{"id":332861,"date":"2025-12-07T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332861\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:46:10","slug":"bts-rm-says-group-grappled-with-whether-to-disband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332861\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; RM says group grappled with whether to disband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2aa5e282-8cee-4562-a6c0-ae9ae8c98599.jpg\" style=\"display:block;width:740px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:740 \/ 493\" alt=\"BTS \/ Courtesy of BIGHIT Music\"   decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BTS \/ Courtesy of BIGHIT Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">RM, the leader of K-pop sensation BTS, has said the group had at times grappled with whether to disband or suspend activities during its hiatus as it is preparing a full-group comeback next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS is scheduled to reunite as a full group next year as all seven members have completed mandatory military service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">While RM said preparations for BTS&#8217; new album are well under way for the comeback, he also acknowledged that the group had at times grappled with whether to disband or suspend activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;(We&#8217;ve) thought for tens of thousands of times whether it would be good for us to disband or to suspend activities,&#8221; RM said Saturday during a live broadcast on the K-pop fan community platform Weverse.&#8221;What has kept this team going is how much we love each other, and the love and respect we have for those watching this livestream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">RM said work on the new album is progressing steadily. In July, BTS announced it would return with a new album featuring all seven members and launch a world tour next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Preparations for the album are almost being made,&#8221; RM said. We practiced together yesterday. We are filming (content) and practicing every day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will show you after we prepare well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">If released as planned, it will mark the band&#8217;s first full-group album in nearly four years since the release of the anthology album &#8220;Proof&#8221; and the &#8220;Yet to Come in Busan&#8221; concert in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS \/ Courtesy of BIGHIT Music RM, the leader of K-pop sensation BTS, has said the group had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-332861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}