Since their debut album in 2013, BTS, the Bangtan Boyscouts, or “bulletproof boys,” have had one news per day. The seven singer-dancers, Suga, RM, V, J-Hope, Jin, Jungkook, and Jimin never stop, they’re always doing something somewhere, songs, videos, interviews, commercials, charity work . BTS never takes time off. Except since Monday morning. This December 6, the group took a vacation.
The event is so exceptional that it was the subject of a press release from the record label, an announcement that generated a lot of reactions on social networks, including Twitter and Instagram where BTS is followed by dozens of million fans. Fans who say they are delighted to see their idols rest, and who promise not to harass them if they meet them in the street, to respect the truce.
[공지] 방탄 소년단 공식 장기 휴가 공지 (+ ENG) pic.twitter.com/TLmZTKyISE
– BIGHIT MUSIC (@BIGHIT_MUSIC) December 6, 2021
The group’s only week of hiatus dates back to 2019. Throughout the Covid epidemic, when the world was at a standstill, BTS produced. The group released several record-breaking singles: the song Dynamite was the one for the most viewed clip in 24 hours on YouTube, with 101 million views (today the video has 1.3 billion), record for the largest number of simultaneous viewers, record downloads, etc. so many records broken by their last hit, Butter.
BTS was created precisely for that, to chain performances, without respite. But now, after winning more than 400 awards in South Korea, Japan, England and the United States, the boys asked for a break.
This period of rest should give the members of BTS a chance to re-inspire themselves and regain their creative energy.
BigHit Music record company press releaseon Twitter
For the first time since 2013, they will therefore be spending the end of the year holidays with their families, and in power, their record company tells us, “focus on themselves, enjoy an ordinary life, in a free way. “The press release also specifies that the goal is for them to come back more inspired, more creative. More productive. Obviously, their rest must be profitable, but in the end, it still allows the group to use its notoriety to pass a message, especially to young South Koreans who are steeped in the culture of hyper-productivity: a message on the importance of stopping. Even when you are BTS. Especially when you are BTS, and that we’ve always sung about the importance of taking care of yourself.