*Long post alert*

I loveee songs of BTS. Lord knows that the lockdowns imposed last year were so hard on me. I was alone and away from family and not a single piece of news around the world was making me feel any better. On YouTube I stumbled on the song of BTS called “Not Today” and the lyrics spoke to me especially the lines – “Today we fight. Today we survive.”
And I literally lived like one day at a time.

And then I stumbled upon other hits – Fake love, Idol, DNA, Fire and Save me (this one I did hear before but then just as a one time thing).
And slowly I spiralled down to all YouTube videos, run BTS and their interviews with Ellen, Jimmy, James and who and what not.

This would have continued had all the scandals coming out in South Korea not come up in my YouTube suggestions as well.

Watching them I realised that while I did love the songs, I did love the artists as well. That’s no harm done. But then loving the artists and forming an opinion on their personalities basing on YouTube videos, print interviews was just so narrow minded.

I felt that as fans we tend to form an opinion/a certain image of the artists in our minds which may be far from the reality and when such images shatter, it feels like we have been wronged or fooled to believe in that artist and that’s when all the hate may pour out.

Now when I think of the artists in BTS, I feel like I live in my own make-believe narrow minded world where they are knights in shining armour.
I can never ever know how wonderful or different they may be, but I think that surely they don’t deserve to be limited by my the fantasies of my narrow minded opinion.

So that’s it YouTube, thanks for the one song that introduced me to BTS but now I think I would like to treat them as for what they are – artists whose songs I love. I thus liberate my mind from the clutches of my knight in shining armour fantasies I have about them to them being just boys/ men who have sung beautiful songs and poured a lot of effort in to making each song so beautiful.

May be that’s what we all need. I think that artists all around the world simply want their sincerity to reach people and for their songs to be accepted. They are not asking to be judged or slandered or obsessed over.

So now I guess instead of writing “I love BTS”, to all armies out there, I write “I love the songs of BTS”. ♥️

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