BTS Hints at New Album 'Arirang' and Grammy Ambitions in GQ Interview
BTS members discuss their upcoming album Arirang, their musical evolution, and their perspective on winning a Grammy in a recent interview.
BTS' long-awaited comeback is on the horizon, with their new album Arirang slated for release this spring. In a recent cover story for GQ, the members shared insights into what ARMY can anticipate from the LP and their feelings about potentially winning a Grammy.
Arirang, set to drop on March 20, will be the group's first full-length album since 2020's Be, which topped the Billboard 200 chart. Suga revealed that the album will showcase a "more mature side of BTS," featuring a diverse range of genres.
"What I can tell you is that it’s going to be quite different from the BTS albums and sounds that you’ve been listening to," he stated. "Being idol groups and boy bands and girl groups in the K-pop industry, it might feel like it’s a little bit restraining about the negative sides of life. But I think as artists and as individuals, you have to be able to express both the positive and the negative sides of life."
He added, "I think we are slowly heading that way because this album has a lot of introspection and thoughts. Things have changed, and we are still changing."
After individual solo projects and mandatory military service, Suga, RM, Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook reunited last summer, promising fans a new album and world tour in 2026.
Having previously been nominated for a Grammy in 2021, the question remains: is winning a Grammy still a goal for BTS?
"I don’t know," RM told GQ candidly. "Time has passed. There are a lot of K-pop-related nominees you see in the general field and, really, I want to send big applause for them." (In 2026, ROSÉ of BLACKPINK became the first K-pop soloist to be nominated in a general field category at the Grammys.)
"I mean, we’ll try," he added. "Maybe we’ll submit our album to the Grammys again. But I don’t know — we don’t want to be desperately eager for it … We don’t want to say anymore like, ‘Ah, man, we want the Grammys.’ I mean, it doesn’t mean that we really don’t want it — but we’ll try. But if not, then OK."
See BTS on the cover of GQ below.
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