It’s about to be a new year, but we’ll be listening to BTS on repeat every year. Ahead of the clock hitting 00:00 (spoiler alert), we’ve compiled seven BTS songs you need to be adding to any motivation playlists you’re prepping for the new year!
‘RUN BTS’
Could we have started this list, or our playlists, any other way? No BTS track gets us as instantly high-energy as ‘RUN BTS.’ A celebratory-almost-diss-track, this song from 2022’s Proof almost single-handedly got us through BTS’s hiatus.
‘Paradise’
Yes, we want to be super hyped for the new year, but it’s also important to remember to take it slow sometimes! ‘Paradise’ is a BTS song close to every ARMY’s heart, with one of their most inspiring messages. Yes, ‘RUN BTS,’ but also, “We don’t run without knowing the destination, it’s alright to not have a dream.”
‘Permission to Dance’
Guess what our number one hope for next year is? Seeing BTS on a world tour. There’s absolutely nothing more motivating than a BTS boogie, or convinces us to save up our spending money more than the prospect of trying to get our hands on tickets.
’00:00′
If you press play on ’00:00′ at 11:58:37pm on December 31, you’ll end the year with V saying, “when the minute and second hand align, the world pauses for a moment,” and begin the new year with Jimin singing “And you’re gonna be happy.” We did it last year, and truly cannot recommend it enough!
‘D-Day’
If, somehow, your BTS motivation playlist isn’t getting you feeling hopeful enough for the new year yet, we’ve got more. In ‘D-DAY,’ AGUST D valiantly declares, “Future’s gonna be okay,” over and over again. What could give you more hype energy than that?
‘Yet To Come’
Where ‘RUN BTS’ is, you’ll find ‘Yet To Come,’ too! Sweetly declaring that, no matter how good or bad the past may have been, “the best moment is yet to come.”
‘Still Life (with Anderson .Paak)’
The seventh and final BTS track on our new year motivation playlist is another solo track! ‘Still Life,’ by RM and Anderson .Paak, is a great reminder that we all contain multitudes and can’t be reduced to any one thing. Celebrate those different sides of yourself as we go into the new year!
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