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“Boy With Luv” meaning

BTS, Halsey · 2019 · 🇰🇷 Seoul · Level B1

BTS and Halsey's 2019 hit, in Korean "A Poem for Small Things": wanting to know everything, even the smallest things, about you.

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What the song is about

“Boy With Luv” (2019) has a Korean title that says more: 작은 것들을 위한 시, “a poem for small things”. After years of huge success, the singers turn to the person they love — and to their fans — and say that what matters is the small things: what you did today, what made you happy, what worries you. Love, they sing, gave them wings.

With Halsey adding English lines, it broke YouTube's 24-hour view record at the time and became one of BTS's best-loved songs.

The Korean is bright and conversational, ideal for B1: questions about your day, curiosity (궁금해), and “everything about you”. A nice song for the vocabulary of everyday affection.

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