RM, the chief of BTS, has launched his first official solo album, Indigo, and it is each bit as considerate, layered, and transferring as his followers have come to anticipate from him, whereas additionally being recent and stunning.
The monitor “Wild Flower,” that includes vocals from Korean rock star Youjeen, explores RM’s musings on dwelling like a firework (burning brightly however dying shortly) versus his craving to be like a wildflower (calm, resilient, grounded).
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The complete album, which RM describes because the “last archive of my 20s,” spans varied genres and consists of featured artists on eight of its 10 tracks, every providing their very own distinctive taste to offset RM’s personal artistry.
RM has been creating music for half of his life, and his progress and maturation as an artist is clear on Indigo. It’s the fruits of the whole lot he is executed earlier than (and he is executed rather a lot) — certainly, in a letter to followers on Weverse the evening earlier than the album’s launch, RM stated, “All the pieces of my work, including my previous releases, were for me to put out this one album.”
In order to grasp RM and the context inside which he is releasing Indigo, let’s have a look again at his journey to this point…
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With an early curiosity in poetry and literature, RM (actual identify Kim Nam-joon) was drawn to hip-hop and rap, and commenced writing his personal music in his early teenagers. He shared a few of his music on-line and have become more and more identified in underground hip-hop circles, primarily underneath the stage identify Runch Randa.
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His actions caught the eye of Big Hit Entertainment, and RM was provided a take care of the corporate in 2010, aged simply 16. CEO Bang Si-hyuk meant to type a hip-hop crew round RM, which went by way of a number of iterations earlier than being finalized because the hip-hop influenced idol group BTS.
During his three years as a trainee with Big Hit, RM — then generally known as Rap Monster — launched a number of unofficial songs.
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These embrace “Dreamin'” and tracks tailored from present songs with authentic lyrics, like “Rap Monster,” “Vote,” “Favorite Girl,” “Expensive Girl,” “A Typical Trainee’s Christmas” (with bandmates Jin, Suga, Jimin, V, and Jungkook), “School of Tears” (with Jin and Suga), “Adult Child” (with Jin and Suga once more), and “Like a Star” (with Jungkook).
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RM can also be a prolific collaborator, bringing his personal fierce type and poetic lyricism to his work with different rappers and artists.
RM has additionally labored on a number of songs with BTS’s vocalists, together with the unofficial songs “I Know” with Jungkook and “4 O’Clock” with V, in addition to the BTS music “Stay” off the group’s pandemic-era album BE.
Of course, the easiest way to get to know RM and his music is thru his prolonged solo works — beginning with the 2015 mixtape RM.
RM adopted RM with one other mixtape — which he calls a playlist — referred to as Mono., an album that he describes as a diary of his early to mid 20s.
Which brings us again to Indigo — and its monitor “Wild Flower” — RM’s first official album as a solo artist and the file of his life from the discharge of Mono. to now.
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