Let’s talk: FESTA 2022 Dinner + pondering OT7 + vmin/namjin implications
It’s been a few days and yet I still find myself sitting here staring at an empty page wondering what to write and where to even start. This is usually much easier, but I guess normally the topic is easier, too, something fun or silly or just me ranting about goofy asks. Not today though.
Just a day or two before the Festa Dinner video was posted my friend and I were talking about how much of a bloodbath getting tickets for tour will be, hours before the video was posted I saw twts with theories about tour dates surely showing up at the end of the video or being posted an hour or two after. And yet none of us could’ve foreseen the actual contents of the dinner video, even less after Tae’s claim that it’s just a normal business dinner, nothing special.
And even as I typed that no one could’ve seen it coming, I know that isn’t entirely true. But hindsight is funny like that, afterward things are so much clearer, aren’t they, the signs far more obvious, the details so clear you start to wonder how you didn’t realize it sooner, put it all together. For those who might’ve not seen the video, might’ve missed everything that happened since, the basic fact is that Chapter 2 is the era of Bangtan exploring their own careers and interests, of trying to find their way back to their passion, live and experience things, mature and feel human again, before, eventually, they’ll return stronger and even better than they already are.
Despite all the headlines and clickbait articles, when Bangtan say they will come back, I believe them. I know they will. It may take a few years, but someday they’ll return to music as seven. Until then we’ll have seven careers to follow, proper, full fledged albums from seven brilliant and amazingly talented artists and so many more things they might do during this chapter of their lives.
And we’ll get RUN BTS back, sporadically.
That being said, usually with posts like these I would watch the video a few times, take some notes, structure this post a little more properly, but I’ll be completely honest and admit that I just can’t watch that again, not yet. Maybe you’ll think I’m dramatic, and maybe I am, but after crying on and off all day after that video dropped and I’d watched it with Admin 2, I can’t do that to myself. I’m sure you’ll be able to understand, but basically this post will touch on some of what was said in the video, as well as what we can expect for this chapter and some musings about the vmin and namjin implications. Sound good? If so, let’s continue below the cut: