"The woman on the boat was our ARMY" BTS "Swim" got 440,000 comments with 12.61 million views in 5 hours [K-EYES]

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The music video for BTS' title song "SWIM" surpassed 12.61 million views in five hours after its release at 1 p.m. on the 20th, drawing explosive reactions from fans around the world. The number of comments on YouTube exceeded 445,000 in an instant, and I like it The number has exceeded two million.

Pre-orders for the Hive physical album of the album "Arirang" exceeded 4 million copies, and 1 million copies were sold within 10 minutes of its release based on the Hanteo chart.

YouTube was also excited.The official YouTube account (@YouTube) directly commented, "this. is. everything. ARMY WE ARE SO BACK" and received 140,000 likes. Fans scrambled to continue relay comments saying, "I'll watch it again whenever someone clicks like on this comment," some of which have received thousands to tens of thousands of likes. "SWIM - Song of the Year / ARIRANG - Album of the Year / BTS - Artist of the Year," @foryouthd wrote, garnering 89,000 sympathies.

Immediately after its release on the iTunes US chart, a number of songs such as "Swim", "Body to Body", "Hooligan", "FYA", "Normal", and "Aliens" occupied the top ranks at the same time.

"The woman on the boat was ARMY"

The main topic of this music video was definitely the interpretation of the fans. In the music video, Hollywood actor Lili Reinhart appears to play a woman wandering on a vast ship on the sea, and seven BTS members silently appear as sailors leading the ship. Fans didn't see this composition as just a narrative.

@succreyoongi tweeted: "Women on board represent us (ARMY). BTS isn't physically there, but they're with us on our journey. They will be here despite our pain and difficulties," he wrote. YouTube comment @Foxesandpoems also received 44,000 likes for interpretation in the same context. "They are on the ship like ghosts, and the woman senses them but cannot reach them. BTS called the song the ultimate love song for ARMY, and this metaphor is especially heartbreaking."

Fan @HanSeungChul-n4d also wrote in English on YouTube, "SWIM is a song that does not lose itself and moves on in the flow. And it drew attention by writing, "Within it lives the echo of the eco of an exciting song of light — Arirang."

"To us who waited for 4 years"

The fans' emotions did not cover the whole world. South Africa fanbase account @JkSouthAfrica said, "It's a movie-like experience. "Visual, vocal and storytelling are all on a different level (Alital Cinematic Experience)," said Brazilian fan @PortalMinYoongi, who wrote in Portuguese, "QUEM EU SOOU DEPOIS DE SWIM," drawing sympathy from fans. @KarinaNunezCanchanas received 95,000 likes by writing, "Fandom hug to all the fans who remained until the end."

The backstory of the members also became a hot topic. Fan account @dreamjeons wrote, "When I went to LA, Jungkook was as shy as he was when he was 15"Thera" shared the members' conversations, and when V revealed that "Jungkook cried watching KDH (K-pop Demon Hunters), Jungkook explained, "I was sad that the male protagonist died."

BTS will hold a comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square on the 21st and broadcast it live to 190 countries through Netflix. Next week, he will appear on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" for two consecutive days.

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