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