The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1
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| EP by BTS | ||||
| Released | April 29, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B, K-pop | |||
| Length | 31:27 | |||
| Language | Korean | |||
| Label | Big Hit Entertainment | |||
| Producer | Pdogg | |||
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The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1 (Hangul: 화양연화; Hanja: 花樣年華 pt.1; MR: Hwayang-yeonhwa pt.1) is the third extended play of South Korean boy group BTS. The EP was released on April 29, 2015 and is the first album of the group's two-part project series centering on "Youth". The album was released in two versions and contains 9 tracks with the title track, "I Need U". In June, BTS later promoted the single, "Dope", another track from the album. In South Korea, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1 was the sixth best-selling album of 2015.
On April 17, 2015, an animated comeback trailer portraying a boy playing basketball in a windy evening was released on YouTube, featuring Suga's rap. On April 19, 2015, Big Hit Entertainment released the name of their album as well as teaser photos of the boys on BTS's official Twitter account ahead of the group's comeback. On the 26th, BTS released an album preview, which confirmed that "I Need U" would be its title track. When the music video teaser was released on April 23, the hashtag "#INEEDU" trended worldwide on Twitter.
This is the first album where all of the members participated in either the production, composition, or lyric-writing of the songs. Despite the album's name expressing "the most beautiful moment in life", the band also wanted to express the anxieties and insecurities youth may face. In response to the studio album length of The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1, Rap Monster and Suga explained that the group thinks every album as a full-length album, as the members want "to tell a lot of good stories".
In a Mwave interview, the group members mentioned they had spent more time working on "I Need U" than any other lead track on past albums: "We spent three to four times more working on 'I Need U' in comparison to other title songs. There are four different versions with the same beat. It′s a song that kept coming out with constant editing. We′ve put in that much effort and everyone is satisfied."
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