BTS, With Sincerity
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One of our goals with “BTS, With Sincerity” is to build community around understanding BTS’s artistry from an ARMY pov. We’re on Twitter @/btswsincerity & Insta @/btswithsincerity. If you have a blog about BTS, we’d love to follow you, so let us know.
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When Jin decided to add “Awake” to the set list of his RUNSEOKJIN_EP.Tour’ Encore, it was a moment of deep significance. It meant, as @musingsbangtan.bsky.social writes, that “He had now completed performances of his entire solo catalog during the tour, bringing his artistry full circle.”+
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
When Jin decided to add “Awake” to the set list of his RUNSEOKJIN_EP.Tour’ Encore, it was a moment of deep significance. It meant, as @musingsbangtan.bsky.social writes, that “He had now completed performances of his entire solo catalog during the tour, bringing his artistry full circle.”+
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Please read this lovely, poignant essay about “Awake” by @musingsbangtan.bsky.social It’s our essay to celebrate Jin’s birthday on our blog, “BTS, With Sincerity.”
#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
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#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
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Jin, With Sincerity (2025): “Awake”
Screenshot from live viewing of Jin’s “‘RUNSEOKJIN_EP.Tour’ Encore” concert in Seoul, October 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please read this lovely, poignant essay about “Awake” by @musingsbangtan.bsky.social It’s our essay to celebrate Jin’s birthday on our blog, “BTS, With Sincerity.”
#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
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#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
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Awake is not only one of my favorite Jin songs, but one of my favorite BTS songs. It's about raw emotional courage and determination, but phrased in a way that you feel seen where you are even if you yourself haven't worked out the courage to keep moving forward yet 💜
Please read this lovely, poignant essay about “Awake” by @musingsbangtan.bsky.social It’s our essay to celebrate Jin’s birthday on our blog, “BTS, With Sincerity.”
#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
Jin, With Sincerity (2025): “Awake” medium.com/@btswithsinc...
#HappyBirthdayJin 🥳🎉💜
#BTS_Artistry
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Jin, With Sincerity (2025): “Awake”
Screenshot from live viewing of Jin’s “‘RUNSEOKJIN_EP.Tour’ Encore” concert in Seoul, October 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Awake is not only one of my favorite Jin songs, but one of my favorite BTS songs. It's about raw emotional courage and determination, but phrased in a way that you feel seen where you are even if you yourself haven't worked out the courage to keep moving forward yet 💜
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Happy birthday to the person who inspires me every day with his humor, loyalty, kindness, humility, & artistry💜
Here's our tribute to Jin-- a short essay on "Awake," from its beginnings with Wings and HYYH to Jin's heart and soul encore performances ❤️
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Here's our tribute to Jin-- a short essay on "Awake," from its beginnings with Wings and HYYH to Jin's heart and soul encore performances ❤️
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Jin, With Sincerity (2025): “Awake”
In keeping with our intentions for this blog, we hope on each member’s birthday to describe ways in which BTS’s artistry and sincerity move…
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December 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Happy birthday to the person who inspires me every day with his humor, loyalty, kindness, humility, & artistry💜
Here's our tribute to Jin-- a short essay on "Awake," from its beginnings with Wings and HYYH to Jin's heart and soul encore performances ❤️
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Here's our tribute to Jin-- a short essay on "Awake," from its beginnings with Wings and HYYH to Jin's heart and soul encore performances ❤️
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Happy Birthday to our beloved Jin! 🎉
"While Jin sang 'Awake,' a soft white spotlight shone directly down on him, clouds floated by, and white feathers fell from the sky, all lending a heavenly appearance. His voice soared as he poured out the passion of the song and its +
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"While Jin sang 'Awake,' a soft white spotlight shone directly down on him, clouds floated by, and white feathers fell from the sky, all lending a heavenly appearance. His voice soared as he poured out the passion of the song and its +
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Jin, With Sincerity (2025): “Awake”
In keeping with our intentions for this blog, we hope on each member’s birthday to describe ways in which BTS’s artistry and sincerity move…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy Birthday to our beloved Jin! 🎉
"While Jin sang 'Awake,' a soft white spotlight shone directly down on him, clouds floated by, and white feathers fell from the sky, all lending a heavenly appearance. His voice soared as he poured out the passion of the song and its +
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"While Jin sang 'Awake,' a soft white spotlight shone directly down on him, clouds floated by, and white feathers fell from the sky, all lending a heavenly appearance. His voice soared as he poured out the passion of the song and its +
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#INDIGObyRM was released three years ago.
My first ever writing about BTS, was my review of this album. "Indigo" felt like a miracle that had travelled for all of time and distance to be delivered to me. I welcomed it as a 3-month ARMY. I'm sharing some excerpts below.+
My first ever writing about BTS, was my review of this album. "Indigo" felt like a miracle that had travelled for all of time and distance to be delivered to me. I welcomed it as a 3-month ARMY. I'm sharing some excerpts below.+
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#INDIGObyRM was released three years ago.
My first ever writing about BTS, was my review of this album. "Indigo" felt like a miracle that had travelled for all of time and distance to be delivered to me. I welcomed it as a 3-month ARMY. I'm sharing some excerpts below.+
My first ever writing about BTS, was my review of this album. "Indigo" felt like a miracle that had travelled for all of time and distance to be delivered to me. I welcomed it as a 3-month ARMY. I'm sharing some excerpts below.+
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Sharing this video about our most recent blog post on "BTS, With Sincerity"
For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The first few delicate piano notes of Butterfly always send my mind to a magical place
❤️#HYYH❤️
💜#BTS💜
❤️#HYYH❤️
💜#BTS💜
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The first few delicate piano notes of Butterfly always send my mind to a magical place
❤️#HYYH❤️
💜#BTS💜
❤️#HYYH❤️
💜#BTS💜
Sharing this video about our most recent blog post on "BTS, With Sincerity"
For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sharing this video about our most recent blog post on "BTS, With Sincerity"
For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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For our beloved HYYH on the 10th anniversary 🎉💜
Please enjoy both!
#BTS
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In preparation for the release of #HOS_TOUR_Movie we are revisiting our essay “j-hope’s Daydream: Between Intimacy and Privacy, Artifice and Reality”— a look at the stage production of “Daydream” and how it represented a new level of openness and vulnerability for j-hope.+
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In preparation for the release of #HOS_TOUR_Movie we are revisiting our essay “j-hope’s Daydream: Between Intimacy and Privacy, Artifice and Reality”— a look at the stage production of “Daydream” and how it represented a new level of openness and vulnerability for j-hope.+
"j-hope enacts entering that world of fantasy... The dizzying camera work plunges us into this world with him, evoking the feeling that we are falling into the “hole Alice fell into” and have ended up in an upside-down world that is exciting and seductive in its subversiveness."
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"j-hope enacts entering that world of fantasy... The dizzying camera work plunges us into this world with him, evoking the feeling that we are falling into the “hole Alice fell into” and have ended up in an upside-down world that is exciting and seductive in its subversiveness."
#JiminsDanceTime & #ThisIsJimin videos dropped in 2023 like little love bombs, woven through with a subtle meta history of BTS & ARMY, told through Jimin's eyes. ♥️♥️ Our appreciation of the gifts of dance, humor, and memory he gave us ⬇️
#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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This is Jimin: Gifts of dance, humor, and memory
In keeping with our intentions for this blog, on each member’s birthday we hope to describe ways in which BTS’s artistry and sincerity move…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#JiminsDanceTime & #ThisIsJimin videos dropped in 2023 like little love bombs, woven through with a subtle meta history of BTS & ARMY, told through Jimin's eyes. ♥️♥️ Our appreciation of the gifts of dance, humor, and memory he gave us ⬇️
#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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#BTS
#Jimin
#BTS_Artistry
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“RM, With Sincerity (2025)” by
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
@seeuinttukseom.bsky.social
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September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“RM, With Sincerity (2025)” by
@btswithsincerity.bsky.social
A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
@seeuinttukseom.bsky.social
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A short essay about connections between art and nature in Namjoon’s music 🌳🎶
#BTS
@seeuinttukseom.bsky.social
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Please enjoy our new birthday essay for Namjoon: "RM, With Sincerity (2025)"
We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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RM, With Sincerity (2025)
Image: @rkive Instagram, August 4, 2025. Captioned: “I really want to go home..”
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September 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Please enjoy our new birthday essay for Namjoon: "RM, With Sincerity (2025)"
We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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We explore the relationship between #Namjooning and artistry
"Expressing meaning through imagery of the natural world is part of the language of RM’s art..."
#BTS #RM
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Happy 2nd Anniversary to Tae's indelible Layover💜
"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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V’s Layover: between dream and reality, outside the boundaries of time
Layover, V’s first solo album, is brief: six songs, including two versions of one of the tracks, spread over 18 minutes of music. An…
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September 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy 2nd Anniversary to Tae's indelible Layover💜
"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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"V’s stories are about love: relationships that have ended but remain unresolved, wistful daydreaming, relationships that seem to be slipping away. His album captures a languid, beautiful longing– intense+
#BTS
#V_Layover
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“Everybody who has… tried to learn to play an instrument can see themselves in Jungkook’s patient and methodical Lives, where he chooses songs while commenting on them and the difficulties they present for a singer, often correcting his pitch and starting over…”
September 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Everybody who has… tried to learn to play an instrument can see themselves in Jungkook’s patient and methodical Lives, where he chooses songs while commenting on them and the difficulties they present for a singer, often correcting his pitch and starting over…”
“In contrast to the rest of FACE, which tells a story about the struggle to be free, “Letter” is an acoustic-based tonal shift to a mood altogether softer and accepting. The album version begins and ends with the sound of waves and the ocean.”+
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“In contrast to the rest of FACE, which tells a story about the struggle to be free, “Letter” is an acoustic-based tonal shift to a mood altogether softer and accepting. The album version begins and ends with the sound of waves and the ocean.”+
"Another moving & important moment in 'j-hope IN THE BOX' is when j-hope visits his family in Gwangju, a city in the south of the country, where he was born. 'Safety Zone,' a gorgeous R&B track from Jack in the Box, plays in the background. 'Where’s the ray of light to relieve me in the +
#BTS
#BTS
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Another moving & important moment in 'j-hope IN THE BOX' is when j-hope visits his family in Gwangju, a city in the south of the country, where he was born. 'Safety Zone,' a gorgeous R&B track from Jack in the Box, plays in the background. 'Where’s the ray of light to relieve me in the +
#BTS
#BTS
“‘Layover’ also bears this contradiction: V’s choices in classic sounds like a jazz piano or flute, in addition to his luxurious baritone, are juxtaposed with distortion, vocal effects, ambient sounds and electronic beats.”+
#V #KimTaehyung
#V #KimTaehyung
August 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“‘Layover’ also bears this contradiction: V’s choices in classic sounds like a jazz piano or flute, in addition to his luxurious baritone, are juxtaposed with distortion, vocal effects, ambient sounds and electronic beats.”+
#V #KimTaehyung
#V #KimTaehyung
"RM offers a respite among the ads, the transactional, or the algorithmically directed through his Instagram account."+
#RM #BTS_Artistry
#RM #BTS_Artistry
August 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"RM offers a respite among the ads, the transactional, or the algorithmically directed through his Instagram account."+
#RM #BTS_Artistry
#RM #BTS_Artistry
"Sitting on the other side of the screen, tuning intoJK's Lives in the middle of the morning, felt like catching up with a friend, even a family member, the kind you don’t need to dress up for when they visit or worry about having enough topics of conversation or…”
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Sitting on the other side of the screen, tuning intoJK's Lives in the middle of the morning, felt like catching up with a friend, even a family member, the kind you don’t need to dress up for when they visit or worry about having enough topics of conversation or…”
"This contrast is most compelling between Set Me Free pt. 2, the last song on FACE, & Rebirth (Intro). Both songs feature a choir, but their use is completely different. The choir of Set Me Free, which sounded like a dark force trying to hold Jimin down as he +
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Jimin’s “Rebirth:” The Promise of Blooming Love
On July 19, 2024, Jimin released MUSE, the follow-up to his first solo album, FACE. Moody and vulnerable, FACE is an album about processing…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"This contrast is most compelling between Set Me Free pt. 2, the last song on FACE, & Rebirth (Intro). Both songs feature a choir, but their use is completely different. The choir of Set Me Free, which sounded like a dark force trying to hold Jimin down as he +
#BTSart
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#BTSart
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“The video, a cinematic work of brilliant storytelling, is inspired by film noir and Hong Kong gangster movies, two highly subversive genres, which further foreground the mix of past and modern elements that come together in the message and sound of the song.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
August 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“The video, a cinematic work of brilliant storytelling, is inspired by film noir and Hong Kong gangster movies, two highly subversive genres, which further foreground the mix of past and modern elements that come together in the message and sound of the song.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
“BTS highlight the number in their artistry; on their first album, in the song “Path/Road,” RM raps, “I thought I was alone, but then I learned that it was seven,” and, in their seventh year, they named their seventh album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“BTS highlight the number in their artistry; on their first album, in the song “Path/Road,” RM raps, “I thought I was alone, but then I learned that it was seven,” and, in their seventh year, they named their seventh album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’.”
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
#BTS #BTS_Artistry
From our blog, a review of Namjoon's RPWP:
"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
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"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
#BTS
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RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person” is the right album at the right time
“I’m goddamn lost,” RM sings in “LOST!” the title track of his new album Right Place, Wrong Person, a fun, upbeat song about his struggle…
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July 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
From our blog, a review of Namjoon's RPWP:
"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
#BTS
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"Unpredictable and disorienting, the first few listens of the album felt like an unsettling dream. However, the predominant emotion was exhilaration from seeing RM subvert all expectations of how this album would sound."
#BTS
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