JINHO MINJUN: kiss me slowly. "if it's something that you want, darling you don't have to run, you don't have to go, just stay with me, baby stay with me."

he dedicates it to yejun and his fellow brat, suho, obviously

(he dedicates it to dalmi)

he's currently on tour, halfway across the world from her, but she's one of the main things on his mind

he spams her with texts before the concert starts, telling her (begging her) to watch the concert stream bc he knew it was the only one she’d be able to watch with her own schedule

(he does NOT smile like a fool when she texts him a selca of her face next to her laptop with the countdown showing, no matter what moonkyu says, thank you very much!!!)

he has a whole speech in his mind that he’d prepared all week leading up to this moment, smart ways to allude to dedicating this song to dalmi, but the second the spotlight shines down on him, it goes out the window, and all he can seem to say is "this is a song for the special someone in your life"

(in his defense it's on valentine's day so it's not SUPER obvious)

he’d like to think he did a good job between interaction with the fans and looking at the camera, but he finds out later most of the time he was looking into the camera pouring his heart out through the song

after the concert he comes back to his phone being spammed by dalmi, messages having flooded in during his solo ranging from "you didn’t??" to "OMG YOU DID?!" to "you suck for doing this right now bc i can’t hug you for another MONTH 😡 !!"

MIA YEONGMIN: speechless. "somehow you were different from what i've known. i didn't see you coming, you took me by surprise, and you stole my heart before i could say no."

wasn’t planning to let jaeyun know this AT ALL

their text thread is a mess, you never know what you’ll open it up to. memes, cute selcas, songs, random questions or the odd 3am existential dread conversation

last time they managed to find time between schedules they were sharing headphones, initially watching clips on mia’s phone but then it moved to listening to music

mia has a playlist titled ‘jaeyun ⋆.˚✮🎧✮˚.⋆’ which started out as a way to track songs that he either told her he liked or for songs she knew he liked, but it morphed into more of "songs that make me think of him" kinda vibe

(her caption of the playlist are lyrics from speechless)

he texts her one night while she’s in the middle of solo dance practice asking for one of the songs they listened to

so of COURSE she just runs on autopilot

(look, she’s trying her best okay, he still makes her nervous)

and sends him the playlist they were listening to (mhmm, yup, that playlist) and she puts her phone back and goes back to dancing

it’s not until she’s finished practice and back in her dorm that she realizes what she sent when she taps on his text notification

her face immediately flushes in embarrassment when she reads his texts and sees that he searched for song the lyrics in the caption are from and put it together and practically throws her phone down

(he thought the song was cute and thought it was cuter that she dedicated it to him. he did lightly tease her about it the next time they saw each other)

MINHO SEONG: i’ll be there for you. "and work began at eight, you've burned your breakfast, so far, things are going great. your mother warned you there'd be days like these, but she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees that i'll be there for you."

give him some leeway he begs of you his mother was an avid friends watcher

he dedicates this song to cøde on their first anniversary (mother of the group things)

the song is posted on their youtube as an anniversary post, and the video is moments of him singing cut with unseen clips of him and the other members goofing

he was in the middle of a solo live when it dropped and was happily interacting with fans in the chat, talking about cøde’s year and what he hopes they can get up to the coming year, when he hears a commotion outside the room he’s in

he’s about to say he’ll be back, planning to go check on the noise, when all of cøde come barreling in

they all tease him for the song choice in between hugging him (meanwhile his face is about to break in half from the strength of his smile)

the live just dissolves into them singing the song and goofing off in between answering questions in the chat

MINSU JI: he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother. "the road is long, with many a winding turn that leads us to who knows where, who knows where. but I'm strong. strong enough to carry him, he ain't heavy, he's my brother."

don’t let the baby face fool you, he has many a playlist filled of "oldies"

he 100% pitches this song bc he and moonkyu have been asked to perform together at an award show together. minsu is lowkey Terrified™ bc it’s his first award show

he knows it’s an older song and not one many would expect them to perform, if at all

but he kinda views it as a way of saying "i love you" and to thank moonkyu for all his sacrifices growing up

and given that they're both idols, it’s almost the purest way for him to say it

and if he cries at the end of it backstage? well that’s between him and moonkyu

(a sliver of it makes it into the bts footage for like 2 hours before his company realizes it and edits it out fully)

he (jokingly) regrets picking the song bc for the next month or so after the performance, moonkyu is all “you DO love me 🥺” and minsu runs the other way

(parallel to him "playing" hide and seek" with moonkyu before his brother found out he was an idol too)

he begs their older sisters to make moonkyu stop, but in older sister fashion… they join in

YUKI CHOI: count on me. "if you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea, i'll sail the world to find you. if you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see, i'll be the light to guide you."

yuki’s brother, jiro, is the most important person in her life

he was there at kd’s first performance, he always answers when she calls, was her rock through the ups and downs of their parent’s divorce, yuki forging her solo career... everything

and so of course, jiro is there for her first solo concert

she knew going into this concert, she wanted to take a moment, a song, to show her love, her appreciation for him and their sibling bond, so she dedicates this song to him

she’s got clips and photos of them playing on the screens behind her, ranging from him helping her walk as a baby, to their first day of high school, to recent selcas

neither of their eyes are dry after the first chorus