It’s a very sad day for the ARMY nation.
BTS has just made an announcement that shocked their legions of fans. The K-Pop supergroup dropped the bombshell that they are going on an indefinite hiatus
The shocking revelation came just days after the group dropped a three-disc career retrospective compilation titled Proof.
The seven-man boy band made the surprise announcement on Tuesday (June 14) about 20 minutes into an hour-long FESTA dinner. During the dinner, members RM, Jin, SUGA, J-Hope Jimin, V, and Jungkook were casually seated around a dinner table, joking around and deciding what to drink, looking back and reminiscing on their skyrocket to fame, and playfully teasing one another.
Around 20 minutes in, Suga casually dropped:
“We’re going on a hiatus now. Should we talk about why we’re not doing the FESTA or making content?”
The mood immediately got more serious and somber. RM asked:
‘Should we get into that?”
Suga confirmed that:
“We have to talk about the direction we’re taking.”
And RM went on to delve deeper into their decision, expounding on the group’s upcoming break following their relentless pace since they formed in 2013:
“Gathering like this today and shooting content, I’m glad we’re BTS… what would I do if we weren’t BTS? It made me think I’m happy just being together. I started music and became BTS because I had a message for the world.”
He shared that as the pandemic shut everything down and they focused on recording new tracks, they realized “the group has definitely changed.” RM said:
“We have to accept that we’ve changed.
For me, it was like the group BTS was within my grasp until ‘On’ and ‘Dynamite’ but after ‘Butter’ and ‘Permission To Dance,’ I didn’t know what kind of group we were anymore.”
He added that whenever he writes songs and lyrics, the story and message he wants to share is important, “but it was like that was gone now. I don’t know what kind of story I should tell now.”
RM went on to confess that he always thought BTS was different from other groups but that the “problem” with K-Pop and the idol system is “they don’t give you time to mature.
You have to keep producing music and keep doing something.
And it’s not just about music and work. So I need to think and have some alone time and then those thoughts can mature into something uniquely mine.”
ARMY was at the forefront of their thoughts, with Jimin stating:
“We can’t help but thing of our fans no matter what – we want to be the kind of artists that are remembered by our fans. I think now we’re starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to eb remembered by our fans. I think that’s why we’re going through a rough patch right now, we’re trying to find our identity and that’s an exhausting and long process.”
J-Hope gave ARMY hope, reassuring fans that this hiatus does not mean the end for BTS:
“I think that change is what we need right now. It’s important for BTS to start our second chapter.”
A spokesperson for BTS told Billboard:
“BTS will continue to be active in various different formats, including working on solo projects.”
All members have released solo projects over the course of their career, and during the dinner they said that they are in working on solo projects.
