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J-HOPE: ARTISTRY, GROWTH, RESPONSIBILITY
they will always be one team. 2
Hope World also conveys how
sometimes J-Hope wishes he could
remain as Hoseok. He also critiques
the celebrity lifestyle, a thought and
subject matter that takes personal
strength and confidence to even
begin to come to terms with, much
less create with. It makes ARMYs’
heart swell with pride, knowing that
someone who used to have little to
no knowledge on creating music now
produced a mixtape that was met
with a positive reception from the
public.
Through his music, we see Jung
Hoseok grow and transform into
J-Hope, both an individual artist
and a member of BTS who’s got a
“hopeful vibe / A positive rather than
a negative type”. Through his music,
J-Hope invites us to “Say hello to my
Hope World / This is my world, my
own story” 3 . J-Hope will continue to
develop his craft and make the whole
world see the brightness in every
detail, in the exact same way the sun
shines bright every day.
J-Hope ‘Daydream (백일몽)’ MV, March 2018
1. “Songs Registered under J-Hope (10003800)” KOMCA Works Search, Korea Music
Copyright Association, n.d., http://www.komca.or.kr/foreign2/eng/S01.jsp
2. j-hope Mixtape Behind. (2018). [Video].
Retrieved from http://www.vlive.tv/video/61315?channelCode=FE619
3. “Genius Translations – J-Hope - Hope World (English Translation).” Genius, Genius Media
Group Inc., 2 Mar. 2018,
genius.com/Genius-translations-j-hope-hope-world-english-translation-lyrics.
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