BTS MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA Concept Photos 3 & 4

[dallinferno.livejournal.com]

#BTS #방탄소년단 #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_PERSONA Concept Photo version 3 pic.twitter.com/7o55GhFIUy

— BigHit Entertainment (@BigHitEnt) April 2, 2019

#BTS #방탄소년단 #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_PERSONA Concept Photo version 3 pic.twitter.com/ZTQyyT0H1d

— BigHit Entertainment (@BigHitEnt) April 2, 2019

#BTS #방탄소년단 #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_PERSONA Concept Photo version 4 pic.twitter.com/kf5keVuwMb

— BigHit Entertainment (@BigHitEnt) April 2, 2019

#BTS #방탄소년단 #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_PERSONA Concept Photo version 4 pic.twitter.com/jVhHj4y4LB

— BigHit Entertainment (@BigHitEnt) April 2, 2019

Source: Big Hit 1 2 3 4

Which version are you guys going to buy?

Comments

[laranal.livejournal.com]

what in the fresh fuck did they do to yoongis face

[dallinferno.livejournal.com]

yeah what happened there .... and why does jin look like yoongi in the last tweet

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

he's so ethereally pretty in these photos & it's weirding me out

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

His smile looks so forced too especially since he always looks so done in interviews lmao

[maboroshi-i.livejournal.com]

the sets are boring ngl but the boys look great. version 4...might have to buy.

[lostintheechoes.livejournal.com]

i love these better than the other ones.

[lyzame.livejournal.com]

They look so good, especially Tae, Jimin and Namjoon.

[pinklunacy.livejournal.com]

I’m confused by the fruit. Team Grape vs. Team Strawberry??

lmao, I wondered about that too but version 2 had "Team Hair-grooming vs Team put-your-earring-on" and I see no pattern in any of this, so I'd go more for "totally random use of props"!!

[pepper.livejournal.com]

...Oh. These are even more basic and cheap-looking than the other versions. When is BigHit gonna invest more than 10 dollars on BTS' concepts? These are awfully low quality.

The album packaging is also basically LY pink ver. Where is the creativity?

At least Jungkook's hair isn't too tragic on his solo pic for version 4. Thank God for small miracles.

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

They look good, but there isn't really anything interesting about any of these photos imo. I honestly thought it was promo for a concert DVD or something and not an album.

[izumichan31.livejournal.com]

I like all of them but I like the previous sets better.

[the3rdjester.livejournal.com]

Not a fan of these two sets, I prefer the previous ones. And ngl, the individual photos of version 4 (besides Tae's) make me kinda uncomfortable.

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

Do they ever have concepts. I can never tell because it always looks the same.

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

agreed. they all look photoshopped, not like themselves, and generically pretty

[pinklunacy.livejournal.com]

ngl while there's nothing groundbreaking about all these pictures, I actually like all of them. The boys all look fantastic and I'm a sucker for pastels too, so.
Version 2 remains my favorite so far.

I do wish they would have tried a little harder tho. These are a little bland, especially when you compare these to the recently released teaser pictures for the 5th muster.

[katheli.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the concept pics, at least they're not as boring as Tear but the packaging is almost offensively lazy. I thought this was gonna be a new era, not LY: pink remix. It looks exactly the same wtf, except in a terrible colour.

Taehyung looks gorgeous etc etc. I like the fruit eating pics a lot better than the rose holding ones, those are just boring.

[pinklunacy.livejournal.com]

I've seen multiple comments about the album packaging but I probably missed the pics. Were the official previews released?

[friedchickeneu.livejournal.com]

it was released this morning. i find the packaging extremely disappointing though since it really is ly series but just in pink.

[pwrpuffgrl.livejournal.com]

HDU Tear's concept is gorgeous, angsty, noir, emo, etc, I'm not joking but just a little

[rosiemotleymind.livejournal.com]

I don't like these ones compared to the other ones. I like the color palette of this comeback though. What does Taehyung achieve by being this gorgeous? Like what does he want from us?

[mizukigirl.livejournal.com]

TBH all of the versions are really boring. All the Gucci in version 4 is so ugly.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

i like these ones color-wise, the ones with the fruits kind of give me low key caravaggio vibes. happy to see yoongi is still working his hair-clothes color combo

also taehyung with blue hair, a gift!

[alterlife.livejournal.com]

Tuxedo Mask walked so BTS could run! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Oversized sleeves are my shit. Cute and comfy.

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

I have a huge hate for the flowers in music bands photoshoots.

That being said, they look good as always. My favourite so far is the concept n°2. By far the best!

[rainstormraider.livejournal.com]

These are too basic even for them. It reminds me of that Drake lyric (ugh, yes I know he's shitty):

"Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc."

Same vibes.

[mandm13.livejournal.com]

...And back to being boring. The two first concept photos were much better. And I would like the album artwork if it didn't look like it's part of the Love Yourself series, it's a bit disappointing (the color palette is gorgeous though)

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Nah these are a letdown. Why are there so many instances lately of Jin obviously being instructed to smoulder and instead looking like he lost a bet and would be flipping tables left and right if you hadn't made sure to put the sexy fruit dangling punishment in writing with an inescapable penalty clause in case he doesn't want to follow up?

On the bright side he was never one of the better actors in the group but I don't think I've ever seen an idol emote disdain towards an inanimate object as well as he does right here.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

holy gucci

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

I love the pastel lighting but these look plain and like a small company boy group’s teaser photos, which is ironic since bts stans do the most on twitter to separate them from the “kpoppies”. although watch the fruit symbolize something later on, and then i’ll have to eat my words

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

yes! and i've seen white fans say it! *mind boggling* how are you going to go around claiming all of korean popular music is the same and then praise bts on how creative and original they are? rm said it himself that they are ok with being called k-pop. and this shit pops up when i search top tweets about BTS. i just wanna see some videos and cute pics. not your victim and superiority complex at the same time as armies

[kris-terror.livejournal.com]

I liked the first two better, but overall I'm a bit disappointed. BigHit has the money to give these photoshoots a better budget, the fruit ones especially give me half-assed high school photography class project vibes.

[jyusou.livejournal.com]

These are cheesy and my old ass is not into it.

[infj23.livejournal.com]

What a gap between versions 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. Whatever excitement was built up has dissipated.

Version 2 for me but oh, what could've been.

[22-taken.livejournal.com]

I liked the first two more but I still find Tear photoshoots better. I expected a totally different concept after the release of Joon's intro tbh.

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

They lost me at the pink Guccis.

@OP: I got them all....

[dallinferno.livejournal.com]

Wow, damn. I was honestly thinking abt getting all of them but I need to save up for when I go to their concert in June and a possible Sunmi or NCT concert ... Otherwise I'd get all of them, too.

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

Well for LY Tear and Answer I have only 2 versions bc I thought I would get the others later from a store in the city but they are so damn expensive at the store like over €30 and tbh idk when I will manage to complete the collection. So I decided to get the entire set now and be done with it. I paid like €18-20 per album with shipping which is a lot better.

Oh it’s so cool that you are going to the concert! Have you ever been before?

[dallinferno.livejournal.com]

Oh, same, my local Müller (retail/drugstore) recently got a bunch of them but they're 30€ a piece and I reaaaally can't afford that, it's too expensive.

I've never been, actually! It's also going to be my first k-pop concert since I only got into kpop a year ago or so. I'm flying my ass to Paris aka halfway across Europe, so I hope it's gonna be worth it.

[gigabytexx.livejournal.com]

I miss the Kpop era where everyone looking so damn extra with the props. I kinda like the makeup in this Persona (bec I hate red lipsticks like in previous album) but I'm not a fan of pastel-retro ish theme that Kpop tend to bring these days. Also these high fashion brands Gucci.......... God, so ugly. Taehyung wore what seemingly looked like Queen Elizabeth would wear. But his entire head is made of greatness tho, I always love his face, So gorgeous.

I would probably buy ver 2, but ver 4 is not that bad.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

I like the bathroom photos more than these. The individual photos with fruit are just bad. The individual photos in the room are better. I kinda like the group photos.

[friedchickeneu.livejournal.com]

which version are you guys going to buy?
i ordered the whole set when they released the preorder link without knowing how they look like and all that. 🤢

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

LMAO same. My friends and I preordered without seeing anything but it's all good. We will most likely buy anyways so why wait hahaha

[pwrpuffgrl.livejournal.com]

Imma stick with ver. 2 because RM's hair on that shoot does things to me

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure what we'll get coz my friends and I did preorder before these pictures came out. And can't wait to see them this Saturday! I hope I don't get lost in BKK LMAO

[yxerin.livejournal.com]

this gives me the heebeejabis. there’s some weird uncanny valley vibe that i’m not feelin

also the fruits n shit need to go, getting some serious 2nd hand embarrassment from those pics

[viktoriaskomova.livejournal.com]

jin continues to outvisual, outsell and outdo! thank you jin.

anyways, i had hope after seeing versions 1 and 2 but why are version 3's pictures so bland? obviously there's some deeper meaning to it, but i can't help feeling like they could be doing something better. i feel like at this point bts have exhausted the whole posing with flowers thing; I'm sure they can think of something better or at least think of a new way to incorporate them.

also, can someone tell smallflop that gucci isn't a concept? not following what version 4 is going for lol. these are at least a step up from answer concept photos though so i guess that counts for something. out of the LY series, her's concept photos were the best and i don't think persona will top it, but an attempt was definitely made with versions 1 and 2.