Who Wrote ‘Boy With Luv’ by BTS?
Itās a larger than life song (and music video,) thatās exploding with bright hues of pink, blue, and yellow. Since the songās premiere, āBoy With Luv,ā featuring Halsey, became a favorite among BTS fans. Who wrote the hit song off of Map of the Soul: Persona. Hereās what we know about one of the writers behind āBoy With Luv.ā
RM is the leader of BTS and often writes the lyrics their songs
While RM takes a leadership role in the group, each member has their hands in multiple different areas. While Suga, J-Hope, and RM each enjoy writing, producing, and mixing BTSā music, Jin takes credit for writing lyrics to a few of their songs, as do the other performers of the K-pop group. Solo songs of the members, like Vās latest single, āWinter Bearā was written by the artist.
As the leader of BTS and as a talented musician, RM is often responsible for the music and lyrics of the boy band. He doesnāt do it alone, though. When it comes to the groupās streamable hit, āBoy With Luv,ā there is another artist credited with writing the song off of Map of the Soul: Persona.
Melanie Fontana helped write BTSā hit song, āBoy With Luvā
BTS premiered their song āBoy With Luvā featuring Halsey earlier in 2019. Less than a year later, the song earned hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify. The songās colorful and vibrant music video performed just as well on YouTube. Within a few hours of its release, the music video for āBoy With Luvā was trending on YouTube. The video currently holds over 500 million plays on YouTube, making it one of the most-watched music videos of 2019.
āBoy With Luvā received multiple nominations at this yearās MTV Video Music Awards. The group even performed at popular American award shows and talk shows. In fact, when BTS performed āBoy With Luvā on Saturday Night Live, co-writer Melanie Fontana was singing backup for the group just a few feet away.
Melanie Fontana is behind multiple hits of BTS, including Jungkookās solo song, āEuphoriaā
āBoy With Luvā is not the first song Melanie Fontana helped write for the boy band. For the groupās album, Love Yourself: Answer, Melanie Fontana co-wrote Jungkookās solo song, āEuphoriaā with DJ Swivel and his partner, Candace Sosa. For the groupās latest album, Map of the Soul: Persona, Melanie Fontana has songwriting credits for āBoy With Luvā featuring Halsey and āMikrokosmos.ā During an interview with Refinery29, Melanie Fontana what makes a song distinctly BTS.
āI feel like itās the really beautiful mixture of masculinity and femininity that theyāre so unabashedly known for. Theyāre not afraid to use what some people would call more feminine-sounding melodies because they make it their own. I think that thatās whatās so sexy about them. They go for almost ethereal melodies that you wouldnāt necessarily write for a male boy band,ā Melanie Fontana said.
BTS albums, including Map of the Soul: Persona, are available on Spotify, Apple Music, and most streaming platforms.
Edit: Melanie Fontana is not the exclusive writer of āBoy With Luv,ā as BTS members RM, Suga, and J-Hope are also given credit as songwriters. According to BTS Fandom, other writers of this song include Ashley Frangipane (Halsey,) Pdogg, Michel āLindgrenā Schulz, āHitmanā Bang, and Emily Weisband.