'Indigo' Named One Of The Best K-Pop Albums Of 2022 By TIME
Date: December 13, 2022
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TIME has released their picks for the best K-pop songs and albums of 2022. Listed in no particular order, RM’s Indigo was included on their top 10 list! See what they had to say about Indigo below.
Indigo is “the last archive” of RM’s twenties, and the BTS leader pens an intimate record of youth that turns journal entries into song. The album is perhaps most pointed in the lead single “Wild Flower,” a collaboration with Youjeen where RM paints a piercingly honest picture of his relationship with superstardom. “Even before the start, I imagined an end where I could applaud and smile,” he says. “When everything I believed in grew distant / when all of this fame turned into shackles / please take my desire away from me.” The rest of Indigo deals extensively with freedom from these shackles. “Can’t lock me in the frame, I’m movin,’” Anderson .Paak sings in “Still Life.” “I wanna be a human / ‘fore I do some art,” RM muses in “Yun”—which features Erykah Badu. And the BTS leader’s meditations are always at once specific and universal. We may not be the same type of artist that RM is, but we’re humans searching for our voice, our place of belonging, our personal “flower field.”
— TIME