BTS Eighth Member | The Life: Year 2014

Chapter 6- Boy In Luv MV Recording

Author's Note at the End :)

January 17th, 2014:

We performed at the Golden Disk Awards yesterday and even won the Best Rookie of the Year award. We were just as surprised as when we had won it previously. It really started feeling like all our hard work was paying off. Hopefully, with these awards, we would get more recognition and be able to release a full-length album soon.

While we practiced for the award shows, we were also finishing our new album for a comeback on February 12th. We had pretty much everything recorded, the photos taken, the choreo made, and the mv was being shot today and tomorrow.

This album was much more focused on love, and I was to be the center of it all. For the music video for Boy in Luv, which was the title track, I would be the girl the boys were chasing as written in the song. However, we had written so my lines, which were sprinkled throughout the song, would answer their questions on "why I was shaking up their hearts" or "why I kept teasing them" from the perspective of the girl. The answers were stereotypical, but meant to be interpreted sarcastically if one truly understood the song. Therefore, throughout the music video, I would not act all lovey dovy with the boys, but act like the stereotypical tough girl. We hoped the contrast between my actions in the music video and the lyrics would start people talking about how toxic the representation of love society gives high schoolers can be, for both girls and boys.

I was currently passed out in the makeup chair in the designated lounge area for the music video. Yoona was holding my head up as a makeup artist touched up my makeup and a hairstylist straightened my now red-dyed hair. I was suddenly awoken by a loud noise.

"Boys! You have to be more careful!" shouts Yoona, letting my head drop quickly, waking me up even more.

I slowly turn around to see Seokjin and Jungkook with their hands in front of them politely getting scolded by Yoona for making a makeup bag fall off a table because they were wrestling each other.

"I think you're finally done Y/N," my makeup artist says, dotting the brush one last time before stepping back to admire her work.

I tell you; these makeup artists are true magicians. She was able to turn a sleep-deprived mushroomed nose teenager into what one would expect an experienced, plastic surgery altered idol to be. True magic.

I get out of the chair and thank the artist, bowing, before leaving the room through the door Yoona had shooed Seokjin and Jungkook through. We were recording in a warehouse-like building in January, so everyone was wearing their big winter jackets, and some staff even hat hats and gloves. I, as the proud Canadian I was... was still wearing my winter jacket because I was only wearing a thin button-up shirt and a short skirt and therefore my legs were freezing, and my long jacket was my only protection against the cold.

"The beauty has awoken! Where is the prince that woke her up!" says Namjoon sarcastically.

"Over there," I mutter, still half-asleep, pointing to Jungkook and Seokjin that had restarted to wrestle outside the lounge. Namjoon laughs patting my head and as usual, I try to dodge it.

"Bangtan members! Please join me on the set!" the director shouts.