What Is the Message Behind Each BTS Solo Project?

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( taxonomies [What Is the Message Behind Each BTS Solo Project?]( Analyzing all the post-“hiatus” releases and rollouts. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Where were you when the four-way military enlistment dropped? Last month, HYBE announced that RM, V, Jimin, and Jung Kook were the final members of BTS to start their mandatory stint in the South Korean armed forces. This meant the group actually had to go on a break. BTS previously announced a [“hiatus”]( in June 2022, but each of the seven members — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook — went on to drop solo music afterward. And sure, that’s technically not new — they’ve all released individual songs before, from separate tracks on group albums to OSTs to their own mixtapes. But their solo debuts in 2022 and 2023 were official, arriving with full rollouts and performances (and in one case, a solo tour). It was our first introduction to how the Tannies operate as individual artists. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • For All Mankind: [Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars]( • The Curse: [It’s a Small World]( • Reacher: [And Russo It Goes]( • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: [Final Wars]( • The Golden Wedding: [True Love, Brought to You By Amazon]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Transcendent Society of the Snow Has Existential Bite Not since Martin Scorsese’s Silence has a film so thoughtfully considered what faith can, and can’t, do.]( By Roxana Hadadi [Put a Bow on 2023: How Online Were You in December? Three tweet threads, two Grok AIs, and a Deux Moi vs. a rare Tree.]( By Kate Lindsay [Historians Vibe-Check The Gilded Age Peggy Scott, newspaperwoman? “You do find autonomous women like that.” Russell’s striking workers? “Fanciful in pretty much every respect.”]( By Erin Schwartz [The 8 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend The Golden Globes are back, and so is Drag Race.]( By James Grebey and Savannah Salazar [11 Signs You’re Watching an Edgy Comedy Special None of them will shock you.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Start Making Your Reservations for The White Lotus Season 3 One ticket to Thailand for 2025, please. Tell Parker Posey we’re on our way. And book that spa manager we love.]( By Rebecca Alter [23 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2024 Adams’s El Niño, the Weimar Republic’s artistic richness, and Rachmaninoffamania.]( By Justin Davidson [Vili Fualaau Says May December Could’ve Been ‘a Masterpiece’ “If they had reached out to me …”]( By Zoe Guy [Katt Williams Scorches the Earth and Every Comedian on It “What do you mean ain’t no gatekeepers? There’s a hundred gates out here. Every one I seen got a keeper.”]( By Craig Jenkins and Hershal Pandya [A Peloton Instructor Got the Tenet Discourse Spinning Again She did like Oppenheimer, though.]( By Jennifer Zhan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 31-Across, Five Letters: Whence Brit drag queen Cheryl Hole Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett, Getty A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved