BTS new album ARIRANG was a collaborative labor of love for the band, with at least a few members credited as songwriters on every single track. But according to Jung Kook, there’s one thing about the creative process that he’s still kicking himself for months later.
In a candid moment from his individual interview with Rolling Stone posted Monday (April 20), the boy band’s youngest member opened up about his feelings toward co-writing four of the 14 songs on ARIRANG. “I don’t know if I would call it pride?” he began. “But I did feel really great.”
“It’s been a long time since we chose the songs and everything, but there’s one thing I still think about, which is: Why didn’t I do a little more?” Jung Kook continued. “Two months is a really long time. Couldn’t I have done more?”
He added, “I have a lot of regrets about that.”
The singer may wish he’d done more, but he and his bandmates clearly had a lot on their plate already with the making of ARIRANG. Jung Kook personally helped pen the tracks “Alien,” “FYA,” “2.0” and “Hooligan,” all four of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.
Of the lattermost, Jung Kook recalled to the publication how he “came up with the flow immediately” after hearing the beat and instantly “got to work” crafting the hook. When his bandmates voted to include “Hooligan” on the LP, he says it “felt awesome … that rocked.”
ARIRANG is currently on its third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It marks the septet’s first full-length as a group since 2020; BTS is now on a massive global stadium tour in support of the comeback.
Watch Jung Kook’s full conversation with Rolling Stone above.
