LY: Tear really is an excellent album, especially if you listen to it at night. During the day, some songs are a bit forgettable, but chill songs with excellent vocals and production are best appreciated at night. I’d forgotten how good (and sexy) Singularity is. LY: Tear has very good vocals and production. Whatever the fuck happened to MOTS:7? (Production wise, not the vocals).
Some other random thoughts:
Paradise is overrated. It goes 134340>Love Maze>Paradise.
Jungkook’s little run in Love Maze is top tier.
Jikook in Love Maze hit different.
Jungkook’s adlibs, harmonies, backing vocals in this album, particularly in 134340, Love Maze, and Paradise are insane. But everyone’s vocals are insane.
134340, Love Maze, Paradise vocals > The Truth Untold vocals.
Y’know the famous TTU fancam where Jungkook does a bunch of adlibs during Jimin’s part? For some reason, I’d never noticed he does the exact same adlibs in the studio version, and I started laughing when I heard them. Like, he sounds exactly the same. It was so funny to me, I had to pause the song.
I’m sorry Jungkook, but Magic Shop is one of my least favorite songs in the album. I don’t know if it was JK’s love for EDM or DJ Swivel’s that I didn’t like, but I don’t like the Euphoria chorus (a song DJ Swivel produced) either and the Magic Shop chorus is probably the weakest part of the song.
I was looking at the credits, and RM is credited in all the songs - no surprise there, he’s a lyrical genius - but Bang PD and PDogg are credited in most songs too. RM, Bang PD and PDogg are the only ones listed in the Fake Love credits - that’s a powerful trio. Bang PD is a very good producer, he should make a comeback on BTS albums. I want him to pull a Drunk-Dazed on BTS.
I love Airplane pt. 2 but the song is honestly a little basic and I don’t like it as much as I used to. Anpanman is fun but also a bit obnoxious and repetitive? I don’t love the production - it’s too processed or smth. But it’s more... creative? than Airplane pt. 2.
I don’t like Airplane pt. 2 and Anpanman as much as before, but I would still prefer to listen to them over TTU, 134340, Love Maze, and Paradise.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of So What. It’s the Best of Me of LY: Tear. They’re better live (but Best of Me > So What any day). So What also has weird production. It sounds more like what their current music sounds like. It’s too processed or autotuned or whatever, and considering that it’s already an EDM dance song, it’s excessive.
Also, how does Anpanman relate to Tear lyrically, or So What and Airplane pt. 2 for that matter?
Tear is a masterpiece, but the chill, vocal-heavy songs of the album (from The Truth Untold to Love Maze) have by far the best production. Tear, like the more intense songs before it, sounds a bit rough.
The vocals, and the smooth, sophisticated production of the album, are the highlights for me. The songs are good, but the album doesn’t really take risks. Instead, it has a lot of interesting lyrics, it’s cohesive, all songs are very good - but only good by BTS standards (with some exceptions).
Should I rank the songs?
Tear (god tier) > Fake Love (top tier) >> Singularity > Anpanman >= Airplane Pt. 2 > 134340 > TTU > Love Maze > Paradise > Magic Shop > So What
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relistening to MAG 092 - Nothing Beside Remains and going a little bit insane over the fact that this is a Lonely statement about Barnabas Bennett’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock, just like MAG 170 is a Lonely statement about Martin’s lifelong solitude, with no background sound but a ticking clock
but the difference between them lies in that when Barnabas and Martin each call out for help, to Jonah and Jon respectively, Jonah purposefully leaves Barnabas to die, while Jon finds Martin again (and has been searching for him since he realized their separation), reassuring him that he will stay by his side.
and at the end of 092 Elias tells Jon that his assistants are nothing more than things to discard……but Jon refuses to see them that way, even going so far as to promise Martin “where you go, i go”…………Jon is fully an avatar, he is wholly the Archivist, but he is still so painfully, utterly human despite it all.
idk. something about victims of the Lonely and the Eye avatars they placed their trust in, for better or for worse.
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