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just like my brain, this account is 99% bts: the music, the words, and the hand-holding. ot7. she/her. 30s. fil-am. I read & write #btsfics, and rpf is clearly fictional. 🔞

I'm so behind, but I've settled on my filing system for the pics & vids I'm saving from this comeback. just five folders necessary so far! 1) oh no he's cute 2) oh no he's hot 3) oh no he knows he's hot 4) wtf is his problem 😭 5) gay sailor shit

The history and cultural significance of the bell in No. 29, a collaboration with the National Museum of Korea, the museum foundation, and HYBE. This bell was rung in Sept. 2025; 1st time in 22 yrs. So, they basically preserved the sound forever in No. 29. Watch here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8baTHSH/

Wondering what the bell sound is about in No. 29 of BTS's Arirang? Only the most treasured bell of all bells in Korea. This is the 성덕대왕신종, The Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok, that now resides in...

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Mostly I just can’t get over how bold it is to put a track like that in the middle of the album. It encourages an act of listening that is still avant garde now, almost 75 years after 4’33”. It could be alienating. BTS ask us to sit with the sound, and trust us to do it, and that feels huge to me.

I am slowly contemplating the relationship of No. 29 and John Cage’s 4’33”. They’re different of course, because No. 29 features sound throughout, just below our hearing, while 4’33” is about ambient sound. But I can’t help but feel like there’s a throughline, or at least shared points of reference.

Okay everyone gather around and listen. We have learned many things from this concert, from the small to the devastating, but the most important thing to remember as we go into tour is: Be afraid of Kim Taehyung. Be very, very afraid because he’s still on the hunt and has only gained in power