Billboard cover story, members of the fanatically beloved boy band opened up about their discomfort with singing songs fully in English.“There was no alternative,” 28-year-old Jin told Billboard of releasing the group’s first English language song “Dynamite” — which became the group’s first Billboard No.
1 hit — in summer 2020, and then following it with two more English songs (“Butter” and “Permission to Dance” which both also hit the No.
1 slot) this year. While the charts and their fans ate up the tracks, the seven-member boy band were not unanimously pleased: Singing in English felt unnatural, Jin explained. “The English I learned in class was so different from the English in the song,” he said.