[Entertainment] Tears and ghosts

After the new year, the production of the new album will be put on the agenda.Just like what was agreed last year when we were arguing about the title of the album, "7" will be released first on the seventh anniversary, and "8" will be released on the eighth anniversary.

The eighth anniversary of the eight people has a special meaning for them, and this comeback planned for the first half of this year should be the last comeback of Kim Seok Jin and Min Yoon Qi before enlisting in the army.

Last year, the National Assembly passed a bill that allows artists with special contributions to postpone their military enlistment until they are 30 years old. It sounds like it was designed for bulletproof purposes, but Kim Seok-jin does not really plan to wait until he is 30 years old to serve.

Military service is something that cannot be escaped. They have to go early and late. Now that their status and achievements are very stable, it is almost impossible for another group to compete with them, so he is actually not worried about military service. , The so-called "natural enemy of the men's team" has nothing to fear from them.Since it doesn't matter when you go, Jin Shuozhen would rather go to the army when his physical strength and physical condition are better.

Min Yunqi's birthday was only three months away from his, and they had the same idea. Instead of waiting until the last time they had to go, it would be better to take the initiative to go early, and they could also get some preferential policies for serving voluntarily.

But the difference is that Kim Seok-jin will most likely go to active duty in the army, while Min Yoon-ki can basically only serve as a public service soldier because of a shoulder injury.

At the Grammy Awards Ceremony in March, BTS won the Best Pop Group Award for its English single "Dynamite". "dynamite" also made an instant counterattack in Korea's music sources. Seven months after its release, it actually won two more places.

In June, the tenth mini-album "8" was released.

An album of great significance, from the design to the configuration, it feels a bit back to basics. Including Kim Seok-jin’s intor and Min Yoon-ki’s outor, there are a total of eight songs, and each song tells the story of how one of them became BTS , the eight MVs are connected together to form a movie dedicated to the eight members of BTS.

The story begins with a tall boy who is ignorant but has great ideas, a black-paw soldier who lives a miserable life, a boy who doesn’t know how tired he is when he dances, a country boy who failed the art school exam, and was pulled over by a scout from the side of the road. The rich man who acts as a facade, the miraculous boy who is too shy to speak in front of others, the silly boy who came to Seoul because of star chasing, and finally became a star himself, and the last one, the little man in Busan who put all his eggs in one basket for his dream.

The eight stars gathered together finally became a light source to illuminate the night sky, and it also became a miracle that no one else could match.

The configuration of the album is simple, but ingenious.In addition to the fixed posters, photo cards and photos on the inside pages, there is also a special benefit in this album, that is, each CD has a small piece of extra random audio, which is the whim of the members when they are recording What came out was reading random lyrics aloud, but in a different way.

Each person recorded two versions, Kim Seok-jin has an extravagant acting version and a funny uncle version; Min Yoon-ki has a swag full-mouthed version and a low-pitched seduction version; Kim Nam-joon has a deep and serious original Korean version and a charming English version Zheng Haoxi has a serious gentle version and a Gwangju dialect version with a full smile; Park Zhijun has a handsome Busan dialect version and a soft and coquettish version; Luo You is not very proficient in the Gangwon-do dialect version and the cute minion version...

Tian Zhengguo is a young talent for imitating. He recorded a tongue-playing version that he is good at, imitating the uncle who appeared on TV many years ago. There is also a version of "Min Yunqi's father's vocal cords imitation version". The tone is exactly the same as that of Min Yunqi's father. At that time, Min Yunqi was sitting on the sofa outside the recording room, almost rolling off the sofa from laughing.

There are only four versions of the cover and inner pages of this album, but many fans bought all four sets of the same version home in order to collect all the audio hidden in the CD, and some people even moved more than four sets.

These jovial young people can always achieve results that the world can't even dream of. When other groups are still ignorant of their fake sales of their last album, the results of their album have easily surpassed their achievements. doubled.

Well, this time it's to such an extent that no one dares to fake it.

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In July, Kim Seok-jin and Min Yoon-ki went to the Military Service Hall for a medical examination. Kim Seok-jin passed the examination of the Police Department and was assigned to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Department as a volunteer policeman. Seoul Railway Station.

Both of these places are in Seoul, and they are not too hard. They are considered to be very good in military service.Just like going to work normally, nine in the morning and six in the morning, and two days off every week, Jin Shuozhen usually lives in the dormitory with his contemporaries, Min Yunqi is even more comfortable, he can go back to work normally when he is not on the night shift live at home.

Four days before enlisting in the army, the two uploaded handwritten letters on the official cafe at the same time, informing fans of their upcoming military service.

Almost in the next minute, the news that the two of them were going to enlist in the army hit the world trend.

It is rare for Min Yunqi to write such a long letter, the affection between the lines makes anyone unable to hold back tears after reading it, and Kim Seokjin did not forget to make fun of the uncle in the handwritten letter, but few fans can laugh after reading it come out.

Even Yin Naluo couldn't help crying after reading the handwritten letters of the two of them.

When he read the letter, it was the day before his elder brothers enlisted in the army. They were going to have a meal together. Yin Naluo and his two elder brothers came to Yin's mother's beauty salon to shave their hair in advance.

The eldest brother Line was shaving his head in front of him. This kid sat on the sofa behind with his mobile phone and cried like a tearful child. When he saw the last sentence "I love you" written by Min Yunqi, he was so moved that he rushed over and hugged him. It took half of his brother to cut his hair, and his tear-stained cheeks were pressed against Min Yunqi's head, rubbing the stubble on his face.

"Ah~ No matter how touched you are, wait until I finish shaving my hair before hugging~"

Min Yunqi stretched out his hand and patted the buttocks of the crying brother, a little dumbfounded.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow , I am really reluctant to let you go".

Yin Naluo cried and hugged his neck, and put on a herringbone mouth and acted like a baby at his brother.

"Why don't you go? Everything has been decided, so I'll send someone over there. You bastard, wouldn't you have said it earlier if you didn't want me to? If I said it earlier, I would have taken you with me~" Min Yunqi said from the mirror. Seeing the child's red nose and tightly pursed lips, I feel distressed and want to tease him.

"Then can you take me with you now?"

"Are you going with me? What about Zhengguo? Didn't you guys agree?" Min Yunqi smiled so pink that his gums were showing, "Okay, be good, I'm not active, and I still have many opportunities to meet each other. Ah, if you want to be cuddly, you can be cuddly with brother Jin, although he also has a lot of vacations, but he usually lives in a dormitory."

Over there, Jin Shuozhen had already shaved his head. He had been watching the two of them helplessly for a long time, but he didn't have the nerve to intervene. When he heard Min Yunqi mentioning himself, he quickly opened his arms towards Yin Naluo.

"Young lady, come here quickly, let me give you a hug~"

Yin Naluo sniffed, and turned to hug Jin Shuozhen, but when he saw his cropped hair, he couldn't help it, and burst out laughing.

"Pfft! Hahahahahaha!" Yin Naluo laughed until his legs lost strength, and he simply squatted on the ground, "I knew that the back of my brother's head is very flat, why is it so obvious after shaving it hahahaha..."

"Is it very flat..." Jin Shuozhen touched his head a little embarrassedly, and subconsciously turned to look at the hairdresser sister who shaved his head.

The hair stylist was caught off guard and looked at him. Even though it was not the first time for her to do styling for them, even if Jin Shuozhen had shaved a very handsome cut, she was still a little bit blushing and heartbeating at the close-up beauty.

"It's okay, it's just normal flat, the back of many people's heads are flat, and you can't see it when you wear a military cap~"

Jin Shuozhen was soothed easily, he touched his younger brother who couldn't help laughing with the tip of his toe, "Stop laughing, come here and give me a hug~"

Yin Naluo wiped away the tears from laughter with the back of his hand, stood up, sat on his brother's lap, and hugged his head affectionately by the way, but as soon as his fingers rested on the back of his brother's head, he immediately Can't help but smile.

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A year later, Jung Ho-seok, Park Ji-joon, and Kim Tae-hyun enlisted in the army one after another. Kim Tae-hyun was classified as a public service soldier because of a severe choline allergy and was judged by a doctor not to exercise vigorously. The other two were active in the army.

Two years later, Kim Nam Joon took the two youngest youngest members to pick up the two older brothers who had been dismissed from the call. One month later, he also wrote a handwritten letter to fans, reassuring to enlist in the army.

Three years later, Kim Tae-hyung, who was serving in the District Government Affairs Office, was the first to be discharged from the army. On the day he was picked up, the youngsters had just undergone military service medical examinations.

Yin Naluo and Tian Zhengguo were only 27 years old when they were about to enlist in the army. It was far from the time when they had to serve in the army. In other words, all their members voluntarily enlisted within the prescribed age, rather than delaying the enlistment time to the end the term.

This is undoubtedly a good example for the people. Over the years, we have seen a lot of people who evaded military service in various ways, and at their level, they are still able to voluntarily enlist in the army. They got a lot of goodwill.During their service, many young people across the country followed their example, and the number of service members increased year by year.

Before Yin Naluo enlisted in the army, he held a fan meeting at the gymnastics arena. This was his childhood wish. It was because he watched Shinhwa’s farewell concert before enlisting in the army that he came up with the idea of ​​becoming a singer and an idol. .

16 years later, the kid who was watching the show in the audience is now standing on the stage here, saying goodbye to his fans.

At first, he just wanted to hold a meeting in a low-key manner to fulfill his wish. After all, he only served military service once in his life.

In the past few years during their military white period, the company's attitude is really a bit ambiguous. They don't restrict much, but they don't care too much. Paved in the expansion and operation.When Yin Naluo proposed the idea of ​​holding a meeting, Min Yunqi advised him not to have too much hope, because they have not been a complete body in recent years, and there is no official comeback or tour, not even the tour of the members' solo albums. It was a bit perfunctory, so they guessed privately that the company might not be willing to spend time and energy to hold a meeting for Yin Naluo.

Unexpectedly, when this idea was mentioned, it was approved very quickly. Tian Zhengguo was already ready to contact the venue and guests in person, and to hold a meeting for relatives. The company approved the proposal, but he was still a little bit discouraged I'm so upset.

However, he later grabbed the job of MC, while other members were sitting in the audience, which can be regarded as a reflection of his particularity.

In the year Yin Naluo and the others enlisted in the army, the number of young people preparing to join the army was the largest in the country. The two of them joined the army as companions. According to the regulations, they could be assigned to a unit, and Yin Naluo was exempted from military service. He voluntarily joined the army and could enjoy The highest welfare treatment, of course, various procedures are more cumbersome.

Therefore, the two of them had a physical examination in November, and they did not receive the notice of enlistment until February of the following year.

The two were assigned to serve in the army of Gangwon-do, Yin Naluo's hometown. When they came out of the recruit training center, Tian Zhengguo's grades were No. 1, and he was almost transferred to the special attack team by the chief.However, Yin Naluo has poor physical strength, poor eyesight, and no special skills. He barely passed the training and took his life to become an ordinary second-class soldier in the army.

Fortunately, Tian Zhengguo spent two months obtaining a military vehicle driver's license just after he came out of the training center. He also asked himself to be an auto soldier so that he could stay in the same brigade with Yin Naluo. Team, the two may not see each other unless they are on vacation.

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April 2027, 4 is the day when Yin Naluo and Tian Zhengguo retired from the army. From this day on, BTS officially passed the six-year military white period. After six years, the eight members finally joined forces again. Standing in front of the camera, they made that familiar gesture together.

On that day, the whole world's Internet will be occupied by their news. In six years, no one can surpass them. The only one who can surpass the last king is the king himself.

Now, the king is back.