![]() ![]() ![]() Suga’s own fame-centric work unpacks the dualities of being powerful and losing your underdog status, of rebelling against a machine and also profiting from it. Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” Taylor Swift’s “The Lucky One.” The songs are about being watched, about having this thing you love turned into something else. Britney Spears’s “Piece of Me,” for example, recalls a very specific circumstance of being the living embodiment of an American ideal, a product, something to consume. The genre of songs about fame is an especially interesting one, because on the surface, they shouldn’t be relatable at all. “Conflict, war, or if not those, survival is inserted inside/A life you can’t reject/Capital, as collateral for dreaming, injects the morphine of hope,” per translation from Wisha/Do You, Bangtan.Īgust D was about his past, Suga explained, but D-2 is about what the 27-year-old’s life (28 in Korean age) is like now. D-2 song “Strange,” his collab with RM, is a takedown of capitalism. “Here’s my reality check, there’s nowhere higher.” He echoes the themes in “Shadow” and in older BTS track “No More Dream” (which also gets a check in D-2 diss track “What do you think?”) about wanting wealth and the trappings of it, and that simultaneous revulsion at what it produces. “I wanted clothes clothes, then money money, then goal goal, now what’s next,” he stutter-raps out in Korean on “Daechwita,” per the official YouTube translation of the song. If Agust D is about wanting, D-2 is about getting, and there’s more restraint even in the lyrics that talk about how much he’s gained. That song, and it’s subtle counterpart, Halsey collaboration “Suga’s Interlude,” hinted at what was to come on D-2: the reconciling that comes when your world suddenly gets very big and very small. Kate Halliwell wrote for The Ringer back in January, “Yoongi has always been the member of BTS most willing to publicly grapple with the dichotomy between fame and self, talking openly about his struggles with depression and anxiety.” She was talking specifically about “Interlude: Shadow,” the solo song that introduced the MOTS: 7 era back in January.
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