{"id":162431,"date":"2026-03-23T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162431"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:09:51","slug":"dispatch-reports-bts-and-hybe-had-a-heated-argument-over-lyrics-in-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/dispatch-reports-bts-and-hybe-had-a-heated-argument-over-lyrics-in-arirang\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch reports BTS and HYBE had a heated argument over lyrics in \u201cARIRANG\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> presented their brand new album in four years, <em>\u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em> which was solely focused on showing the K-Culture. However, BTS\u2019s music agency, HYBE, had other plans in mind when it came to shaping the concept of the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The album received mixed criticism from K-Netizens, stating the heavy use of English lyrics, while reducing the Korean influence that everyone loves. However, <strong>BTS actually had to push back against their own company to keep Korean lyrics in the album<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRig7JvOpWg\" title=\"BTS: THE RETURN | Documentary | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRig7JvOpWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On March 24 KST, Dispatch reported that while the A&amp;R team suggested writing lyrics in English to appeal to a global audience, <strong>the members insisted on keeping more lyrics in Korean<\/strong>. Ultimately, the idols were presenting a Korean concept, with almost non-existent Korean words.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cWe need to include more Korean lyrics,<strong> even if just in the rap<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS presented their brand new album in four years, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d which was solely focused on showing the K-Culture. However, BTS\u2019s music agency, HYBE, had other plans in mind when it came to shaping the concept of the comeback. The album received mixed criticism from K-Netizens, stating the heavy use of English lyrics, while reducing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162431","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162436,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162431\/revisions\/162436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162431"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=162431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}