As you probably know, I’ve already completed a fashion inspiration series on the individual members of global boyband sensation BTS. Check them out here: Fashion Inspired by BTS’ Love Yourself in Seoul Concert Movie, BTS leader RM, singers Jin, Taehyung and Jungkook, rapper Suga and dancers J-Hope and Jimin.

This week I’m back with another BTS-centric post and with good reason: the band have just released the comeback trailer for their new album Map of the Soul: Persona, coming April 12th!

The mere 3-minute music video features RM, leader of BTS, performing Persona. The solo rap track is actually a remixed version of one of BTS’s 2014 songs, Intro: Skool Luv Affair. Check out the full trailer below!

For BTS fans paying attention, Persona is an obvious ode to the group’s past music videos. Given that BTS basically have their own storytelling universe, it’s no surprise that the follow-up to their highly-successful Love Yourself series sees them return to their hip-hop roots.

RM delivers a sound that will be familiar to O.G. BTS fans with Persona. The track is unusual for BTS in that it is a straight rap track with no definite chorus – showcasing RM’s flow, wordplay and rapping abilities perfectly. As theories run rampant on Twitter as to how Persona fits into the BTS universe, my personal favorite theory concerns RM directly.

This theory states that the various outfits RM wears in the music video indicate the different aspects of his own Persona. Intrigued yet? You should be! Read on to find out more…

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BTS Persona Fashion: Look 1 – Keeping It Neutral

If each of RM’s Persona looks represents a different aspect of his own, well, persona, then I can only take this first outfit as representing the authentic Namjoon.