The members of BTS are moving onto a new chapter, and “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)” is the song the band chose to signal a fresh start. The new track is the lead single from the K-pop supergroup’s recent anthology album, Proof. Proof is an album filled with nostalgia, reminiscing over BTS’ nine years as a group. Sonically, “Yet to Come” sounds like a past BTS song, but its message contains a whole new meaning. “Yet to Come” feels
like it could be from BTS’ The Most Beautiful Moment in Life era, which took place across three different albums in 2015 and 2016. With the song “Epilogue: Young Forever,” found on the compilation album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever, BTS delve into the fear they feel about their future. In “Yet to Come,” that fear is gone. Instead, BTS look confidently toward the future, knowing that whatever decisions they make will benefit them. “Uh, do you
have a dream, what’s at the end of that path? / Moment is yet to come, yeah / Uh, in the hush of night, we won’t stop moving / Yet to come / Uh, we gonna touch the sky, ‘fore the day we die / Moment is yet to come, yeah / Uh, this is only the beginning, the best yet to come,” BTS assure fans in the song’s chorus. The lyrics of “Yet to Come” also contain a “promise” that the members will always come back to BTS, no matter where life takes them. “We just loved music /
We’re just running forward / Promise that we’ll keep coming back for more,” Jungkook sings. By itself, “Yet to Come” evokes a wistful curiosity. The song’s music video brings even more nostalgia and contains imagery from past BTS music videos including “Spring Day,” “Just One Day,” “Run,” “No More Dream,” and more. BTS are best when they embrace Suga, J-Hope, and RM as rappers alongside the band’s vocalists, Jin, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. The track effortlessly blends and
overlays the members’ styles of music, creating an alternative hip-hop track. See also “Yet to Come” signals a time of change and a new direction for the band. In true BTS fashion, the track shows the members embracing their past in order to move forward to a brighter future as a group and individuals. BTS released their latest single, Yet To Come on the 10th of June, 2022. A year shy away from the group’s ten year mark, Yet To Come is nostalgic but not in the most traditional sense. The music video, full of metaphors and a scenic route through the desert, pays homage to some of their biggest hits in their long career. But BTS approach their past differently this time. They pay homage to who they once were and everything they’ve done but their message is clear to anyone who’s listening — this is only the beginning. The message is profound on it’s own but even more once the members opened up to fans in an informal dinner. The Korean super septet would later reveal they’d take a step — not backwards, no but aside — to focus on their solo endeavors but still continue as BTS. The message predictable triggered the reactions of many, from fans who respected them to vulturous media institutions. With the explosion of their latest singles Dynamite, Butter and Permission to Dance, their Korean album BE, singles and collaborations, sold out stadiums, a performance at the Grammys and speaking at the White House, BTS seem at the peak of their career, topping their achievements with every passing year. A peak no one could have predicted and are still unsure of its height. Yet To Come is BTS’ latest single off their anthology album, Proof, an album with three CDs to catalogue their massive discography. The perfect introduction to anyone who was keen on learning who they were — the surplus of fans joining the BTS fandom, ARMY, had only doubled over the pandemic — but also a reminder to older fans, reminding them just how far they’d all come together. The three CDs also brings multiple other songs on streaming devices— Run BTS, a fast paced hip hop fusion and homage from the BTS’ members to each other and For Youth, a ballad dedicated to the fans who’ve stayed. With the third CD including two tracks, Young Love, and Question Mark and several demos of their biggest hits through out their career. The album also begins with one of their most iconic songs— Born Singer, the original track Born Sinner by J.Cole, that was released on their SoundCloud, nine years ago. It is the perfect reminder of the love BTS hold for what they do, their music, their craft and to each other. But also evidence of why BTS have come so far. The tracks inevitably spell out the foundations of BTS’ music and their career; their love for music, their love for each other and their love for the people who love them. While we aren’t introduced to Proof through Yet To Come, the single inevitably narrates the tracks to follow. Yet To Come speaks of BTS’ achievements, the names and awards they’ve collected over the years like stars. But there’s also a melancholic lilt to their words, not lined with guilt or regret, no, but this sense of heaviness that is easier to empathize with but difficult to understand — if you’re not one of the biggest groups in the world and cemented yourself as a part of forever history. In Yet To Come, BTS begin with reflecting on what they’ve done so far. There’s also this yearning to see what comes next, that comes with little surprise to the people who know them. They understand that what they’ve done together is no easy task — in an industry that is both fastidious and a world that can be cruel — but they’re still on the search for more, to do better, to be better, to shine as who they are but also who they can be.
There’s this comforting realization that comes to anyone who’s really listening to BTS that they don’t see an end to what they do. Perhaps, there’s a chance of things changing as we know it. But there’s no end to them creating music or sharing it to the world and that is enough of a relief. The lyrics then continue from this gentle promise to a confession that wouldn’t surprise many.
In an interview for Weverse Magazine, RM, the leader of BTS, says something that is hard to forget. “I definitely had a grasp of what this group is back in the day, but now it seems like I hit this phase where it’s impossible for me to know what the group is like or even who I am that clearly.” He says, “I have this urgent desire inside me to be inspired by all the inspiration and influence in the world. What should BTS be saying to the world from now on? What position should BTS be remembered for taking at this point? How are we going to function moving forward?” They continue singing, knowing what the world thinks of them.
RM, the first member of the group, who had a history of rapping early in his teens, pays homage to his persisting love for his music that began as a child and continued to his twenty’s. To many outside of the BTS ARMY, this might come to them with little surprise. That BTS are not new, that they didn’t reach fame overnight and that their love for their music is something rooted and embedded deep inside of them — it’s difficult to discern where BTS begin and where their love for music ends.
BTS continue singing. There’s this confidence in their words that is difficult to explain which — really — it isn’t even confidence but this surety, this undeniable fact, this unwavering faith, that it is their love for music that has fueled them to be where they are now. That despite carving a name in history books forever, in a time in their career where they could just continue to be who they’ve always done, BTS take a pause. They admit they’re human and there is so much more work to be done. The only limit are the lines they draw themselves. Yet To Come ends with a promise, “The best moment is yet to come.” They tell us. And there’s this question of what could be done? What else can be? What is there left to do? Which all feel impossible to be answered by anyone else who could share their success but when BTS tell you it, you know. You know there’s still more work left to be done. And there’s something exhilarating with that. You know you’ll want to be right there with them. In an interview for Weverse, BTS member Suga speaks of how music means something different now than it once was. “It’s just the times we live in, for one thing, because at some point we became a generation for whom music is simply background music. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. It’s a natural progression, and anyway, I thought there’s a difference between when a musician knows why they’re doing music or not.” RM shares something similar, “We’re working in the streaming era, and an era where songs are becoming progressively shorter. I’m quite sure the era is being influenced by the sentiments of the people living in it.” In a world where everything feels microwavable, the art of creating feels like its lost some of it’s sentiments to its audience. What was once albums that easily defined our childhoods and teenage years, now feel like a sound track for a very brief moment in our lives, a song we can revisit once again and enjoy, surely, but feel none of that anchoring, feeling what we first felt listening to it. But it’s precisely why, to me, BTS’ music feels so different. To any fan who listens to BTS’ music, it is easy to understand what I mean. Which is to say to many, their music has always painted a portrait of who they were at a very precise moment in their lives. To anyone who grew with BTS’ music, that sentiment of being able to say “This is what I feel right now” and later listen and remember what you felt, is certainly no easy task. Their music offers a certain timelessness that makes you remember what it means to be young and worried about what the world has to offer to you — but to also finally understand what it means to be older and still not know the world but see what it offers you. It’s precisely one of the many reasons why the fan space continues to be this growing force, full of faces, that look different to one another but understand each other just as easily. And it makes sense for that sense of timelessness to seem something as intangible as it really is now — especially after three years in a global pandemic. There’s this sense of loss for many of us. A loss that can also reflect in our work and in the lives we lead but also in what we create. It is a brave thing to understand what is happening to us but to also recognize we are human, just like any one else, that we may create art and music and books and stories, that our audiences can vary between ten people to fifty thousand to none at all, but we are still so human. And it is precisely why it is so profound that BTS have recognized that. It is a reminder of how the love we inevitably put into our work is a love that comes from deep within. And it matters that we feel true to who we are, even in a world where we cannot understand. It is important to take a step back, to understand, to reflect but also to remember, just for a second why it all really began. To anyone who understands BTS, their unwavering belief in their music is something that can never be really questioned. It sings in every album, in every piece of work they have performed. So it comes to no surprise when BTS reveal to us, they want to understand once again, what it was that made them who they were and what other perfect way is there to step back and remember who they were outside of it? Yet To Come speaks of that. It doesn’t talk of a world where everything has come to an end but a world where the Earth continues to spin and we continue to live and remember why we wake up every single day, forget and remind ourselves all over again. What BTS have created is a growing force that will never end. There’s the sense of nerves that might persist, sure, but the members are adamant. And we understand it. It is a difficult thing to destroy — a human sentiment shared by millions — to believe wholeheartedly there is meaning in what we do, that we can find meaning and we always will. Yet To Come is BTS’ promise to the world but also to themselves. BTS are far from over and a single glance of what they’re doing is proof of it. Lyric translations from Doolset.com What is the last song of BTS?Stay Gold (BTS song). Where can I watch BTS Yet To Come?Alternatively, stream the concert on the mobile Weverse app or on the Weverse Smart TV app. The livestream will have eight different languages available for subtitles to help ensure that ARMY from around the world can enjoy the show.
What is BTS biggest song?Best BTS songs, ranked: Counting down their 21 greatest hits from their inception to their hiatus. 8. “ Life Goes On” (2020). 7. “ Fire” (2016). 6. “ Black Swan” (2020). 5. “ Butter” (2021). 4. “ Blood, Sweat and Tears” (2016). 3. “ On” (2020). 2. “ Dynamite” (2020). 1. “ Spring Day” (2016). Is BTS releasing a new song in 2022?BTS will reportedly release a song for World Cup 2022. BTS have also been announced as official ambassadors for Busan World Expo 2030 bid.
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