The BTS member’s debut solo LP moves from New Wave to unadorned piano songs
Since the summer of 2022, pop mega-group BTS has been on hiatus-a hiatus that gave each member space to embark on their mandatory military service and allowed them to spread their creative wings in individual projects that showcased their diverse musical interests and star power. Contact lists – stuffed. (New soul muse Erykah Badu was featured in RM’s sonic adventure Nelliewhile Louisville’s swaggering Jack Harlow appeared on the Jungkook poppy golden.) with SaidThe debut album of charming singer Jin smoothly, BTS’s second chapter is fully fleshed out, as is the mystery that the seven members of the group have creatively ventured into since their breakup more than two years ago.
On “The Astronaut,” Jin’s solo debut in 2022, the singer showed how his flexible content blended with big rock music – co-written by British rock stars Coldplay and EDM that delighted Kygo audiences, whose moonlit rhythms allowed Jin’s voice to penetrate. to them like a bright laser. Jin continues his full journey throughout the rock world, with his winning voice and bright outlook adding skill to synthesizer-washed new wave and unadorned piano ballads alike.
Said opens with “Running Wild,” an energetic track that seems tailor-made for convertibles, or at least the movie montages that feature them. The song was co-produced by Gary Barlow of British boy band Take That – a neat quadrature of the pop-idol circuit that could help explain why its champagne-soaked urgency fits Jane’s general behavior like a glove. Elsewhere, the singer and guitarist of J-pop band ONE OK ROCK backs up “Falling,” a touching love song that opens with a wide chorus, while WENDY of K-pop five-piece Red Velvet plays Jin on “Heart on the Window,” a beautiful romantic ballad that splits the difference between sweet pop and heartfelt anthem. “I’ll Be There” is a hip-shaking rock candy, and the heavy guitar solo that closes “Another Level” makes its pomp and circumstance – and Jin’s soulful voice – hit even harder.
“I’ll Come to You,” an abstract piano ballad that highlights Jane’s subtly shaded sentimentality, concludes HappyJin said it is a tribute to his fans that he wrote after being discharged from the military earlier this year. With BTS expected to return in 2025, the placement of “I’ll Come to You” in HappyIt feels like a harbinger of the future that doubles as a tribute to Jane’s saviors.
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