Produced by Pdogg
Written by Pdogg, RM, August Rigo, Vince Nantes, Clyde Kelly
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Spotify storyline: The song lends voice to the band’s darkest fears — the music they do will one day cease to touch or move them. Yet, every time they come face to face with this “Black Swan” within themselves, they hear voices calling out from deep within their hearts and are stricken with the realization that music. Is all they have. This track is a confession of an artist who has truly learned what music means to himself.
Translation of the press release (technically speaking, translation of the description of the single on Korean streaming sites):
In ‘Black Swan,’ BTS steps into the deep, inner side of the self and faces the shadow it has been hiding as an artist. It is the confession of BTS as an artist, who grew up to a global superstar.
“A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” – Martha Graham. Black Swan is created with dancer Martha Graham’s quote as a motif. Like a dancer faces their first death when they stop dancing, the track contains the fear of the moment where BTS is no longer able to perform on the stage as an artist. Through Black Swan, the members of BTS express that, as they continue to do music more and more, they will face their first death as well if the music fails to touch their hearts or to make them excited.
But every time such a moment happens, ‘I’ hear another voice of mine from deep inside, ‘I’ face the Black Swan in me, and, ironically, ‘I’ come to a realization that music is the only thing ‘I’ have. Through the mature, self-reflecting lyrics, BTS conveys its confession as an artist who learned what music means to self.
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Song: Black Swan
Artist: BTS
Label: Bighit Labels