Dark & Wild Tracklist
In their first studio album in a year and two months, BTS sings about love gone awry in DARK & WILD. They warn the girl who acts like she doesn’t love them not to test their love anymore.
The boys are no longer in their school uniforms. They have become tougher, singing that their love is not to be treated lightly. A year and two months into their debut, BTS made sure that the visuals, performance and all the elements of their first studio album are flawless. Tracks that highlight the different genres of hip hop—South, West, Boom Bap and Trap—provide a clear direction of BTS' music. The title track “Danger” is a tightly-composed hybrid hip hop song with a piercing punk-rock guitar sound that features stark rap, a powerful hook and exhilarating shouting.
The album contains fourteen tracks. The third track on the album, “War of Hormone”, was later promoted as a secondary single.
“Dark & Wild” Q&A
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Album Translations
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What have the artists said about the album?
In an unboxing of the Dark&Wild album (English translation of unboxing here) by Suga, one of the members of BTS, he said:
This is BTS' first regular album. […] It’s an album made with a lot of effort. […] With the end of the school trilogy and “Boy in Luv”… how should I say this… Rather than the image of a student, we wanted to show a more manly image, so it turned out to be like this.
[…] Rather than secret stories (T/N: Referring to the songs in the album), it’s more of what we want to say.
[…] I think that we worked twice as hard for this album compared to any of our previous ones. Of course as busy as we were, we had to work on our songs as well, everyone did their parts. Since it is our first regular album after all, there are really a lot of songs invested into it.
[…] When I was preparing for this album, it was really hard work. In the process of preparing for this album, we filmed American Hustle Life, writing lyrics on the plane flying back and forth. The ones I still remember now are “Cypher”, “Blanket Kick” and “24/7=heaven”. These three songs were really written in the skies, I wrote them in the sky. It was really written on the way back to Korea from Brazil. Even on the way back from filming American Hustle Life, in any recordings, I was writing too.
It really is an album with a lot of effort. Honestly to see an idol’s album consisting of 14 tracks is something you don’t see often, right? It was to showcase the capacity of our music [abilities] and mature side to everyone, so there was some greed in doing so.
No matter what, it’s our first full album, our first album that’s very meaningful. It wasn’t just us, the company staff members also worked really hard on this album. It’s an album that fits my taste and I personally really like. The response was pretty good considering all the hard work we put into producing it. To me, this album is one worth remembering.
