BTS have always focused on healing through their music. In the ‘Love Yourself’ series – their most explicit way of doing this to date – they encourage fans to embark on their own journey of self-acceptance and embrace who they are, flaws and all. In older songs like ‘Lost’, ‘You Never Walk Alone’ and many more, they reflect the concerns and problems that listeners face in Korea and beyond, giving them tracks to see and understand in .
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It goes without saying that this moment at the moment is an unusual time of worldwide upheaval that has left a lot of trouble physically, mentally and economically. While their past releases are not BTS’s duty to spread cheer in times like these, it feels natural that this group is trying to “share some positive energy” and says a lot about their character that it is their first impetus to do so. sa. With ‘Dynamite’ – her first full English song not released in combination with another artist (like Steve Aoki’s remix ‘Waste It On Me’ and ‘Mic Drop’) – we both gave ourselves the song of the summer in a season that feels uncharacteristically gloomy and the perfect pick-me-up strong enough to defeat even the unstoppable 2020 attack.
‘Dynamite’ mines the bright, infectious sounds of disco to transcend its happy energy, clinging to the genre’s tradition of serving as a form of escapism as life hardens. There are pinching hand claps that encourage you to get involved and prepare hip-spinning rhythms for the dance floor. When the song enters its second third, a guitar line worthy of Nile Rodgers’ award-winning back catalog comes in, later connected by live brass as Jin takes us. “shining through the city with a bit of funk and soul”. Together, it becomes a brilliantly glorious ointment to block the darkness of the world.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I got the medicine / That you have to keep your eyes on the ball, ”RM explained at one point. There are many who will be angry about the idea that a simple pop song could provide a remedy for life suffering, whether it is now in the coronavirus era, but ‘Dynamite’ is proof that music gives us at least a temporary delay of anything can give.
Life may not be that way “sweet as honeyIf BTS are singing right now, but, on this song, they’re taking you to a place where that feeling is viscerally, brilliantly real. Given all that has been thrown at us over the past six months, why would you turn your nose up at it?
