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Sadness meets the synths in “잡아줘 (Hold Me Tight),” the 3rd track of BTS’ 3rd mini-album, "화양연화 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life Pt.1". The lyrics of the song describe a fading love and illustrate the narrator’s desire to rekindle the same feelings as before.
The motif of flower petals is continued in this song, which symbolizes the passing of time and loss of innocence and love. References to flower pedals have also appeared in the album’s title track “I NEED U' and on the album cover.
Notably, this is BTS member V’s first time participating in the composition of a song. Along with the rest of the album, this song marks a shift from when BTS’s rap line mostly dominated the production scene, to have contributions from the vocal line as well.
In an unboxing of the 화양연화 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life Pt.1 album (English translation of unboxing here) by Suga, one of the members of BTS, he said:
"'When I was frantically working on the Intro, the beat came and they told me to work on this, too. But since I had to work on the intro, rather than taking all the verses and writing something long, the bridge and in the middle there’s the “I only see just you, only you” I thought, “What about writing only these parts?” So I frantically wrote it and sent it.
It’s the first track that V participated in by making the melody, right? I really like this track a lot. It ranked really well too. Also, when I play comfortable and laid back tracks like this, there is something about it… I feel like many people like it, so as much as a lot of people give love to it, it was just as fun to work on too. Something about it…'"
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