Breaking out by yourself from some of the profitable pop teams on the planet should absolutely include untold trepidation and nervousness about whether or not your fanbase will comply with you down a brand new path. However for BTS‘ Jimin, releasing his solo single “Set Me Free Pt. 2” quantities to a type of liberation (or, as he places it, a “new start line”), in addition to an opportunity to ascertain an identification aside from the worldwide famous person septet.
“When this music was made, I felt actually hooked up to it,” he informed Consequence of Sound about his first solo challenge. “I went to the U.S. myself for the choir recording, and listening to it proper subsequent to them was actually superb. I keep in mind it as a extremely good reminiscence.”
The music — which options majestic choir backing, a booming hip-hop beat and pressing Auto-Tuned vocals — is slated to seem on Jimin’s upcoming solo album, FACE, which is due out on March 24. And although it’s tagged as a sequel, any ARMY member can let you know that there’s, in reality, no unique “Set Me Free” in Jimin’s discography. The singer defined to CoS that the title is a wink a music on bandmate Suga’s 2020 D-2 mixtape from alter ego Agust D.
“There isn’t a connection, and we weren’t making an attempt to divide half one or half two,” he mentioned. “However because it seems my music talks about freedom and transferring ahead, and SUGA’s music talks about a few of the tales that come earlier than, I assumed it could be good to come back after that.”
Requested to interrupt down the message of the observe — which he described as having a light-weight/darkish, black/white power — Jimin mentioned he targeted on the ideas of “willpower, ardour, and overcoming” and that the title is about him, nicely, setting himself free. “So I assumed it was essential that I be the one to set myself free — not another person,” he mentioned. “In the long run, I’m the one who has to set myself free.”
As the most recent member of the group to interrupt out in the course of the band’s yearslong pause to permit all seven to concentrate on their solo careers (in addition to attend necessary South Korean military service), Jimin mentioned all his bandmates had been nervous earlier than dropping their albums and singles, however fortunately, “their outcomes had been completely nice.”
He’s nervous too, however principally he simply needs to make the opposite guys proud. “I don’t wish to be a humiliation to my members,” he mentioned. “I wish to be a proud member of BTS.” He doesn’t seem to have a lot to fret about, as “Set Me Free Pt. 2” was introduced with a flashy, choreography-heavy video directed by Oui Kim.
As for what followers can anticipate from FACE, Jimin promised that the album talks about how he can look again on his previous and, “how I overcame… If individuals perceive the feelings I’m making an attempt to specific, I’ll think about the album successful.”
Watch “Set Me Free Pt. 2” under.
