The quietest song on Arirang might also be its most revealing. Jung Kook enters over a bare bass solo, and the performances that follow are the album’s most unguarded. The subject matter gives it an edge: the cycle of an idol system that built them and sometimes, they suggest, wears them down. “I’ve ridden this thing long enough/ Please take me out” is startlingly direct for a group forged on perseverance. Whispered rather than shouted, it only lands harder. [Source]