No one will ever know the violence it took to become this gentle - a Min Yoongi appreciation post.
I just finished listening (again) to D-Day, and now I have emotions I need to express about Min Yoongi - please bear with me and my own feelings as I try and navigate this post.
So, I belong to the sect of ARMY that joined in during the 'Yoongi is a cold bad boy, and BTS is scared of him' phase of 2021. One of the first things I knew was that he was cold and unapproachable, and BTS were somewhat physically more awkward with him than they were with each other. I believed it - despite feeling bad, I did. It was easy, and a fandom joke - I thought it was OK to go along with it.
I'm so glad that baby ARMY now get to know Yoongi as the sincere, shy and warm hearted person that he is - and not any cliches and boxes that people put him in. But I'm not here to discuss overdone fandom jokes - I want to talk about AGUST D, SUGA and Min Yoongi.
More specifically, I want to talk about the blurred lines between the personas and the real person.
When I initially found out about the music Yoongi releases under the name AGUST D, I was intrigued, to say the least. I believed that AGUST D was the real person, the raw and real form of Yoongi - that he presented a glossier, more perfect version of him for the rest of the world. And in doing so, I did a great injustice to Yoongi as an artist, and a person.
AGUST D is raw, and fierce and angry - but not the real version I believed he was. He spits out insults to the world; promises to rise from the ashes, but as a dragon who will once again avenge himself against the world. He is confident in his skills, and is proud of the efforts he puts into becoming the best.
However, D-Day provides a completely different, more vulnerable side to the AGUST D we know.
There's a tweet somewhere on the internet that praises BTS for the fact that their music has grown along with them - they started out as normal teenagers who were trapped in and forced to conform to the world, to insecure young adults who wanted to rebel against the steel cages they were trapped in, to adults who have finally found the most important things in life; happiness and the love they realized needed to start from themselves. And now we witness them at the cusp of their adulthood, truly enjoying their lives and existence.
In D-Day, instead of choosing to spite and snarl at the world, AGUST D chooses to open up. Gone is the angry young man who found a desperate need to prove himself, to show that he was the best amongst hundreds of other people - we now have an AGUST D who recognizes the innate potential he has. Instead of looking at artful, confident declarations by AGUST D, we now have a man who chooses to talk about the person he is, and the person he wants to be.
He talks about the events that have made him the way he is now; his mother's surgery and his father's cancer and his own accident which affected his shoulder badly. This is very Min Yoongi of him - an innate vulnerability that he chooses to show, because he believes that he will be accepted. He talks of wanting to create a better world for his juniors, to be the rock that he and BTS never had.
So, thank you, Min Yoongi. For trusting me enough to tell me your stories.
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