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Nora Gonzalez

Julie Baker

English 1301

3-3-24

Bts Love Yourself: Answer album - Visual Analysis

This visual text is from a korean group called Bts in their

album Love Yourself: Answer. This group has several albums that

start with Love Yourself but this one expresses more about loving

oneself. The album cover has bright colors and includes a heart to

express self-love. Bts has shown and expressed in their album about

loving yourself truly. They have helped millions of people through

their music and even through speeches. That is their main objective

to reach more people and learn to love yourself even with your dislikes.

The cover created by Bts with its logo has been shown throughout social media. This cover

includes the big letters that are L and Y that abbreviate to Love Yourself. These two words by

themselves have created an impact in today’s world. It demonstrates an important message that is

intended to spread across the world. Their message is to get people to learn self love within their

music and be able to reach millions of hearts. With this being spread out, not only through social

media, music, platforms, or ads it can help people to hear and learn about this topic. It can grab

listeners attention not just within the music but by seeing the cover and the words Love Yourself.

That will be the first step to let people know about Bts and their message. Later seeking

information to be able to achieve that goal of self love. This visually can be a motivation to know

more about Bts album Love Yourself: Answer intended purpose.

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On the other hand, the lyrics in the songs have a deep meaning about learning to love

yourself and the members’ journey towards it. The album contains twenty-five tracks with

meaningful lyrics to reach the audience’s emotions. Through their music it gives an insight of

their own experience with that same struggle. Bts have given fans hope and showed them that

everyone struggles to love oneself. In some lyrics it states that we wish to be like others and that

we dislike ourselves. Also mentioned the point that we hate ourselves that we don’t even know

who we are. Their lyrics put us in that situation because we can relate and further engage

ourselves with our own feelings to later let them go. For example, one lyric states, “let’s admit

what we have to admit, the standards you put are harsher on yourself.” Meaning that we are

stating our hate towards oneself and putting ourselves in a hard situation. To have an inside that

we aren’t born to be perfect but to be ourselves. To learn to love ourself inside and out and to

accept our non-likeable traits. It will be a journey when we learn to do so, but we would have

succeed in loving ourselves.

Bts has an important contribution with their Love Yourself: Answer album and it has

impacted the world with their music. This korean group has always had an intended message and

that was to Love Yourself. They have a fandom called the Army and they have provided lots of

love towards Bts. By providing posts and listening to their songs on various platforms to make

Bts recognized in the United States. Army has made a gateway for Bts songs to get listened to

and let people know about Bts Love Yourself: Answer album. Without this help, this message

wouldn’t have gotten across to millions of people. Many don’t know how to love oneself and

struggle to do so. But by listening to Bts through their platforms with the support of Army

getting that information out. Now millions of people have listened to Bts message and are
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learning to love themselves. They have learned that Bts also had the same issue but have hope

and enthusiasm because if they have done it, then it’s not impossible to achieve. Learning to love

yourself is a struggle and also accepting your dislikes about yourself. But Bts helps people step

by step with their music by reaching into their hearts. Once the majority of the people understand

and listen to the lyrics, it helps to relate and to learn self love. And listening to the music over

and over will make that message be achieved.

In conclusion, Bts has several albums but none other stands out like Bts Love Yourself:

Answer album. This group has an international message intended to reach millions of hearts and

provides dedication towards it. They have been promoting self-love through their music and

through different platforms and their goal is to spread that message worldwide. Teaching others

to learn to love yourself and that there are struggles in order to achieve it. Happiness can come

within those struggles to be able to get and maintain that self love for ourselves. Bts has even

mentioned in their lyrics that they have also struggled to learn self love. Their music has had an

impact not only to their fandom called Army but also to millions of people that has touched

them. Army has helped Bts’ music get recognized worldwide without this Bts intended message

of Love Yourself wouldn’t reach around the globe.

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Work Cited

Ocampo, Angeles. “Answer: Love Myself’ by BTS Promotes Self Love.” Tri,

tricolortimes.com/4615/a-e/reviews/answer-love-myself-by-bts-promotes-self-love/. 22 Feb.2024