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‘Come Back to Me’ is a masterpiece, sorry I don’t make the rules.
I’m on my 100th listen I swear, and it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet.
💜🎉💜🎉💜🎉💜🎉
COME BACK TO ME - OFFICIAL TEASER RPWP
RM Pre-release Track 'Come back to me'
📆 24. 05. 10. 1PM (KST) | 0AM (ET)
RM 2nd Solo Album 'Right Place, Wrong Person'
📆 24. 05. 24. 1PM (KST) | 0AM (ET)
💽 Pre-save & pre-order: https://rm.lnk.to/rightplacewrongperson
Thank you for this beautiful work @chikooritajjk ! 💜
YOUTUBE STREAMING - RPWP
STREAMING ON YOUTUBE
The platform directly contributes to many charts. It is necessary to have a stream routine within your means.
Volume - The volume must be at or above 50% for your view to be counted correctly.
Quality - It is important that the image quality is greater than 480p
Focus MV - To stream on a focus, take a 2 or 3 video/MV break before playing again.
Limit - It is recommended to use one account per device and s account per IP
Like and Share - It's important like and share on other platforms.
Playlist - Do not use a playlist within the first 24hrs of release. It is important to manually search for: MV name + BTS (member)
Stream - Watch the full MV, don't pause, rewind or forward the video.
Strategy - It is important to switch between accounts to avoid filtering
— TIPS — It's important to comment, but avoid using emojis or commenting multiple times in a short period of time.
SMART YT Streaming for US AND Global
7 NOT 24 - A BB tracking week is 7 days. Our focus on YouTube should be gaining streams during the entire 7 days of a debut week, not just the first 24 hours. Stream for longevity (seven days and beyond) and sustainability. Use playlists responsibly and as needed for your schedule.
Log in, Log In, Log In - You MUST be signed in to your YT account for the views to count towards the charts. If you are not logged in, those views will count for the view count numbers but NOT for the BB charts.
Limit Multiple Devices - YouTube tracks your IP address, so be responsible with devices. YouTube will delete views if your accounts/IP registers excessive hourly views, so aim for no more than 6 to 7 streams per hour per acct on YT to avoid excessive views.
Engage Frequently - You should have some type of engagement every couple of hours. You can comment or like someone else's comment but DO NOT SPAM. We need to engage more than once per day on the focus video.
— TIPS — As always, we promote streaming smart and responsibly to BOTH impact the charts and fully support BTS. Represent yourself and BTS well. Artist first, Charts second.
Please feel free to use and spread - insta version coming soon
I have so much admiration for Namjoon. His lyrics, music, art - brilliant. It is such a gift.
I also *just* realized today, while streaming, what the "rpwprpwprpwp" on that IG account stood for. 🤦 😅
SUCH. A. GOOD. ARTICLE - NME
It’s not just the sounds on ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’ that capture this idea of good things coming out of the bad, but the whole album’s existence. It’s a gorgeous, intriguing, artful record that would likely not have come to be had RM not experienced – and then interrogated – these feelings of confusion and being out of place, and a perfectly imperfect reminder that life and love, right and wrong, is never just black and white.
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and I do expect to see all of the people who are following me to be supporting this release.
FOR NAMJOON WE RIDE NOW!.
the reviews are coming in and wow
I have been saying this for so long: No one sees my BTS the way I see them, and I hope that RPWP allows people to see the guys' humanness.
Boy from Ilsan, I love you the most
Make sure you go see the film in Dec!
he looks so good...
i genuinely can’t remember the last time a song filled me with such a deep sense of longing and nostalgia, but for what exactly i’m not sure??? come back to me is a work of art, and i expected nothing less from namjoon 🖤
That's my interpretation..
I'll talk about spoilers so read at your own discretion.
To start:
I had forgotten completely that RM already performed it at one of the D-Day last shows.
So I got the experience of hearing it for the first time twice.
I consider that a bonus!
But let's get to the important part:
The day it was released I barely woke up and rushed to watch the video.
We knew it was in Letterbox (it's a movie rating platform, really cool) so the cinematography wasn't really a surprise.
I just checked and they took it out of letterbox 😭
What caught me off guard was the total absence of rapping.
I always rooted for RM to find his singing voice, but that certain part just HITS the spot.
Wow.
And the GENRE?? I wasn't expecting it at all.
It has a bit of folk with the whistle and the talking-singing, along with the chorus sounds very R&B.
Not only he is singing a whole song by himself for the first time, but he is experimenting with the genre too!!!
Hallelujah.
Major indie vibes.
And the lyrics hit me so hard too.
I forgot the hour. I don't wanna know 'bout the hour. I forgot to shower. Even washing my face seems like a waste of time.
In case you don't know, this is depression.
It was very bold and brave of him to talk so openly about it like this, thank you Joonie.
You keep making us proud.
If I ever doubted about the members ability to grow artistically, now I'm a believer.
And the cherry in this amazing cake:
The MV:
It's cinematic, it's moody, it's confusing, it's DIFFERENT.
We see RM going through different scenes where he's role changes with the room he enters.
The colors change, the light changes, the clothes change.
In the beginning we see him in a party looking apathetic.
Disconnected.
A drunk man offers him a cigarette twice and he refuses (which reminds me of that one picture that was posted on Instagram).
We see him walk in and out of rooms looking confused.
In one of the rooms, he is even in a baby bed! Probably my favorite part.
Do you see something familiar?
Eventually he comes across a young woman that seems to be another version of him.
From then on, he looks changed, at ease.
He looks like he's finally the
right person in the right place
A friend having fun at the party.
A husband brushing teeth with his family.
A baby playing with his parents
And a boyfriend talking to a girlfriend.
I think this MV could have a lot of different meanings.
But the feeling like an outsider and running around, the apathetic look, the being misunderstood (in the fight with his girl) and then finally smiling and going back at peace....
It seems like making peace with the past, making peace with the old self.
It's ok to disappoint people sometimes.
The scene as a baby in the crib with the parents, the scene with the angry girlfriend made me think about that. Read expectations and disappointment.
"My kid will be this, my kid will do that"
"You promised this, you lied about that"
It might take time for us to understand life and ourselves, but when we are finally ready for it is liberating.
You don't have to be, you don't have to be the anything you see
He was free to simply be a baby for his parents.
The present is the party, he's thinking about his childhood and past (and future?) relationship but he's not living in the moment, at least he wasn't in the beginning.
I am rewatching Suchwita and RM says that his dream is to live more in the moment:
While interviewing Jin, Suga also brought back a conversation between him and Jin that happened while they were recording the first In The Soup:
Those are obvious things, in theory it's easy to understand. But when it comes to real life it's just different.
Without being careful we get caught up in moments, regrets, feeling overwhelmed.
The girl he meets in the end could represent many things: himself, his inner peace, happiness, army or spring.
As he mentions in the lyrics:
spring always been here, I will sleep in her eyes
That scene represents meeting a good friend, having a laugh, letting the weight off your shoulders.
And I just noticed the sunlight moving in the room representing the passage of time, interesting. That could mean how we lose track of time when with the right people, but it could also mean something else that I don't know.
He might be referencing Army, as spring day is such a loved song in the fandom.
What makes me think he might be talking about army is the lyrics too.
You are my pain, divine.
We know this life, although very beautiful, isn't always easy to BTS.
Along with all the prizes and support comes expectations.
I like to think this could be Namjoon making peace with his love for music, army and fame.
I see you come back to me.
That's what I could think on my own.
The references
I saw armys pointing there were references to the other members in the video:
The video starts in a party with people drinking - Jimin (Like Crazy)
Namjoon is sitting beside a couple kissing - V (Friends)
He enters a room where his girlfriend is mad at him - JK (Seven)
He is in a crib with a snoop plushie - Jhope
And the tangerine - Suga
? -Jin
There was also this theme of doors representing a different reality, and I guess this is very on brand with BTS as their logo represents a door. Yoongi also used a door in his Amygdala MV. The final door he passes also has a purple shine for a second.
All in all, I love the MV.
Once again RM is flexing his sexy brain in his art for our delight.
Stay happy and healthy, Joonie.
Love ya.
He's watching us
IF YOU LOVE RPWP LIKE I LOVE RPWP
Here are two treats for ya.
Personally my favorite things about RM's most recent masterpiece.
The genre blending.
The lyricism
The conceptually (not like in kpop concepts)
And maybe I'll go into depth about these in another post because by far this is my fav BTS solo project up until now.
SO...
I just have to recommend these two artists that came to mind as soon as I first listened to the whole album.
And now everytime I listen to rpwp I get this itch to recomend them.
Firstly
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
Is groovy af.
Would love to see RM colab with them one day.
Secondly
SO YOON/ SE SO NEON
You might know So Yoon from her colab with RM, Smoke Sprite.
She is half of the duo Se So Neon, they have a super fresh sound.
Now, after Right Place Wrong Person their colab makes more sense, I didn't think RM liked Alternative music before.
That's it, hope you like it and I hope my recommendations help satiate the desire for more alternative groovyness after listening to rpwp.
yo hurry
LAST CALL: With which member would you most want to have nonsense conversations?
LAST CALL: If you were an Idol, would you use your own gifs?
LOST!, Namjoon and his personas: 'jaded', 'anxious', 'overconfidence' and 'goofy'.
