On the day the news of their Billboard Hot 100 win broke out, BTS Jimin was crying at four in the morning while congratulating his maknae, Jungkook, on both the win and his birthday.
In a recent conference, Jimin took a question to explain his tears. To him, it represented being told that he had done a good job so far– it was a payoff and a culmination of all the hard work the team had put in over the years.
“To be honest, I don’t know. I heard the news a little bit late – RM told us the news at 3.20am but I only heard about it around past 4am and I cried until about 7am when I got tired and fell asleep on the sofa. I was really surprised when I first saw the news. I was with Jungkook and we were so happy and kept looking at the charts. While we were doing that, tears kept falling and I cried so much. We kept talking amongst the members. RM really worked hard and we kept saying because hyung was in the group, we were able to come this far. What we said the most was that, ‘so it’s possible for us too, if we try’. Thinking about it now, there are things that we have protected until now, there are things we want to do and things we have done or are doing – it feels like this is us being acknowledged and receiving a reward for all of that. It feels even more like we are being complimented and told we did well, for all the hard times we went through together. So I think that’s why I cried. I really miss the fans and really want to perform soon”.
Meanwhile, the BTS member kept on praising their leader, RM, for his efforts in keeping the group together, enabling them to come this far also with their undying supporters, ARMY!
