Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

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In addition, portrait photos tha t show BTS as individuals and artists open the book, and throughout there are concept photos, tracklists of all previous albums, and over 330 QR codes. In addition, portrait photos that show BTS as individuals and artists open the book, and throughout there are concept photos, tracklists of all previous albums, and over 330 QR codes.

In their first-ever book, BTS members RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook share their story . It clearly tries to build this hero myth around the members of BTS, doing so mostly by boasting with numbers and surface-level beating-the-odds motivational clichés (an actual quote from the book: "– – BTS's accomplishments over those seven years followed the progression of what could almost be considered a classical hero narrative"). I wonder when these men even had the time to work on this though, cause we've been drowning in new music and other content for a while like.

This is because the whole book feels hopelessly surface-level, only sometimes dipping down into something interesting in the quotes from the members.

Beyond The Story is finally out and as promised it is an astounding record that delves deeply into Bangtan's active years before and after their debut in 2013. And then one day, I randomly watched the Boy In Luv music video on YouTube and my ARMY journey started right there and then. Most of the issues in this book boil down to the fact that it reads like an article, which is not surprising, given that the author is mostly a journalist. This could be nice in theory, if it wasn't so ceaseless that in the end the descriptions blur together and just become irritating. It was a super pleasant read (gulped it down in 2 days), but it was akin to the In the Soop or Bon Voyage interviews when I guess what I was looking for was a bit more of the spontaneous V Live candidness or even the raw storytelling that comes out on Suchwita.

I’ve followed BTS since late 2017 and as such, few ‘revelations’ are new - still, I appreciate the effort to insert novel detail (or novel retellings of old details) for an old-timer like me. The text takes readers from the trainee days to the Grammy stage, tackling all albums and many ideas behind the multimedia storytelling that is the BTS universe. On days when we had a lot of rehearsals, we’d be working fourteen hours out of a twenty-four hour day. In the decade since their global debut in 2013, BTS have broken world records, earned Grammy nominations, gained international recognition for their self-produced music and unmissable performances, and amassed millions of fans globally (a.

If you know BTS well some things will already be known to you, but they also have included some new elements from the members' perspectives and also quite a lot of backstory for what happened during their most challenging and difficult years as a group.The book would have benefited from heavy editing and as it is, could have gotten the message across in half the length or less. If only the framing would have been shifted from the growth in success to the personal growth the members have gone through during the time the book spans, it could have been much better. In fact, if we had thought a lot, it would have been harder, and because we were just seven really simple people, maybe that was what made it possible. also I just had to point out that I need at least one looooong chapter with 7 pov's from each member retelling what really went down with the dumpling incident because that's the real tea y'all. here’s the thing about books like this⸺we don’t really get to have a critical opinion on them, because it’s simply someone else’s life, and what right do any of us have to speak on people who have already gone through endless hardships?