BTS releases three-CD anthology album 'Proof'

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Published: 10 Jun. 2022, 17:33

BTS releases three-CD anthology album 'Proof'

Scenes from the music video for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” which dropped Friday [BIG HIT MUSIC]

BTS is back with anthology album “Proof.”

The boy band dropped the music video for the lead track, “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” on Friday.

“Proof,” which went on sale on Friday, consists of three CDs, the first one filled with BTS’s greatest hits, including “I Need U” (2015), “Fire” (2016), “Spring Day” (2017) and “Dynamite” (2020).

The second CD focuses on songs that were sung solo or in sub-units, like “Stay” (2020), which features Jungkook, Jin and RM, “Outro: Ego” (2020), featuring J-Hope and “Friends” (2020), featuring Jimin and V.

The third CD is mainly comprised of demo versions of past songs like “Boy in Luv” (2014) and “DNA” (2017) and is only included on the physical copy of the album.

The album also has three new songs — “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” “Run BTS” and “For Youth” — as well as a remastered version of a song that was released only on YouTube and Spotify in 2013, “Born Singer.”

Scenes from the music video for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” which dropped Friday [BIG HIT MUSIC]

In “Yet To Come,” the band anticipates the future. “Was it honestly the best? Cause I just wanna see the next,” Jungkook sings in the first line, later finishing off the song with “You and I best moment is yet to come.”

“Yet To Come” looks back on the band’s journey from its debut to the present and promises fans that “the future will be even brighter.”

RM, Suga and J-Hope, who frequently take the helm of BTS’s songs, produced “Yet To Come” by sampling a “chipmunk soul” style, which was popular in the early 2000s.

Because the song “connects” the band’s past, present and future, the music video for “Yet To Come” features props from previous music videos, like the carousel that was shown in the music video for “Spring Day.”

BTS [BIG HIT MUSIC]

“Run BTS,” which is the same name as the band’s variety show available to view on fan community platform Weverse and Naver’s V Live, is a song expressing BTS’s everlasting passion to strive forward as musicians.

“For Youth,” which samples BTS’s song “Epilogue: Young Forever” (2016), is dedicated to ARMY, or BTS fans, according to Big Hit Music. The intro of the song includes actual fan chants from BTS concerts.

The lyrics see BTS thanking fans for their devotion and support over the years.

“I’ll be with you, for the rest of my life, for the rest of my life,” V sings in the final verse.

Meanwhile, BTS will perform “Yet To Come” for the first time on its official YouTube channel “Bangtan TV” on June 13.

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]