BTS- 'Spring Day' DEEP STUDY

I love that you were so moved by this song... shows you also are a beautiful soul. Definitely look at versions of Bulletproof the Eternal 😍

I was totally hooked after this song and I got to know the meaning and symbolism behind the lyrics and the music video! That was when I realised how intentional BTS and their team are about the art they make! Never looked back. Thank you for the deep dive and for being open to the vulnerability and raw feelings this song brings out. Borahae

Spring Day is such a beautiful song. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your feelings with us on screen, Tim. I agree this song has such a hopeful feel to it 💗

Just an added note, "Spring Day" is one of the first of several songs BTS started to do that purposefully had no gendered pronouns. "Fake Love" is another good example. They do this when they want to leave the song meaning a bit more open to interpretation. So you can apply it to your life. It could be about loss of loved one, a breakup of a lover between any gender, missing someone who moved away. RM said he started writing the lyrics to this song while sitting on a park bench. He was feeling incredibly lonely like his friends had abandoned him, but he reached out and texted a friend first. It turns out his friends had avoided reaching out because of his recent success and didn't want to seem like fame hounds, but still were true friends. RM said if nothing else this song was his reminder to those to text first, reach out, and you are probably never as alone as you think. The song and the music video have such an incredibly powerful message to begin with, but as such a powerful song the meaning continues to shift and change even for BTS. This song came out in January of 2017. They actually had stopped performing this song as much. Then COVID began and they brought back as a way for everyone to express how much they missed each other and as a song of hope for better days. Then when they performed this in the "Yet to Come" concert you watched it also took on a slightly different meaning as they were all about to start their military service and not be around for a few years. It was a song of BTS and ARMY missing each other and also a kind of promise to come back and have another Spring Day

The hope you mentioned that is underneath this song is exactly what BTS does. They’re honest about the real stuff we all face but they ALWAYS offer hope. Their “Keep Swimming” campaign falls ride along with their past messages like “Love Yourself” It is never hyperbole when I tell others their lyrics (and their words & example) have changed my life for the better. The fact that they returned to us in spring (literally the first day of spring March 20) just shows how deep this runs. Busan being the last performance, them knowing what they knew about impending service, gets me when I rewatch. But that Spring Day arrived! I hope you keep on this BTS path. I need to go watch your video on how to make recommendations but can I link two shorts just for you? ARMY singing Spring Day on Jin’s recent tour (https://youtube.com/shorts/2S0JzuB-vMQ?si=WRusykeJXn-Yoqtx) and Tae, days after all of their discharge, watching ARMY sing it at j-hope’s concert (https://youtube.com/shorts/vKMPtu5Y2oM?si=AosjCV-QZuikoVYB). 💜

Sorry for making you cry Tim, but Spring Day is such an important song when on the BTS journey. Now you see why. Because of how the government handled the incident and because BTS like to make ARMY theorize, the Sewol Ferry connection is unconfirmed but supported by so much evidence. Including the fact that the members went to go visit the families that were affected which no one even knew about until a few years ago. Ever since its release Spring Day has never left the charts in Korea. All of the sets and design pieces on stage for the YTC concert were from their iconic MVs. RM debuted as Rap Monster, then he shortened it to Rap Mon, and finally to RM. In the transition to RM he changed it to mean Real Me