BTS’ New Album ‘Arirang’ Is Finally Here

BTS ‘ highly anticipated fifth studio album, Arirang , is finally here. For the past five-and-a-half years, the group’s members have either worked on solo releases and/or served his mandatory military service in South Korea. But now they’re coming back in a big way. To make the album, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook all moved to Los Angeles where they lived together in a house for two months.

It was the first time all seven of them had lived in the same place since 2019. Songwriters and producers for the album included Pdogg, Diplo, Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, Flume, JPEGMAFIA, Mike WiLL Made-It, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, El Guincho, and Teezo Touchdown, among others. Ultimately, they created Arirang , named after a Korean folk song . “During my time in the military, I couldn’t work on music even when I wanted to,” Jung Kook recently told Rolling Stone UK .

“That built up a sense of longing. It made me want to do better and deliver something great.” “In order to make music as a...