Bangtan Sonyeondan: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, part two

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Release date: November 30, 2015

Lead singles: RUN

Another one of Grace's favourites, just like part one but in this album she felt the band were able to fully write down about their feelings and their thoughts especially with the intro: Never Mind, flowing into RUN then continuing on with Butterfly. It was an album Grace fully loved and began to get more involved in with the writing, her credits at the top of the list with Outro: House of Cards after Bang Si-Hyuk asked her to be involved.

This was also the continuation of the BU with Grace's role still not evolved in the music video of RUN though it played with the motherly figure ARMY had come to know and love. It was one of her favourite music videos to shoot, even if it did include a lot of running and behind the scenes video of the music video caused many clips to trend on Twitter when Grace was caught fluffing her t-shirt to upend feathers that had gone down her top. It showed an idol who didn't care the cameras were on her, she was going to carry on as normal - something many people would begin to see at award shows: Grace clocking the camera but continuing on like normal, taking a sip of water or busy watching the stage and not giving in to what the camera wanted.

This era is sometimes known as Grace's rebellion: to push against the stigma of being a female idol, as well as a foreign one. To go against the beauty standards that South Korea was pushing on her and what weight she would be, what she should wear, what she should look like. Her blonde hair remained, rather than changed as others had, and the clothes remained similar to what she had worn before for the first album. "I'm not wearing something that's not suitable for my figure and I'm not wearing something that I'm not comfortable in - I've been there and done that," she was overheard saying to her stylist in one video.

Silver Spoon/Baepsae practice video had so many comments about Grace not hip-thrusting along with the boys that it trended on Twitter. Instead she would have to do a similar move that suited well and the decision behind that came from the choreographer: under no circumstances are we going to see a female idol hip-thrust to a song such as that. Later on though, during several tour performances of the song, Grace can be seen in the background doing small hip thrusts for the fun of it.

FACTS:

Jokingly hated on Namjoon in a V-Live for not allowing her to mention her hometown in Ma City, causing him to stumble and bumble around the reason for it but later giving up. This was the first V-Live where the two would switch between English and Korean, Grace also translating some English questions for Namjoon if it included slang words.

She also began to do a weekly V-Live for ARMY to catch up with everyone, doing one hour in Korean then the other in English. This would open up to doing many V-Lives during the week or even months, depending on the schedule where she would do one live video in another language. This is also where she started to earn the nickname 'BigHit's Ace.'

Never talks about the KOBE concert. Never. Don't bother even mentioning it

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