Agust D’s D-Day album is all about liberation and focusing on your present self!

In the D-Day album, Agust D shares personal stories from his life, reassures aspiring trainees and comforts us with his soulful vocals!

The musical mastermind aka BTS’ Suga who has released his third album under his alter ego name ‘Agust D’ is creating a new wave with his D-Day album. There are three sides to his personality. First one is his real self- Min Yoongi, his birth name. The boy who fell in love with music from a young age and knew this is what he wanted to do all his life. Next is Suga of BTS. The one who struggled with his fellow band members and rose to immense fame. It’s how the world knows him. And the third one, ‘Agust D’ which is just Suga spelled backwards and the D stands for Daegu which is the town he grew up in. Agust D as he himself explains, is not known by many around the world, especially if you’re not a K-pop fan. Only BTS armys know who Agust D really is, regardless he has explored such various genres of music and spoken honestly about his life through his journey as Agust D.

His first mixtape titled Agust D or D-1 was about his insecurities and the frustrations he had with life and the hardships he went through during his trainee days. His second mixtape D-2 is about his thoughts and mixed feelings about his fame and the way a person changes through the course of their lives. After D-1 and D-2, which were free mixtapes he uploaded on sound cloud, D-Day is his first solo album but the third part which completes the trilogy. D-Day is all about freedom from things you’re restricted from, freedom from your trauma, the freedom to love and the freedom to rest even when you’re working hard. While promoting his album, Suga said that this might be the last time he releases music under the name Agust D. If ever in the future he finds the inspiration or words to say something to us as his alter ego, he might be back but for now it's the last time we see him shake the music industry as Agust D. 

A documentary called ‘Suga: Road to D-Day’ also released on the same day as the album. He took a trip through the US to find inspiration to write songs and put together his album. The documentary shows his time in LA where he meets up with Steve Aoki, Halsey and Anderson Park and his time in Korea where he sits with his producers in the same house they shot BTS’ variety show 'In the Soop' season 2 in. He mentioned in the documentary that the album took about 7 years to make and is finally out for the world to listen to and interpret. 

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So here’s what we understood from Agust D’s new album D-Day

D-Day: D-Day is the first track from the album, and it tells us the future is going to be okay. Karma will catch on to all of us based on the deeds we do but the future is still ahead of us and we’ll be fine. We all work hard to reach our goals and once we reach D-Day, we are reborn as a new person. The song is extremely catchy as a listener as the beats and the rhythm of the song are very powerful. 

Haegum: Haegum, the main track of the album questions the modern era of technology and information where everyone is a slave to the half information they get on the internet. We are slaves to hate, prejudice, greed and flexing all our prized possessions and he is calling us out for that. The word Haegum itself means ‘lifting of the ban’ which means we have freedom to do what we want but is it really freedom if it harms someone else? 

The music video has a lot of references to Agust D’s previous album’s main track and blockbuster ‘Daechwita’. In Daechwita, there was the King and one of his subjects who had gone rogue. Both the roles were played by Suga himself. And in Haegum too, he plays a robber and the police. He has a scar on his face in both Daechwita and Haegum but the difference is that in Daechwita the scar was deeper and in Haegum it looks like he is slowly healing. The visuals and the production design of the song takes you right into Agust D’s world. The storyline that looks like a 'catch me if you can' kinda police-thief chase is actually a meticulously planned murder. There is no doubt Suga was receiving scripts after Daechwita because he is intimidating yet hot as Agust D. He also smokes in the music video which is very unlike what we’ve seen in BTS’ music videos so far but their solo albums have all been about showing a real side of them. 

Huh?! Ft. J-Hope: Seeing members collaborate during their solo projects is always a delight. In the song, the two rappers talk about the fake articles and rumours that are spread about an artist. They scream shame on anyone who has affected an artists’ life by spreading malicious information and reality is so far from the lies on the internet. 

Amygdala: Amygdala is the part of the brain where it stores all your traumatic memories so that the next time you go through something unpleasant it’ll know how to help you cope with it. Sharing personally difficult stories like his mother’s heart surgery or when he learnt that his father had liver cancer while he was on tour, or his own accident in the past, shows how he has truly been through a lot and it must be agonizing to put down these feelings in a song and share it with the world. Amygdala and Haegum were one of the first two songs he made back in 2020 during In The Soop season 1. It’s crazy to think how long it takes to make a good album.

SDL: SDL means Somebody Does Love. The song is about the hope to find someone who truly loves you. We all long for love and we eventually do find someone who loves us the way we are. The song beautifully showcases his vocals which we rarely get to listen to and they’re so calming. The female vocals at the back help make the song even more soothing to hear.

People Pt. 2: After their first collaboration ‘Eight’, we get to hear another soulful piece by IU and Suga. Their voices blend perfectly together making the song feel straight out of a K-drama. The song is about how relationships can be difficult sometimes but you are more than enough to be loved. If you can’t hold back it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be vulnerable and in a way he is comforting himself and us too.

Polar Night: The song gives us a reality check that between so many truths and so many lies, are we really living our life the way we want? The political correctness only comes out when it's cool to do so and not when you actually see people experiencing injustice. If you’re not on their side, you become their enemy, and the sheer hypocrisy of it all comes out. 

Interlude: Dawn: All three of his albums have had an Interlude song which is basically just a 1 minute 45 seconds instrumental song that is meant to bring out the essence of blending various instruments together and making a phenomenal piece to probably play in the background.

Snooze (feat Ryuichi Sakamoto, Woosung): Suga wrote Snooze with the intention of handing over a letter of comfort and reassurance to his juniors or any aspiring K-pop artist. ‘Everything’s going to be okay’ is a line repeated more than 16 times in the song. It might seem like a basic line but when you see it from the perspective of someone who might be sacrificing a lot to achieve their dreams, this very line can do wonders. He says it's okay to rest, it's okay to take it easy sometimes. Constantly practicing and giving it your all can be super tough but Suga will always be there for the young adults trying to make it in the world of K-pop, no matter where or when. The song is composed by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese music composer, a legend and Suga’s idol since his days as a trainee. Woosung from The Rose also lends his beautiful vocals to this song which makes it so ethereal. 

Life Goes On: Agust D’s version of Life Goes On is set on the same tune as BTS’ Life Goes On and it only makes you emotional and miss all 7 of them together. It talks about his relationship with his fans. Everything has changed but him and his fans are just the same. Now that BTS is enlisting in the military one by one, this song will bring you to tears as he expresses how he never wants to hear a bye from us. 

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