{"id":10301,"date":"2021-07-30T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=10301"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:45:54","slug":"rm-revealed-which-artist-was-his-inspiration-to-enter-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/rm-revealed-which-artist-was-his-inspiration-to-enter-music\/","title":{"rendered":"RM revealed which artist was his inspiration to enter music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children and teenagers dream of an artistic career because of the idols of K-Pop.<\/p>\n<p> But <strong>RM<\/strong>, a member of <strong>BTS<\/strong> , decided to get into music inspired by an artist from Canada: rapper <strong>Drake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>Drake was the one who made me think I could sing in 2009 too (laughs) and that&#8217;s what brought me here. In the past, I wanted to do something like Drake. He influences Western music as the musical style he is after changes.<\/p>\n<p> But since I don&#8217;t live my life the way they do, I can&#8217;t make exactly the same music they do<\/strong><\/em>\u201d RM spoke in an interview with Weverse Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>RM also spoke about the <strong>demand<\/strong> and <strong>pressure<\/strong> he faced behind the scenes in the industry throughout his life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charts_k\/status\/1420942542493949975?s=19\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[Weverse Magazine] RM: \u201cI hope I\u2019m on my way somewhere\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8UJ5xoApm\">https:\/\/t.co\/w8UJ5xoApm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iw09vK2bAf\">pic.twitter.com\/iw09vK2bAf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS Charts &amp; Translations (@charts_k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charts_k\/status\/1420942542493949975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>From advancing a little more or making music that stands out better, smaller things like my rap technique, to bigger things like trends<\/strong><\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>I wanted to be good at rap and I wanted some recognition. In that sense, you could say that [the song] &#8216;Bicycle&#8217; is quite challenging. I wanted to release a song to celebrate the PARTY, but the subject is really important to me specifically<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, RM also <strong>talked<\/strong> about his decision to talk to fans about the difficult period that BTS faced between 2015 and 2017, even considering the \u201c<em><strong>disband<\/strong><\/em>\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>That&#8217;s why I want to be as honest with ARMY as I can be, almost obsessively<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>They say that can&#8217;t happen in the K-pop world, and there&#8217;s a good faith aspect to it because I don&#8217;t want to worry the fans, but I want to tell them about the things we&#8217;ve been through as much as I can. Another reason I talked about that time was that I wanted to pay my debts to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p> Going over this story as if it never happened would be like saying &#8216;it&#8217;s not us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p> And because it&#8217;s in the past. I think since it&#8217;s in the past, and since we&#8217;re doing well now, and since those days were clearly needed, I think we have to be able to talk about how difficult a time like this was<\/strong><\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children and teenagers dream of an artistic career because of the idols of K-Pop. But RM, a member of BTS , decided to get into music inspired by an artist from Canada: rapper Drake. \u201cDrake was the one who made me think I could sing in 2009 too (laughs) and that&#8217;s what brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":10305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}