Black Swan

Black Swan

BTS

The first promotional single from MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 album.

Over a delicate instrumental the R&B track recalls the pain of growing distant from one’s passions, in this case dancing. Throughout the song, there never seems to be a true climax, the vocals always distant yet there nonetheless. Fitting for the title of the song, a black swan is an event that happens unexpectedly, has extreme impact, and is something of human nature. The track also seems to reference the 2010 movie Black Swan about a ballerina struggling with her own sanity as her lead in the production of Swan Lake.

The release of the song was accompanied by an art film performed by MN Dance Company, which features an orchestral rearrangement of the song.

From an official press release note:

BTS dives deep into their inner selves as artists and faces the shadows they had once hidden. The song lends voice to their fears that one day music will no longer be able to move or touch them. The very moment they come face to face with the ‘Black Swan’ within themselves, however, they are stricken with a paradoxical realization that music is all they have. It is a confession of an artist who has truly learned what music means to himself.