BTS ‘s Map of the Soul: 7 album, in my opinion, should have made more agenda but due to the pandemic and the unavoidable rise of “Dynamite“, its reign had been cut shorter than it truly deserved. However, the prestigious, seasoned magazine and one of the authorities of music industry, Rolling Stone, did not ignore this beautiful and important album. The capricious GRAMMY referees, last week, nominated Dynamite, but ignored Map of the Soul: 7 album in terms of four potential categories of GRAMMYs. It was a bit hearth-breaking. Today’s news, on the other hand, is much nicer.
Map of the Soul: 7 stands at the 16th rank in Rolling Stone’s Top 50 End of Year 2020 list. Rolling Stone has introduced Map of the Soul 7 with the following note:
“Seven years on top of the world, and yet BTS still make it all sound like they’ve only just begun to shine. The South Korean pop kings didn’t water down their style (or language) to conquer America — they just won the audience on their own terms. On Map of the Soul: 7, their most complex and personal album yet, they keep pursuing their loftiest creative ambitions. Map lives up to its title with heartfelt individual confessions like Suga’s rap-star space fantasy “Interlude: Shadow.” But the high point is “Moon,” Jin’s wonderstruck love song to the audience, where he pledges his devotion over jangling guitars”. —R.S.
You can view the full list of Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums from the link below:
Here is Suga’s Interlude: Shadow:
Here is Jin’s Moon:
