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Okay. So excited.

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Can we just chuck in the pocket?

What do you think?

Uh, it's perfect.

Yeah, probably good.

And we'll put it on the t-shirt.

I'm going to take the jacket off.

Oh, that's good.

I think I'll go on that thing. So nice.

Thank you.

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What's up, boys?

What's up?

Good to see you.

Good to see ya.

Good to see you.

What's up, Tom?

Good to see you, bro.

Good to see you.

Good to meet you.

Thanks for coming.

Thanks for coming!

Yeah, boys!

Hi, how you doing?

What's up bro?

How you doing?

Thanks for joining us today guys!

Thanks for joining us!

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you Apple, thank you Zane!

Thank you!

This is so exciting!

Thank you for coming to Korea!

It's a long flight right?

Yeah, but I love it here!

I love it here, I feel very calm here I love the city, I love the people Is this the first time?

No, no, no. And I want to say thank you to Jungkook because...

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

He invited me out maybe a year and a half ago.

Yeah.

And we sat up there and we had a beautiful conversation.

Wow.

So it's been like, you know, years, right?

Mm-hmm.

It's been a minute.

But not as long as it's been for you and for ARMY.

Oh, yeah.

It's been a minute for them too.

And you're here, I'm here, ARMY are all there.

And they're waiting and have been waiting for this moment and waiting for everything.

We're back!

Yes!

We're back!

You are.

How does it feel?

I mean, that's a big question for everybody, but who wants to just quickly jump in

and try to put into words how it feels for it to be real

and for you to be together again after the time away?

Yeah, so exciting.

I feel like this is a very long time.

I feel like Jane is the beginning of this moment.

I think I'm really nervous about this for fans.

It's a feeling that it's a bit uncomfortable.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

I wanted to ask you what you missed the most about this, about being together with your friends?

I'm going to eat dinner, and I'm going to eat dinner, and I'm going to be able to sleep again.

I'm going to be able to sleep again.

really strange to live you know all together in the same we lived in the same house like literally

so we rented it rented a villa

and then uh it was in like seven years

that we have you know ever like lived actually like together

and worked together so

that the session in la for two months was a quite like a big transition

and uh it feels like a dream for us at the same time now jungkook when When we spoke here,

we talked about the idea of you all moving off separately to work on your own solo music.

It felt natural to all of you.

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It didn't feel forced.

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Did this feel as natural coming back together?

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I know you said it was a bit strange living together, but when you all found yourself coming together, even having that first meeting, how did it begin?

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I think I think I'm going to be a bit more than a solo project than a group of people.

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I think it was a bit more obvious.

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I think I could have been a bit more than a group of people.

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I wanted to make a group of artists as soon as possible.

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It's not a big difference, but it's very natural.

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It's natural.

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It's natural.

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I always think that when an artist takes a break, it's a chance to look at it as a new 0.0 or a new era to some degree.

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And J-Hope, does it feel that way for you?

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Or does it feel like you sort of picked up where you left off?

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I think that the things that we can do to make sure that we can adapt to the music.

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And I think that all the activities that we have been doing for a long time,

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is that it's really fun to show us what we want to show.

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I think there's a lot of times that we're enjoying.

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It's such a unique situation to take a break from being a band and go and honor the commitment to your country, to military service.

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But you're still a musician, you're still creative.

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Sugar, are you thinking about music?

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Can you honor that commitment and do service?

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Are you still thinking about songs, melodies?

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Did any of them make it onto the record while you were serving?

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I just started to build a new set and create new things.

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I wanted to talk a lot about new things.

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I was just like that, especially on this album.

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When you started out, RM, you became leader of the group.

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Yes, sir.

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You're now in a situation where you've grown so much as people, not just as a band.

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Yes.

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perspective like for you when everyone came back together

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and you could take a look

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and go okay these guys I've known since we were kids

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in some case teenagers you know this how does your role as leader kind of evolve now everyone's growing up

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and it become you know men yeah that's that's the trickiest point

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and I don't know like sometimes I put like too much weight on myself like oh you the leader

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so you have to do something you have to you know like just get your ass off just the sofa

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and just go out and just like say something to the label or like to the people

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or or i don't know music wise um people wise

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but it's like you know like like like you said um

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we are all kind of grown up we're all like 30s right now

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and we all got back from the um the unique experience

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which is you know like very unique and um but i think uh you know through the process from the LA session.

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It's been almost like half a year, like seven, eight months.

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And I think there's still something that I can do for this team,

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like maybe just to communicate with the label or could represent,

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could say some words that could bring the team, bring the whole team to a better level.

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And I'd imagine also with the touring and whatnot to come, and as things get busier and busier, those roles will start to feel a little more comfortable again of like how we support each other.

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Yes.

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And they are, you know, we've been together for half of our lives.

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Yeah.

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Like 15 years.

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That's a long time.

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That's like a family.

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So, you know, as we see just like each other's eyes, we just understand.

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We just get it.

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Like, oh, now you've been through your hard times, bro.

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Then I'll do some more.

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I'll take care of you.

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We could just do that without any words or something.

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So they support me and I could do my roles.

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But it's always tricky that I sometimes put too much weight on myself as a leader.

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But at the same time I feel like I'm just one of the member.

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I'm just part of the team.

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I'm just one of the seven.

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So sometimes you just got to let it go.

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Just go with the flow and just be part of the team.

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So I'm still figuring out what is a good leader.

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Good leader.

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Thanks bro.

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Thanks bro.

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Thanks bro.

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Thanks bro.

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Thanks for amazing English.

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Word.

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Peace.

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This is a celebration.

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I mean we're going to talk about the music.

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We're going to talk about touring.

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We're going to get into it.

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We're going to try and fill in some of the gaps everybody wants filled. But we're here celebrating.

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And I would imagine that probably the biggest celebration so far was when Sugar finally came home.

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Because that was the last member of the band.

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So can I ask you guys how you celebrated as a band when Sugar finally came home and how that happened?

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We all have to gather together who's the house?

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It's my house?

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My house?

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No, it's not my house.

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It's not my house.

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It's your house.

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I was going to work with you.

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Oh, that's it?

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Our house?

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Oh, it's my house.

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My house is not my house.

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I'm not sure how to go to the house.

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I'm going to go to the house.

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We had to go to the house.

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I was watching a lot of the day before I was in the morning.

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I was watching what I was doing.

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when you came back and realized that everyone was so happy to see you streaming for the first time.

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I think it's like that.

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Rather than talking and talking, just talking at any moment, and having time for me.

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I think it's like this.

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It's funny about that is whether you mean to or not when you become a person of mystery, it makes people go even crazier when you show up.

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It kind of almost backfires a little bit.

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Maybe in purpose.

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Jim, I wanted to ask what you think you learned about yourself during the time away

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and in particular during military service when you came home.

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How would you tested yourself and what did you learn about yourself?

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I've been able to do my best.

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I can't believe that I can do my best and I can feel it.

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And, I was very young.

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I was in a very young age in the military.

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I also had friends who were very hard to do.

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I was looking at my face and I thought, I was still trying to do more.

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I was also doing a lot of work in the military.

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I was having a time for a while.

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glad you're back.

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We're glad we're back.

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Yeah, and off to Los Angeles you win.

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I mean I get it, it's music town, there's a lot of places to work

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but most people come to LA to go and find people to work with.

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You already kind of had figured out who you wanted to work with

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and how you wanted to get or at least start.

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Why did you choose to go to Los Angeles and have that time there?

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We all knew that LA is a truly, it's a true music town.

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But I was even so surprised after we got to LA, we met like tons of, like hundreds of songwriters and like players and producers.

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And like most of them actually had their home in LA and they just,

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you know, they advertised to us like the life, how, you know, a life in LA is so great.

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So we have never lived in LA for that long.

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And we also had a kind of consensus that the weather

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and the creative energy and the people in LA is really so great.

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And I think it's always the best choice.

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You have a real musical base camp or a session.

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You should go to LA, maybe.

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Yeah.

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So I think that's why.

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V, when did recording start?

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Like how did this album begin?

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We started right after we started.

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We started on the last one and then the last member, Suga-yong, started on the last one.

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Then we started on July.

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I think I went on the last 3-4 days later.

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We all started working in LA in the first place.

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We had a conversation with them.

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We'll speak in English.

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Do you speak in English?

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So during the session, the first problem, first thing first, the conversation was impossible because they can't speak English.

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We're still learning English.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like, my English.

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Yeah.

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I don't understand.

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Barely understand.

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Or like a baby animal, you know?

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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But now, while working on working on a couple of months, I was working on a lot of songs,

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I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking, I don't know what to do.

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I was thinking, I was thinking, I wanted to make sure that this song is available and that song is available.

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And I also felt that there are some more important songs that I used to work on.

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I felt that I couldn't enjoy it.

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It was a bit difficult.

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You know, you can't tell.

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When I listen to this album, there is so much energy on this record.

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And everyone has come back and delivered at the highest level.

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I want to congratulate you on this album.

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I think Start to Finish, it's a really, really great record.

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Have you listened to it?

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Yeah.

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Oh, wow!

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Really?

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, I have to, otherwise what are we talking about?

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Ah, I'm not saying that.

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Ah, right.

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Okay, I think you're one of the first people outside who have ever listened to the whole album.

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You work with some great people on this record.

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Diplo, Mike Will made it, Al Ginsho.

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Incredible!

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Kevin Parker?

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What?

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Teeso Touchdown?

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It's pretty wild.

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I mean, let's get into that, the fun part of that.

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Jungkook, tell us some stories or let's talk about the collaborators and what you loved about that.

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I think I did a lot of work with Gingcho.

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I think that's why Jungkook was a lot of touching.

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I was trying to get the track to get the track.

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I was like, I was like, I was thinking about what people think about it.

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I was so new and I was like, I can't do this track.

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I was like, I can't do this.

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And I was like, I can't do this.

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So I got a lot of pressure.

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So I was like, I'm going to put on my side.

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So, anyway, the feeling itself was completely different.

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It was very new.

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If it's a chance to get a chance to work together, I want to see the session again.

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You're all producers and writers, and you're all very creative.

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Was it important that you worked with other people on this record just to get a fresh perspective, to get new energy?

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I think it's really important.

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and people from the LA or Europe or Latin America.

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It was really important for us to, you know, we were trying to make a change

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and transition after the discharge from the military because many things are changed and it's getting faster and faster.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so we have to adjust our channel to another frequency, a new one.

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And we wanted to borrow their thoughts in their creative minds

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so i think it was really important to be back so they helped us a lot

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yeah i mean it's the album starts hard it starts hard

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and at the end you know there's some beautiful thoughtful really emotive vulnerable songs into the song

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but the first four

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or five six songs are like bam yeah like body to body who wants to tell us a story about

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that one your favorite song well I have a few.

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It's definitely up there.

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I love Aliens.

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Oh!

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My Will Made is snapped on that.

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I like Aliens a lot.

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I also love Normal.

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Normal or Ryan Tedder.

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Yeah.

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That's my favorite.

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I love Normal.

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I love Better Know About Us.

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I love Please.

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Oh!

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Oh!

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Oh!

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But the lyrics are all good.

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Oh, you remember all the titles?

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I like Merry-Go-Round.

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Oh, yeah.

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Kevin.

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That's a beautiful song.

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Heym Impala.

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Yeah, Kevin did anyone get to meet or work with kevin

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or did he do

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that remotely i really tried to work with him uh for my uh solo before

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but i couldn't make it because i had no time

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and like and there was a producer called sam

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and he was a close friend and a partner of kevin

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and one day he came to our session maybe like seven

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or eight times so he did a lot of stuff for the music our music

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and he just said like I love Tame Impala and stuff

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and I was like oh bro I'm Kevin Parker's my friend

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so he just gave a listen to me uh of his tracks like 10

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and the merry-go-round was like third or fourth

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so I was like damn I love this track this is

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so this is so Tame Impala

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and I just you know it would be an honor

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if we couldn't have a like a like a little joint with him

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and there was a songwriter uh his name is all day

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he's a he's a damn genius yeah yeah he did a lot of stuff for our uh album as well

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and i i just i just gave all day a mission like i think i love this beat

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and i i think your type of songwriting

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and your vocals kind of gonna have a beautiful collaboration with this kid

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and parker track and i told him like i want to tell about a merry-go-round i think

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that life is like this

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so then he truly felt like oh okay i think i i can i think i have some inspiration with

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that and he just made that melody like I don't know like like an hour

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so it just how it happened sometimes a miracle comes

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Jen what's your favorite song on the record do you have

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one my favorite song is into the Sun I love the last try yeah yeah yeah the last word on

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that song is is Dawn.

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Dawn.

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Dawn.

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Dawn.

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Yeah.

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We changed it to Dawn.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Dawn.

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It was like, you know, like going into the sun.

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I love that.

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I love it.

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And when I saw that in the lyric sheet, I saw that the last word was Dawn.

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It really felt like the end of the record in a really amazing way.

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Oh, thank you.

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Appreciate it.

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Were there songs on the record where lyrically you really felt like you had grown

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and were able to address some subjects that felt mature, like you'd live some life?

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I think the album itself is pretty...

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I think it's not that Swim.

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Normal?

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Normal is also true.

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Swim, normal.

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I've heard of my rap songs when I heard the rap song into the sun song...

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Um...

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I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure.

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I was trying to use it a little bit more, but I think it's not going to be too heavy.

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I used it a bit more.

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I think it's a bit more heavy.

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There are some amazing bars on this though.

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To me, in some respects, it felt like you got to go back and reignite

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that original fire that you had when you started from a rap point of view as well.

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You know, in recent years, obviously, as the band has become bigger, songs have gotten bigger, melodies bigger, stadiums bigger.

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To be able to come back, Suga, RM, J-Hope, and be able to get on the mic and just tear it up.

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But like I said, the first five songs, it's like, Aliens is a rap song.

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It is a rap song.

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Just...

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When I was working on this album, I wanted to show my personality a lot.

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I feel like BTS가 show you want to be a good idea.

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I think we need to learn this or something.

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We need to learn how to show up.

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We need to show up and show up and show up.

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In fact, we have to be able to draw and look at the point

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It's a bit of a simple way to express them, but I think that's why there were so many raps.

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And so, the album and songs that were all connected with each other were not born as well.

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What's amazing about J-Hope is that me and Suga, we started from...

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We started as a rapper, like, from Soul Street.

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But he used to be a dancer.

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Yeah, a street dancer.

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And my favorite rap verse from this whole album was like his verse from a song called 2.0.

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Wow.

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And it's so addictive.

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Yeah.

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It's like, Oh, damn.

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Damn, you're a rapper, bro.

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Yeah!

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It's great to hear.

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It's great to hear Suga just get on the mic and just tear it up.

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It just must have been really fun to realize that the things you originally loved, those passions you had when you were just kids on your own,

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now all fit in to BTS at the highest level.

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When I started the album, I could have done all of those 7 people.

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I was really impressed with the album.

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So it was a good album.

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When I work on this album, I also work on songpom as I just want to do it and just look at it

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and I work on it very easily.

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You don't sound like Arirang.

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Arirang.

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I want to ask you why.

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What that means to you, calling the album something that is so synonymous and special to the people in this country and to you.

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I think it was very natural to bring a keyword like Arirang because Arirang is like an old traditional Korean song.

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Like hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

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What does it say?

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The song is about...

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The lyrics are quite abstract, but it's about longings and nostalgia.

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For a hometown, it could be a lover, it could be a hometown, it could be a family, it could be a friend.

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Lots of our ancestors had been singing it.

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Yeah, it's very ethnic and it's very, very historical in Korean.

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So in the military, we also thought about missing the times in the past and the fans,

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the times that we were together, but we couldn't do anything inside.

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And we naturally thought about where we came from.

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And if we unite again, what do we have to do?

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If BTS should go on then what word could make us

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into a one like a group you know that's bigger than

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you yes we want to we want to like claim like the to the world

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that we like where we are rooted in

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and it was korea since we are all koreans

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and we are proud of like who we uh where we came from

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and I think the song has lyrics and the melodies are very very universal

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because everyone has some nostalgia and their sadness and their longings

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so I think a great art mostly brings like their personal thing into a universal thing yeah

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so if we bring Arirang into 2026 in our own ways we thought

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that we could bring it to the to the world you know one of the things I think

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that your fans fell in love with army fell in love with

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when you came out was that you were very open

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and honest about some of the internal and emotional struggles

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that young people felt around the world but in particular in Korea

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and the pressure that you felt right to live up to other people's expectations that's

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so true do you feel in the in the time

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that you've been making music and writing those songs and

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and speaking to young people that that is changing do you think

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that there There is a growing sense of confidence

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and freedom that's occurring with young people now more than when you started out.

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You seem to be more confident in the world.

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I don't know how to do social media, but I don't know much about it.

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I think it's a lot of the world that I've been able to change.

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I think I should have to see it more than I can see.

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But we still have to make music and progress.

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And we have to go to the future.

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I think that everyone has to be a bit of a time to practice their happiness and their satisfaction.

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that younger generation comes again, you know, it's just like a natural happening, like a hurricane.

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So we're in our all 30s.

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And since the change is getting faster,

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when 20 year old, those kind of friends like come to me and they ask for some advice,

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I sometimes like lose words and be really careful.

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It's a really big question.

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It's a valid question to ask those position of influence and inspiration

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but it's really hard to to try to influence people on

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their own terms you know what i mean on their on

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their life there's no right answer no everyone's journey is kind

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of different yeah you know even all seven of you we're

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on very unique paths to become one you know jen your

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journey to here is very different to rm's journey to here i mean I mean, you have such a unique journey on how you became a part of BTS.

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And it was almost a happy accident, right, in a strange way?

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I'm always grateful to all my members.

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I'm always thinking about how I'm happy to live a different life.

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I think I've always been grateful for my best.

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I'm always grateful for my members.

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It's true, bro.

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Thank you worldwide handsome.

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Thank you.

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Worldwide handsome everybody.

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Oh, wow, handsome.

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We're all handsome.

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You know what?

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You all look fit.

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You all look world tour ready.

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Who was the most out of shape when you all go back together to rehearse?

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Which one of you guys was not ready to get back into it?

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Me.

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I think me.

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Me and you?

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Oh, yeah.

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Me and you.

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The out of shape duo.

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How was it getting everybody back together though and starting to kind of do the choreography and figure out like, because it's a big show, you know?

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I think it's possible to do it.

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It's possible to do it.

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I think it's possible to do it.

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I think it's been a long time for fans to show the show.

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It's more exciting and more exciting.

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I'm really excited to do it.

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I hope it's good to see you.

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It's really new.

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I hope you're good.

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It's a 360-degree stage.

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I heard.

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Yeah, so you could see us everywhere.

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Yeah.

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Anywhere.

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Is that the first time you've done that?

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Once, but we did that was not like a concert.

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Yeah, right.

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It was just like a...

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Seven?

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Seven years?

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Yeah, seven years ago.

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It was called a fan meeting.

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It's like a simple event.

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You've really got to know your steps, right?

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Because I'd imagine you're all going to be doing choreography in different parts of the circular stage.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm a lot of distracted.

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It's a lot of trouble, but I'm trying to remember it.

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You have to do a lot of trouble.

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Yes, a lot.

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You know, it's remarkable how you're able to be

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so in sync with each other and perform at such a high level

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and yet it feels inclusive of the audience at the same time.

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Can someone kind of try to put into words what that balance is between having to think about what you're doing

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versus knowing that you can just be in the flow state and it's practiced and you've got it.

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I think I should think about it and go up and think about it.

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It's important to make a good performance.

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But in the end, I'm going to keep thinking about it.

552

It's wrong.

553

I think we're doing so much work, and we're all going to have the mind.

554

It's right.

555

We're going to practice so much.

556

I think it's just a bit different.

557

I think it's just a bit different.

558

I think it's a bit important to practice.

559

I think that it's just so beautiful and beautiful.

560

I don't think it's a professional part.

561

My Sam, my Sam.

562

We need a many practice time.

563

Responsibility.

564

Jungkook, which song are you most looking forward to performing?

565

New song are you most looking forward to?

566

Fire.

567

Fire.

568

Fire.

569

Yeah, it's a big one.

570

There's a lot of really big songs for this tour.

571

Yes.

572

Were you thinking about live when you were making this album?

573

Were you thinking about what would sound great in a stadium?

574

We need an anthem just to heat up all the stadiums, so of course we consider sometimes.

575

In the time away, right?

576

Because one of the things I love about all of you is that you have a lot of different interests.

577

I've met a lot of musicians who are hyper-focused on music, but I know that you're all curious people.

578

didn't you learn saxophone during military service i did from scratch from scratch

579

that was my job in military so right yeah i was in an army band

580

and yeah it was fun because you know not to keep you know be

581

so far away from where i was you know

582

which is music yeah yeah

583

and the army band there were all from like you know some of them from like berkeley's

584

and like new school and like like like berlin yeah

585

so i i learned a lot

586

because i don't i didn't know a thing about like a like an orchestra

587

or or or a or a real real band why saxophone though

588

that was the easiest one trumpet you can't imagine yeah yeah yeah you need at least like three

589

or four months just to make it really sound just to

590

get your breathing right yeah yeah yeah did you meet jungkook

591

at the end of his service with it did you bring it did you play it

592

when you came out i played it uh

593

when jinn jinn came out came out yeah that's their story

594

i just wanted to do it for uh just uh you know entertainment

595

because it's a great day yeah i had like one year to get out one more year to get out

596

so yeah it was like uh it was like a struggle to just to you know to admit it

597

and like congratulating his discharge at the same time what did you play i think i played um Dynamite.

598

Oh, saxophone?

599

Yeah.

600

Yeah.

601

Yeah.

602

Oh, you don't need a saxophone.

603

I'm a human saxophone.

604

Yeah, a huge saxophone.

605

When they came out, we played like...

606

I played it for him.

607

Yeah.

608

What did you think when you came out and he's playing saxophone?

609

I was on the plane, but why are they laughing at me?

610

I'm laughing.

611

The main character is being replaced.

612

What are you doing?

613

I'm surprised, but I'm so happy to give you a hug.

614

Celebration.

615

I've got a joke.

616

I've got to know.

617

I haven't been out yet, but you guys are like, I'm just kidding.

618

We're just kidding.

619

We're just kidding.

620

Did anyone learn any new skills or try to hand it at something new?

621

Or was it just our aim with the sax?

622

I'm trying to learn bass.

623

I'm doing traumatics all the time.

624

It's fun, but my finger hurts.

625

It's a bit of a funny sound, but I started drum lessons.

626

I started drums.

627

I started drums.

628

So he's always collecting teachers.

629

He's like a picker.

630

He started this, he started that, he started this and he started that.

631

A quick dropper.

632

Oh really?

633

Up and down, up and down?

634

Yeah, right.

635

But he's into drums right now.

636

I like TMI, but I like to read the lyrics.

637

Thank God you're reinforced.

638

I always imagine it.

639

It's such an exciting time for ARMY.

640

We're here to have this conversation, and I'm having the best day.

641

But it's really for the fans, right?

642

To hear from you again.

643

Your fan base is incredible.

644

They are amazing.

645

They are amazing.

646

ARMY go above and beyond.

647

They actually carry your legacy on even when you're not here.

648

And they do things to improve the world in your honor.

649

They have so much initiative to do things.

650

I'd just love to open up the floor for all of us to just talk about ARMY

651

and what that experience has been like for you, getting to know the world through the eyes of your fans.

652

The fun thing is that Taeyang is when he comes to the concert concert,

653

he's coming to the concert concert and he's crying out and crying out I think it's a big感受

654

We'll tour and tour the world and we'll see a lot of fans in the stadium Oh,

655

it's been a long time since I've been there for 5 years So,

656

I feel like I've been through the whole world I feel like it's a different feeling Arira Oh yeah,

657

hotel rooms are starting out Tickets are gonna go crazy Hotel rooms

658

Do you remember those days

659

when you were walking around Just handing out flyers just trying to convince people to come to your first show?

660

I don't remember my head, but I remember the image of the show.

661

It was a good memory.

662

It was so long to remember.

663

It was 12 years ago.

664

It's incredible to think that it started with just with that.

665

I mean, all of this now, this building, this business, this anticipation about this tour started with you guys just on the street, just asking people to come to see a show.

666

I know, like when I first got into the label, it was big hit,

667

like before HYBE for hype there was nine people in us in one floor it was 2010 like April

668

and I remember you know the the office was awful

669

and the nine people they all had to be you know

670

in charge of like three jobs like somebody had to do like mails

671

and like shippings and like design at the same time yeah And now it's like, I think it's like more than like 2,500 people right now.

672

So we still sometimes can't believe that, you know, we are here actually.

673

And we also just got out of the army and the military.

674

And like things change like so fast back and forth.

675

But we just naturally always think about like, you know, they just brought us here.

676

and we're for them and they're for us at the same time.

677

So, you know, it's really amazing to see a growth.

678

So they're getting older right now as well because we're getting older too.

679

When we had our debut, they were like an elementary school student and now they are like 25

680

and someone got married

681

and like it's amazing to you know getting old with the with the fans well this is an interesting time

682

because this is in my opinion a legacy play you know

683

that first phase was the building and the amassing of success

684

and fans and achievements you could have ended there

685

and it would have been a perfect journey up to

686

that point to come back you have an opportunity now probably the first of your generation to mature this experience

687

and start to build legacy it's still a big challenge

688

and i'm also really i'm really afraid of uh a new chapter

689

because we have to show different things you know to convince the fans

690

and the people out there we want to reach uh maybe different type of people as Well, since we love each other so much,

691

we're just here still and the fans are there.

692

So what is the reason that we have to stop this precious brand and a thing and a family?

693

Because, you know, for my rest of my life, I can't ever meet, you know, people like this because I'm like 33.

694

I was like, I was 15 when I first met them.

695

But now I'm like 32, maybe

696

but you know like it was it was my teenage

697

and they are really symbolizing my youth as well yeah yeah

698

so I I don't want to miss this chance

699

and I don't want to regret like you know years later

700

man we had to do it again we just shouldn't have

701

stopped this journey we didn't want to you know do

702

that do that thing like interstellar you know yeah was that a conversation like that was beautifully and reflection.

703

But was that actually a conversation amongst the seven of you?

704

I think that's what I'm showing.

705

Even if we don't say anything, we know what to do.

706

And the seven people moving forward were able to do that.

707

I think that's a good synergy to each other. Can this be forever?

708

It's not a world that's eternal, but we have to work with a long time.

709

It's not a world that's eternal.

710

It's not a world that's eternal.

711

It's not a world that's eternal.

712

It's a good thing.

713

If we're going to work with it, we can't do it.

714

I think that we can keep working on each other as much as possible It's good?

715

Good Damn!

716

Damn Damn!

717

I feel really grateful that I'm able to come to this beautiful city

718

and sit with you at this time in your life It's a really special time Ah, damn!

719

Thank you for coming, Dale When it was happening the first time,

720

the 1.0 It was fast and we were all trying to hold on tight and see how big you could get.

721

And you became the biggest.

722

There's no guarantees in life.

723

No. Like you said, there's no guarantees that you were going to come back and do this.

724

And, you know, music is better with you here.

725

Have the best time putting out this record, you know?

726

Enjoy every second of it.

727

Don!

728

Don!

729

Don!

730

Don!

731

Don!

732

Thank you, man.

733

Thank you.

734

That was really fun.

735

Thank you, V.

736

Thank you.

737

Thank you, brother.

738

Thank you, Aaron.

739

Jimin, thank you.

740

Thank you.

741

Jin.

742

Thank you, bro.

743

Thank you, bro.

744

Appreciate you.

745

See you next time.

746

My guy.

747

My guy.

748

Later.

749

Next time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 749 sentences and 6492 words to shadow. The speech runs for 47:53. The speaker talks at a steady 136 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
grateful adjective	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
lyrics noun	/ˈlɪɹ.ɪks/	The words to a song (or other vocal music).
handsome adjective	/ˈhæn.səm/	Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly
drum noun	/ˈdɹʌm/	A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
eternal adjective	/ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/	Lasting forever; unending.
melody noun	/ˈmɛl.ə.di/	A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
producer noun	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
label noun	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
legacy noun	/ˈlɛɡəsi/	Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
celebration noun	/ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/	The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.
merry adjective	/ˈmɛ.ɹi/	Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
universal adjective	/ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/	Of or pertaining to the universe.
naturally adverb	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	In a natural manner.
transition noun	/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/	The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
guarantee noun	/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/	Anything that assures a certain outcome.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come back verb		To return to a place.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
show up verb		To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go round verb		To physically swirl or rotate.
start out verb		To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 154 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, breathe /bɹiːð/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm], thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, congratulate /kənˈɡɹæd͡ʒ.ʊˌleɪt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like grateful, lyrics, handsome.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been waiting · have been doing · you've been making
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to work · used to be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	it's been · you've grown · I've known
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are changed · is snapped · were not born

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

Grammar in this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?