BigHit's first female trainee finally sees the light of day by joining Bangtan Sonyeondan, a decision seen by many as a joke until it starts to pay off. Join her journey from nothing to Korea's Noona.
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It's generally agreed this began the change for BTS for they reached new heights with WINGS, exploring toxic love though they explored individual musical ideas while keeping in with the theme of the album - all the research had been done between Grace and Namjoon. It was influenced by the coming of age novel, Demian, with the concept thematically dealing with temptation and growth which leads onto the second involvement of Grace.
It was early on agreed that in the music videos and in general that the temptation would be Grace herself, causing her to go through a complete transformation with her stylists, Hobi and Taehyung. No longer was the soft-looking girl, with blonde hair, always hidden away at the back. Now she was forefront, dark red hair with hints of black, sexy clothes and now dancing in the centre. Her vocals would also play heavily in the likes of Intro: Boy Meets Evil, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Lie, BTS Cypher 4, 21st Century Girl and her own solo song: Dangerous Woman, which fit with the narrative that they had written with the album.
The short film that came after Seokjin's and before the comeback trailer, featured Grace sitting in front of seven screens that played their short films over and over again while the instrumental for Dangerous Woman played in the background. Finally, the lyrics began half way through the five minute long video with Grace's hair and outfit fully changing into what would become a big internet sensation: trousers that were tight fitting around her thighs and waist, highlighting the curves that had been hidden, with a dark coloured blouse and silk jacket. All paired with a pair of bright red high heels and bright red lipstick. The ending of the video allowed the opening of the comeback trailer for J-Hope to flow easily.
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Jewelery was expensive looking with collars and flashy diamond rings and she began to dance in high heels, something she would continue to do throughout the rest of her career with BTS. Finally she was allowed to be the twenty-six year old woman, doing the sexy choreography without any worry of it being wrong though they still didn't like to give her hip thrusting moves.
FACT:
When they won their second daesang of Artist of the Year at MAMA, she was one of the few who didn't cry in front of the cameras and was one of the first who hugged Namjoon as well as Yoongi. However, it was revealed during the Wings Tour, that when she got to her own room she burst into tears. She also revealed how the weight of being the only woman in BTS and being kept hidden, as it were, had dragged her down until this album fully allowed her to explore herself as an artist.
BANGTAN BOMB showing Grace fully rapping Suga's part of Cypher 4 without losing her breath, causing them to release a version with her on Soundcloud. Whenever Suga couldn't appear, Grace would be the one to sometimes take over his part.
She did the original guide to Blood, Sweat and Tears when it was at its first original version and draft. She also wrote two full songs on her own that did not make the final cut.
