Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan

In other ways, though, the song does connect to the deeper history of BTS, who have always been unafraid to comment on their interiority, what they're experiencing in the world in a way that is maybe distinct from other K-pop artists, kind of like we were talking about earlier.

Like this song to me is clearly about the pressures of being one of the most famous bands in the world.

Show me hate, show me love, make me bulletproof.

And probably bulletproof is a reference to their original name, which was the Bulletproof Boy Scouts.

And then they say, we call this shit normal, but it's not.

And they've...

publicly grappled with these issues in the lead up to this album, sort of maybe coming out and being a little too honest, some of the members about their struggles with their notoriety and then having to sort of walk back and apologize for those outbursts.

So

I feel like this is a song, despite its pop sheen, that maybe allows the group to also express itself a little more openly.

I was listening to one of their first songs, No More Dream.

And a lot of that song is about sort of breaking out of the conformity of society and not being afraid to dream.

Like in verse one, they rap about the completely forgotten childhood that was filled with so many dreams.

As he said, okay, I'm going to the study room right now.

I mean, fast forward 13 years and they've achieved those dreams.

But in this song, you know, maybe it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Normal, I mean.

Wow.

Let's listen to one more track from the back half of this album.

It's called They Don't Know About Us, and it's got a great intro.

I was convinced that was a sample, but I don't think it is.