‘Map of the Soul: Persona’

Release date: April 12, 2019
Versions: 01,02,03,04

Map of the Soul: Persona Tracklist:

1. Intro: Persona
2. 작은 것들을 위한 시 (Boy With Luv) feat. Halsey
3. 소우주 (Mikrokosmos)
4. Make It Right
5. HOME
6. Jamais Vu
7. Dionysus

Namjoon explained in his V Live for the album that “Persona” is all about his identity as RM, “For me, persona is the social self. It represents our social mask. A mask could be either good or bad. It is what we present to the outside world as we lead our social and economic life. My persona would be RM then, right?”

He also explained that they wanted to call back to the start of their journey, “When I spoke with PD Bang I told him that we wanted to go back to the start, that we can’t deal with these things around us. That things were getting too big for us to handle. That we’d like to focus on the smaller things. So we looked into ourselves.”

“작은 것들을 위한 시 (Boy With Luv)” feat Halsey is the single for Map of the Soul: Persona and acts as a more mature response to BTS’ single “Boy In Luv.”

RM admitted that he worried that some people wouldn’t understand the meaning of the lyrics by the title of the song. “I thought some might think it’s meaningless. Because people don’t go deep into something till they like it,” he explained.

The song is more about appreciating the small things in life and was written with their fans in mind. Namjoon revealed, “It was really hard to write Korean lyrics to this melody. Only ARMY can understand what these mean.’Listen my my baby I’m flying high in the sky. With the two wings you gave me back then,’ I mention these wings constantly.”