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BTS returns with their new album, ‘ARIRANG,’ and we had the chance to chat with Derrick Milano who wrote “SWIM” and more tracks for the new album. He shares his experience working with the boys and more!

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00:02You just did five, potentially six, on BTS' Up and Coming album.
00:07J-Hope is like, yo, they say you do all the dope raps.
00:15BTS is finally back with Arirang.
00:18See, I said it right, Jimin.
00:19Arirang.
00:20Ari Reign.
00:21Arirang.
00:22Every rhyme.
00:28We chatted with a songwriter on the album about the tracks.
00:38I was like, yo, this song is beautiful.
00:40Because it's real.
00:41And I feel like when you hear it, it just sounds like an early 2000s anthem.
00:48I was just like, well, this is it.
00:49This is the moment.
00:50This is the moment that I've been working for.
00:51The melodies just came.
00:53And the whole time, I'm just watching through my peripheral.
00:57Watching the room.
00:58They're excited.
00:59I'm excited.
00:59It sounded great.
01:00He also helped create the lead single, Swim.
01:08But when did he know it was going to be a single?
01:11Thanks, ARMY.
01:12Because on the track, that's how they had it lined up.
01:14They had black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black.
01:16And then I think Swim was red.
01:18And at that moment, we were just like, oh, yeah.
01:20This has got to be the single.
01:21And then Twitter tells you everything.
01:23So I went to Twitter and watched the shout out to the BTS ARMY.
01:27They're amazing because they keep you up to date on everything.
01:35They were very open and receptive when it came to the collaborating process.
01:39When I was laying down some of the melodies, there would be times when they would get up and start
01:44dancing, come by the mic and start vibing out with me and just motivating me and getting me
01:49excited and getting me to feel comfortable about what I'm doing because we knew that we were going
01:53to put these records out and it was going to touch the world.
02:02I can't.
02:03This is simply too much.
02:04They name dropped my girl Britney in fire.
02:13The creator learned a lot hanging with BTS, including to show up with style.
02:18Got off the flight.
02:19I think I had on like a like a Nike sweat or I might have had on.
02:23I had on something, something that was kind of plain.
02:26I said, something tells me that they're going to be fly.
02:28So I go and I asked one of the A&Rs there.
02:31I said, hey, is it a possibility if I could use the bathroom to change my outfit?
02:35I put on these new Balenciaga basketball sneakers that they came out with.
02:39As soon as I walked in, now I see all of them.
02:42I see RM.
02:43I see J-Hope.
02:44I see Suga.
02:45I'm then as soon as we had stopped talking about music in that quick second,
02:50they looked at my outfit and was like, yo, what's that?
02:53And then we just started talking about fashion.
02:55They started putting me onto their fashion and it became one of those things where I was like,
02:59yo, you know what?
03:01This is dope because they really are tapped in when it comes down to everything.
03:04When this happens every time.
03:09To be able to really just sit back and just see the final masterpiece is just like, yo,
03:16we did this.
03:17Like as a team, as a group, as a unit, as geniuses, as BTS ARMY, we did this.
03:24How will this all shape up on the Billboard Hot 100?
03:27Make sure you check out the Hot 100 show next week.
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