What’s interesting is that the Sun is usually associated with a great, cosmic energy. I collect my shattered self beneath the moonlight. In the recent months, Namjoon’s lyrics have shown an inclination to the idea of the moon and the sun. By showing how the persona in the song willingly threw himself into the frozen lake to appease their supposed love interest, the lyricist managed to bring across the toxicity of the relationship without explicitly mentioning it to be so.Īs I was thrown over the winter lake. Ībove the winter lake in which I threw myself away, It’s the rigidity and frigidity of Earth, not conducive to life. There aren’t any complicated lyrics in the track, but Namjoon succinctly captured the emotions of a troubled relationship by comparing the persona to a winter lake. The lyrics of V’s “Singularity”, written by Namjoon, are inextricably linked to the visual metaphor of a frozen lake and ice. More than wordplay, the rapper-songwriter’s lyrics are usually rife with metaphors. I know why “person” and “love” sound the same. If I sit slightly on top of it, it becomes a heart. Inside the myriad of straight lines (in a circle). In the final line, Namjoon uses the sound of “ttaeng” to rhyme the entire verse, but not before playing with languages and using “thang”, the slang word for “thing”, to prove his point.Īnother song in which Namjoon shows off his wordplay ability is “Trivia: Love”, his solo off the Love Yourself: Answer album. Lastly, he calls his haters’ faces “ddaeng”, whereby the word comes from an expression used to describe round faces when one’s face swells up after falling asleep after eating ramyun. In other lines, he refers to the Korean card-game of Seotda, where the “7 keut” refers to a poor combination of cards, and the following “ddaeng” refers to him having a better combination. In one instance, he uses it to explain the cashier’s sound, and in the other he uses it to explain that someone else is wrong, as “ddaeng” is the sound associated with striking a bell when someone is wrong (and “ding-dong” when someone is right). Sleeping right after eating ramen, the face is ddaeng.Įven when he refers to “ddaeng” as an onomatopoeia, he uses it differently. When I was younger, I liked playing freeze-tag, ddaeng. The sound of the cashier collecting bills, ddaeng. In just one verse, Namjoon used the word “ddaeng” in 5 different ways, all of which brought about a different meaning. The first track that comes to mind is “ Ddaeng”, an unofficial track created by him and the other BTS rappers, Suga and J-Hope, along with J. Over the years, as Namjoon has grown as an artist and strayed from the Hip Hop genre, he has shown some incredible lyricism in his discography. Other than the songs that the rapper has put out as part of his solo albums, Namjoon has worked on multiple songs for BTS, as well as part of collaborations with numerous other artists. And while many appreciate not just Namjoon’s, but BTS’ lyrics as a whole, it’s not uncommon to see the beauty of his lyrics overlooked in the flurry of the excitement of a comeback, or from the general nuances lost from a Korean to English translation. BTS’ RM is known for many things - being a talented rapper-songwriter, a charismatic leader, a multilingual genius, and for having an introspective personality.
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