Since HYBE has grown and expanded its corporate form by adding labels, fans have seen several new groups born after the success of BTS. They are also one of the most popular groups today, notably two girl groups Le Sserafim and New Jeans.
These are also the two groups that BTS members have combined in their dance challenge when releasing new solo songs. Typically, SUGA used to dance with 2 female members of these groups when debuting Haegeum.
Not only that, but recently, on his personal radio show, SUGA also shared her love for the songs of these two girl groups. In particular, SUGA also revealed that some BTS members use these two girl groups' songs as a way to get motivated to exercise:
According to many industry insiders, after a long time when Kpop was dominated by boy groups, the future, Kpop will be returned to the golden age of girls. That's also why newly-debuted girl groups are receiving so much love right now.
One of the outstanding girl groups in the Gen 4 generation is Le Sserafim and New Jeans of HYBE. With нιтs that continuously reached high rankings on charts such as Antifragile, Fearless or OMG, Ditto, Hype Boy, etc., these two girl groups quickly won the hearts of fans, among them there were also some fans, especially BTS members.
Recently, during his weekly radio show on Apple Music, SUGA revealed TMI about how much BTS members love girls' music in the fourth episode that was just released on May 9. Usually, SUGA often plays his favorite songs by other US-UK artists like Bruno Mars, Hans Zimmer or Celine Dion.
But in this new performance episode, fans were surprised when a song by a K-Pop girl group unєхpєctєdly made the list. Specifically, it was right after playing “Talking To The Moon” by Bruno Mars that SUGA introduced his second favorite song, “Antifragile” by Le Sserafim. But before playing the track, he shared an interesting TMI about girl group music from his perspective.
SUGA said that he likes to listen to songs like “Antifragile” while practicing. He then goes into detail explaining how true athletes are always listeners to girl groups.
He even provided examples from his personal life, saying that there are people he knows who bench press 120-130 kgs to the tunes of Le Sserafim or NewJeans...This made ARMYs extremely excited because it sounded so new that no member had ever revealed this before.
SUGA actually said that: "Do you know? True sportsmen listen to girl group music. Really, it's true. People around me who work out a lot, who do 120~130 kg bench press, I asked what are you listening to, They said Le Sserafim and New Jeans. For real!(x3) said they listen to Le Sserafim's Antifragile".
ARMYs immediately circled who are the "people" that SUGA was referring to. BTS has two very obvious gym rats, one is RM and the other is Jungkook. Interestingly, both members showed their appreciation for the groups that SUGA mentioned many times before.
Fans immediately went back to a moment when RM was deeply moved by NewJeans' live performance at the W кσяєα party…
Meanwhile, Jungkook has shown his love for songs by Le Sserafim and New Jeans many times during his live broadcast. He couldn't stop singing along to both groups' songs as he swayed to the funky tunes.
In addition to the fact that Le Sserafim's music influences the members' sports practice, SUGA also mentioned that he likes "Antifragile", especially since it has various äďďïċẗïṿệ parts. Fans of both groups are now hoping that in return for BTS' affection for his music, Le Sserafim will soon appear on SUGA's YouTube show, Suchwita, with real interactions.
Fans are now very excited by SUGA's comments:
- yoongi listening to antifragile = le sserafim on suchwita next
- STREETS SAYING YOONGI PLAYED ANTIFRAGILE IN HIS APPLE MUSIC RADIO??? I THINK WE ARE ONE STOP CLOSER TO LE SSERA GUESTING IN SUCHWITA KSMDKSLDLW
- Ohh thats the person he has been with for 13 years
- just say joon
- anti fragile is so äďďïċẗïṿệ idk if it's made on top on my Spotify lol
- he can’t even say namjoon
- we have the same taste, i like newjeans and le sserafim a lot too. their new song unforgiven is also good
- We know Joon likes New Jeans so no surprise who he’s referring to lol
- "one i've been with for 13 years, and the other one i pick up in school when he was still a kid" yeah yeah, we have no idea who they are
- Namjoon and Jungkook in the list
- That "120-130 kg bench press" is kinda made me...kookie
- He's just talking about Namjoon or Jungkookie