- When we knew that Yoon-gi couldn't be in the music video,
my wife and I learned the entire Korean rap.
It took us two weeks, it was like homework every night,
we learned one new line and we had it in a really slow form,
like super slow so we could get the pronunciation
and then a slightly faster, slightly faster
and then the actual song.
And then we throw a little cat in there
cause I know ARMY loves to have a little representation
of a little cat meow meow in there.
But it was really cool to just represent his spirit
in the record even though he couldn't be there.
I love that I get to look at my wife every night
and we look at each other and we just start doing
the rap like, hey...
It's just like this little moment.
And it's like our little love language now,
which is super cute.
I've never would have expected it a year ago.
I met Suga in Korea in January of 2020,
and we just kind of hung out.
We've been giving love to each other's music
for a few years.
And we hung out thinking it's just gonna be maybe a picture,
hello, thank you for the love on each other's music.
And we hit it off right away.
We both are obsessed with basketball.
I'm a die-hard of Knicks fan.
He'd never been to a basketball game
even though SUGA means shooting guard in Korean.
It was his nickname and I didn't even know that.
So I took him to his first basketball game,
Kobe Bryant Tribute game, so special, saw the game,
sent him the whole album after the game
'cause I had just done a song on his project
for "Burn It" on Agust D and he chose, "Blueberry Eyes"
to do his thing on there.
I basically said, "You choose the song."
When he chose, "Blueberry Eyes," I was really surprised
he chose it, but looking back it makes total sense
'cause he really responds to this
sort of darker melodic undertone that he can really
ride on top of the melody with.
It was so unexpected cause usually his lyrics
from his songs with Agust D and other parts of BTS
aren't usually just romantic and fit right into the story.
And so I was so pleasantly surprised that he just dove in
to the story of me writing the song for my wife
and him writing it for ARMY and his fans
and the people he loves.
And that was really cool, because it just was so unexpected.
And that's one of the best things in life when it just comes
in this surprising way and it's just organic.
You can't make it up.
It just happens.
This song is really both the actuality of the things
I always dreamed of like my girl in my t-shirt,
and just walking in.
That's my favorite thing when she just looks so perfect
in her natural state just wearing something of yours.
So that's actuality of what it's like reality with her.
And then also the dream of the whole song
of this is what I always hoped would happen.
And I just wanna wake up and have it be a reality.
♪ Your body's a neighborhood ♪
♪ I wanna drive my lips all around it ♪
She's always my muse.
So I'm always trying to write something new
that she hasn't heard and that line was just something
that we kept experimenting with different lines,
but it's just how I feel.
Like when her pregnant state and her regular state,
whatever shape her body is in, I just wanna worship it.
It was so special.
I remember when Rosie and Michael were both
crazy piano players who played on the track
and wrote the song with me.
They started playing that pre-chorus melody on the piano
and we knew right away, well, that's it.
We have to really build into something
and then have this release because it's
you're in this dream state, you just wanna wake up
and be in that reality already.
And this is where the part of the song comes in
where it's you're dreaming of just holding that person
that you love in your arms and waking up and seeing them.
And so I wanted to feel like you're waking, waking, waking
and when the chorus hits, you open your eyes
and you see them finally.
So it was very deliberate to have the music melodically
and the lyric to fit as this is building pre-chorus
of your heart beating.
It's wild that it really represents both my wife
and my baby girl coming into the world.
And it's the exact same feeling.
I mean, I can't, my baby's gonna be born in December,
I can't wait to finally hold her in my arms
and just see what she looks like
and just be in that moment present.
So it really is amazing that it ended up having
a double meaning and working into the video
without even realizing or wanting it to.
It just happened.
The strawberry skies line definitely similar,
my wife's favorite time of day is sunset.
She always wants me to just get off my phone
and look at the sunset for a second.
And I've definitely learned to do that way more
especially as this baby's coming.
And I wanted those...
She has the most beautiful blueberry eyes of course
and having that sky and her, it's just perfect.
And it was also very Beatles inspiring.
I thought of "Strawberry Fields" and I just wanted
it to feel like that kind of lyric and melody.
So it came from a real place for sure.
I really love the first line of SUGA's rap
when you see the translation,
just "a ray of light that cut through my shadow
you turn my dark life upside down."
It's just to start it with that
and that's why I wanted it to be the wedding vows
in the video.
It just felt like such a powerful first thing to say
about someone that means so much to you.
And I'm just blown away that, when I first heard it
I didn't know what he was saying.
I was just like, "oh, this sounds tight,
he's just killing it."
But then when you really read those lyrics,
it's so meaningful and it was so special
to add a story to it.