Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan

We'll come back to this song and its use of Arirang, but this is, you know, a very strong opening statement.

Let's see what happens as we move through the rest of the album.

Let's go to the next track on Arirang, which is called Hooligans.

All right, a lot to break down already just in the opening 30 seconds of this track.

First of all, really fun sample to kick things off.

This is a really obscure one, which I'm always excited to encounter.

It's from the soundtrack to a French film from the 1960s

called, I'm gonna butcher this, Sang en Hiver, composed by Michael Magna.

I think I found the moment in this track that they're sampling.

And here's Hooligan.

And then as the beat drops, we start to get this like glitching effect here.

Maybe a nod to the glitch movement of the late 90s, early 2000s, exemplified by artists like Prefuse73 and his track The End of Biters.

And then a sound that I'm gonna go out on a limb and say is a sample of knives being sharpened.

Something you'd hear in a lot of trap music, something you'd hear in Megan Thee Stallion's Captain Hook.

Even like Billie Eilish, you should see me in a crown.

We hear a lot of knife samples.

So I imagine that wherever you've heard that sound, it brings you back to that place.

It's a fun little technique.

One thing you have to give BTS a lot of credit for, they wear their influences on their sleeve in the chorus.

We have lyrics, why this bass line slapping so rude?