Jack In The Box - J-Hope (2022)

Ideated from: the wife, naturally.

Honestly, she’s taking the break-up pretty well. (“it’s not a break-up!” “sure, that’s what the Beatles said, too”). But on the plus side, there will probably be more total output of the BTS band members now that they don’t have to coordinate everything through the global brand.

FWIW I always think the BTS rappers are far more interesting than the singers. And there’s a lot of personality here. There are also some pretty slick beats, and while i didn’t look up translations, the flow is on point.

Tracks I Liked

STOP - a fun tune with a bizarre but charming mix of english words sprinkled into the lyric to give us non-Korean-speakers an idea of what’s going on.

What if… - Straight up Wu Tang, only without the burden of having to stretch to 6 minutes to get U-God some bars.

Arson - the single, in case you’ve managed to escape it. Pretty wicked.