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* [[Protest Song]]: "No More Dream" and "N.O" are protests against the Korean education system. "Baepsae", meanwhile, does so towards the Korean class system and their contradictory bouts of [[Tall Poppy Syndrome]] towards people who want to socially ascend and victim-blaming towards the ones who cannot do so. "Am I Wrong?" is a call out to the youth that doesn't care about the state of the world and disentangle them from politics, paradoxically helping bad politicians with their indifference.
* [[Rated "G" for Gangsta]]: Played with. Their styling and sound are notoriously softer than the ones they had around his debut era and early years (just compare the MV of "No More Dream" to the ones for "I Need U" or "DNA"), but the themes they tackle in their songs had become harder and more serious.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Given the way the group tend to process their issues though their lyrics, it happens a lot. Some examples:
** The last album on their ''Love Yourself'' trilogy, the compilation ''Love Yourself: Answer'', has its structure and most of its new songs modeled around a breakup. They later revealed that, at the time of production, the band members were seriously considering separating because their work rythm got them exhausted.
** Similarly, some of the songs from the ''Map of the Soul'' albums onwards have themes of burnout and uncertainity, particularly noted in "Black Swan", the second single from ''MOTS: 7''. When the band announced in 2022 that they were taking a group activities hiatus, they revealed that their original plan was taking it after the ''Map of the Soul'' tour, had the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] not hindered that plan.
** "Pied Piper" is a song to their fans where the band compares themselves to [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin|the fairytale character]] and has a message that can be summed as "we are grateful you love us, but don't you have other things to do too?"". It was released in 2017, around the time they began to realize how big and fast their international fanbase was growing and how much influence they had on them.
** V's SoundCloud released song "Winter Bear" was actually a farewell to his deceased grandmother, who had raised him during a good chunk of his childhoon and died while he was on tour.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** During the ''WINGS'' era, they made a habit of one member displaying a paper heart from somewhere in their clothing, usually revealing it from some hidden place. This gag got to its end and logical extreme in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gzgV1fBxg their New Year stage for "Go Go" in MBC], with ''every member'' revealing a paper heart from increasingly more outrageous places.
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