Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
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Ich glaube, dass das viele Menschen über das Buch mehr über BTS und ihren bescheidenen Anfang und harten Weg erfahren können.
Wow! Ich bin ARMY seit Anfang 2016 (kurz vor dem Release vom Musikvideo zu „Young Forever“). Das macht es jetzt ein wenig mehr als 7 Jahre, das ich teil dieser wahnsinnig tollen und diversen Community bin. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte ihres Weges bis 2023 und weil ich sie einen Großteil dieses Weges selbst begleiten durfte, gab es nicht sonderlich viel Neues, dass ich durch das Buch lernen konnte. Aber es war super interessant, die andere Seite in genauem Detail kennenzulernen. Ich weiß noch genau, als „#BreakWings“ auf Twitter trendete und ARMYs verzweifelt versucht hatten, den Hashtag von der Plattform zu nehmen, in dem wir ihn reported hatten und durch einen positiven # zu überschatten versuchten. Ich weiß noch, wie es war, als wir uns alle auf die Performance gefreut hatten, die dann schlussendlich vom Programm geworfen wurde. Bei vielen dieser Tiefschläge saß ich, wie viele andere ARMYs, Zuhause und habe den Kopf geschüttelt und darüber nachgedacht, wie viel schlimmer diese Situationen für sie gewesen sein mussten. Und jetzt die ganze Timeline mit dem Bemerkungen der Member zu lesen hat weh getan, aber es war auch genauso schön zu sehen, was sie alles erreicht haben & durchgestanden haben. Ich hoffe auch, dass das Buch als Anlass zur Recherche von diversen Medien gesehen wird. Vielleicht stellen Interviewer dann mal relevante Fragen & wissen, wen sie vor sich haben. Die guten Seiten der Geschichte haben mich in Nostalgie schweben lassen & ich bin unglaublich dankbar darüber, gemeinsam mit ihnen aufgewachsen zu sein. Ich freue mich auf alles, das noch kommt. Apobangpo. 💜
The book is an in-depth account of how BTS achieved their unprecedented success and influence across music and beyond. It reveals BTS's artistic vision, creative process, and social messages, as well as the struggles, triumphs, and challenges along the way.
I took many and long breaks while reading, that’s why it took so long. But I don’t need to say anything, it’s Bts (;
Do we need a BTS book? If it was written by Myeongseok Kang, then the answer is: yes! It’s a book that I didn’t know I needed. So if you’re just here for the verdict, here you go: GO BUY IT AND READ IT. If you have a little more time to spare, let me elaborate a little bit. I didn’t read this book with the purpose of finding out secrets or insider information that I didn’t previously know. While I did learn some new details, it’s really more about what isn’t in there. Consider, for example, this description of a music video from another book: “Suga is delivering pizzas, Jin is cleaning cars, V works in a convenience store, J-Hope waits on tables, Jimin is a washer-up, RM is still at the gas station and teddy bear Jungkook is handing out leaflets. Aww!” This is a sentence from “BTS: Icons of K-Pop. The Unofficial Biography” by Adrian Besley, published in 2018, and the first of several “unofficial” books to follow. It is by no means a bad book (even though the cover looks terrible in my opinion), but it is not what we would consider a gift to ARMY. It feels like it was written by an outsider who is trying to explain to other outsiders (non-ARMYs) this phenomenon called BTS. The tone is kept light; when mentioning that BTS struggled with financial backing in their debut year and rumors said that they considered disbanding, the sentence that follows goes: “Imagine all of the amazing stuff that we would have missed out on!” I’m using this as an example to show why Myeongseok Kang’s book stands out in comparison to previous publications. If the book is meant for ARMYs, we as readers don’t need a recap of music videos and Bangtan Bombs because we already know them by heart. So what makes this 10-year record stand out, then? On the surface, the most obvious advantage Myeongseok Kang’s book holds over other books is the amount of direct quotes by the members. They may not have written the book themselves, but it’s like they are speaking to us through the book. But on top of that, these quotes are masterfully woven together by the author. If you weren’t already familiar with Myeongseok Kang, you will now realize what a profound understanding he has of South Korea’s music industry and how BTS (don’t) fit in. From that, he has crafted a narrative that is beautiful in style, deep in meaning, and feels like a book that was indeed gifted to ARMY on their 10th anniversary. Compare Besley’s observation that “There was no dancing in the ‘I Need U’ music video” to this observation by Kang (I wouldn’t consider this a spoiler, but feel free to skip if you don’t want to read any excerpts at all from the book): “[...] Bang Si-Hyuk threw much of what was considered common sense (or even “rules”) within idol content production at the time out the window. [...] An ordinary producer could have chosen “Dope,” which demonstrated BTS’s intense choreography, as THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.1’s title song. In fact, until “I Need U,” BTS’s title songs had all had an intense atmosphere. Their performance at the MAMA Awards at the end of 2014 further solidified this image. Despite this, Bang Si-Hyuk chose to represent the album with “I Need U,” a song so relaxed it feels almost fragile, one that opens on a low tempo beat. [...] Likewise, it is not immediately clear what the song is trying to convey.” In fact, you could say that the question posed by previous publications is “Who is BTS?”, whereas this book asks, “Why does BTS exist?” and that question makes all the difference. The growth of BTS’s success and fame can look like a chart of exponential growth, which also means that more and more ARMYs joined the fandom every year. If you haven’t been around since 2013, this book is especially helpful in tracing and understanding their beginnings. You may know that ARMYs have beef with charts that rhyme with “Chill Lord,” but did you know that the “first large-scale cyberbullying attack on BTS was because they had ‘sold too many records’?” That was in 2015, but it didn’t stop there and then. When Myeongseok Kang writes that it is “still difficult today for celebrities to take a stand on the cyberbullying they are subjected to,” I realized that some things may be easier to share in a book written by someone else than to speak to a camera. As difficult as some parts may be to read, overall there is something satisfying about the way Myeongseok Kang finds just the right words. For me, it’s the little things like “ARMY’s ‘Anpanman’” or the way he pinpoints the significance of the iconic line “You can all me artist, you can call me idol”; here the author provides a context of how “people talk about about idols as ‘seven-year singers’” (a quote by SUGA) and that idols are “belittled as having inferior musicality”, which pressures Korean idols “to become ‘artists’ the further they progress in their career.” Then you have BTS’s “IDOL,” and suddenly everything falls into place and clicks. If I ever get another question about BTS by muggles again, I’ll kindly direct them to this book because I cannot express it any better. When I first started reading, it was a little strange to read a BTS book because so much of the content we’re used to consuming as ARMYs is self-produced content by BTS. To read this book was a different experience at first, but in an unexpectedly good way. For example, RM once recalled one part of the critiques about painter Song Sangki that touched him the most: “As far as I remember, it said ‘I think the greatest artists are the ones who can take their most personal experiences and distill them into the most universal of truths. [...]’ ‘Someone who distills personal experience into universal truth.’ I felt that this was what I wanted to become.” To ARMYs, this may not be the first time they come across this, but there is something incredibly comforting about seeing this printed in a book. Lastly, this book is beautiful to hold in your hands, on the outside as well as on the inside. It truly feels like a gift to ARMY, and I think that every ARMY should read it, if they haven’t already. If you’re not that familiar with BTS but are at least a little curious, please read it too, along with checking out their music. You don’t even need to search up anything, just use the QR codes included. I cannot praise enough how well-written this book is. If you like a good story, you will love this. It is better than some of the fiction I have read, and despite the fact that I knew from the beginning how the story would unfold, I tore through the pages and chapters, desperate to find out what would happen next. I don’t think I ever want to read anything about BTS again that is not narrated by Myeongseok Kang or by BTS themselves. “The history of boy band fandom begins in the West. But bands like BTS with popularity that transcends national boundaries and can hold arena tours in Asia, North America, and Europe are decidedly few and far between. Not to mention bands that have vast fandoms holding the same official light sticks and calling themselves a single moniker (ARMY, in this case). [...] But more than all this questioning about where their popularity comes from, it’s important to look at the answers provided by ARMY. [...] While it was difficult to ascertain what made them interested in BTS in the first place, there is one clear theme that echoes through this fandom across the world. And that theme is that by being fans of BTS, they found new directions for their lives. [...] Which is why, perhaps, the question to ask ARMY and any K-pop fan, or any fan of any artist around the world, isn’t “Why are you a fan?” but “What life, beyond being a fan, are you living now?” It is a book I am proud to hold in my hands as an ARMY. 아포방포
Das beste Buch für ware BTS Fans . Ich kann das Buch nur weiterempfehlen.
What do I say.. this is incredibly difficult to rate. I contemplated a lot between 2 and 3 stars and I’ll be honest I think it would have gotten 3 only because of the sentimental emotions I feel. When hearing that BTS will release an intimate book about their entire career in detail I was first ecstatic. Then it quickly went somber because sadly as most times in kpop: is this for real or just another cash grab? I am still inconclusive after finishing it tbh… I can’t say I had hopes for this book, but I had wishes. Wishes to know more about this group of 7 people and their music I adore so much. Let’s start with what I did enjoy. The integrated quotes from the members were a lovely touch (but sadly sometimes felt out of place or as if I had heard those exact words before for certain topics). I also really enjoyed the timeline structure, it’s a great approach to really get into the whole „BTS universe“. What I didn’t like though sadly trumps the likes. My main issue was sadly, that this book really did not feel that personal. At worst parts it felt like reading an emotionless Wikipedia article. I had wished to get some insights, how did the members feel, etc. Especially at the beginning of the book this was done better, eg with the whole Namjoon getting dragged by other rapper parts. That’s what I wanted to experience in this book, have these incredible artists speak on their experiences. Sadly, especially later on in the book it kind of felt just like a retelling of chronological happenings and less like an actual insight into what made BTS into the BTS we know today. Another issue was: the author could not go two pages without mentioning how everything BTS ever did, write, plan, etc was only for „ARMY“. At some parts I legit had to cringe. Yes, being thankful to your fans makes sense. But saying entire albums and songs about clear life experiences and love were written for a fandom? It felt kind of insulting to the integrity of the song writers. Also, just personally, I would have enjoyed a different ending, a bigger focus on the outlook of life. Some more thoughts of the guys of how they overall would describe this journey. The book stopped so abruptly with only a mention of PROOF, I double checked if I missed something. I have quite some more issues with the book, but all I can say is: I guess overall it is what it aimed to be? A book for fans, catered to fans. Personally, it’s just not my cup of tea, when hashtag campaigns of fans get more dedication and pages than actual insights into the artistry.
Ich liebe die Band
Es war so schön zu lesen wie sie sich in den Jahren entwickelt haben. Was sie durchgestanden haben und was sie fühlten. Ist ein Jahreshilight....
Wow
Ich finde es richtig interessant dass in dem Buch QR-Code drinne sind die dich zu dem Video leiten 💜💜💜
If a history book and an autobiography had a love child. The wonderful flow between narration and interviews and the way the journey from pre-debut to the present day is woven together is perfect. The format style might be a little new to some, but you get used to it really quickly. The translators took great care in keeping the colours of the members alive as well. No matter if you are not a fan, a new ARMY or have been with them from day 1, this book definitely is worth the read!
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Ich glaube, dass das viele Menschen über das Buch mehr über BTS und ihren bescheidenen Anfang und harten Weg erfahren können.
Wow! Ich bin ARMY seit Anfang 2016 (kurz vor dem Release vom Musikvideo zu „Young Forever“). Das macht es jetzt ein wenig mehr als 7 Jahre, das ich teil dieser wahnsinnig tollen und diversen Community bin. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte ihres Weges bis 2023 und weil ich sie einen Großteil dieses Weges selbst begleiten durfte, gab es nicht sonderlich viel Neues, dass ich durch das Buch lernen konnte. Aber es war super interessant, die andere Seite in genauem Detail kennenzulernen. Ich weiß noch genau, als „#BreakWings“ auf Twitter trendete und ARMYs verzweifelt versucht hatten, den Hashtag von der Plattform zu nehmen, in dem wir ihn reported hatten und durch einen positiven # zu überschatten versuchten. Ich weiß noch, wie es war, als wir uns alle auf die Performance gefreut hatten, die dann schlussendlich vom Programm geworfen wurde. Bei vielen dieser Tiefschläge saß ich, wie viele andere ARMYs, Zuhause und habe den Kopf geschüttelt und darüber nachgedacht, wie viel schlimmer diese Situationen für sie gewesen sein mussten. Und jetzt die ganze Timeline mit dem Bemerkungen der Member zu lesen hat weh getan, aber es war auch genauso schön zu sehen, was sie alles erreicht haben & durchgestanden haben. Ich hoffe auch, dass das Buch als Anlass zur Recherche von diversen Medien gesehen wird. Vielleicht stellen Interviewer dann mal relevante Fragen & wissen, wen sie vor sich haben. Die guten Seiten der Geschichte haben mich in Nostalgie schweben lassen & ich bin unglaublich dankbar darüber, gemeinsam mit ihnen aufgewachsen zu sein. Ich freue mich auf alles, das noch kommt. Apobangpo. 💜
The book is an in-depth account of how BTS achieved their unprecedented success and influence across music and beyond. It reveals BTS's artistic vision, creative process, and social messages, as well as the struggles, triumphs, and challenges along the way.
I took many and long breaks while reading, that’s why it took so long. But I don’t need to say anything, it’s Bts (;
Do we need a BTS book? If it was written by Myeongseok Kang, then the answer is: yes! It’s a book that I didn’t know I needed. So if you’re just here for the verdict, here you go: GO BUY IT AND READ IT. If you have a little more time to spare, let me elaborate a little bit. I didn’t read this book with the purpose of finding out secrets or insider information that I didn’t previously know. While I did learn some new details, it’s really more about what isn’t in there. Consider, for example, this description of a music video from another book: “Suga is delivering pizzas, Jin is cleaning cars, V works in a convenience store, J-Hope waits on tables, Jimin is a washer-up, RM is still at the gas station and teddy bear Jungkook is handing out leaflets. Aww!” This is a sentence from “BTS: Icons of K-Pop. The Unofficial Biography” by Adrian Besley, published in 2018, and the first of several “unofficial” books to follow. It is by no means a bad book (even though the cover looks terrible in my opinion), but it is not what we would consider a gift to ARMY. It feels like it was written by an outsider who is trying to explain to other outsiders (non-ARMYs) this phenomenon called BTS. The tone is kept light; when mentioning that BTS struggled with financial backing in their debut year and rumors said that they considered disbanding, the sentence that follows goes: “Imagine all of the amazing stuff that we would have missed out on!” I’m using this as an example to show why Myeongseok Kang’s book stands out in comparison to previous publications. If the book is meant for ARMYs, we as readers don’t need a recap of music videos and Bangtan Bombs because we already know them by heart. So what makes this 10-year record stand out, then? On the surface, the most obvious advantage Myeongseok Kang’s book holds over other books is the amount of direct quotes by the members. They may not have written the book themselves, but it’s like they are speaking to us through the book. But on top of that, these quotes are masterfully woven together by the author. If you weren’t already familiar with Myeongseok Kang, you will now realize what a profound understanding he has of South Korea’s music industry and how BTS (don’t) fit in. From that, he has crafted a narrative that is beautiful in style, deep in meaning, and feels like a book that was indeed gifted to ARMY on their 10th anniversary. Compare Besley’s observation that “There was no dancing in the ‘I Need U’ music video” to this observation by Kang (I wouldn’t consider this a spoiler, but feel free to skip if you don’t want to read any excerpts at all from the book): “[...] Bang Si-Hyuk threw much of what was considered common sense (or even “rules”) within idol content production at the time out the window. [...] An ordinary producer could have chosen “Dope,” which demonstrated BTS’s intense choreography, as THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.1’s title song. In fact, until “I Need U,” BTS’s title songs had all had an intense atmosphere. Their performance at the MAMA Awards at the end of 2014 further solidified this image. Despite this, Bang Si-Hyuk chose to represent the album with “I Need U,” a song so relaxed it feels almost fragile, one that opens on a low tempo beat. [...] Likewise, it is not immediately clear what the song is trying to convey.” In fact, you could say that the question posed by previous publications is “Who is BTS?”, whereas this book asks, “Why does BTS exist?” and that question makes all the difference. The growth of BTS’s success and fame can look like a chart of exponential growth, which also means that more and more ARMYs joined the fandom every year. If you haven’t been around since 2013, this book is especially helpful in tracing and understanding their beginnings. You may know that ARMYs have beef with charts that rhyme with “Chill Lord,” but did you know that the “first large-scale cyberbullying attack on BTS was because they had ‘sold too many records’?” That was in 2015, but it didn’t stop there and then. When Myeongseok Kang writes that it is “still difficult today for celebrities to take a stand on the cyberbullying they are subjected to,” I realized that some things may be easier to share in a book written by someone else than to speak to a camera. As difficult as some parts may be to read, overall there is something satisfying about the way Myeongseok Kang finds just the right words. For me, it’s the little things like “ARMY’s ‘Anpanman’” or the way he pinpoints the significance of the iconic line “You can all me artist, you can call me idol”; here the author provides a context of how “people talk about about idols as ‘seven-year singers’” (a quote by SUGA) and that idols are “belittled as having inferior musicality”, which pressures Korean idols “to become ‘artists’ the further they progress in their career.” Then you have BTS’s “IDOL,” and suddenly everything falls into place and clicks. If I ever get another question about BTS by muggles again, I’ll kindly direct them to this book because I cannot express it any better. When I first started reading, it was a little strange to read a BTS book because so much of the content we’re used to consuming as ARMYs is self-produced content by BTS. To read this book was a different experience at first, but in an unexpectedly good way. For example, RM once recalled one part of the critiques about painter Song Sangki that touched him the most: “As far as I remember, it said ‘I think the greatest artists are the ones who can take their most personal experiences and distill them into the most universal of truths. [...]’ ‘Someone who distills personal experience into universal truth.’ I felt that this was what I wanted to become.” To ARMYs, this may not be the first time they come across this, but there is something incredibly comforting about seeing this printed in a book. Lastly, this book is beautiful to hold in your hands, on the outside as well as on the inside. It truly feels like a gift to ARMY, and I think that every ARMY should read it, if they haven’t already. If you’re not that familiar with BTS but are at least a little curious, please read it too, along with checking out their music. You don’t even need to search up anything, just use the QR codes included. I cannot praise enough how well-written this book is. If you like a good story, you will love this. It is better than some of the fiction I have read, and despite the fact that I knew from the beginning how the story would unfold, I tore through the pages and chapters, desperate to find out what would happen next. I don’t think I ever want to read anything about BTS again that is not narrated by Myeongseok Kang or by BTS themselves. “The history of boy band fandom begins in the West. But bands like BTS with popularity that transcends national boundaries and can hold arena tours in Asia, North America, and Europe are decidedly few and far between. Not to mention bands that have vast fandoms holding the same official light sticks and calling themselves a single moniker (ARMY, in this case). [...] But more than all this questioning about where their popularity comes from, it’s important to look at the answers provided by ARMY. [...] While it was difficult to ascertain what made them interested in BTS in the first place, there is one clear theme that echoes through this fandom across the world. And that theme is that by being fans of BTS, they found new directions for their lives. [...] Which is why, perhaps, the question to ask ARMY and any K-pop fan, or any fan of any artist around the world, isn’t “Why are you a fan?” but “What life, beyond being a fan, are you living now?” It is a book I am proud to hold in my hands as an ARMY. 아포방포
Das beste Buch für ware BTS Fans . Ich kann das Buch nur weiterempfehlen.
What do I say.. this is incredibly difficult to rate. I contemplated a lot between 2 and 3 stars and I’ll be honest I think it would have gotten 3 only because of the sentimental emotions I feel. When hearing that BTS will release an intimate book about their entire career in detail I was first ecstatic. Then it quickly went somber because sadly as most times in kpop: is this for real or just another cash grab? I am still inconclusive after finishing it tbh… I can’t say I had hopes for this book, but I had wishes. Wishes to know more about this group of 7 people and their music I adore so much. Let’s start with what I did enjoy. The integrated quotes from the members were a lovely touch (but sadly sometimes felt out of place or as if I had heard those exact words before for certain topics). I also really enjoyed the timeline structure, it’s a great approach to really get into the whole „BTS universe“. What I didn’t like though sadly trumps the likes. My main issue was sadly, that this book really did not feel that personal. At worst parts it felt like reading an emotionless Wikipedia article. I had wished to get some insights, how did the members feel, etc. Especially at the beginning of the book this was done better, eg with the whole Namjoon getting dragged by other rapper parts. That’s what I wanted to experience in this book, have these incredible artists speak on their experiences. Sadly, especially later on in the book it kind of felt just like a retelling of chronological happenings and less like an actual insight into what made BTS into the BTS we know today. Another issue was: the author could not go two pages without mentioning how everything BTS ever did, write, plan, etc was only for „ARMY“. At some parts I legit had to cringe. Yes, being thankful to your fans makes sense. But saying entire albums and songs about clear life experiences and love were written for a fandom? It felt kind of insulting to the integrity of the song writers. Also, just personally, I would have enjoyed a different ending, a bigger focus on the outlook of life. Some more thoughts of the guys of how they overall would describe this journey. The book stopped so abruptly with only a mention of PROOF, I double checked if I missed something. I have quite some more issues with the book, but all I can say is: I guess overall it is what it aimed to be? A book for fans, catered to fans. Personally, it’s just not my cup of tea, when hashtag campaigns of fans get more dedication and pages than actual insights into the artistry.
Ich liebe die Band
Es war so schön zu lesen wie sie sich in den Jahren entwickelt haben. Was sie durchgestanden haben und was sie fühlten. Ist ein Jahreshilight....
Wow
Ich finde es richtig interessant dass in dem Buch QR-Code drinne sind die dich zu dem Video leiten 💜💜💜
If a history book and an autobiography had a love child. The wonderful flow between narration and interviews and the way the journey from pre-debut to the present day is woven together is perfect. The format style might be a little new to some, but you get used to it really quickly. The translators took great care in keeping the colours of the members alive as well. No matter if you are not a fan, a new ARMY or have been with them from day 1, this book definitely is worth the read!