As we know, Music industry influences people in this period.People listen to a different music genre such as Pop, Jazz, Edm, Hip Hop or even Kpop! Kpop is getting bigger in every country not just in Korea. BTS is one of the biggest groups that succeed in the Kpop genre.
Who is BTS?
BTS is a Kpop group that has 7 members including RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Jungkook. They all are a Korean boys that want to follow their dream to become a Singer, Dancer and Rapper. Before they debuted, They lived together in a small room with no money and no hope. They practiced everyday every hour and every second with rest to catch their dream and debuted on 12th June 2013. In the beginning of becoming a Kpop idols, they got lots of bad criticism in their look, face, make up, music etc. But they used their talent and intention against the bad comment to prove that they could become a talented Kpop group.
Music genre
BTS is getting bigger and influencing people in listening to a different music genre. But people still have a discussion that If BTS is more artistically creative than One Direction? First their music genres. As we see that they both released lots of songs and different meanings for people to listen. In each album, BTS always has about 20 songs with different genre music like Hip-Hop, R&B, EDM, Pop, Ballads, Alternative Rock, etc. However, One Direction has only pop, pop rock and teen pop. So we can see that BTS’s music is way more varied and creative than One Direction’s music.
Talented
Let’s talk about their talent! We all know that they both are very talented but let’s see who is better.
- Vocals: One Direction has a very unique vocal in each of the members especially Zayn’s vocals. His sexy tone voice is perfect and attractive. His vocals are even better when he does a high notes part! BTS has very great vocals too! They have 4 vocalists with 4 different voices. Jungkook is the main vocalist of the group. His vocals are soft with a breathy voice technique. His voice is always stable when he performs on stage. But overall I give One Direction the win for this round because their voice was very unique and had a better voice technique than BTS. (BTS’s rapper vocals aren’t good enough to be compared to other members and One Direction.)
- Rap : RM and Suga from BTS were underground rappers before BTS.They’ve all got a unique rap voice, even J-Hope, who had never rapped before, also does great in rapping. They also produced songs and wrote their own rap parts too. One Direction didn’t show off their rapping skills. They mostly sang and played instruments.That means that BTS definitely wins in this round!
- Dance : 3J (J-Hope, Jimin, Jungkook) are the main dancers in BTS. J-Hope prefers popping and street dance style. Jimin prefers contemporary with a smooth movement style. Jungkook can dance a bit of everything. Besides 3J, the other members in BTS also dance pretty good, like on their latest song “ON” BTS (their technique were very strong and very sharp). One Direction doesn’t show their talent in dancing, either. But when they dance together, they look so cute and have fun with each other. So BTS wins this round again!
- Performance : One Direction performances were amazing. Their voices were perfect, their looks were cool and they were very entertaining.People that watched their performance said the same things that their performance was very enjoyable and felt their happiness that they wanted to give to the audience. BTS performance was completely perfect, They had sing, rap, dance, solo times and talk times. They did all of them pretty good and made everyone feel their hard working for their each performance. BTS live singing was even better in live performance (I wish I can go to their concert again after Covid-19 has already been solved.) For me, they both win in this round because they are doing the best in performance and makes the audience feel happy and enjoy the show.
Total : One Direction: 2. BTS: 3.
Lyrics
The important part in the song is ‘lyrics’ for sure. For One Direction, they always release love songs, breakup songs, fun songs and some sad songs so it makes people easy to relate to their lyrics. But for BTS, they don’t release just a love or a heartbreak song. Their lyrics are talking about empowerment, self-love, songs that help people get through depression or insecurities. Their lyrics get deeper and deeper and touch people who are depressed and make them feel better. For me both bands’ song lyrics are fantastic, but I prefer BTS because their lyrics teach me that I need to love myself more and more and their lyrics are very deep and based on truth.
Concepts
The last difference between One Direction and BTS is their album concepts. BTS was pretty good at choosing a new concept album. For every album, they have chosen a profound concept that was very interesting and exciting for their fans . For example “Wing” is an album about the growth of boys, who find themselves conflicted in the face of temptation.“Blood Sweat & Tears,” is one of “Wing” album songs with reggae, moombahton, and trap influences, for a trendy song that still exudes BTS’s signature style. RM leader, rapper, English translator the idea behind the album. “The harder a temptation is to resist, the more you think about it and vacillate.”
One Direction is actually pretty good at concepts too compared to other Western boy bands. Their music changed from more love songs to more heartbreak songs in the later albums and that’s good too. But BTS has done many concepts and slays them all.
For these reasons, I think that BTS is more artistically creative than One Direction. BTS wins more categories than One Direction. They have a variety of songs in 1 album across many genres, they are talented, especially in rapping, dancing and performing, they write deep music that moves people out of depression and makes them happy from their performances. They are very talented and creative, they write their own songs and produce their own songs by themselves. This is a boy band that is artistically creative at all times. But doesn’t mean One Direction isn’t good, they all have different styles and different benefits. I love both groups, but for me BTS is more artistically creative than One Direction.
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