BDS: Album Review | Pitchfork

You should at least be rooted B.D.S.. The global dominance of the super ensemble has been a rare constant in the one-year uprising, which is the pulse of pure joy in everything. There they are Late Late Show with James Gordon, Handing each other gifts while their hand bends over the mic. There they are in Dictok, Pluck a bouquet from one of the handwritten mugs and present it to their fans. PDS has broken so many records that at such a frantic pace, any attempt to calculate them would immediately become obsolete. Their new album, Both, “Three minute skit in full”Dynamite, ”Their first all-English single, tops the Billboard rankings. (“Don’t you think happiness is like this?” RM asks.) By the time the album was released, its first song topped the U.S. charts, the first song ever sung in Korean to do so.

That level of popularity did not come without its costs. As a band and a brand that rewards credibility, BDS has not deviated from addressing the number of megastorms and growing in general. They have trained their beautiful pop machine in expanding philosophical thought—Jungian concept of the soul, A Hermann Hessie BildungsromanWith varying degrees of success. Ann Both, Determines Bangton Boys in Isolated Life. When the depth of a year is bound up in this world, the PDS will be softer and brighter as the discourses to receive throughout the day take on new intensity.

“Stolen all year round,” Jimin Krunes in Korean says of the glittering “fly to my room”, about a group lying in bed with a swollen stomach, piles of containers being taken out and the continuous explosion of a TV. Frustration and sadness enliven these songs, but it is their simplicity and uniqueness that compels them. In “Blue and Gray”, Suka wonders if “that dim shadow that swallows me” is classified as anxiety or depression. “I want to be happy,” the group cries subtle, bleeding strings, their voices lowering the begging rasps.

The theme of the post is “Life Goes On”, a shining prayer for the past 2020. Artists struggled to figure out how to create a record of self-isolation—Charlie XCX ‘S stumbled and trembled How I feel now, When Drake Danced alone Through his massive, fast house. PDS snatches short stories from the dimness of the days trapped inside: “On my pillow, on my desk,” they sing, “Life goes on.” In the past, BDS has used their songs as vehicles for emotional-good news (“I love, I love, I love myself! I know, I know, I know myself!” Wings’ “Cyber4”); Here, they build trust in real time. Each gradual layer of voices, each green harmonization that runs over the delicate spine, brings an intimacy together. While I was doing my daily chores I kept repeating the song my I trimmed my inbox and pushed a swiper on my floor. By the seventh or eighth play, I felt like crying.

The complex balance of confession and consolation is then shattered on the album. The unofficial chairman of the committee, R.M. Worrying that “life goes on” is “bland” And other parts of the record try to compensate with the aggressive sheen. Thin hip-hop pulse, breeze and contagious but slim “dis-easy” comparisons compared to jagged songs of the past.UGH!The neon-soaked “stay” neutralizes the ETM, with the drum kicks and the siren explodes; Beats like it was snatched from Steve’s hard drive in 2010.

“Stay” ends with “Dynamite”‘s glitter and pulsating revenge, which becomes a song, smoothly capable: a stumble of funk and hand claps and very interesting one-liners. (“Milk Cup, Rock and Roll!”) Of course, “Dynamite” also serves as a global monument to PTS, but to the group it is a gift to fans. “We call this our own recharge plan.” R.M. N.M.E. About the single, “And we hope it can recharge your own batteries, that’s only for a moment.” This is part of the fun of BTS and you understand that they want to root for you.

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