The group BTS has proved once again its solid global popularity as the music video for “I need u” has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube.
The music video “I need u” Official MV (Original ver.), title song of the 3rd mini-album “화양연화 PT.1” unveiled by BTS in May 2015, surpassed 200 million views on YouTube on the 23rd around 2:56 a.m.
This music video takes as its theme a precarious and lost youth, and densely captures the delicate and highly immersive emotional acting of the seven members. The original version, published with a classification rating restricted to under 19, has a longer broadcast duration of about 2 minutes compared to the existing version, and depicts even more realistically the raw and untransformed emotions of youth as well as the moments of difficult wandering, receiving constant love for a long time. Currently, the video of the existing version also records 250 million views, continuing a resounding double success.
“I need u”, which is an electro hip-hop track combined with an urban style, is a song where an oriental-style main theme tinged with lyricism and a wild hip-hop sound harmonize. It depicts the anxious heart trying to hold onto a love that is collapsing toward its end, and overlaps this love that burns ardently to ultimately cool down with a youth that blossoms beautifully but fades with time, receiving the critique of having perfectly expressed the main theme of the album, “화양연화”. In particular, this song is also a significant title that offered BTS, who debuted in 2013, the honor of its first place in a music show of a national television channel, providing a decisive springboard for dazzling growth.
On the other hand, BTS has placed the music videos of countless major hits such as “Dynamite”, “Boy with luv”, “Dna”, and “Mic drop” in the ranks of hundreds of millions of views. They are currently writing an unprecedented great record as the team possessing the highest number of music videos at hundreds of millions of views among Korean artists.
Journalist: Shawn
Translator: Shawn
Source: SNS BTS
