Generation BTS: All The Albums
Three generations of ARMY come together to review all the albums by BTS. Natasha, Kristine, and Leanne share their opinions and love for the group's music, discussing tracks, lyrics, performances, and background for each album. They also share their favorite songs, lyrics, vocals, raps, dance breaks, live performances, and looks, and face the agonizing task of choosing a song to skip. New episodes are released every two weeks.
Episodes
RM by Rap Monster - Part One (Voice, Do You, Awakening, Monster)
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
A Look Back on 2023: End of Year Awards and the BTS Song Draft (2nd edition)
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
Reaction Special: Golden
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 o
Dark & Wild - Part Three (24/7=Heaven, Look Here, 2nd Grade, Outro: Do You Think It Makes Sense and AWARDS!)
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 starti
Dark & Wild - Part Two (Hip Hop Phile, Let Me Know, Rain, BTS Cypher Pt.3: Killer, Interlude: What Are You Doing Now, Could You Turn Off Your Cell Phone, Embarrassed)
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
Dark & Wild - Part One (Intro: What am I to You, Danger, War of Hormone) PLUS our thoughts on Seven
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
A Special Message - Please come to our BTS Quiz in London (and get 10% off)!
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 Pu
Reaction Special: Layover by V
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
10th Anniversary Special: The Festa Songs! Part Three (Still With You, Bicycle, My You, Take Two and Awards!)
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
10th Anniversary Special: The Festa Songs! Part Two (4 O'Clock, Ddaeng, Tonight)
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
10th Anniversary Special: The Festa Songs! Part One (So 4 More, We Are Bulletproof pt. 1, I Know)
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 dis
Reaction Special: D-Day by Agust D - Part Two (Our trip to the D-Day Tour in New York and Awards!)
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
Reaction Special: D-Day by Agust D - Part One (The release schedule and first reactions to the album)
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 the masterpiece that is 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 t
You Never Walk Alone - Part Three (Outro: Wings, A Supplementary Story and AWARDS!)
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
You Never Walk Alone - Part Two (Spring Day, Not Today)
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
You Never Walk Alone - Part One: The Original Soundtracks (bonus episode)
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 Soun
Reaction Special: Face by Jimin
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, t
Skool Luv Affair - Part Three (Spine Breaker, Jump, Outro: Propose and AWARDS)
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 i
Skool Luv Affair - Part Two (Skit: Soulmate, Where You From, Just One Day, Tomorrow, BTS Cypher Pt.2: Triptych)
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' be
Skool Luv Affair - Part One (Miss Right, Intro: Skool Luv Affair, Boy in Luv)
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, ba
The Love Yourself: Tear Series - Part Three (Airplane pt.2, Anpanman, So What, Outro: Tear)
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 epis
The Love Yourself: Tear Series - Part Two (134340, Paradise, Love Maze, Magic Shop)
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 al
The Love Yourself: Tear Series - Part One (Singularity, Fake Love, The Truth Untold)
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 re
Christmas Special: End of Year Awards and the BTS Song Draft
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 (ful
Reaction Special: Indigo by RM
Oh what a masterpiece you've given to the world Kim Namjoon, and what a privilege it was to talk about! In this episode we offer our initial reactions to Indigo, the last archive of RM's 20s, and his first official solo album. As with Jack in the Box we take some time to review and discuss the content we got in the release schedule, and give some very early takes and thoughts on the album, the con
Wings - Rest of Album
It's time to finish off our exploration of the masterpiece that is the Wings album! In this episode we look at the intro, the unit songs and the OT7 bangers that this album has to offer, and as usual give our takes on what we think it all means. As listeners will undoubtedly expect we spend quite a bit of time interpreting Blood, Sweat and Tears, and discuss everything from Grecian gods, biblical
Special: Our Trip to Yet to Come in Busan
We miraculously managed to get tickets to the BTS Yet to Come in Busan concert, and we're here to tell you all about it! Please join us as we reminisce about our wonderful trip out to South Korea, including our merch-getting adventures, our nights out, our street-food stories and our interactions with locals and fellow Armies along the way. We'll also tell you about everything BTS-related we got u
Wings - The Solos
We finally have the absolute pleasure of talking about the Wings album, and we're starting with the seven solos from our seven wonders! Join us in exploring what was most of the boys' first foray into doing songs on their own, and the songs' connections to their personal stories, the BTS Universe and to a book from 1919. Kristine tries to explain symbolism of the short films, Leanne tries to get o
The Most Beautiful Moment In Life Pt. 1
A brand new era! We take you through everything The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, aka HYYH part 1 on this episode, which covers a time marked both by the beauty of youthful optimism and by the existential angst of having to choose the right path in life. In going through these songs we discuss desperate young love and love ending, hard work and the challenges facing younger generations, having fu
Reaction Special: Jack In The Box by j-hope
We are back with our initial reactions and thoughts on Jack In the Box! It's a bit of a different one this time around in that we aren't actually going to go song by song over the lyrics, but instead we just take some time to review and discuss the content we got in the release schedule and since (of course including some fangirling over Hobi's many marvellous jumpsuit looks). We then give our fir
O!RUL8,2?
We’re going back to the School era! Join us as we talk through everything O!RUL8,2?, the second ever mini album by BTS. In this one we discuss academic pressure, love as coffee, dragon memes, Korean dialects, watermelon babies and what the boys would do if they ruled the world (thankfully they didn't at this point in time at least..). There’s obviously also still time for some calling out the hate
Map of the Soul: Persona
Welcome to episode 4 (aka the third official one) where we discuss all things Map of the Soul: Persona! In this one we talk about everything from Namjoon's amazing lyricism, to Jungian concepts of the psyche, through to JK's amazing hair in this era and the life-changing performances of Dionysus. We also manage to find meanings of romantic love, longing for ARMY, and connections to the BTS Univers
2 Cool 4 Skool (and Wake Up)
Our second *regularly scheduled* episode! We look back on the great debut, the very first BTS album ever to exist, appropriately titled 2 Cool 4 Skool. Because they were. We discuss the origins of the band and the concept of a hip hop idol group, and why the concept was quite different from what had come before. There's a few bits about haters, a few bits about the pressures of school, adults and
Reaction Special: Proof
Our second episode, which turned out slightly differently than we had planned... In this episode we review the three new songs from Proof, BTS's new anthology album. As a disclaimer, we recorded this episode on the morning of Friday the 10th of June UK time, about four hours after the album and the Yet To Come music video were released, when we did not know as much about what might be coming up as
Love Yourself: Her
Our very first episode! We cast our minds back to 2017 to talk about the masterpiece full of bangers that is Love Yourself: Her. We discuss everything from Chinese idioms, atomic theory, German folktales, haters, capitalism and of course everything about showing yourself some love. We may also get to explore the hidden depths of the ocean towards the end of the episode… Which song will be ou
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