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part of our daily lives, and we got closer to our fans.
🐨 those who learned about us as bts not bangtansonyeondan, the biggest question they have in common is how our popularity exploded so suddenly. and they ask us to pick one factor that contributed to our success. my answer+
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[re: first bbmas]
🐨 the fact that we were attending the show itself was so scary. it’s called the magenta carpet, and the moment we stepped on the magenta carpet, there was this uproar. nobody knew who we were. [those who were attending] were confused because they didn’t know +
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who we were. but, as far as I know, there were 400-500 fans there who screamed for us, and people became to think that we’re a group who have local fans and became to treat us well — thanks to the fans. we were so scared to attend the first red carpet event but were able to feel+
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relieved thanks to armys who came for us.
🐰 they helped us feel bold and confident
🐥 the fact that the seven of us who are from a country that not everyone in the audience would know, from regions in that country that they would not know, came to where we were was very +
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meaningful to me. so I felt heavy and strange as I was stepping onto the stage, not even knowing what face I should make.
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🐥 and i would’ve not known what to say if I had had the chance to do an acceptance speech. that’s how I felt.
🐥 since the past, I've been thinking often that we’re with armys. you pick us up when we are exhausted. when you’re exhausted, we pay back with music. and i think+
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that’s how we came to where we are, with arms around each other’s shoulders. so, because that was an award that we all worked hard to receive, I said “congratulations, everyone.”
🐰 i think that’s so natural to us [to think so].
[video of joon practicing the UN speech]
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🐹 namjoon memorized it all day long
[definition of k-pop]
🐨 in 2017, when we went to the bbmas for the first time, when someone asked me what k-pop is, I answered with the idea that it’s a complex gift box with everything — music video, music, choreography, visual factors — +
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that people have not seen before, and that’s why people are enthusiastic about it. but when it comes to the k-pop of 2021, really, even we don’t really know [how to define it].
twitter.com/Ve0613/status/…
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a long version of the interview will be posted on the youtube account in the quoted on a weekly basis:
twitter.com/jimintoday__/s…
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Around 350 nominees are live in virtual rooms. The winners will have 30 seconds each for their acceptance speeches. twitter.com/doolsetbangtan…
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🐹 eoseok (eoje’s seokinie)
* 어제 [eoje]: yesterday
🐿 hoseok (hoseokie-loving seokjinie)
🐹 go
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as joon said, it’s bts’ accumulated selves that brought them to where they are now. i believe this will be another valuable moment in their archive that they can look back on fondly and proudly. twitter.com/doolsetbangtan…
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🐿 jjwan,,,,,
🐹 ani you said you were also going to write army saranghae
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🐱 let’s run even harder this year!
🐿 sugeo,,,
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since i've put on makeup, i shall take a photo twitter.com/BTS_twt/status…
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🐨 of course*
🐨 🥕🥕
* slang: 당근이지 (danggeuniji; it’s a carrot) in replacement of 당연하지 (dangyeonhaji; of course)
u/diminie. check out my blog for lyric translations! @TeamWhitePaper🎃 she/her