We have been spoiled this comeback with not just one, but two comeback trailers. The MV for "Outro: Ego" was released today, and as expected, it's Hobi's solo and it samples parts of their debut trailer from 2013. Similarly, "Interlude: Shadow" samples parts of 2013's "Intro: O!RUL8,2?" and "Intro: Persona" samples parts of 2014's "Skool Luv Affair," so they're taking parts of their past and incorporating it into their new music. As it is, there's a big theme of self-reflection in the Map of the Soul series as the boys take a deeper look into their history and how it's made them into the men they are today.
As dark and moody as "Interlude: Shadow" is, "Outro: Ego" is bright, upbeat, and colourful. (As it should be. Darkness doesn't suit our sunshine J-Hope, who is always reliably cheerful.) Hobi goes through his past challenges, how he chose not to give in to hardships, and how he accepts who he is now because it was his choices that made him. As BTS uses Jungian archetypes to discover themselves during this Map of the Soul era, it makes sense that "Outro: Ego" centres around identity as the Ego represents one's conscious mind. As this is the outro of the album, it seems that Map of the Soul: 7 won't be dark so much as it will be introspective, going through the last seven years of BTS, from their darkest times to their triumphs — and I am ready to go on this journey with them.
To me of yesterday
To the life of giving up
I let myself go away
But in this world, you know
There are truths unchanged
Time rushes ever forward
There's no ifs, buts, or maybes
Almost forgotten memories return
Touch of the devil, fateful recall
I still wonder, why did they beckon again
Every day ask me, guess it, whip it, repeat, oh
Nothing that will change, so
I lock it up again, close
"How much love? How much joy?"
Soothe myself and stay calm, alone
Yeah, I don't care, it's all
Choices by my fate, so we're here
Look ahead, the way is shinin'
Keep going now
(Ready, set, and begin)
That way, way, way
Wherever my way
Only Ego, Ego, Ego
Just trust myself
Life not of J-Hope but Jung Hoseok flashes by
It must have been full of regret with no hope till I die
My dancing was chasing ghosts
Blaming my dream, asking why I live and breathe
Oh my God, God, God, God
Time goes by
Seven years of anguish come out finally
Oppressions all resolved
Into my heart come answers from my most trusted
"Only one hope, only one soul"
"Only one smile, only one you"
Definite answer to the truth of the world
Only one and unchanging me, right?
Now I don't care, it's all
Choices by my fate, so we're here
Look ahead, the way is shinin'
Keep going now
(Ready, set, and begin)
That way, way, way
Wherever my way
Only Ego Ego Ego
Just trust myself
Way I trust
Way I go
Became my fate
Became my core
Hard it was
And sad it was
Still reassured and
Made me know myself
Map of the Soul
Map of the All
That's my Ego
That's my Ego
Map of the Soul
Map of the All
That's my Ego
That's my Ego
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