Comeback Season Begins

After waiting for what felt like years, we finally got an update on the new album on May 4th. The official name and versions for the album were released. The album would be titled Proof, would include 3 all new tracks and would look back on the history of BTS. There were two versions, both of which looked so pretty from the teaser image. On May 7th, we got the album schedule and by the next day, we received the first tracklist. This is when we all lost our minds because Born Singer was on CD 1. I couldn’t believe it and I wasn’t expecting it at all. Born Singer was finally going to be on an album as it deserved to be. Besides Born Singer, CD 1 features all of BTS’s title tracks from debut up until the new title track “Yet to Come.”

The next day, tracklist 2 was revealed. This one completely blew me away. Almost all of my favourite songs were on this CD including Euphoria and Dimple. New song RUN BTS was also on this CD and I had a hunch that it would be an absolute bop. On the 10th, we received the final tracklist which was the biggest shock of all. Prior to it’s release, I was reading through Twitter predictions and saw a bunch of people manifesting demo versions of already existing songs such as Jump, Epiphany and Boy in Luv. I also saw majority of people hoping we would finally get the studio version of Tony Montana with Jimin. I thought all of these guesses were beyond hopeful and I didn’t expect we would get any of these. However, tracklist 3 dropped and right in the very centre, the very first song I saw, was Tony Montana ft. Jimin. The rest of the tracks were exactly as the guesses stated. I couldn’t believe it. We were getting all this unreleased content and it was all exactly what everyone wanted. I was really blown away by ARMY and BTS’s mental connection and just how much they knew what we wanted to hear.

After a week of the “Proof of Inspiration” videos explaining the members song choices, the first concept photos were released on May 27th. I remember sitting in my science class, seeing the Proof concept for the first time and going absolutely mad. They all looked so badass in the concepts as they were really channeling their original hip-hop attitude. Jungkook especially suited this concept and I couldn’t get over how his piercings, tattoos and slicked back hairstyle were displayed in the images.

More images for the “Proof” concept were released the following day and on the 31st, we got our first taste of the “Door” concept, which was the complete opposite of the “Proof” concept. They all looked so princely and ethereal. I couldn’t get over Jimin’s long hair and how much Seokjin suited the concept. More images for this concept were released and finally the first question mark had come.

The guesses for the question marks were insane--most people obviously guessing a world tour was approaching. I couldn't wait until 11am. As I got into my science class and checked my phone, I saw the announcement of the live performance video featuring a special guest. That was it? I was somewhat disappointed, as most people were. However, the outfits for the live event were insane. They all looked amazing and everyone instantly started making their guesses on who the special guest would be.

And just like that, comeback week arrived. The music video teaser was released on June 7th followed by some more teasers of YouTube shorts the next day. From the teasers, the song had the chill sound I had expected it to have. I remember everyone was especially thrilled with Taehyung being in the desert in a suit and I saw so many memes on Twitter regarding his attire. The preparation time had ended and now, it was time...