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Did BTS' V push Jungkook for his new song 'Stay'? K-Pop star wins Army's hearts with 'real family' comments

'You know how you don’t feel it when you live with your family, but if you can’t see them for a long time, you miss them. You might even cry. We’re a real family. Like, legit!' Jungkook shared

In a series of ‘Weverse’ interviews, BTS members are getting candid about their journey, music and career, and in the latest edition, the supergroup's youngest member, Jeon Jung-kook aka Jungkook, opened his heart out. He went on to call his band "a real family", while also sharing the story behind his latest produced song ‘Stay’ in ‘BE’ – BTS’ comeback album, which released on November 20.

The biggest K-pop band in the world is also undoubtedly the biggest boyband. BTS has been reigning the hearts of millions of fans – called Army – and interviews like these, exactly explain how! 

The ‘Euphoria’ singer, Jungkook, 23, revealed on the November 27 'Weverse' magazine interview that it was his group member and friend, V aka Kim Taehyung, who pushed him to put the song ‘Stay’ in ‘BE’ which was originally saved for his mixtape. The vocalist shared, “That song was originally meant to be on my mixtape. We planned to put a different song on the album, but after V heard it, he said, “This song that Jung Kook wrote is really good,” and then the other members all listened, said it was better than the other one, and somehow (laughs) “Stay” made it into the album. The message for the other song was also, “Even though we’re far apart, stay just where you are.” I wrote my song with the same theme so I loved that it was included in BE.”

The singer also talked about the huge impact of each member in their lives and career candidly admitting, “When I was a trainee, I saw the older members rapping and thought, “Wow, they’re so cool!” But now, after having spent every day together, I’ve forgotten about all that. (laughs) Sometimes I see the lyrics they wrote, see them dancing and hearing the things they say on stage, and think, “Oh, right. That is the kind of person they are. They’re a lot different now.” You know how you don’t feel it when you live with your family, but if you can’t see them for a long time, you miss them. You might even cry. We’re a real family. Like, legit!”

Jungkook shared that ‘BE’ only happened because the septet put each of their hearts in it and made it from scratch. He said, “We talked with the company over the outline of the album and organized our ideas together. That was our process for making songs. Then we’d listen to them together, and if we thought they weren’t great, we’d go back and work on them some more. The members would get together and say, “Hey, how about so and so do a unit song this time?” or, “What should it be about?” and share a lot of ideas that way.”

BTS’ intimate friendship and their extreme fondness for each other has always been a major point of the group’s popularity. Their honest and open communication with each other inspires millions as their fans army says. After the interview published, army has taken to Twitter to show how touched they are by Jungkook’s love for members.
A fan posted, “it’s just so devastating to read jungkook’s interview thinking about how bts literally raised him for 8 years. even though not biologically, they are his family” while another fan shared in all caps, “THE WEVERSE MAGAZINE OF JK AHHH THE MAN HE IS TODAY HE LOOKS SOO GOOD MY HEART. NO WHEN HE SAID BTS IS LEGIT LIKE FAMILY SERIOUSLY THEIR RELATIONSHIP AMAZES ME I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. I HOPE HE CAN ACHIEVE HIS GOAL OF DOING THINGS THAT WILL DEFINE HIMSELF AS JEON JUNGKOOK.” Another said, “JUNGKOOK CALLING BTS A LEGIT / REAL FAMILY HE IS THE PUREST BABIE HE JUST LOVES HIS HYUNGS A LOT OKAY.” Another fan shared, “No BTS is a family." ".. The way Jungkook says BTS is a Family for him, he literally grow up with the members at the young age he left his hometown to pursue his dream. they really raised jungkook”.