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It’s been a year since the finest album debut happened.
JD, it’s officially FACE Anniversary in Korea. And I am here to say that I am so immensely proud of Jimin and his debut album. What a vulnerable, beautiful, phenomenal piece of expression that was. I am so grateful he considered us worthy to tell us his stories - the good bad and the ugly.
I am so glad he got to do the album he wanted to. Where he got to write, compose, produce. Because I have trained in music and dance for over a decade and if I ever pursue this professionally I would be enthralled if I can produce a cohesive album which captures my journey, my stories, and my emotions. The billboard no 1, and everything else is just brownie points. Despite the sabotages, negativity or whatever else, Jimin did the impossible. And that’s why today random cafés, journalists and magazines are celebrating him. So my Jiminettes, tight tight hugs to you all and congrats, we stan a once in a lifetime artist.
I will always, always, always applaud him for the direction he took. When I think about how he chose FACE, in all the loneliness and sadness and anger and the human, to be his first step into the world as a soloist, I am so…relieved? All I wanted was to see him choose his artistry and his own path and that’s exactly what he showed me from the very first hint, aka SMF pt.2.
It really embodies one of the things I cherish about Jimin deeply. From telling his father that he’ll succeed elsewhere even if he doesn’t make it here, to being so deeply nervous about his debut but still going for an extremely personal, diary-esque debut album instead of what everyone expected of him — he doesn’t shy away from two things in his life; ambition and realness.
I have always talked about how I do care about commercial success and how I absolutely want it for Jimin and I do believe he cares about it as well. But it’s as you said, the rest is all brownie points. I would never want it without something that isn’t Jimin at its core. It’s why LC/FACE’s achievements feel so special to me. Especially SMF pt.2. I just loved seeing his reaction to it’s success, he was so caught off guard and it was so lovely to witness that because the song is a true embodiment of Jimin’s artistic authenticity and to be rewarded that must’ve meant a lot.
Happy Face Day!
Also the sounds in Interlude: Dive are quite interesting 🧐
OMG! Hi anon.
You are my very first anon! Which makes you special, thank you. I appreciate you.
I never thought I would have one, and you may be my last. 😵 I guess we shall see!
The sounds in Interlude: Dive are very interesting.
@stormblessed95 has a very nice post on what Jimin has said about Interlude: Dive if you haven’t seen it, here is that lovely post.
I’m not sure if you wanted to know my full ramblings about this track but since you kindly sent in this ask and since Jimin has said
“I think it will be a fun experience to concentrate and listen to each (sound)”
I am going to take this opportunity and run with it. Since I love talking about Face. (This may be a long post)
There are so many interesting sounds in this track but I will mainly talk about the sounds that stuck out to me the most. And I will talk about them in the context of what Jimin said in the post that I linked above. He mentioned that he wanted an “emotional line” from Face-off to Like Crazy and to express happy and sad memories.
Disclaimer: These are all just my curiosities and will be all open-ended thoughts and imagery for fun.
Let's get it.
Sound: Rewind
Time: 0:00
Jimin has said that Face is about his feelings during 2020 in chronological order. This rewind sound at the beginning makes me curious to know at what point in 2020 did he start to feel the things he felt in Face-off, about the people around him? About the people, he thought he could trust and believe in. The ones who hurt him. Was this shortly after the pandemic started? Or right before when they were still active?
***I am not in the Face-off is a break-up song camp. This song, based on the lyrics and the vibe of the song sounds like he is speaking to all the fake bitches who hurt and used him. He wants to be cleansed of dem' demons. Get it outttt. Get it outtt***
Sound: Breath
Time: 0:36
The breathy sounds seem to me like the sounds of crying, sniffling sounds.
It’s interesting that this sound comes before the cheering and concert monologue. It’s possible that some of these sounds may not be in a particular order since Jimin said he wanted it to be a dream-like state. But, could it be a representation of some feelings that were creeping up at the beginning of 2020 while BTS was still active? Things that he wasn’t ready to deal with at the time? Facing one’s self.
If there is one thing I know for sure about the pandemic, is that when everything stopped in the world we all had to face a lot of things about ourselves at home. It was rough.
Sound: Something Dropping?
Time: 1:39
Warning: This curiosity is kind of out there.
The sound I clipped above, I don’t know if it’s difficult to hear, but to me it sounds like something dropping on the floor.
This sound happens right before the start of the car engine and driving away. As if something is being left behind?
Like the last time, you left work and then found out you wouldn’t be going to work the next day because the world was in chaos. 😣 Was that Jimin, the performer, being left behind?
Here’s a western thought. Let’s get a little crazier.
That sound also reminded me of the sound of gambling chips hitting the floor or table and one chip landing vertically and rolling. Which then reminded me of the proverb “Let the chips fall where they may.” Which could be used to say: to allow things to happen as they may without trying to change them.
Maybe finally allowing himself to feel all the emotions he may have been avoiding before the pandemic and allowing the process to play out? A feeling of letting go of all defenses so that you can face yourself? Again, a curiosity using a western phrase.
I don’t know, I don’t know. 🤷♀️ But it stood out to me and Jimin was right. This is a fun experience.
Sound: Pouring and Gulping a Drink
Time: 1:57
That emotional line that Jimin wanted to draw from Face-off to Like Crazy?
A job well done. Passed with flying colors if you ask me.
That pouring and drinking sound really wraps it up and transitions to Like Crazy very nicely.
When Suga asked Jimin on Suchwita if Jimin came up with the tracklist himself.
Jimin said:
The details Jimin thinks about are really deep and all-encompassing. He’s very very good at creating an experience.
One of the many reasons why I love him.
I wish I could tell him personally, face to face, that the things he sets out to achieve creatively, he achieves them well and gets his message through to those who are listening.
You know, I know.
Sighhhh. I’ll just have to keep dreaming.
I would love to hear what other people think about Interlude: Dive, including you Anon!
Hit me up or @ me.
So proud!
Dancing to this anthem all dayyyyyy 💃🏾
I stay streaming strong 🎶
I'm trying Jimin...
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But Billboard is out here robbing you && it ain't right.
I'm upset. 😤
I never stop, I never stop
I know we're all upset with everything that is going on. But if there is one thing we know for sure about Jimin, is that he is one resilient beautiful human.
He will not be broken by this.
I believe he knows how proud of him we are. How thankful we are that he shared his story and talent with us.
Our fallen angel came out here and said fuck all your opps. This is me.
All of this is just a sign of his power as an Icon.
I'm sending you love and positive energy today. 💫💛💜💫
Blast Set Me Free pt. 2 when you're feeling frisky. We'll set right what we can.
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Thank you Roo!
PJM #1 Fanboy says:
Today's Checklist: 5 Things
First, make a new email, find a new payment method, and please purchase Yoongi and Jimin's works this week. Funding accounts are open.
Second, hit up the radio stations on this linktree and ask for spins.
Third, over on Twitter, by all means, please keep the hashtags trending despite Billboard's efforts to scrub the timeline. Be sure to tag major music industry publications like @RollingStone, @Forbes, @Newsweek ,@EW , @BIGHIT_MUSIC, @itstetrisbish, @NPR, @BuzzFeedMusic to politely request investigation and accountability:
Fourth, go to Spotify and listen to ONLY Like Crazy on these major lists:
And fifth but most important, please use your premium free trials to run these carefully curated playlists on YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Qobuz, and Facebook. Plug in your headphones, keep volume at 51%, open a tab for each if you can't use multiple devices, and have at it all day. We must fire on all cylinders.
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/58ac7499-0b24-4420-b160-2773439d4ce1
Bllboard, Spotify, and Hanteo haven't played fair, and the results of been devastating to Jimin's debut. Yet still, even handicapped, he's achieved more than most artists could hope for in a lifetime.
Whatever setbacks come--and they will always come our way--it doesn't mean we don't fight for him, or Yoongi, or all our boys.
We're ARMY. This family is ever faithful.
Love, Roo
This is dedicated to some sweet Jimin Vocals 🎤🎵
A highlight of snippets of Jimin vocals that live rent-free in my mind.
***Side note: I know I keep posting about Jimin. I told you before I refuse to leave Jiminland for now. I know JK is preparing for his album. But Jimin already wrecked me and I know JK is going to ruin me. Jikook is going for the good ol’ 1, 2 punch. TKO. && I want it. I’m here for it. But I’m not ready for it.
Alright, let’s get this ish. Go Go Go! 👇🏽
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This song is my jam. It may actually be my favorite BTS song. I wish wish wish in the recorded version you could hear the part I want to highlight better, but it just doesn’t do it justice. So I frequently watch the Jimmy Fallon performance to get my fix. I will never get over how Jimin sounds here. Nevvvver.
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Vibe
Is it just me or does Jimin sounds like Michael Jackson here?? Like his voice is so versatile it’s unbelievable.
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Run BTS
This song is a banger. Every time I listen to it, I remember RM talking about how Jimin’s voice has this edge to it.
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And I can't help myself. Gonna drop this gif.
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***Side note: Jimin with long fluffy hair is a must. Like he whips that hair around when he’s dancing and its just…..😵
Like Crazy - English Intro
I typically prefer Korean versions of songs just because I love the way the language sounds. The english version of Like Crazy was so well done AND the intro vocals just hit different. It sounds higher, angelic, and sexier than the Korean version and it gets me every time.
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Boy with Luv - TMA
This ad-lib. Period.
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Letter
Angel voice hummmm. Talk sweet to me Jimin!!!
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Filter
Last but not least, the ever-sexy: Filter. I love Jimin’s background vocals that fill up this song and literally consumes me. I want to drown in his vocals yall.
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There are so many more to highlight but these are the ones always popping up in my mind.
I would love to hear about anyone else's fav Jimin vocal highlights.
I will do one for JK in the future probably after his album drops. If I make it through the album. 😵
lie . filter . face off ..........like do u guys see where this is going
face by jimin, the tracklist ◎
jimin behind the ‘FACE’
Reflection of vulnerable minds and unexposed wounds.
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I just want to say how impressed I am with the way Face works as a complete story. Jimin said it was a chronological depiction of his feelings during the pandemic, but I didn’t expect that to be so ACCURATE. It really told the full scope, back to back, and I’m still reeling from it.
We start off with Face-off and it’s anger personified, it has a reactive, volatile energy. It’s harsh and hard-hitting and aggressive and at the core it’s just Jimin so so so hurt.
We move into this tranquil, but haunting interlude with the sounds of running/panicking, the last concert all the boys had together, shuffling around as you come home from a long day, and ending with a drink to numb it all. It just feels like getting lost in a trance and trying to cover up all the mixing emotions, bury them away and ignore them but they’re all fighting for dominance in your head.
Then we lead into Like Crazy, which is in every single way the embodiment of a dream. This fantasy that he doesn’t want to end, saying he wants to stay in the light, feels better in the light, begging to not be saved, to not be woken up. It starts with that line from the movie, saying “I’m afraid of everything disappearing” and it’s so clear that’s the core of this song. Jimin said in an interview his dream is BTS, that he wants to keep that going as long as he can. I don’t think it’s a reach to say this song is about wanting to be on stage, be in the light, be performing, and being afraid of it all going away.
Alone starts with an alarm, being torn from that dream, forcibly awoken as it’s pulled out from underneath you and you have to face the consequences of reality and your self. Here, more than any other song, Jimin seems to grapple with truly facing his emotions and fears head on and hoping to come out the other side the victor. In his Rolling Stones interview he talks about how this album came about after talking to the members, after they encouraged him to harness his emotions and heal through creating music, after he confessed to feeling like he wasn’t doing well, to being lost, and that he was worried he was the odd man out, that everyone else was doing fine while he was struggling to keep up the mask of being fine. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the first song he worked on, when he got back. The lyrics sound so similar to the things he describes in that interview.
And finally, Set Me Free Pt. 2, the culmination of it all, the victory. He comes out on top, reborn. He faced everything in Alone and stepped out the other side with a new outlook and strength. He’s healing, he’s fighting, he’s not discouraged in the way he was at the start of this all. We’ve all seen it, too, how much happier he seems, how he said he felt like he was really, truly happy, how this album was FOR HIM and he just hopes we all like it. He really used this as therapy, to work through all those complicated feelings, and now here he is smiling, laughing, giddy with excitement and I don’t know about you guys but he just feels so much brighter than he did a year ago.
I’m so proud of him. I’m so proud of him, not just for making an incredible album that lets us into such a raw and real place, but for trying. For facing everything dark and twisted in him and taking back control and repurposing it as something beautiful and triumphant. I’m so glad this helped him heal and I’m so glad he’s allowed us to experience it with him.
Oh, and let’s not forget that hidden track, eh? Because above all else Jimin has always been and will always be our sweet, tenderhearted angel who loves us 10x more than we could ever love him. I cried, you cried, we’re all going to continue to cry every time we hear it. It was absolutely beautiful.
JIMIN "FACE" PHOTO SKETCH ✨✨
Gave into capitalism and got Spotify Premium and heard Face album without ads for the first time and godddd jimin and pdogg r geniuses!!
The album starts with pure anger in face-off where he is right off the situation and can’t think past the anger and betrayal. Then it transitions o the interlude: dive where he literally dives into all the memories- his time on stage, going in and out panic (the deep breaths) and all the things he missed and cherishes. From there it goes to like crazy which is the epitome of denial (“I wanna stay in this dream”) after the aftermath of recollecting all the memories. He just wants to stay on stage, and numb all pain, just relive the good parts. Then it transitions to alone, where he’s in depression stage (“said I was okay but I feel like I’m losing myself little by little”), but eventually throughout the song he accepts the sadness (“make it right, it’s gonna be alright”). Then finally the album moves to set me free where he is… finally free.
Chills. Literal chills.
Life goes on🤍
IS NO ONE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE TRANSITION FROM JIMINS INTERLUDE INTO LIKE CRAZY OMG HE TELLS A WHOLE STORY THROUGH SOUND AND THEN FLOWS FLAWLESSLY INTO THE SONG
CONGRATULATIONS TO PARK JIMIN FOR RECEIVING HIS PLAQUE FOR HIS NUMBER 1 BILLBOARD HOT 100 HIT 'LIKE CRAZY' AND BEING THE FASTEST K-SOLOIST TO REACH 1 BILLION STREAMS FOR HIS ALBUM 'FACE'
AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND
CONGRATULATIONS JIMIN
FACE 1 BILLION STREAMS
Jimin face album 💜🫶🏻💜🫶🏻💜