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BTS shall be urgent pause to pursue solo initiatives, the Ok-Pop group introduced Tuesday.
The massively fashionable performers made the announcement in a video throughout their “Festa dinner,” celebrating the band’s ninth anniversary.
The group consists of artists RM, Jin, V, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin and Jungkook.
“We’re going right into a hiatus now,” Suga mentioned. Nevertheless a consultant for the group instructed CNN, “To be clear, they don’t seem to be on hiatus however will take time to discover some solo initiatives at the moment and stay energetic in numerous totally different codecs.”
“The issue with Ok-Pop and the entire idol system is that they don’t provide you with time to mature. It’s important to preserve producing music and preserve doing one thing. And after I stand up within the morning and get make-up achieved there’s no time left for progress,” group member RM mentioned.
“Up to now, I may nonetheless steadiness engaged on music alone and doing our group promotions however now I cant do them collectively. It’s not possible, it simply received’t work. I can’t be doing group stuff after which all of the sudden turning the main target to my very own work like flipping a swap,” RM continued. “I noticed I would like time alone.”
He added that he realized BTS had modified throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, once they launched hit singles like “Dynamite”, “Butter” and “Permission to Dance”.
“I feel 90 p.c of our followers would root for us it doesn’t matter what type of music or course we select,” V mentioned. “J-Hope instructed me this earlier than, we may concentrate on our solo work this time and later once we collect once more as a gaggle that synergy shall be like no different.”
“We are able to’t assist however consider our followers it doesn’t matter what. I feel now, lastly, we’ve come to consider what sort of artists we need to be remembered by our followers. I feel that’s why we’re going by means of a tough patch proper now. We’re looking for our identification and that’s an exhausting and lengthy course of,” Jimin added.
“I feel that change is what we’d like proper now,” J-Hope mentioned. “It’s necessary for BTS to start out our second chapter.”
The group’s worldwide recognition grew in 2018 with their albums “Love Your self: Reply” and “Love Your self: Tear.” They’ve additionally had big hits by means of profitable collaborations with Coldplay, Halsey, Ed Sheeran and different artists.
Throughout an interview in 2020 with CNN, J Hope described the group’s method to their careers.
“We don’t attempt to set our requirements to outline success as a result of in the event you set these requirements, it is rather tiring bodily and mentally to succeed in these objectives,” J-Hope mentioned. “As a substitute, simply attempting exhausting at what we do in our lives and feelings and staying true to that. And this finally results in a whole lot of success. That’s what I’m attempting to do. And by doing that, attempting to remain true to ourselves.”
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BTS has been regularly in comparison with The Beatles, even breaking one of many English rock band’s information with three Billboard No. 1 albums in a single yr.
Their devoted fan base calls themselves the “BTS Military,” propelling their music and coming to their protection on social media in 2019 when the group was shut out from Grammy nominations. They’ve been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for greatest pop/duo efficiency.