BTS Honors Their Roots and Looks to the Future on Long-Awaited ‘Arirang’: A Track-By-Track Breakdown

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It’s been three years and nine months since the last BTS album — don’t bother to ask who’s counting; there’s millions of fans around the world who have been counting the seconds until this very moment.

Arirang, the highly anticipated fifth studio album from the seven-member trailblazing K-pop group, and its lead single, “Swim,” arrived Friday (March 20). In the years since the last BTS album, all seven members of the group, consisting of RM, Jin, Suga, J-hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, have released solo bodies of work and completed their mandatory South Korean military service enlistment.

Fans of the group, collectively known as ARMY, have been waiting in anticipation as each member was discharged over the last year, setting the stage for the group’s return. BTS, never one to shy away from standing in the spotlight they worked hard to earn, has seemingly taken over

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