“THIS IS GENIUS” — Fans laud BTS’ Jin for his creative details on his upcoming album versions of ‘Happy’

On October 14, 2024, BIGHIT MUSIC announced the release of BTS' Kim Seok-jin's forthcoming album, Happy. The debut solo album of the Grammy-nominated musician is set to be dropped on November 15, 2024. The album pre-orders opened on Tuesday, October 15, and will last till Thursday, November 14, 2024.

The album comes in three versions: Version 1 Journey, Version 2 Imagine, and Version 3 Navigate. Meanwhile, fans noticed the creative details on the album version.

The album bore stickers detail with the taglines "Your dreams haven't forgotten you," "Happiness is closer than you think, you'll find it today," "Your potential knows no limit," "You Are Loved," and "Happiness will always brighten your life's color."

Fans were impressed by the artist's creative vision that focuses on the themes of finding happiness and never giving up on one's dreams. They flooded X, lauding the Super Tuna singer-songwriter. One fan highlighted the three focal points mentioned on the album concept pictures, "Journey, Imagine, Navigate," which make up for the idol's name. The fan wrote,

"Journey. Imagine. Navigate. "JIN". THIS IS GENIUS."

The BTS ARMY mentioned that the K-pop sensation will put the fandom in "group therapy." Some fans highlighted the existence of a non-profit organization, "YouAreLoved," which coincides with the artist's tagline mentioned on the album version concept pictures.

"I feel like jin is putting us thru group therapy," one fan wrote.

"Journey, Imagine, Navigate- I don’t even have any idea how the songs and mvs gonna be," another fan said.

"There's actually a non-profit that advocates for mental health awareness that's called YouAreLoved and i think the coincidences are very cool," one other fan noted.

Others underscored the tagline "Your dreams haven't forgotten you," which inspired the fandom to have newfound hopes. They enthusiastically discussed how the upcoming album would take them on a "healing journey" to reconnect with their; "inner child."

"The scratch cards included in the happy album have fortune cookies on them and the messages in the album sound kind of like fortune cookie sayings. It's like seokjin is wishing us good fortune," a fan said.

""Your dreams haven't forgotten you" and "your potential knows no limits" oh Jin, you don't know what this means to me right now," another fan added.

"This whole album feels like a healing journey to reconnect with ur inner child for those of us who feel burnt out and mentally exhausted cause we got too caught up with the rush of life and Never really had the chance to pause for a bit and process our transition to adulthood :(" another fan stated.

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More about BTS' Jin's upcoming solo album Happy

Here is the list of websites and outlets where fans can get their pre-ordered album copies:

• Korea Retailers — Online and physical music outlets/shops
• Japan Retailers — BTS JAPAN Official Shop & Universal Music Store
• US Retailers — Weverse Shop USA (Weverse app/site)
• Europe Retailers — Weverse Shop GLOBAL (Weverse app/site)

It is important to note that Korean retailers include Weverse Shop, YES24, aladin, KTOWN4U, MUSIC PLANT, MAKESTAR, and Music Korea.

All 3 album versions include the following items:

1. PHOTOBOOK: 1 type per version
2. CD ENVELOPE: 1 type per version
3. ENVELOPE: 1 type per version
4. LYRIC POSTER: 1 type
5. STICKER NOTE: 1 type
6. FOLDED POSTER: 1 type per version
7. SCRATCH CARD: 1 type per version
8. PHOTOCARD: 3 types per version

The following items will be packaged in the Happy Weverse Albums version:

• PACKAGE BOX
• 1 PHOTOBOOK
• 1 LYRIC BOOK
• 1 ENVELOPE
• 3 STICKER CARD
• 1 QR CARD
• 1 USER GUIDE
• 1 PHOTOCARD

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In other news, BTS' Jin's reality show, RUN JIN, aired a new episode on October 15, 2024. The episode, titled Freeze! Polliceping, featured B1A4's Sandeul as the guest .

RUN JIN airs a new episode every Tuesday on BANGTANTV.