With the discharge of Jack within the Field on July 15, J-Hope, most well-known for his work with BTS, has change into the primary member of the group to debut a full-length solo album as a part of BTS’s “Chapter Two.”
The 2 music movies that accompany the album’s tracks — “MORE” and “Arson” — additionally embody a darkish aesthetic and gritty narrative.
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In the event you’re solely accustomed to BTS’s latest Billboard pop hits like “Dynamite” or “Butter,” or J-Hope’s status because the at all times glad and shiny “sunshine” member of the group, Jack within the Field would possibly come as a shock.
However, whereas being very contemporary, Jack within the Field can be the pure fruits of J-Hope’s profession thus far; from his early roots in dancing, to his decade in BTS, and the solo tasks he has already labored on prior to now. Here is just a little look again at his journey up to now…
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J-Hope, whose actual title is Jung Ho-seok however who is usually referred to as “Hobi” by each BTS and followers, obtained his begin in avenue dance. He was a part of an underground dance workforce earlier than becoming a member of Massive Hit Leisure as a trainee in 2010, when he was simply 16 years outdated.
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J-Hope was added to BTS as a rapper, becoming a member of RM and Suga (vocalists Jin, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have been added shortly after). Throughout his time as a trainee, he featured on Jo Kwon’s track “Animal,” earlier than lastly debuting along with BTS in 2013 with the album 2 Cool 4 Faculty and its lead single “No Extra Dream.”
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This was the primary album in BTS’s Faculty Trilogy, a hip-hop-focused physique of labor which explored every thing teen — from schoolboy crushes to huge ideas and emotions about societal ills and oppressive programs. It was adopted by the Youth Trilogy, which examined coming-of-age rising pains.
As one of many group’s rappers, J-Hope participated in songwriting throughout the vast majority of BTS’s music from the very starting, and likewise obtained concerned in producing. J-Hope additionally grew to become dance chief, enjoying a a key function within the group’s spectacular choreography and performances.
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Each his dance and rap expertise (to not point out darker aspect) have been showcased in J-Hope’s first solo track inside BTS: 2016’s “Intro: Boy Meets Evil” off the group’s second studio album Wings.
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J-Hope co-wrote the track with RM and Massive Hit producer Pdogg, and it served as an intro to Wings, establishing the themes of seduction, greed, and temptation. J-Hope’s different solo songs for BTS are all brighter in nature, though not at all times in material. He explores his relationship along with his mom in “MAMA” (additionally on Wings); the sensation of falling for somebody in “Trivia 起: Simply Dance” (from the Love Your self album sequence); and the questions of identification and the long run that come up once more in Jack within the Field in “Outro: Ego” (from Map of the Soul: 7).
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One other essential a part of attending to know J-Hope’s work (aside from diving into, like, all the discography of BTS) is the subunit songs he is accomplished inside the group — particularly along with his fellow rappers RM and Suga.
J-Hope has additionally launched solo tasks earlier than Jack within the Field, together with 2015’s “1 Verse” and a mixtape in 2018 referred to as Hope World.
Hope World and its two music movies, for “Daydream” and “Airplane,” have a a lot brighter vibe than Jack within the Field — however even right here, J-Hope explores not simply his hopes and his happiness however his fears and ache, too. He additional interrogated his emotions of longing and remorse within the full model of the mixtape’s outro, “Blue Aspect,” which he launched on the third anniversary of Hope World in 2021.
However J-Hope’s most well-known solo venture earlier than Jack within the Field was maybe “Rooster Noodle Soup,” a collaboration with Becky G, by which he paid homage to his avenue dance roots.
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Now could be the proper time to get caught up — J-Hope shall be headlining Lollapalooza this 12 months, and it is positive to be a efficiency that will get everybody speaking.
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