BTS - Boy In Luv | Reaction/Review 

On set, Jin was extremely apologetic to the girl and kept bowing to her. He said sorry like 15 times each take . Would be cool for you to react to some behind the scenes once your done with all the music videos. The boys are such respectful and humble people.

I really enjoyed your breakdown/reaction to this song. It reminds me of my high school years (many decades ago). I wrote an extremely long poem for this girl I REALLY liked. My friends thought it was stupid of me to declare my feelings for a girl via a poem, but that was what I was good at. Long story short (too late), the girl liked my poem so much that she copied it and covered the inside of her locker with the poem. We got married three years later and, next February will make 39 years of marriage to my soul mate Thanks again for taking the time to get to know our boys! Borahae, my friends!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I don’t know if anyone else has said this but the Korean title for Boy in Luv is “Real Man” and for Boy With Luv it’s “A Poem For Small Things” (or similar) so I feel that shows the difference in attitude already. I love the song and I loved your reaction, thanks guys

The song itself doesnt bother me, its reflective of immature adolescent infatuation, and the lyrics are mainly self criticism and confusion/miscommunication. The video is 😬 but I can see a whole lot of teen drama tropes in it - these images and experiences were typical in most teen dramas and fiction i partook. I blame the mv director not the boys - this was their early days where they may not have the position to veto everything. I love that they used it as an opportunity to learn and develop a healthier message from this point on. Contrasting this with Fake Love shows HUGE growth

The both of you are becoming my favorite reactors. I love how you actually watch. Many reactors look away to grove to the beat but your eyes dont leave the screen. With BTS, you cannot look away for a moment!!! Can't wait to see more of your reactions 💜💜

In my opinion, raw working class high school scenes and rough or violent scenes involving frustration driven by obsessive lust for a woman has a history in 2nd generation K Pop. 3rd generation BTS twisting similar manner of visuals or lyrics to portray schoolboy emotions toward females here or in their song War of Hormone were meant to be theatrical representations, not misogynistic expressions. The word misogyny has a very specific dictionary definition, much like the word racism. Both all too frequently are used to characterize people in ways which are outside that definition. This most often happens when there are parties with agendas. In case of young BTS, stans of the three letter SM group found emergent BTS as a potential challenge to their beloved ***. Though Big Bang, a top tier male group of the same period from a different large corporation (YG) had similarly suspect lyrics, BTS was a small corporation threat. In their minds without the need for big corporation respect, BTS could be squashed like a roach. Slandering and belittling them would mold public opinion. And to some extent it did. When people hear something disconcerting there is a tendency to follow suit band wagoning with negative opinionating never investigating the legitimacy of their attacks. Sadly, speaking negatively in unison with others make people feel good. While I think it is fair to say there was some sexualization of women in early BTS songs, the term misogyny was wielded like a cudgel swung wantonly and with destructive intent. The fanbase had the comfortable position of a Big 3 corporation's similar desire to hold back artists from small corporation groups. While SM could quietly behind the scenes try to be monopolistic, they also could quietly tolerate their fanbase being attack dogs.

Also, apparently, the weird interactions with the girl, those scenes were very common in k dramas of the time, and BTS was supposed to be emulating that. People already mentioned how apologetic they were to the girl. This is one of my favorite songs, but the mv does make me wince, suga and Jin's interactions mostly. The words don't bother me, we've all had thoughts like that when we hit puberty regardless of gender imo. Eta: the song in the beginning is just one day 💜 Borahae 💜

Most of their songs are deep and inspires us ARMYs. But it is nice to see them singing about young love that normal teenagers go thru. Most of them were teenagers at that time afterall. The music itself is fire 🔥.

Hi guys, thank you for doing this reaction. I dont know if anyone's mentioned this but with regards to 'uproar' over their misogynistic lyrics back in the day, I've only ever heard it in association with their track 'War of Hormone'. Would love to hear your thoughts about that one too. 💜

I can def see how certain things (esp in the mv) might bother some people, but I’m pretty sure the one that really ended up bothering people was actually the song War of Hormone (on Dark & Wild album). That song was where eventually after that RM had women’s studies professors reviewing the lyrics to his songs (even though at least culturally speaking it didn’t seem much worse than this one- at least for me.) But the follow through with their actions instead of just with their words is one of the really impressive things about BTS 보라해요! 💜

Honestly, I love this song hahaha. Also, I would love to se you reacting to bsides... for example "Tomorrow" from the same album, it's an AMAZING song. In my opinion, one of the best songs BTS have ever made. 💜

All the scenes are super famous Kdrama tropes during that time.. The most popular Kdrama with school background storyline was Boys Over Flower with Lee Minho and Goo Hye-sun; where the producers were inspired by I think... Even nowadays, grabbing hands, pushing against walls and such are still in trend in the Kdrama... 😅😅😅 And yes, the lyrics are appropriate for their age within their culture. It's part of their school trilogy and the trends during that time is being a macho man which is why the title of the song in Korean is "Sangnamja" which means 'Real Man'. Btw, thank you so much for the amazing reactions. #YouNiceKeepGoing 💜

The song in the begining is "Just one day" by BTS wich is on the same album, that song is a masterpiece and so cute too. MV: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DTcKkcyS410.html Live performance bc why not: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0em_XfVOXaQ.html ALSO, they have a song called "Converse high" its not in that album but its a great song. Thank u for reacting, love from Mexico.

If you want to see pen game of BTS you should definitely check Ddaeng, Trivia:Love, Disease, Tears etc. Lyrics is one of the thing I love about BTS. They balance out korean & English words perfectly. It don't sound odd. As a bilingual I try sometimes it came out weird so huge respect to them. Namjoon really love to play with words like really. It's evident on his solo songs & album. I love how BTS 3 rappers have different approach to deliver. Best example is Tear (yes I love this song alot, one of the best rapline song)

I really enjoy your reactions! I’ve seen other people already mention the rough behaviour being very typical in kdramas (also in anime) and how the guys (and the company) have grown beyond the stereotype and apologised for the more misogynistic themes in their older stuff. I would definitely encourage you to also watch their live performances. Particularly 2019 MMA and 2019 MAMA as they performed the older songs like Boy in Luv. I personally fell in love with them 2 years ago after seeing the live performances as they just blew me away! Hope you continue enjoying learning more about BTS and Army!

Aw man, I hate it when ARMYs try to “warn” reactors about this song and War of Hormone in particular. I’d much rather the reactor watch it and form their own opinions without the sense of dread or the wall put up that they may have to say the “right” thing in response to BTS’s more “controversial” songs. I agree with you guys that the lyrics aren’t very problematic, just young boys with huge crushes, trying to be cool and appeal to their crush. The MV, while definitely aggressive and not very cool towards the girl by American standards, was very common in Korea teenage dramas at the time. Additionally, I see this MV and even the lyrics as more of a mocking of the boys themselves and their utter insecurity and lack of ability to reach out and TALK to this girl like a normal person. In short, the lyrics and MV to me mock young love and mock how much young boys try so hard to be “cool” and get their crush’s attention. While at the same time wondering why they’re so “lame” and why the girl seems completely uninterested and how they can change the situation towards their favor. Thank you for your reaction and open minds with this. While I still think the song is a bop, I think you two will enjoy some of their future stuff WAY more💜💜

You mentioned you like Converse. BTS have a song called "Converse High" HAHAHAHHA

This is ONE OF my favorite songs. I tend to say that about a lot of there songs.

Everytime I watch this video now, Cameron Phillips' dubbed version pops in my head and I can't help laughing. Especially during the "fuck chairs" scene. 😂 Thanks for the reaction. I enjoyed hearing your take on it. 😁💜💜

Hi Guys! I had a chance to watch your Super Nova music video and commend you for your efforts! I'm not a metal fan so it's not exactly my prefer musical taste but Septa, you have a lovely voice and SOARE, you can really rock that guitar! 🎶 Keep following your passion and your efforts will pay off! This isn't one of my favorite BTS songs but like you shared, it shows how young they were at the time and the song reflects that, which I appreciate. They also followed their passions and continue to learn and grow in their craft to become the artists they are today! I like how you read the lyrics first to try to understand the song so that you would just listen it all the way through to enjoy the musical arrangement of the song without being distracted by reading the subtitles on the video. :)

my problem with people having issues with bts songs is the sheer hypocrisy many people especially kpop stans had because bts concept of rude bad boy is rough to girl cause he likes her ( and lets be honest many parents still tell their daughters this globally which is the real problem) is something VERY common in korean dramas and many korean groups music videos and the lyrics are very common in western music actually western music is much worse than bts ever went. it feel performative how anyone tried to condemn bts while supporting so many groups and artists who have done the same or worse and never spoke out about them. thats why most armys love these songs and still recommend them there was a short period where we didnt send them to reactors but we got over that because why shouldnt we. people cant pick and choose when they wanna be activists or advocate for something yet thats always the case when it involves bts. so i dont find anything wrong with any of bts songs or music videos. especially when people conveniently accused them when bts became competition against big groups.

This video uses common themes and tropes from Korean dramas that were hugely popular at the time. Any drama and hate they got was just antis looking for any little thing to hate on them for. It was organized and systematic and rumor was some of it was organized by a big entertainment company. This video didn’t have issues with their lyrics so much, just that one scene wherebJin slams the girl and again that was a common thing back then. They were also accused of plagiarism again in this video bc they wore school boy uniforms, like no other videos have boys in uniform right? They later come into plagiarism accusations again bc jimin had orange hair and so did another more famous singer. I know it’s stupid. War of hormones is the song they were accused of misogyny in the lyrics

Independientemente a las críticas de algunas escenas del MV me parece importante que miren el contexto del mismo, para la época era un concepto favorable, hoy día no. Por otro lado la vocal line tenía un gran reto en su interpretación. Finalmente sugiero está canción verla en vivo en los MMA 2019 es una joya.

This song is like quintuple-tied for 1st place in my heart of all BTS songs (ok, maybe dodeca-tupled 😂) because I was an alt-rock fan for decades b4 finding BTS. The beat, guitars, & growly vocals all hit that sweet alt-rock vibe... You guys even nailed so many of the things I love about this song! I adore your attention to detail - yes, the lyrics read strangely in straight English translation, but *hearing* them is something completely different...and I love that you recognize and appreciate how well they mix English & Korean lyrics, and the effort involved in working rhyming schemes with more than one language...This song has just enough repetition (but not too much to make it sound lazy lyrically) to allow me to be able to sing along with the Korean for 70% of the song, JKs choppy rap helps too - only the rapline's parts are still beyond me 😂 Someday I hope to be able to sing along 100% to at least one BTS Korean-language song 💜

Everyone has already explained everything that needed explaining so I will just add, I love you guys so much! I love your reactions, you’ve become my favourite reactors of BTS. 💜 This song is such a banger haha the video is just a bit… 🫣 in parts. Consent is sexy af. That’s something you learn as you get older right?. The other day I was talking with my boss (she is recently divorced and sleeping with someone else for the first time since she was a teenager!) and she was like “yeah, and he just kept asking me ‘Do you want me to do this? Do you like it when I do this?’, and I was just like…oh my god YES ASK ME HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO SEXY” 😂🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 it was so cute, I loved that for her (and all women)

The song itself, I love it. The lyrics and MV make me wince a bit, but because I watch kdramas I know that it was the trend. As others have said the behind the scenes was cute. Thanks for another one! 💜💜

Hello baby metal army’s, Your react channel apear to me last Friday, I’m a 57 Brazilian one year old army living In Japan, I use to hear hard rock during the 80’s and 90’s so I was a huge Bon Jovi/Guns n roses etceteras fan, with age I start enjoy many eletronic music stile and one year ago BTS came to my life, I can see you are in the same way I was let’s enjoy, you have one more subscriber! 💜😘🫰🤘

Hi, I am back. Good reaction, ty. RM looks good. Love this hairstyle on him. Ty for loving and appreciating all the guys! My intro song was Boy with Luv ft. Halsey. So glad you got to listen to the MV. It's a great song. It was played on the radio a lot, =0p. Love the eyeliner. There were a hip hop group in the early years. Bad boys for sure. =0p The more older songs u check out the more of this style you'll see. To stand out from all the other million bands debuting in 2013 they worked hard on the choreo and their singing/ rapping. They worked harder than other groups and became known for their amazing stage presence and choreo. This song was on their mini EP Skool Love Affair. All of them(EPs and albums) are great. Hope u check them out. This song is very kdrama inspired. They have made songs more recently to fix their image/mistakes. Hugs. --NY USA 2019 Army 💜 Alex M said on 1/?/21 Boy In Luv was about high school boys chasing a crush on a girl. Boy With Luv - they realize that the truest love is their relationship with ARMY. (Halsey represents ARMY here. She wasn't expected to dance, but she decided she wanted to try). Both choreographies end with them doing "I love you" in sign language. Halsey got a sparkly mic from the guys as a gift because she loved theirs. In return she gave them pink tennis bracelets because they friends for life. She talks to RM all the time by text. They performed together in USA on an award show in May 2019. She is the only artist from the US who asked to learn their choreo. Their choreography is no joke. In the US its easy stuff. There are behind scene vids and interviews. Halsey will not let no one diss BTS. Hope u check out the behind the scenes videos. They all are so cute together. lol. barish's archive said on 10/27/21 Halsey went to Korea to film for this song and BTS and Halsey by far has the most endearing friendship ever!! About the song it's very close to my heart and this is literally ARMY's happy song. Halsey represents ARMY here in the song. This song is basically a letter to ARMY. As the Korean title of this song suggests, “a poem for small things.” When asked to talk about the song, RM said, “It’s about finding little joy in love, being curious about the little things, the details like what you’re eating, what you’re doing. But, most importantly, Boy With Luv is like a fan letter from BTS to ARMY. That’s the most important thing.” It is quite interesting to think about the shift from Boy In Luv (2014) to Boy With Luv - from a young, passionate, immature love that is represented with masculine, macho-like lyrics and visuals, to a mature, ‘true’ love that is about every small thing in life and in love that is represented with feminine, reflective lyrics that are more accepting and embracing.

lmaoo whenever u say the rex part of ur septasoarous intro i impulsively have to say rawr xd i cant control it hopefully i find it ironically funny bc otherwise idk what it says abt my humor

You love Converse? React to 'Converse High' next? Also a big controversial one AFAIK is 'War of Hormone' Thanks for the reactions 💜

The background music at the beginning of the video was also their song called ‘Just One Day’ - another beautiful song. Love your reaction. 💜😊

I'll be out of the house when It premieres, but I already know its gonna be an amazing video. Cant wait to hear your thoughts!

I love this song, but I stick to the choreography MV instead of the actual MV 😂 the choreography is amazing and while I know the video is tongue-in-cheek, it’s still a bit triggering 😬😬 Also a lot of ARMYs don’t know about the choreography MV for this song (and lots of other BTS songs!), but I highly recommend it. It’s the best of both worlds: like a dance practice and MV in one 😂

There were a lot of scenes like that in k-dramas and still are, I think.

Speaking about Converse, they have a song about Converse....

First, thank you for doing the reaction and diving more and more into the world of BTS! You're my fav reactors cause you try to understand not only music but also lyrics, mv and everything behind. It reminds me just how I was getting interested in BTS. Also I really appreciate you're taking time and analyze in your own tempo 💜

I'm glad that their mvs have gotten way better in portraying their message without unintentionally being offensive

I love the contrast between Boy in Luv and Boy With Luv. Boy in Luv is so macho type while Boy with Luv is cute, feminine (? Idk how to explain) (according to Jung's psychology), poppy, fun song. It will be hilarious if you react to Boy with luv. But I see you're going step be step

This was the first song I memorized from bts word for word it's just an amazing song you need to react to the behind the scenes they were apologizing to thee girls but you need to keep in mind everything is part of the storyline

Not sure if anyone mentioned it. But they actually have a song called converse high since u mentioned u love converse.

This is a music video for kdrama fanfictions and anime 😂😂

Love you guys reactions as usual .. thank you 💜

The song you heard when Jin had the head phones on is Just One Day from BTS on the same Skool Love Affair

Like always, Love your reactions!💜💜💜

I always enjoy the reactions and In-depth analysis, seeing as there’s really not many reactors that take the time to analyze BTS’s music. But of course out of everything I took away from the video today….. I can’t wait for a future video on this 19:57 & 32:31 🤭🖤🥀

This music video is literally the only thing I have ever found offense from BTS. And at that point I don’t know how much say they had in their music videos. I can’t see any of them actually treating someone that way. I love the song but my goodness I hope that is not how girls are really treated in Korea.

U should react the dance practice of this song is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I also appreciate y’all talking about the consent and stuff 💜

I guess grabbing a wrist was a thing still happening at that time but honestly, the US music at this time felt much worse than this, still does. I was reading somewhere that people were more offended by War of Hormone but that one didn’t seem offensive to me at all, just hormonal. Also, I agree, do not turn my head! Of course I also get mad being shushed much less pushed around by someone trying to to get me.

I honestly love your reactions but I would love for you to check out their live performances they are just awsome to enjoy

The lyrics says the boy growing up is confuse on his feelings. I think this is normal. Acting up bad boys because they dont understand how the girl drive him crazy. Listen/read the lyrics

Wait till you see the live version where jimin hits the high notes jungkook Also was singing with him as well it's amazing.

I won't say that some of their songs/vids weren't a bit questionable (mostly vids. The only lyrics I take issue with personally is intro sla), but its very conspicuous that BTS are always the one being picked on for it. They were still young and pictured love in the ways they had seen in popular media of the time. There were plenty of BG's with similar songs. A lot of them were even shown to be misogynistic behind the scenes too. But kpop fans still support and defend those groups while throwing undue hate on BTS (who are good ppl that take fair criticism very seriously).

Ami, correct me if I'm wrong... the girl in this video is Jungkook's cousin, yes?

Hope u guys can react to a healing song of BTS, Magic Shop produced by Jungkook. I always listen to this song whenever i have hard times. I swear u guys will love this song as much as i do

Okay, if you like Converse then you must react to ‘Converse High’. It’s an amazing hilarious song by BTS. You must react to it soon pls💜💜

Marlowe is adorable!! Can we have more Marlowe in videos please?

In this video I think it was an effort to try and show or express the chaotic energy and not knowing what to do or handle things as young men. I def don't think they were trying to say this is ok to do to women. Holding the wrist/arm is more common over there because holding hands is considered showing public display of affection. From what I understand it is considered to be more polite to hold a girl by her arm or wrist so people don't misunderstand that they are not together dating. I do know that in making the video Jin felt uneasy and uncomphortable doing those scenes of the video and kept apologizing to the girl in the video for his inappropriate behavior. Loved the review and look forward to more videos from you guys. Stay Happy and Healthy. HuGGieS

Great reaction to a great song! Just off topic, you should get in contact with 'johnreeveslive' channel. He is a metal head who plays in a band but has been reacting to BTS for a few months now and is doing a great series where he is interviewing other BTS reactors. It would be great to see you on there!💜

Hi. I'm new here and I wondered if your name, Soare, is Romanian inspired?

Que mujer no le gustaría q le canten ese tema? Yo amaría q me dediquen un tema así,otra cosa debemos reconocer q los adolescentes son impulsivos y hormonales y los varones se comportan de forma inmadura y torpe cuando les gusta una chica ,no me parece mal como actúan ,en comparación con la música de hoy día como el reguetton dónde dicen barbaridades hacía la mujer..Bts mis bbs son únicos 💜💜💜💜💜

Have you watched the dance practice for this?

i cant wait for when will you react their live performances.

💜💜💜💜💜💜👍👍👍👍

Yayy...I was able to see this just before work..my mondaymorning starts good!! I never knew that people had a problem with this song I always thougt it was about War of Hormones. But I think it's ridiculous, if anyone is respectful towards women it's BTS. People just wanted to bring them down. I really like this song (yes I know...I say that about all of their songs) and ofcourse I liked your reactions to it!! There is also a cute aegyeo version of this, it's hilarious! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_n1aiTSOZ8.html

Dance version of MV: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4XyPdnTz_Q0.html

Context: the light S&M thing was a trend in Asia, it's perceived differently there at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabedon