FIRST TIME REACTION - BTS - LOUDER THAN BOMBS ( METAL VOCALIST ) 

I think they're too perfectionistic to perform something that they feel they couldn't do justice on stage, if that makes sense?! 🤔 I love Louder Than Bombs btw, it feels like a personal promise to us. 💜

It was the most voted song by ARMY to be sung live... when the boys found out, they were shocked. I think they weren't very aware of the impact the song had on the fandom and maybe that's why they never included it in the shows... despite the musical complications involved in making it, I think it would have been unforgettable to hear it live

One of my favorite songs of BTS. RM says it’s a hard song to sing. Maybe that’s why they haven’t performed it live. But they did a quiz one time and they found out how much Armys love this song and they said they might sing it live one day. Who knows..we can definitely hope!

Of course this song is very difficult to perform live but let's not forget about the lyrics. This song is from Map of the Soul: 7 along with Black Swan, Interlude: Shadow and We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal. They wrote these songs when they were really tired from performing and they were facing burnout. They wanted to focus on their solo careers before they enlist in 2020 but Korean government let them perform two years more before the enlistment. When you listen to this song without stopping and when you feel the emotions they try to deliver to us, ARMY through this song, you feel overwhelmed with emotions, you want to cry. You can feel how empty, tired and burned out they feel. It's a cry for help. They gave us wonderful two years more but let's not forget what they said during Festa 2022, especially RM and Suga. They have suffered for a long time putting a mask for us. They produced catchy English songs to be well known outside the Korea but as Suga said, even though he has tools now to write good lyrics, he feels like he has nothing important to say. I think performing Louder Than Bombs live would be very difficult not only technically but also emotionally, it's such a dark song. We will probably never hear it live but it is a big gem and we will never forget it

Yeah it had become a bit of a joke in the fandom that Louder Than Bombs is like one of the poor forgotten children because BTS never acknowledged it or performed it after the release of MOTS 7, but fans love it so much 😂 There's a really funny Run BTS episode where the members had to guess responses to an ARMY survey conducted beforehand and one of the questions was what song fans most wanted to see performed. They were all so surprised to see Louder Than Bombs there lol I think that's when it first came onto their radar. Thanks for giving your thoughts on the production and arrangement! Always love these sorts of song breakdowns.

Man... if they ever really want to do this song live, we'll have to appreciate it as much as we can because this song is really hard to do live. there are points in it that are very risky. Even though Namjoon says it might be impossible, he knows it's one of the most acclaimed songs ever to be performed live. It was going to be epic! They could do a rock version of this song on stage.

I’m the woman he answered to on that vlive, after the Vegas concert, I had always asked members when they came on live and he saw my question ..was the most amazing moment in my life but his answer broke my heart cause this song is my top 2 songs from them.. but I’m not loosing hope.. I prayed one of these days they will surprise us with a live performance after the military…we did get a little live performance of this song from Jungkookie on one of his vlive… made my day .. he was so adorable when he tried to sing this song

Shout out to Troye Siven, Few mention his part in this amazing track. He is someone bts admire with RM and Jk doing a cover of "fools". I love this song.

So, I haven't read all the comments, so please forgive me if this is redundant: This song is one of those sacred spaces that BTS builds for army. BTS is expressing how hard it is to know that behind the happy, shouting crowd, we all have pain. ARMY has shared that pain with BTS through letters and posts, and RM struggled with what his place was, what possible help he could be to all of these people who look to BTS for comfort. They can't make it better, and they can't take it away, but they promise to sing for us.

Jimin singing voice is angelic

I think it's the complex singing, layers and distortion that would make it challenging. ARMY loves this song but it's like BTS barely remembers it. There's a live that JK was doing where everyone was adding requests for him to sing and after reading "Louder Than Bombs" he was almost like, did we do that song?!? He had no idea of the lyrics and acted completely shocked when it played. LOL So funny. I love this song!

To sing softer on pitch it takes a sturdy diaphragm full of breath as it is harder to sing softly than just belting a song. So dance movements and proper breathing exercises to maintain the dynamics of this song would be really strenuous. They kill it in their openings and stay intense throughout the rest of a concert. They would have to be totally relaxed to deliver this song with all the passion it deserves in BTS's standard of excellence. We will see in the future. I would love to see and hear this in a concert. Toward the end of concerts, BTS has ARMY TIME, they are already spent physically and emotionally top it would be hard to perform. Every song has a place in the lineup. RM wrote the lyrics and did a lot of crying while writing. He said after reading the messages from ARMY and seeing all their hardships and hearing about their pain he wanted to let them know it will be okay eventually, don't quit living. That is what really makes this song powerful because not only has BTS suffered pain they empathize with the fans so delivering this message could be an emotional roller coaster for both - the placement of the song would need a lot of energy. Though the song sounds simple to those who do not understand the voice, body, and emotion to deliver it takes a lot of good breathing and pitch placement.

Jimin's voice will take you to another planet.💜💜💜

Jimin shiiiii 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I think this will be one for the 2025 comeback. Imagine being the first song in their first concert back. I think everyone would go even more crazy than they did for Run BTS in Busan! 💜

We have a whole sad list of the songs that have never had a live performance and we still keep trying. Appreciate the feedback on what might make this hard.

그들은 콘서트 내내 에너지를 소진합니다. 그들은 춤추면서 노래도 하고 20곡이 넘는곡을 수행해야 합니다. 그들의 목은 쉼없이 혹사당해서 한두곡을 소화하는 초대 무대와는 차이가 나는것이 당연하며, 7명 이다보니 개개인 건강 상태에 따라 달라집니다!!

Love this song. The slow deep beat is mesmerizing.

This song is in my top 5 BTS songs! The layering of the vocals is amazing which is why I think RM said it would be difficult to perform live.

Our top two most requested songs to performed live are Louder than Bombs and Paradise. Thank you for finally get to this gem 💜

I thought you were gonna perform it live. I was like “yes! We get a live version!” 😂 l love this song.

I also want them to do a live performance of Don’t Leave Me

Love your view on the production aspect being the most difficult in a live transition. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else present that perspective.

This is such a sad song but with hope. Thinking about their original plan of finishing their chapter one after releasing this album and world tour in 2020....the song is a promise that will come back even stronger and better. By far the only promise they broke is due to COVID....so in 2025 their reunion, we can expect not just BTS but ARMY together will sing louder than any bomb.

LTB is hauntingly beautiful.

I think it's not about the singing or what you say voice techniques but I think it's about the the song itself.. Live band is not an issue for them because they always have a live band Like the message of the song itself I think if they sing this it would turn into an emotional tearful performance. I think that is what they are avoiding. Li

Love this song just the way it is thank you for reaction

But the thing is, Namjoon never said they’ll never perform it, it’s just “a hard song”. I think BTS is capable of this song. They’ve shown us some pretty awesome live performances and they’re still evolving.

I dunno if anyone's said this yet, but in a Vlive he did he said it was also a really emotional song and they weren't confident they could do it properly and control the emotions as well as make it sound good, like you said. I don't remember which it was, but it was when they were in the old building, it was around the time of the pande I think. This song and We are Bulletproof: The Eternal make me tear up every time. If they come up in shuffle while I'm in public I have to skip them. LOL

One of my favorite of all time. I still hope for there come back they will reviste this song. Thank you john.

the first ever song I added to my playlist. It really gives me goosebumps

I appreciate your perspective and it makes all the sense in the world. I think staging this song would mean revising it to some extent - totally possible, but a challenge. So much of its magic is in the production and wouldn't translate. That said, I would love to see a stripped-down live studio performance, the way they've done for a few other songs, just them and some microphones and a small band. No backing track. I think it would be a really haunting performance - and that setup would help overcome some of those technical difficulties. I know a lot of folks are saying they're avoiding the emotional content, but I haven't seen them shy away from emotional songs. They performed Spring Day in Busan - and Butterfly - as they said goodbye to us for a few years. They cry onstage. And they have quite a few songs that are about heartbreak and grief. I think this one just slipped through the cracks - it was meaningful, they recorded it, but then they moved on. It wasn't written for the stage and they knew that. It really is gorgeous though.

One of THE songs!! 💜

I totally love Louder Then Bombs, but at the end I love all BTS SONGS, lol 💜💜💜

RM nos dijo en un live que nunca iban a cantar Louder than boms en vivo porque era muy dificil, yo creo que se referia a que es dificil en el sentido emocional, ya que interpretativamente como dices han hecho canciones mas demandantes, asi quw creo que tiene que ver con algo emocional, quisa esta canción revela alguna temporada dificil u oscura para ellos. Jungkook nos canto solo un pedacito en su live de cumpleaños, eso es lo mas cercano que tendremos a louder than boms en vivo, incluso manifestamos esta cancion para los conciertos pasados, pero no se pudo.

Они уже пели её в прямом эфире))) и это супер 👍👍👍лайв концерт был.

Love your perspective as a musician and singer as to why LTB wouldn't translate the same way live. I always thought LTB would sound amazing with a full orchestra. The rise and fall of each verse. The crescendo of the chorus and the end complimented by strings. Just a fantasy at this point. LOL

ARMY would love to hear and see this song live But the vocals are really hard

i realllllly wish they would sing this live in their first stage performance 2025.............a surprise for fans something like that.....heheheh

Mmmm I was sure I had seen them live singing this song... but now I can't find the video... Thanks for your reaction! This song is sooooo beautiful!!!

This song in particular is a Master Pice of BTS thenks for this reaction

Watched this from a surgical bed, didnt want to wait for this one!!

One of my favorites. Always gets me emotional.

My 7 yr old absolutely loves this song. I do also enjoy it, I think it's quite pretty. Personally I think Jimin's high vocals (my kiddos favorite) and Jin's might be unnatural or more forced? Idk. I watched a concert vid with my little and noticed Jimin tends to have a deeper voice live. It makes me wonder if Jin and Jimin has the "machine pressed" vocals, meaning the production, management etc kind of forces them to sing higher. 🤔 idk. I know nothing about what I'm talking about, but I do know specifically Jimin seems he's likely naturally a tone lower than what he sings in. I really love the chorus. It's easy to get stuck in my head for weeks, it's just beautiful.

So beautiful!

It is the dream of us seeing BTS performing this live. Spectacular song.

I love this song! But of course I love all their songs 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I love this song!!

Loved this assessment! Thx!

I love this song. Thank you for your reaction. And you’re right, ARMY loves BTS regardless if that song were to come across in a concert a little soggy. We all know how talented they are and what they’re capable of. And we also know that they’re human who are not exempted from making honest mistakes. So we can accept that they would prefer to give the best performance for all their songs. Thanks again, and wishing you and your family a blessed Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year! 🫰🏼💜

I bet, that they are keeping LTB hostage for 2025 comeback 😄 Boys know that we REALLY want to heart it live! Good things are worth waiting for! I just really hope that LTB won't end up like Paradise 😄

absolutely this song is one of my favorites i love it so much 💜💜💜💜❤

Hi, I am back. Good reaction, ty. Love this song. It's a top 10 for sure. I love the fact that it's such an emotionally raw song. It's stunningly beautiful. A live of this would be fab. I feel like it's for them and us. It's a fav. What a masterpiece! I agree with u. They can pull this off. It's just a lot of work and practice. hugs. ---NY USA Army 💜 Hauntingly beautiful about them finding purpose to keep going, Elina said on 8.11.21 'Louder Than Bombs' was co-written with artist Troye Sivan, apart from RM, SUGA, j-Hope and other professional contributors. This song appears to be symbolizing the loudness of bombs to two things: pain and success. In the first chorus, BTS say how they go through a significant suffering, described as breaking louder than bombs. It can depict result or noise of how BTS took pain, fear, hardships as if those are bombs that dropped in the position of their height while moving past them, AND it also denotes having much louder cheer of success and chants of support as they carry on stronger, they're determined to achieve better days and greater things to come their way.

This is one of my most favourite BTS songs.

I think they could swing doing it live if it's not in front of a live audience. No need to worry about bouncing noise, making sure the audio is audible over a crowd, etc. They could do it almost like they have done their festa lives. Along with other songs they haven't done live as well. Like Paradise, Seas, Path. Wouldn't that be amazing?

Would they even recall this song 🥺😭😭 I just wish they would do a vid recording performance…….👉🏼👈🏼

Thank you for reacting. So che a beautiful and meaningful song. Merry Christmas from The Netherlands 👍💜🍀🤘🎄💪🇳🇱🌷🤗

BTS has another similar song " Look here". They perfomed this song twice in concerts in a small excerpt.

Kookie did tried to sing it a bit in one of his karaoke lives with army 💜 but he didn’t remember it so well rs There’s Paradise too, that because they know it by the Korean name, when army was asking for him to sing he wasn’t recognizing as one of their songs 😅

They asked JK to sing it live, and he had even forgotten the lyrics lol

I've watched lots of ur reaction vids over BTS before I wrote this. We're on the same boat 😂😂😂 I grew up in an underground music scene, played in several punk & hardcore bands, orginized some underground music gigs & sort, used to only listen to heavier music like punk rock, hardcore, metal, gothic rock, u name it. Now, I'm a mother of 3 & accidentally fell for BTS about 4 years ago. But I never regret that. Thankfully I have a very supportive husband who never look down on me for becoming an ARMY of BTS. He's also a musician & plays in some bands. We pretty much have the same taste of music as we live in the same scene since we were younger. But he really appreciates me for being part of BTS ARMY while some of my friends said that I was a "betrayer" 😂😂😂

love this song

LTB is so beautiful ! 💜

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Interesting!

I was waiting for this!

Top 5 BTS song for me. This song gooo HHHHHHAARRRDDD.

Thank you John for explaining that because I wondered why it would be so hard because I know RM said it would be but not why so thank you for this video!!!!!

Thank you for the reaction!

I hope they play this one live on their comeback 💜💜💜

My fav song

Thanks for explaining. One of my favorite songs by them. Still have hope...lol

I think the key is difficult and hard to sing live. I can't remember which member said that. They usually have a live band in concert. There are so many vocal layers they would probably need a backing track. ARMYs were hoping they would sing it at the BUSAN concert but now I think we will never hear it live. A new chapter... 💜

Yes I feel like it would be difficult to perform live bc it changes a lot like the beat and like just standing it singing it would look awkward in my opinion and dancing would make it so much harder live I’m not saying they can’t do it but like it’s just a difficult song to perform by itself bts or someone else but adding dancing to it would make it to much I can’t see dancing to this song idk why and just standing wouldn’t match the vibe of the song it has a sexy vibe but the lyrics are kind of sad so I think it would be to much to portray live

Maybe it's hard not just from a musicality standpoint. It may be an emotional one for them and they may not want to do that type of emotion on stage. Who knows. All I know is it's beautiful!

This song always makes me 😭

This song was written after RM read the life stories of the Army... This song seemed difficult to write emotionally, he wrote it over 3 months .... So feeling those emotions again on stage seemed too much I think....

I think they themselves didn't know the impact this song had on Armys. This is me speculating but I think by the time they realised how much Army wanted to see this live, they had the setlists for their upcoming concerts prepared so introducing this in it was probably difficult. Knowing BTS & how they tease armys with some of their releases I have a feeling that whenever they comeback as a group in or after 2025 to do a concert, they will probably do this song. Obviously it's a hard song to sing live but maybe who knows👀

I think they could do a good job of it in a setting like the NPR Tiny Desk Concert they did in 2020. But it definitely wouldn't resonate the same in an Arena, the sound would be all off.

I think from the video they did, they were surprised to hear Army wanted to hear this song. They were all shocked and said they would make sure to add it to their performances. But, I think that was very shortly before the enlistments when they had to pause everything. I think they can do this fine.

Thanks for your great reaction. I love this song so much. The vocals are amazing. My favourite members are the rap line with Suga my bias. His rap always adds drama and passion to a song. My favourite from the vocal line is Jimin because his ethereal vocals add a wonderful contrast to Suga's dramatic rap style. That is really evident in this song.

I always thought it was just too emotional for them to sing live.

Omg Louder than bombs!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉💜

They forget this song exist😆 i hope one day we get the opportunity to heard it live 💜

My favorite 😍 💜

They have promised to sing it live for us one day in a run bts episode and according to their in house choreographer he even has ideas for choreo 😅. We shall see

I love this song so much that I have a line from it tattoed under my bts flower.

100% agreed about the live band

When Namjoon said it was hard, I thought he meant that it's hard as in it's not their preferred vibe that they want to project or to perform for Army... 🤔

I want to hear louder than bombs live and also don’t leave me but they are really hard to sing and I know they would not choose a song that it’s not gonna be sang 100% perfect and even tho I’m kinda sad I love it about them because they always try to give us all and want perfection

I recommend "Truth Untold " live performance, it's really beautiful.

Thank you for your reaction, John. In episode 144 of Run BTS, an online survey of ARMY showed that the BTS song they want most to see performed is Louder than Bombs. I coulda told them, I was yelling "Louder than Bombs!" at the screen as soon as the question came up. The guys guessed wrong, by the way. This song is difficult to perform live for all the reasons you gave but I think the main problem has been that they just didn't have the time to give. This song is part of their album Map of the Soul: 7. In this same album are Dionysus, Make it Right, Black Swan, ON, Boy with Luv, Intro; Persona, We are Bulletproof the Eternal - 7 tracks that were actually performed live and 8 more in this album that were performed in their online concerts during Covid (plus Zero O'Clock which was performed in Busan) . You can see how LTB would fall down the priority list once you apply the bang-for-buck equation. Fact remains that I love this song and I've even fantasised that maybe if the group finds it too difficult then Jin can do it solo, dammit! He can use a different approach in the highs and lows and carry it off because his vocal timbre is such that it punches through even in soft low notes. Wouldn't it just be soooo wonderful if the guys decide that for their return in 2025 they will present ARMY with this much-longed for gift? We can dream.

I think there's more to it than you think this range has to be hard on their vocal chords, so it would have to be the first song the problem then becomes any following songs would suffer because they've worn-out their voice singing this one song, I can see them having cracking and possibly losing their voice (temporarily) altogether?

i always felt like it's just a lot of leg work for jimin in particular and he doesn't get much of a break going so high on that chorus and bts would rather things be more equal instead of completely straining one member in particular i feel like it might be easier if it was just one song and performance (kind of like what they did with mtv) but a whole concert might be tough because it's not a song to start out with to hype of the crowd and if it's the last song they will be all exhausted

I think it's just so personal to them they're afraid they'd get choked up.

May be one of the reason too is what is thier objective when performing live. As i know they don't want thier army sad because the louder than boms is emotional i think.

This is ARMY's *NUMBER ONE* top request for them to do live (it even came up in a Run BTS poll), but BTS kinda cringes every time it comes up. One of them (Suga, maybe?) has mentioned that it's pitched *really* high, even for them, and it does have a lot of close harmony and unusual intervals that it might be tough to nail live. I also have to wonder what choreo for it might look like... on the one hand, the music is pretty sexy with that almost sub-audible bass and those thick layered harmonies, but the lyrics are haunting and resolute, which doesn't match that vibe at all (part of what makes the song so amazing, to me). Tho' honestly, they could do it straight-up concert style and we'd be deliriously happy.

What is the channel of the video you are watching? I loved how well the distribution was done

Gracias amigo por explicar porque está hermosa canción seri muy difícil de tocar en un concierto 💜💜💜💜💜💜🇨🇱

I think live version can work in a studio session or small stage, sitting down

They are too perfectionist. I think BTS can perform the song but in a smaller setting stage vs concert stage. My opinion. And the song is so emotional.