I rediscovered BTS.
YES. REDISCOVERED.
See, I stumbled across BTS about a year or two years ago. I was watching Superwoman on YouTube cheering on about something when 'DNA' popped up. I watched it, smiling at all the colours in the video, but then I had so many question marks hanging above my head and so I decided to focus on the task at hand and logged out.
Fast forward to late August 2018, and then I was watching some Korean programs on KBS, and I saw BTS again. 'Idol' was the video, and I looked at the icon for about a minute, then told myself I'd come back and watch it. I spotted something else and forgot about it.
The video resurfaced in mid September and I clicked on it, and instantly regretted not watching the video before. Soon after, I found myself rewatching the video, then the dance choreographies, parodies, and then I stayed up one night watching as many MVs by the band as I could find.
Finally, I could slowly differentiate the members.
•V was the easiest to differentiate because of his eyes. They were the biggest in the band. I'd call him 'Big Eyes'
• J-Hope was easy to distinguish because of his hopeful energy hahaha. I'd call him 'Hope International' if there wasn't an NGO with that name
•The next was Suga, but I kept confusing him with Jimin for some strange reason, then with Jungkook soon after. Then I realised Suga's eyes were the smallest and reminded me of a happy cat. I'd call Suga 'Cat.' Sorry ARMY.
• Jimin was easy to differentiate from Suga because he had a really cute smile that made his eyes turn bow shaped. Plus he was a sucker for hugging. I'd call him 'Huggzy' or 'Olaf' but ARMY believe he has the best abs in the band, so they probably have a name for him...
• For the longest time, when watching 'Idol' I thought that V was RM at the SnapChat/Instagram filter part of the video before the first chorus. Later, I discovered RM had dimples, and V didn't. RM is jokingly referred to as 'Rainbow Monster' but I'd call him 'Rainbow Dimples' because J-Hope has dimples too. Bet you didn't know that! He also goes by 'The god of Destruction.'
•Jungkook had a baby face, and he looked quite cute and younger than everyone. For quite a while, he looked a lot like Jin and I had the hardest time deciding who was who. Eventually, I realised that Jungkook had the second biggest eyes and they looked rounder than V's, and earlier videos indicate child-like wonder in them. Can't say the same for now hihihi... Everyone in ARMY calls him 'International Playboy' because he calls himself that anyway.
•Jin... The man of the daddy jokes. He was pretty cool and I thought he'd make an amazing BFF, simply because he had a lot of confidence in himself. Once I established he was the 'World Wide Handsome' guy, everything fell into place.
Now, the reason I worked so hard for close to a week to differentiate them from each other was because of Bel Watson, one of my favourite Wattpad authors. See, we tweet each other back and forth once in a while, or rather I tweet her and she responds, and this was due to my confession to falling in love with my rediscovery of K-Pop. She dared me to learn the names of my favourite band's members at that moment and differentiate everyone from each other.
Since I was on a very long leave, I did that and was glad to know who is who. Now I am learning to tell which voice belongs to which member.
My Kpop music affair does not end there though. MomoLand was my first band before the rediscovery of BTS, and I rewatched 'Boom Boom' twenty or thirty times just to learn the choreography, which I messed up at the first dance video I ever did on YouTube, so I decided to go along with whatever style I would remember.
The only person I might know is Rose in MomoLand. I actually feel guilty differentiating the members of VAV over Twice, APink, and MomoLand because VAV has 7 members, so does GOT7 and BTS. The lesser the easier. That still doesn't mean I know who is who in BlackPink. Sorry guys. I promise I will take the time to learn.
I love how dynamic KPop music is. Of course the allegations of plastic surgery are sad, the poor payments are discouraging, but the happiness I feel while listening to, or watching their music makes me happy. I remember watching Whitney Bae interviewing VAV recently and Ziu was staring at her and she was like 'I just met a bigger troll than me.' I had my doubts about trolling, but as always, I take everything out here with a pinch of salt.
My next blog post will probably be about VAV... Or something related to KPop. This is a heads up of some sort.
I look forward to our correspondence soon. Bye guys!
Sincerely,
Me.
