records across the planet, and, if this country has any clue left, will make for the band’s biggest American break yet. —DL (OP's note: I didn't ghost write this)
Source: jj, Vulture
In other news, HER surpassed 710K, and Jeff-nim is cancelled.
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Date: 2017-09-22 07:58 am (UTC)I can't believe they made fun of Jungkook's accent. I love my fellow white Americans coming at people for the tiniest mistakes in English when most of them (white people) here know English and nothing else. Like. Dude. I know how much effort y'all put into trying to pronounce Spanish in high school.
Edit: lmao at Jimin buttoning that button 18 minutes in when a caller thanked him for leaving it unbottoned.
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Date: 2017-09-22 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-22 08:23 am (UTC)"so if fans could stop gassing up anyone who has some vaguely positive words to say about bangtan that'd be great!" mte
ofc many ppl will have positive words about bangtam bc they know they'll get attention
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Date: 2017-09-22 11:35 am (UTC)did you see this?
rme @ 'having trust issues' they'd trust about anyone with their lives if they said they love bts lmao. but yeah army twt should really stop gassing up literally anyone who says something positive about bts, like if some randos with 2K followers say they like bts, they'll get 10K rt from army for saying so alone, it's so idiotic.
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Date: 2017-09-22 12:14 pm (UTC)i find it weird that he seemed to speak up/disagree with them a bit when the women were making fun of their voices/how joon looked but when they made fun of jk's english he joined in.
hnn okay his priorities. I mean not that mocking their voices/appearances is really that much better, but mocking someone's pronunciation is treading into racist territory.
that nate guy, apparently he's a team 10 guy? i feel so old rn but apparently it's two guys that have fake beef on youtube and one of these guy's "crew" is called team 10?? don't quote me on that lol.
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Date: 2017-09-22 12:57 pm (UTC)yess lol that gif immediately came to mind.
it's every infos that i gathered from armys on twitter, i'm too lazy to google :| but every youtubers are attention-seekers in my book so yeah, definitely not surprising.
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Date: 2017-09-22 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-22 09:51 am (UTC)also re: the jeff thing, just wanted to confirm bc i heard of this on tumblr earlier today but couldn't fact check, did bts ever follow him? and if they did, did they unfollow him after this incident?
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Date: 2017-09-22 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-09-22 10:21 am (UTC)i used to always be like "rme" when people complained about armys but this comeback the fringe of really intense, overinvested stans seems to have grown larger along with the number of intense, overinvested "antis" frothing at the mouth, and it's exhausting tbh. i need to stick to the music and content
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Date: 2017-09-22 01:49 pm (UTC)idk if there was other things they said, because there were only small parts of it.
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Date: 2017-09-22 03:06 pm (UTC)yeah, i wish i had the opportunity to listen to it but out of all the things that were deemed ~* controversial, those aren't it
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Date: 2017-09-23 07:06 am (UTC)also I'm starting to get tired of fans who think it's up to them to determine whether someone is a true "ARMY" or not. While I like certain songs on the album, overall, I didn't think it was /that/ great and have been told multiple times that I must not be a ~true~ army since I guess at one point rapmonster said this album is one meant especially for ARMY or something. I literally read a post saying that this album was made as a "test" to weed out fake ARMY from the real ones, as real ARMY would appreciate it for what it is, and ARMY who are just here for the hype would write it off.I'm like... if I'm just here for the hype I wouldn't have been a fan since their nugu days when their was literally no hype to be there for. Also I've noticed it's a lot of fans who literally got here during BST or a little bit before pushing the this idea the most which makes me even more confused.
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Date: 2017-09-22 12:04 pm (UTC)The desperation for western validation from kpop Stan’s has never sat right with me so I guess they’re learning a lesson finally
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Date: 2017-09-22 02:46 pm (UTC)Jeff didn't really do anything wrong, he didn't call his colleagues out but that would be a bit much. He did disagree with them at some points.
twitter stans are so exhausting with how they blow hot and cold on every little issue tbh
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Date: 2017-09-22 02:54 pm (UTC)Btw, HER is ~95k away from being the best selling album of the year and it hasn't even been a week. (if you're feeling "edgy" today and have some condescending/shady comment about this, feel free to scroll over my comment/exit the post)
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Date: 2017-09-22 03:31 pm (UTC)damn, my friend is in seoul now and asked if i wanted anything. i said already said no, but maybe i'll ask her to get me a copy. ... i've never bought 2 copies of an album before (and i dont even know what vers i'm getting from amazon so ensure 2 different vers). ugh. i dont really want 2 versions of the same album, but it's only like $20 and i want them to reach that goal so ???
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Date: 2017-09-22 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-22 10:26 pm (UTC)I've got my fingers crossed for y'all in Europe getting to see them soon.
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