BTS for Rolling Stone — Individual Member Covers + Interviews

Since the last individual BTS Rolling Stone member cover was released today, I thought I'd compile all of the covers and interview links in one post for ease of reading:

  RM / Kim Namjoon
"Some may call it K-pop; some may call it BTS, or some Eastern-Western combined music, but I think that's what we're doing. If you think about the Silk Road in the past, there's this idea of Eastern people and Western people meeting on some kind of, like, big road and maybe doing selling and buying of stuff. I think this story repeats itself, and some kind of new, interesting phenomenon is happening. We feel very honoured to be existing in the very eye of this big hurricane." 

(Read RM's interview here.)

Jin / Kim Seokjin
"I think at that time, I felt that if I could bring together an audience of 1,000 people, that's what I wanted to do. That was my goal back in those days." 

(Read Jin's interview here.)

Suga / Min Yoongi
"I think, for anybody, these [negative] emotions are not something that need to be hidden. They need to be discussed and expressed. Whatever emotions that I may be feeling, I'm always ready to express them now, as I was before." 

(Read Suga's interview here.)

J-Hope / Jung Hoseok
"Time goes on and life flows on, and we just have to keep doing music and performances. I just thought that I have to make music that can give consolation and a sense of hope to other people. You know, we're just people, like everybody else. So we feel the same way as everybody else. So we just wanted to make music and do performances that other people can resonate with and that can give people more strength." 

(Read J-Hope's interview here.)

Jimin / Park Jimin
"I don't think I've ever really thought of being not a part of this group. I can't imagine what I would do on my own, what I would do without the team. Even before we debuted, my goal was to continue to work with these people, to continue to sing with these people." 

(Read Jimin's interview here.)

V / Kim Taehyung
"What is good about [working on my mixtape] is it gives me an opportunity to show who I am, and show the music that really has the colour of Kim Taehyung, the colour of V, to our ARMY. So that's a great opportunity, of course, and that's what makes creating this mixtape so much fun and fulfilling." 

(Read V's interview here.)

Jungkook / Jeon Jungkook
"Topping the charts, being nominated for the Grammys, getting all of those awards, were of course great honours and great experiences. But the best moment in my life, from when I was born until I die, is seeing ARMY from the stage. And that will never change."

(Read Jungkook's interview here.)

(Photo credit: Rolling Stone)

And with that, it's 3 more hours until the release of "Butter"! I CANNOT WAIT TO HAVE THIS SONG IN MY HEAD FOR THE NEXT MONTH.