Hello Army! We are back with the first part of the album review that let's be honest, nobody asked for, but we hope you'll still listen! If you're a baby Army and have never heard of RM by Rap Monster before because it's not most mainstream streaming platforms, you can listen to it on Soundcloud or on Youtube before you listen to our opinions on it. A worthwhile general warning for this episode is that seeing as this is from a very early era of RM, when he was a super tough hardcore rapper...

It's February (AND Lunar New Year) so what better time to look back on the year that has just gone by! In this episode (which, we're levelling with you guys, was meant to be the Christmas special) we talk through the stats of all the awards sections that took place throughout the episodes we released across 2023, as well as since the podcast started. Who do you think won MVP the most times overall (hint, it's not one of our biases)? We then move on to this year's BTS song draft, which is...

Happy New Year Army! Welcome to our reaction special for the Golden album by everyone's favourite Golden Maknae Jeon Jungkook. As is the standard procedure by now for these episodes we take some time to look back on promotional content we received in the lead-up to the album's release, including some very appealing concert photos, all of the flawless performances, and a bunch of interviews where our silly-but-charming boy gets to be his silly-but-charming self. We then talk through our...

Merry Christmas Army and we wish you all a very Happy New Year! We've finally finished Dark & Wild! A project six(ish) months in the making has finally come to an end, just in time for the last days of 2023. Praise the merciful Namjesus during this most wonderful time of the year! In this episode we discuss the last four songs on the album, which includes some hot takes on the merits of starting a song with Shoobidoobababa, RM's baseless confidence as exemplified by his 'teenie weenie...

Army! The wait is over, Dark & Wild part two is finally ready for you to listen and enjoy. We do apologise for the delay, if you have been following our Instagram you will know that we hosted our very first live event the other week and that took up a lot of time that we would have otherwise spent editing. If you came to the event, thank you very much and we hope you had an excellent time! We will be looking to hopefully do more events in 2024, so please follow our socials for all the...

Friends, listeners, Army, the moment has finally arrived. Please behold the first instalment of our review of Dark & Wild! As you will understand from the intro we actually recorded this ages ago, but unfortunately solo albums and editing issues got in the way of its release, BUT that does mean we get to tell you our opinions on Jungkook's Seven just in time for the release of Golden, so that feels timely. We will of course also be trying to fit in a Golden reaction episode in the next...

Hi Army! We're very excited to officially announce that we will be running our very first event, which will be a BTS Pub Quiz in London! We hope to see some listeners there, so with that in mind we thought we would offer you all a very special discount code for tickets. The code is DDAENG (upper or lower case should work) and you can find the tickets on Eventbrite (click this link or search BTS Pub Quiz). If you have any questions or you want to get in touch for any other reason, you can do...

Hi Army friends! We're sorry this episode is so late, we had some not small editing issues :( Anyway, please behold our reaction thoughts to everyone's favourite most beautiful boy in the world, BTS V's first album Layover. In traditional style for this 5th solo album produced by our boys, we look back on the promotional content we recieved in the lead-up to the album's release, and fawn over the many many beautiful concept photos. We talk all things Yeontan, beautiful but mysterious MVs and...

We made it before the end of the summer guys! Welcome to the Festa special part three :) In this one, we reminisce over years gone by and reflect on what must have been quite a strange time for our seven boys, including a lot of uncertainty and longing to meet Army again and riding bicycles whilst being happy and sad, and feeling free but existential. We also revisit the songs that have gotten us through the last couple of years of reduced access to OT7 content, and we express our gratitude...

Hello Army! Sorry for the delay in getting this out first of all, we were back living it up in Korea (and only occasionally crying over not getting tickets for Yoongi's Final concerts). If you want to see what we got up to, please check out our Instagram (details below). Natasha is still there so will keep updating regularly. Anyway, in this episode we discuss the next set of Festa songs, released between 2017 and 2019, and it is a real rollercoaster of emotions relating to friendships,...

Surpriseeee! And we hope you had a very happy Festa season. We did as well because we got to review some beautiful music from our seven wonders! We wanted to do a 10th anniversary special and thought it would be nice to mark the occasion by going through the anniversary songs, but we wanted to include Take Two so it's out a little bit after actual Festa. We hope you still enjoy! In this one we discuss the first three efforts, including a sweary introduction, a slightly strange-but-catchy...

Annyeong Army! We are back to talk about the absolute masterpiece that is D-Day AND our experience on the incredible D-Day tour. Now that most people have presumably already seen it (if you are planning on catching the encore performances in Seoul in August and don't want to be spoilered, please skip the first 30 minutes of this episode) we thought it would be safe to let you know our thoughts, so in this episode we talk through everything including the organisation, event setup, stage...

Hello Army! Happy Festa Month :) We hope everyone has been celebrating well for the 10th anniversary, and if anyone managed to go out to Seoul we are very jealous... We are back again with our first thoughts on D-Day. It's a bit later than normal because we were lucky enough to go out to New York to see the tour, and then we didn't want to spoiler it, so part two where we talk about the tour will be out later. In this one however we talk about all the content we got around the album release,...

Hello Army! Sorry about the delay on this one, we have been globe trotting and had some audio issues, but welcome back to the final part of You Never Walk Alone! In this one we discuss heavenly Hopekook harmonies, beautiful but underrated songs, sneaky Demian references and, randomly, whether the boys are wearing cologne (you'll have to listen to get the context for that one)... Very excitingly we also give out our awards for the OSTs, the YNWA new songs and the whole album in general...

Hey Army! Sorry this is a little late but we were away in New York seeing Yoongi's tour, which was amazing, but we have been dealing with serious post-concert blues ever since :( But now we are back with part two of our You Never Walk Alone series, also known as the first part where we discuss the actual album, which is very exciting! In this one we obviously go very long on Spring Day, the lyrics, the MV and the theories, and we also make time to fawn over our fluffy boys in all of their...

Surprise!!! Welcome back to Generation BTS! As you will know if you listened to our previous full album review, we are due to talk about the repackaged version of Wings, You Never Walk Alone, this time, so apologies if this first part might seem a bit random, Seeing as that album only has three previously unreleased songs however, we decided to add on a little bonus discussion on the Original Soundtracks the boys (read the vocal line except Jungkook) have released for various K-Dramas. Please...

Face is here and we're here to talk about it! In this one we give you our initial takes on everything that happened in the lead-up to Jimin's official solo debut, including the name (spoiler alert: our feelings are mixed), the impressively deep concept, the hard and soft photos, the autotune, the naked look, the MVs and the many, many references. We also give our very initial takes on the album, the concept favourite looks, favourite songs and even an initial skip, which was particularly...

Hi guyssss, sorry it's a week late but welcome to the FINAL episode of the final school era album review (Leanne’s very excited)! There’s a bit less romance in this one, but instead we discuss padded jacket trends, teens v young adults, dirty clothes, everyday heroics, trampolines, and letting your worries go, before the romance makes a swift return towards the end.  This is also the episode in which we give out our very exciting awards. There are a few rogue picks in this one but also a few...

Welcome to the lovey-dovey loveliness of Skool Luv Affair episode 2! Except in this one we also talk about haters and existential fears (it is a BTS album after all). In the first part of the episode we discuss Bangtan's chats with Bang PD, their ideal types and a girl as smooth as salad. We take a sizeable middle chunk to swoon over the most beautifully happy song with sad lyrics and the boys' beautiful plans for a single day of romance, before suffering through Leanne's unfortunate take on...

Hi guysssss, so it happened again... Welcome to Skool Luv Affair - Part One! We think we'll pivot to this format for the longer/full length albums going forward, but hopefully that's a good thing because it means more episodes (yay!). In this episode we will discuss the lovey-dovey dream of an album that is Skool Luv Affair, the last instalment of the Skool trilogy. There are parties on bodies, baby shoes, confessions, first dates, hopeful love and Bangtan Style (it's Hip Hop, FYI). We also...

It’s time to finish what we started - welcome to the third and final instalment of our Love Yourself: Tear review! Hopefully you might have listened in order but just in case, we intended to publish this episode as a full album review like we normally do. We did however have even more to say about this album than normal, so whilst trying to edit several hours of recording into a normal length episode however we had the idea of publishing this album review in three parts. To finish off the...

Welcome to Part Two of the Love Yourself: Tear trilogy! If you listened to part one you’ll know this already but just in case, we intended to publish this episode as a full album review like we normally do. We did however have even more to say about this album than normal, so whilst trying to edit several hours of recording into a normal length episode however we had the idea of publishing this album review in three parts, so if you feel like you're in the middle of an episode in this one...

Welcome to the beautiful dark depths of Love Yourself: Tear! If you've pressed play already you will know this, but we intended to publish this episode as a full album review like we normally do. Whilst trying to edit several hours of recording into a normal length episode however (long-term listeners will know our episodes are already on the long side), we had the idea of publishing this album review in three parts, so please behold, and get your ears around, the first episode of what we...

Happy Christmas Army! We're back just in time with a very special end-of-year episode. In this one Kristine tallied up all our awards to create a quiz of the best lyricist, vocalist, rapper, dresser and the MVP of 2022 - please let us know if you did a better job guessing than Leanne and Natasha! We then move on to our very exciting BTS song draft, and we imagine the BTS concert of our dreams (full disclosure - this gets VERY silly). We round the episode off with the 2022 best song ranking...