The song, which was announced for its premiere on May 31 to coincide with the start of events in Seoul to celebrate BTS’s first decade of life, was released at 1:00 p.m. local Korean time.
An hour and a half after appearing on the YouTube platform, the official video for the single, in which only the song is heard and a colorful logo that reads “Take two” is seen, already had more than 309,000 views.
The theme is a ballad that has an acoustic base and that mixes the voices in sweet tones of several of its members with the rapping of three of them, Suga, RM and J-Hope.
In fact, the song, sung mainly in Korean and occasionally punctuated by phrases in English, has been composed mainly by Suga with the cooperation of the other two main “rhymers” of the South Korean group, BigHit Music, the music label, reported in a statement. the band.
According to BigHit, the title, which means “Take Two” in English, symbolizes the start of a new chapter for the band, which officially launched in June 2013.
The song “symbolizes both the group’s journey forward as well as a promise to their most loyal fans, who have shared every moment so far, in order to continue walking together in the future,” the company explained.
The festivities in Seoul to celebrate the band’s 10th anniversary will conclude on June 17 with a grand event held next to the Han River featuring the band’s leader RM, which will be streamed.
BTS announced last summer that it would take a break until at least 2025, a period that its seven members would take advantage of to focus on personal projects and perform military service, mandatory for all men in South Korea.
Two of them, Jin and J-Hope, have already begun their military service and are expected to finish it around July and November 2024, respectively.
With information from EFE