ARMY Magazine - Monthly Issues ARMY Magazine ISSUE NO.2 - DEC 2018 | Página 7

“Her” closes with “Outro: Her”. It features the three rappers – RM, SUGA, and J-Hope – and is reminiscent of BTS’ older works. “Outro: Her” slows down the album with a chill, easy-to-listen-to track. This song acts as a perfect transition to the following album LOVE YOURSELF 轉: Tear as RM raps: “But I found myself / The whole new myself / I’m confused too, which one’s the real me?” The LOVE YOURSELF 承: Her physical album comes with not one, but two surprises. The CD features two hidden tracks – “Sea” and “Skit: Hesitation and Fear”. The first hidden song is slow in tempo, carries emotional rap parts and heart-wrenching vocals, and is doused in melancholy – a complete opposite of the rest of the album. In “Skit: Hesitation and Fear,” running at eight and a half minutes long, the group expresses their unfiltered feelings about the past and the future. THE ACHIEVEMENTS LOVE YOURSELF 承: Her became an album that defined a new era for the group, as well as the beginning of many of BTS’ “firsts.” Her was the first album to be released after BTS was rebranded with a new logo and a new alternative English name “Beyond The Scene”. The album was teased by a series of mysterious posters, followed by dramatic short films called “Highlight Reels” that hinted at the theme of the album but seemed more suspenseful and deep, almost as if the new album would follow the same dark undertone. This made the release of “Her” even more surprising, as the lead single “DNA” turned out to be nothing like what the short films leaned towards. LOVE YOURSELF 承: Her proved to be BTS’ best work yet. With a recorded total of 1,051,546 pre-orders for the physical copy, the album made 4