BTS music quality

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Best thread today.

bts always tried to include their emotions in their songs.

They are grown now you can't expect the same teen angst from them or the angst from having fear .

They are at a comfortable and happy phase in their life , so their music is going to reflect it. They still have obstacles but the way they approach them changed, so the music also changed.

The song did what it was supposed to

It's pop lol

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nice thread op

"Music quality" is a phrase I hear a lot on this forum but I have no idea what is meant by it tbh, besides, perhaps, "music that I like".

That post by Anon813 got me thinking.

Because, for sure, when I was younger, I listened almost exclusively to very miserable music. And a lot of those artists had the same trajectory - their sound would eventually move to a slightly brighter, more contented place. And I was resentful of that sometimes, thinking that, you know, the music had gotten worse, the artists were no longer good anymore. When the darkness had left it, so had the "quality".

I even remember reading a post by someone much older than me at the time on some fan forum, saying that, at their age, they couldn't listen to the early stuff anymore, and the new stuff resonated so much more, and I was like, "nah, that's bullshit, that won't happen to me, I'll never like that MOR crap."

And I was wrong!

I'm not going to say that my taste for darker or more depressive music has left me. It never will. I don't really believe in "growing out" of music, but I do believe in "growing into" music. The older I get, the more I'm able to appreciate a larger variety of music, and I'm able to empathise and connect with a greater range of emotional expression.

Would I have liked Butter when I was a moody 18 year old?

Oh god no.

But that's irrelevant to the "quality" of the song, right? That's more about me and my experiences and what I'm specifically looking for or bringing to it at different stages of my life. But just because I wanted something moody and BTS gave me something bright, doesn't mean the quality suffered.

I can totally sympathise with people who are saying that Dynamite and Butter are weak compared to past BTS songs. Looked at through a certain prism, it's hard to deny that they're not exactly lyrical masterpieces with a lot to say about the world. But they're not trying to be that in the first place. That doesn't mean they're not ambitious, it's just that they have different ambitions.

I think it comes down to just that for a lot of people, though - it's more about what a group is TRYING to do, rather than the actual end result. It's about the pose. It's about... The concept. This isn't an ex-BTS fan thing. It's a k-pop fan thing. I think.