Or maybe the cover of this magazine is the first time you’ve truly noticedBTS.
(Stranger things have happened in 2019.)
(Unless noted, the answers of all members other than RM come through him.)
(“She was right there in front of us!”
“Amazing.")
“Seven boys with dyed hair!
It’s really too much.”
“So in the beginning we had a lot of arguments and conflicts.
That was my turning point.")
“But if they want to call us a boy band, then we’re a boy band.
If they want to call us a boy group, we’re a boy group.
If they want to call us K-pop, then we’re cool with K-pop.”
Though fansites tend to lean on their extracurricular differences (Jung Kook is a Virgo who loves pizza!
V collects ties and clenches his teeth in his sleep!
“With seven members we have seven different tastes, of course,” says RM.
“So when it comes to songwriting, it’s like a big competition.”
“And I’m not just talking about K-pop.
They add so much of their personality to the music and into their stories and how they present themselves.
But we venture to reveal ourselves as much as we can.”
Honesty has its limits, of course, when you’re the biggest band in the world.
And then there has to be a measure of luck, obviously.
Does a Spanish-language smash like 2017’s “Despacito"which spent a record 16 weeks at No.
1make them more optimistic about their own odds?
“I don’t want to compare, but I think it’s even harder as an Asian group.
A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals.
We’ll do everything, we’ll try.
But if we couldn’t get number one or number five, that’s okay.”
Aoki, for one, has faith they’ll get there.
Back at Big Hit, though, the band has more immediate work to do.
Soon, though, they drill downrepeating the moves until they seem crisp but easy, almost an afterthought.
Then they turn back to the mirror, and keep dancing.
