Jungkook Frankly Addresses The Issue Of Laziness In Songwriting In “Golden” On Livestream

With the release of the first solo album in his career and quickly achieving great achievements in the first hours, Jungkook became the focus of media attention these days. Despite this, he also faced negative accusations about lacking...in his own albums.

Some accusations began to spread around the time "Golden" was released, comparing Jungkook to the other members of the group as they were largely involved in the album's production while Jungkook was less. Some people even think that Jungkook seems lazy and lacks interest in producing music.

These accusations are clearly untrue, but Jungkook still faced them frankly and quickly resolved them in his most recent live broadcast:

Jungkook has finally released his highly anticipated first album, "Golden" and praise has started pouring in for his impressive songs. While response to Jungkook's album has been mostly positive since its announcement, some have criticized it for lacking artists in the writing credits.

Some have pointed out that the album features largely professional musicians such as Andrew Watt, Cirkut, Major Lazor, Ed Sheeran, etc. and Jungkook rarely appears in the songwriting credits of his own album. Most of the previous BTS members who released their albums were largely involved in the songwriting process. Therefore, unreasonable accusations such as Jungkook losing enthusiasm for music, being lazy in composing, and lacking talent in songwriting... began to spread on social networks.

Even a line describing Jungkook and his new album on "Apple Music" made fans angry. They wrote: "Unlike other members of the Grammy- nominated septet BTS, Jung Kook has shown little interest in songwriting or producing" but in reality, Jungkook has had many compositions by himself throughout BTS's career.

It seems like Jungkook also anticipated these accusations or actually saw them and decided to address them directly through a chat with his fans. He mentioned that at the moment he has nothing significant in mind that he wants to write. As a human being, he explains, he is not one to hold back his past experiences and therefore, he “has nothing to express.” “Is it because I'm simple?”, Jungkook wondered aloud.

Jungkook honestly admits that he has not yet learned how to let go of his worries or frustrations to write poetically, which is a prerequisite for being able to compose. This realization also makes him respect his members, like RM, j-hope and SUGA, who compose the most songs in the group.

But even so, he sweetly affirms that no matter what he writes, it ultimately focuses on ARMY and he loves it that way. He said: "How do I say this? I don't hold onto things for a long time. Is it because I'm simple? The data is collected. I don't know. I think I'm different. I'm very much like me. I can't do this at all. That's why Namjoon, Yoongi and j-hope... They're all cool for writing their own song. There's nothing to say but If I do, it would be to you. It'll become a fan song then. I just like that".

On the other hand, in an interview with The Atlantic, Jungkook also frankly shared that collaborating with other musicians instead of producing his own songs is a good way for him to develop personally. other of yourself. He accepted the fact that he was not good at composing music after trying to study and try it. He expressed: "As I grew up, I came to terms with reality and started accepting what I’m not good at or what I don’t have to do. At this moment, there’s nothing I want to write about. So I was thinking, ‘Do I really need to invest my time into creating a song from the beginning to the end?’"

In this way, he puts his trust in his musicians and takes the time to hone his sk̾i̾l̾l ̾s as a singer, experiment with techniques and perfect his live singing sk̾i̾l̾l ̾s. It was also a way for him to be involved in the production of his album. Everyone must admit that his voice accounts for half of his album's success and no one can blame Jungkook in this regard.

Meanwhile, anyone familiar with Jungkook's songwriting credits knows that he is much more humble than he lets on. Jungkook has written and produced many songs on BTS's discography as well as for his unofficial releases such as Magic Shop, Still With You, Euphoria, Run, We Are Bulletproof pt.2, No More Dream, Spring Day, Not Today, My You...

So, Jungkook doesn't necessarily have less talent in this area or is lazy as unfounded accusations, but he knows how to focus on his greater strengths for Golden. It was truly a mature and wise move on his part to create a perfect album as gold!