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With how many rooms????

JK and Jimin's show (and when I said "departure area' at the Jeju airport, I mean AFTER you go through security) https://x.com/cestlavie9090/status/1808299938826351077?s=43

FYI: he's in the departure area of the airport -- not the arrival. So, he's been here. And gone. Maybe he'll be back. Also, a bit odd to me that he would be in the general boarding area and didn't take a private plane. And we all thought JK and Jimin were taking some time for themselves but just like Tae, they worked literally until they had to show up to enlist. (and I love that Jin is feeling comfortable enough with his shorter hair to brush it back for the Instagram photo. Good lord, he's gorgeous.) TXT - this doesn't seem like the ideal time to drop a new MV on the heals of Jimin's???

I bet he's been dreaming of these days. He is now used to having someone else dictate everything he does all day, every day, for a year and a half. At least, he now has control about what he takes on

Word is the Hybe has the last word on this but what an honor - I doubt they'd say no, unless for safety reasons. New pic of Jin -

I'll watch it -

I love that he is leader and they are on "hiatus".. Jimin is doing great but I am really annoyed with Spotify. I have Premium and have listened to the new song at least five-ten times today and the number of streams showing on my Spotify chart has not changed even a single number for over 12 hours. Do they only update once a day? Pisses me off -

And a Jin update:

Oh, forgot about these --Never a shortage of "new" content from BigHit And Forbes recognizes Jimin - https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/06/28/jimins-new-single-shoots-right-to-no-1/

It would be impolite to release anything when Jimin has an album coming out. The utmost in manners. It also makes business sense and he probably doesn't have anything ready to go, but, still, couching it in politeness is 100% Jin. And I love that. Diana Ross is clearly a JK stan-

They're good -- butt sure seem young! Jimin shot SGMB the day before he went to Japan with JK--(and JK recorded "hate you" -- https://www.instagram.com/mingukkie78/p/C80CxnmtG0L/?img_index=1 Can you guys see the threads posts? This is something I've never seen before....(Yoongi) https://www.threads.net/@9596park/post/C81RIXIvTv5/?xmt=AQGzhn_5pPyK-CVK-qNvp0P6NBiayUsy3IYkhLOZ-7Neuw

That would be our dance challenge.

Some fun stuff --can anyone see the threads posts? I can't on my computer, which is weird. https://www.threads.net/@purple_lovetae07/post/C80EW_Py1Cm/?xmt=AQGz9RN9H7-pNoUPRs18ZxiwQkulBesaISm4EePsQ4SFcw And if you have a spare 20 minutes, this is the back story to the smeraldo flower, https://www.thebtseffect.com/blog/smeraldo-story

No surprise https://www.instagram.com/p/C8fRxRdv9XM/?igsh=MjA5Mnlpbmo1N2Fj

Gotcha - I see that what I said seems like comparisons. I will endeavor to avoid this in the future. I think it bothers me a little that each member is measured by outside standards of success when they are all so different. JK is truly the golden maknae and his accomplishments are stunning. His global reception was well deserved but people wanting him to go solo because of that worried me a little, but only for a second, until I remembered how important his members and OT7 are to him. It is a natural consequence of the different styles of each member that reception of their solo work has varied -- and it sort of hurts that the brilliance of, say, Namjoon doesn't "sell" the same as JK or Tae. As Son Sung Deuk has said, after Butter, that he wanted to show each member's "charms" but wasn't able to in such a short song -- we, as ARMY, were not able to really see and appreciate the totality of the "charms" of each member until we experienced their solo work. It is the fusion of all that talent that gave us BTS. I saw a tweet that said "if you are a ______(fill in the member name) stan, you stan ARMY, you are ARMY." I really miss the whole of them. The team. And will support their individual projects equally. They cheer each other on and find joy in each other's success. ARMY can, too. And it is raining here more than not -- like almost all the time - and that makes me think far too much.

Like Crazy was the fastest to get over a billion (with a b) streams on Spotify. JK had three top tens on Golden Let's give Jimin a chance with his full album - though JK's were all written by other people and all in English. Face set records, too - and is more true Jimin. I'm not dissing Golden at all. They're just different....I love thatt they don't think of themselves in competition and cheer each other on.

Well, I find making new Spotify playlists exhausting. There are so many songs I want to put on it butt still am trying to get Jimin's new one and RMs and JKs, too - and up the streams of Like Crazy and even Dynamite. And all of Jins. It's like a job -- @Whoopiewoop is correct in pointing out that it takes a young unbusy person to give it the time to really boost streams. The MV is over 2.5 million so far and a lot of the world was asleep when it came out. I'll work on a new YouTube playlist tomorrow, knowing that I am going too want to do this all again when his album comes out. I think the song is sweet and has so many nods to BTS and ARMY -- the 12, rock-paper-scissors. Certain hand movements. It's like this is as much of a "for ARMY" as his last one and JK's. They were thinking ahead. (and I still love that Pdogg is in it --)

I guess it was recorded live - and I love that Pdogg is in it..... certainly won't get the kind of play that Like Crazy has, but a dance challenge could boost that.

I'll get off the VPN (but doesn't that mean my streams don't count in the US?) - maybe do Spotify on my phone (and who knows if that's a US or Korea thing) and can be full volume but the computer muted.... I just red a suggestion to start streaming a Jimin focused playlist on Spotify several hours before the new song -- which wpuld be now as it's two hours before the release I actually set my alarm. Off to the beach with the dog....two good clips:

A little too little a little too late. And saying that it doesn't reflect his views seems like a lie to me. It might have been a mistake, or inadvertently posted, but I'd guess reflects his true feelings. That employee owes an apology, too - to Jimin and to ARMY. I have my volume on both YouTube and Spotify at a minimum, but never muted. This 50% thing doesn't sound right - how would you stream two sites at the same time?

Good news for JK (if you all can keep your minds off Tae for a minute...even if you are remembering that he is a known cuddler).

The streaming guide for the first release from Jimin's new album. I actually wrote a response to thin because it's the first time I've ever read that the volume on YouTube needs to be at least at 50%. I know you can't have it on mute so I keep it really low so I can listen to other things or watch something while still streaming. No word on if it's the same for Spotify (that isn't on mute on my computer...). Also this says don't use a VPN - and I guess that when the song and MV debut tomorrow, I can do that, but I use my VPN so I can get to my Sling TV recordings and any news outlet. How much of this rings as truth for you guys?

As Yours is an OST sung by Jin, it probably just started getting a lot more interest with his re-emergence. It really is a lovely song, but there is no Jin MV or anytthinng with it.

If you've pre-saved the album on ITunes, it looks like yoou can't pre-order the song - but you can. Even though it says "album only", click on the song and it pops up as a pre-savable single (for a whopping $0.69. And, in spite of one of their executives being disrespectful about Jimin, Geffen did post about the album, well -- the first single we could order.

https://www.threads.net/@rpwprpwprpwp___________/post/C8omNnuPDeO/?xmt=AQGzrCPUFS5wchMtrXhG4sRPMhtX2tMtprDNZviFpcfARQ Actor Kim Woo Bin bought the building BigHit used as their first headquarters - cute bit of video in this.