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In a livestream by RM, he said:

The tempo is too ambiguous. Hoseok (J-Hope), Yoongi (Suga) and I said it was hard to write the rap lyrics, but we managed to do it. This song is so nice. Don’t you like it? I only changed several letters and pronunciation to make it sound better and easier to sing. Bobby Chung wrote most of the lyrics.

Many fans think this is the killing point/highlight of the song, [and] I think this is the best part of the song [too]: “내 실수로 생긴 흉터까지 다 내 별자린데” (“Even all the scars from your mistakes make up your constellation”). This part, and “내 숨 내 걸어온 길 전부로 답해” (“I’ll answer with my breath, my path”). “저 수많은 별을 맞기 위해 난 떨어졌던가 / 저 수천 개 찬란한 화살의 과녁은 나 하나” (“Maybe I fell in order to take the place of those countless stars / The target of thousands of bright arrows is me alone”).

I usually review the lyrics as the final step. I sing it, change the pronunciation and provide alternatives. When I got the lyrics of this song, I found there was nothing to change. The lyrics were so perfect. I’ve never seen lyrics that I didn’t need to correct. Bobby Chung did a great job. I wanted to find an alternative, but there was no better alternative. The vocalists (Jin, Jimin, V and Jungkook) showed their abilities and their improvement in this song. Expression, voice color and the tone – I’m not a vocal trainer, but I was touched when they sang this song.

This song will make you want to love yourself more. We sing this song together at the ending of our concert. It’s so emotional, it makes me feel emotional. Why I stand here, why I worked so hard – it makes me think about many things. […] This song comforts me when I have doubts about myself. I may have made a mistake yesterday, but the me yesterday is still me. It’s still me when I lack something today. It’s still me if I get better tomorrow. It’s easy to give advice but it’s hard to apply it to my situation. But, I believe you will become great when you apply lessons-learned to your situations.

Even though it’s tiring and exhausting, sometimes we want to be lazy, it’s not easy to apply, but we need to carve ourselves into a great statue. That’s the life we need to live. I believe this song is a good milestone for it. Like my lyrics, “그저 날 사랑하는 일조차 / 누구의 허락이 필요했던 거야” (“It’s just that loving myself / Doesn’t require anyone else’s permission”). We need to build a world like that. If we can’t change the world, we need to change ourselves.

I can [only] love myself when he or she does this to me. That’s the saddest thing. I guess that’s the thing my friends, some parts of me, and many people wander to find the answer to. Some people seek the answer from relationships, from their girlfriends or boyfriends. When their partner says they’re pretty, or they love them or like them, they feel they are worthy of enjoying a life.

I guess some people may not like this song, because it sounds like CCM (contemporary Christian music). When you hear it by opening your heart, you will realize this song has a perfect four parts – beginning, development, turn and conclusion. As a result, when we say that this album has a big frame, “Answer: Love Myself” puts a dot as the great finale. The title is a bit sassy, but it presents the answer in a great way for our search in life. This isn’t the right answer. It can be correct or not. I think this is the best answer in my search for music. I think it’s the closest one to the answer.