{"id":606556,"date":"2026-04-15T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:24:12","slug":"bts-jin-talks-being-the-oldest-member-of-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606556\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS’ Jin Talks Being the Oldest Member of the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a>\u2018 Jin<\/a> knows he\u2019s the oldest member of the band, but he also thinks he\u2019s the most handsome.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Wednesday (April 15) interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Jin of BTS spoke with senior writer Brian Hiatt about his solo rock music, his love of Coldplay and reuniting with BTS for their new album, ARIRANG, and accompanying world tour. In a particularly vulnerable moment, Jin also spoke about his experiences as the oldest member of the K-pop group.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI guess it\u2019s always physically taxing,\u201d Jin said when asked what it\u2019s like being an idol at 33 years old (the singer is 35 in the traditional South Korean aging system). \u201cWhile it\u2019s true that the same moves can feel a bit more difficult now, that\u2019s just my burden to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe singer said he works extra hard so that he can be in peak form for fans. In a moment of vulnerability, he also shared how he feels about his own performance skills in comparison to those of his bandmates.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m aware that I don\u2019t move quite as well as the other members,\u201d Jin said. Rather than letting this deter him, he uses it as motivation to push himself harder. \u201cSo I\u2019ve always come early to practice, or stayed late to catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite feeling behind his bandmates in some aspects, there is one lane where Jin believes himself to be on top. \u201cI do think I\u2019m more good-looking than the other members,\u201d Jin jested, acknowledging that everyone in the group is handsome. \u201cI should have at least one thing I\u2019m best at in the group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat wasn\u2019t the only thing Jin opened up about. In another candid moment, he talked about not writing any of the songs on the band\u2019s new album, the Billboard 200 chart-topper ARIRANG.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t write any of the songs because I was still on my solo tour at the time,\u201d Jin said. Last summer, the idol went on his first ever solo tour, the #RUNSEOKJIN_EP.TOUR, to accompany his Billboard 200 No. 3 album Echo. He explains that the writing and recording sessions for ARIRANG were scheduled after his tour, and by the time he returned from the road, all of the tracks were written. \u201cWhen I arrived at the studio, there were a 100-something songs already made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of seven to 10 days, Jin test recorded the best songs from the bunch and then the album was done. \u201cI do think it would have been better,\u201d Jin said. \u201cBut the other members did a beautiful job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of the day, Jin is just happy to be back with BTS and to be hitting the road as a collective again.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy biggest dream has been to go on tour with BTS,\u201d the idol replied when asked about his personal ambitions for the next five years. \u201cAnd meet as many fans as I can, from all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Jin\u2019s full solo interview with Rolling Stone below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS\u2018 Jin knows he\u2019s the oldest member of the band, but he also thinks he\u2019s the most handsome.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,4481,15111],"class_list":{"0":"post-606556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-genre-kpop","13":"tag-music-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}