#tbt to when i was first getting into bts and immediately latched onto hobi and thought he was the leader

[dreamrena]

okay FIRST OF ALL. prime numbers are beautiful/tragic/inspiring/insane, so jot that down. they’re so lonely? everyone else is hanging out, divisible by another number, and they don’t have any family, any friends. like 2 decided every other number was gonna be part of its found family and conveniently said “nah, fuck this guy” to all prime numbers. felt relatable as a kid, i’ve always loved prime numbers. but also the concept of prime numbers is only sad if you’re stuck looking backwards. 23 doesn’t have any friends with 2-22, but 23 has the power to create it’s own family. 23 can be the precedent for 46 and 69 and 92. its friends are fewer and further in between, but it doesn’t have to be alone! it takes courage and strength to be a prime number is all i’m saying.

ANYway

yeah, dude, i feel that, i avoided getting into BTS for a while because i wasn’t prepared to look in the mirror and be like “that is a person who listens to kpop” but how the mighty fall. i’m also really good at languages and knew if i got into kpop i’d want to learn korean and telling people i was studying korean so i didn’t have to rely on fan translations for bts songs was...a lot, ahahaha

OFHERLIONHEART my BESTIE, my RIVAL, my LOVER, my DUDE. not a cheap answer! i am a hobi bias first and foremost, but these days more of a rapline girl. i just...mostly listen to people who write/produce their own music and lyrics so it’s not like i don’t appreciate the vocal line but...i do kind of side eye them, lmao. like really? y’all are the most famous singers in the world and you don’t write your own shit? lame

i actually fuck enormously with their comp album, Love Yourself Answer because it has the god-tier rapline solo Trivia trio (“Just Dance,” “Love,” and “Seesaw”) and also “Her,” which makes me lose my mind. Like, how does this group make maximalist late 2010s EDM tracks like “I’m Fine” and “Louder than bombs” and “Stay” from Be (which...all sound horrifically outdated, EDM’s pop music reign is over babeyyy) but then sneak in the smoothest, sweetest, finely-crafted 90s hip-hop send-ups like “Her” and “Respect” and “Dis-ease”??? The duality.

okay. okay. so. i haven’t really spent any time with raplines solo projects other than Hope World which i know doesn’t make any sense given everything i just said. so. i guess i need to fix that. queuing up everything you mentioned in the tags 👀

okay fave songs:

maybe you DID read me for filth and RM should be my bias because the song that was absolutely the point of no return was “Intro: Persona.” that song is INSANE and i thought i had a playlist or a note on my phone or text rant and i can’t find it which makes me mad (just...random scribbles everywhere, all the time, it’s the worst) but there was this emerging trend last year of rap songs using like, classic grunge, three chord guitar riffs that i really wanted to write about and wish i did now because it was 1000% a precursor to the rise and dominance of pop punk in popular music this year. (not that i think olivia rodrigo was out here listening to Juice WRLD or Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo but...) ANYWAY. RM. i think this was the first song that i actually looked up the lyrics for and was just like. oh. okay. that’s it. i’m BTS filth.

“Anpanman”!!!! as a fellow purveyor of my fave genre which i have dubbed “electro-weird,” this should be self explanatory.

“Black Swan.” forever salty that they didn’t get to tour MOTS:7 because this should have been their crossover hit instead of “Dynamite.” broody R&B-indebted pop/rap joint with a sludgy bass? this production was MADE for Z100 and made total sense alongside last year’s Hot 100 landscape. and we deserve a Christine and the Queens remix of this song. her dance style is a great match for jimin and i just think a super emotionally charged black swan dance battle would be super sexy

i haven’t spent a ton of time with the stuff earlier than 2017 (i’m an album girl, so i’ve watched the videos for the singles, obvi, but i still feel like my knowledge is very incomplete for the first few years)

“i wanna study him like a bug” SAME dear GOD. i don’t know what it is but i see even glimpse of jimin and can only think “i want that twink obliterated.” he sets off kill bill sirens in my head. wlw x mlm hostility. (maybe this is also my fascination with the BTS x Christine and the Queens idea. hm.)

yeah, i’ve only been to two stadium shows and i hated it, that’s not my bag at all, you can’t see shit and the sound sucks and by the time an artist is that big, they’re never gonna play your favorite deep-cut :/ (probably...doesn’t help that i worked an independent venue for a few years in college so i’m soooo spoiled). i watched some youtube bootlegs from their PTD shows and don’t think i’d enjoy that at all. i don’t care that much for their english hits and the stadium cameras/screens were...not even focusing on capturing the group dancing? wack

i wanna know your whole wrapped but let's just say...prime numbers through 30?

lmao friend this is when we all find out 1) i don't know my prime numbers and 2) i had bts brainrot for most of this year. everything links to youtube

2. singularity by bts

3. moonlight by agust d

5. space by audrey nuna

7. daechwita by agust d

11. pistolwhip by spill tab

13. typical by audrey nuna

17. top again (feat. saba) by audrey nuna

19. people by agust d

23. strange by agust d feat. rm

29. good love 2.0 pria ragu

31. uncle iroh by tobi lou