Old Cat Lady

Any clue what the audience was chanting?

For the 1st time, I'm thinking about getting one of those ridiculously huge curved screens. Think of how incredible it would be to watch this on one of those

I'm missing something. What in the world were the pictures on those paddles about?

I wonder how much of the music video concepts were his vs. the team. A lot of fan theories about the wings and choreography. Baz Luhrman commented that he was proud that JK took inspiration from his Romeo & Juliet I love Hate You!

I love his speaking voice. That smile is SO adorable

I didn't like Closer at first but after hearing it in the car, it really grew on me and I enjoy it a lot now

I got it. I was thinking when the button said "subtitles off" it meant that they were turning it off rather than they were currently off. Wow! His voice really does sound just like the track. When I first heard it, I thought that someone was being featured

Dammit! I forgot about the "no subtitles" on the computer thing! Forgot to download the app first

Absolutely. And there are tons of 21/22 yr old sleazebags. And as long as they behave that way, they'll be sleazebags until they mature enough to quit behaving like that. I wouldn't think much of a single incident, but the point is that JT had a pattern of douchery and he's never shown any remorse for any of it. Hopefully he's matured into a real man by this point in his life, though I've seen no evidence of it either way. ETA: btw, with the release of this remix, I'm guessing 3D will get a bigger push on the Hot 100 so I'm planning to add all the 3D remixes back into my play list. Not sure how it'll impact the global 200 ETA 2: I've been turning the volume up on my streaming playlist when I drive and I've learned to clump the songs that I only have on there for streaming purposes together. That way, I can just listen to the songs I like. It's been a bit of a driving hazard to constantly skip Seven and all the various remixes. The only issue is with "Too Much" since I really only hate the very last part. I guess the solution is to put it at the end of the clump of songs that I enjoy

lol. I love how our Joon is that mix of regal and dorky

I disliked JT since ~2003 when he felt a need to openly talking about having sex with Britney. Yes, she lied about being a virgin, but a real man doesn't need the world to know his conquests (and it's not like anyone believed her). Then he blind sided his band mates - went solo without telling them. And the fact that he let Janet take the complete fall for Nipple gate cemented it. I haven't read Britney's book, nor do I plan to, so don't know the details. People are making a big thing about her having an abortion because JT didn't want to be a father, but I don't even care about that. She still could have had the baby if she wanted it and he should have communicated his feelings. I believe the part about dumping her via text - seems completely on cowardly brand for him. I hate when talented, successful people are sleazebags. I like this version the most of the ones I heard. I'm thrilled for JK - I'm sure this was another dream come true for him. It's too bad JC Chasez wasn't better looking - he was the most talented member of NSync but not as charismatic as JT.

Too bad JT is such a creep, but still...

lol, he's a hug machine even in the military. And Jin is the Madnae even in the military I think it's their dorky old man ways of trying to relate to each others' countries. Fanwar stuff related to it:

Godiva chocolate is SO overrated. I will never understand why people pay so much for it. They used to have an ice cream that was amazing but it must have been too pricey for the average American because I only ever saw it 1 year. Jin stans are upset because all their birthday projects are getting cancelled by Hybe. Apparently there's some new rule that you can't have "BTS" or Hybe in the name of the project. Weird because there's no profit for the company, Jin, or BTS in the projects so you wouldn't think it has anything to do with military rules. Fans are bummed since they already put so much time and money into the projects and are scrambling to find something else to do for Jin. I've always been ambivalent toward the birthday things - it seems that the money could go to so much better things but I wonder if the guys would be disappointed if the fans didn't do these big displays of affection. I read that in Korea, gestures of love are really important between couples so I imagine that it would translate into other types of relationships and Jin was so disappointed when he didn't get as many birthday wishes as his friends. https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-that-unfortunate-bts-fans-debate-hybe-halts-fanbase-partnership-project-jinair-commemorate-kim-seokjin-s-birthday

Absolutely! Unfortunately it's par for the course. Honestly, this is largely Army's fault - the Korean awards always seem to consider sales when they do the nominations. What's driving me nuts lately are the Tae stans constantly complaining that he's not getting support just because he's not doing as well as JK. The other day, they were trending that BTS should disband and all sorts of toxic hashtags. The worst is when Tae/Jimin solos are trashing JK on the general music threads like Chart Data- Jeebus, at least have some dignity in front of the other fandoms! Tae has the 2nd best numbers of the group! I'll bet you anything that these same people weren't there for the hyung line. I think Indigo still doesn't even have 500 M streams on Spotify.

Nah. Our numbers weren't as good as for 3D and we don't have the help of other fandoms for this one. And the Swifties were actively working to block us. Can't remember if it was already posted, but this interview was cute. Imagining this shy JK is turning me into goo. Nothing we don't already know, but still nice to read about it More trouble at YG. Baby Monster is supposed to be their next big hope. The group is still together but it's hard not to think that this indicates something troubling, especially after everything else going on

We have a chance to roast Billboard to their faces. I doubt that they'll honestly answer any of the serious questions and likely just setting us up to be mocked

This is so stinkin cute!

Lol, don't bother buttering up to Hobi. Jin is clearly the softer touch as drill instructor And I made a chart focused playlist for anyone interested

I feel like such a fool! All you have to do to add the same video multiple times on your playlist is: 1. click on your playlist 2. click on the 3 dots under the title of the playlist 3. click +add videos 4. a search bar pops up 5. paste the url of the video you want to add 6. click on the video that shows up in the pop up 7. click on the blue "add videos" on the bottom right hand corner All this time I've been spending time every few days queuing up all these videos when I could have just been doing a play list

Oops sorry. I looked to see if she was an actress and saw a picture that I thought looked like the woman in the music video. I looked up more about her and I guess this Han Seo Hee is a frequent whistleblower on idols and a shady character herself. According to this article, she outed V for going to a club underage. I'm continually amazed at how little it takes to get into a scandal in Korea. Now that I look at the pics in this article, she really doesn't look anything like the woman in the music video https://hype.my/2019/176324/han-seo-hee-korean-scandals/ In other new, Hobi got his promotion ... and Jin continues to be the sweetest Hyung and the ROK Defense Minister is putting the kibosh on using BTS members or any other idol for non-military tasks. Apparently they wanted Hobi to mc some sort of cook off and wanted them both to do something with baseball(?). I know Jin refused but I think Hobi/Hybe agreed to the MC thing before the Defense Minister made this statement. I'll have to look for the article - it was unclear to me whether Hobi actually wanted to do it.

An ARMY made a 100 video Youtube playlist for Golden. I probably won't use it since I stream for charting and I don't think the B-side tracks will chart after the 1st week, but it's a good resource when making your playlist. But I'm surprised that there are multiple listings of the same videos on the playlist - I didn't think you could do that on Youtube. This will make streaming SO much easier! Watching the Time Square concert on Youtube. That last minute crowd is HUGE! I read on Twitter that ARMY figured it out based on someone seeing them cleaning the windows at Times Square. Lol, BangtanTV cut him off at the waist when doing the hip swivels during 3D at ~10:00 - reminds me of that Elvis broadcast. Also, watching the G-dragon Story on Seoulite TV. Turns out Han So Hee from "Seven" is a former trainee at YG and she also had drug allegations as well as a lot of shady goings on with the drug tests and the founder of YG threatened to kill her if she didn't change her testimony regarding a cover up of a drug investigation of YG's other idols. Looks like Lisa got off easy with "just" a dispatch scandal. Hybe may have its problems, but their recent demands on MB shows how they're trying to make the Kpop community better - hopefully their success kills off YG https://www.allkpop.com/article/2023/08/han-seo-hee-asserts-she-does-not-want-punishment-for-yang-hyun-suk-but-a-sincere-apology https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/web-series/news/korean/han-seo-hee-accused-of-illegal-drug-use-and-violating-probation-may-face-prison-sentence/articleshow/83399767.cms

lol, these socks are totally my thing but they don't belong on RM at all. Especially with that outfit. Sorry Joonie, but I hate that haircut. Scooter is really pushing for JK to get that #1 album. Geffen dropped the price from $10 to $5. I bought demo A. I don't think I can have a 2nd one count toward charts - I thought I read somewhere that they go by address so I can't even use Gabe's card and e-mail. Projections have him pretty close to Taylor for #1 album but the Swifties are likely making another push as well.

btw, @barbara, when this goes up on Youtube, put it on your play list. Unofficial plays of the song on Youtube count toward Hot 100. For everyone else, only official videos count toward the Global 200. But I *think* that includes things like the performance videos on Bangtan TV. Apparently part of the reason big companies put all these videos out is to help increase streaming counts, especially now that Youtube limits how many views get counted per account.