K-pop superstars BTS held a global press conference today, Nov. 20, to talk about their new album “BE” (deluxe edition), their goals and their wish to get a Grammy nomination.

RM, Jimin, J-Hope, V, Jungkook and Jin answered questions from the media through the live broadcast on YouTube, which attracted more than 500,000 people. Suga, who is recovering from shoulder surgery, was unable to participate.

“We’ve been busy doing all what we can do and releasing this album was already planned before the release of ‘Dynamite.’ We’ve been working on the album while promoting ‘Dynamite’ and in the album-making process, we all showed how we are making this album to all the fans. It was actually our first time doing that. We always kept it confidential but it was our first time revealing how we were making the album so it feels like we made this album together with the fans,” RM said.

Jin said, “We all had fun working on the album. Even for shooting the photos, the album covers. We focused on the emotions that we have right now so it was my chance to look back on my present and myself.”

As music project manager (PM) for the album, Jimin said, “I was the music PM of this album. Actually Suga strongly suggested I should take the role. So I took the role but I didn’t do really much. I just gathered all the opinions of the members, organized that and delivered those to the staff.”

When they started making the album, Jimin said, “the keyword ‘life goes on’ came up. RM suggested that we should show that whatever happens outside, everyone’s lives go on. We should show how we should keep going even when everything has changed. All the members thought it was a good idea and agreed so we took the idea of ‘life goes on’ and made the album.”

RM praised Jimin, saying, “That’s really hard and he took the role and I think he did an amazing job.” V, on the other hand, became the visual director of the album.

About the main track “Life Goes On,” RM said, “This is what we wanted to say through this album. No matter what happens,despite what happens, life goes on. That is our topic and that is the motif. We always wanted to talk about or discuss what we can say now, what we should say now. This is where everything starts.”

“Fly To My Room,” by the BTS unit composed of Suga, J-Hope, Jimin and V, is “very unique,” according to Jimin, adding that it “is about a situation where we can travel freely and how the idea of traveling will change in the future.”

On the message they want to impart through “BE,” Jin explained, “Everyone in the world, because of COVID-19, so it is very confusing for everyone. We feel frustrated, we feel sad. Life goes on. Hope we can find happiness in our lives. Be strong.”

BTS will be performing “Life Goes On” for the first time at the 2020 American Music Awards slated on Nov. 22 (Nov. 23 in the Philippines) where they are also nominated for Favorite Social Artist and Favorite Duo or Group-Pop.

In addition, the nominations for the 63rd Grammy Awards will be announced on Nov. 24 (Nov. 25 in the Philippines) and RM is hoping that they will be nominated this year.

RM said that everytime BTS have an interview and asked about their goals or next target, they always mention this, saying, “We are very nervous. We are waiting for the 25th as well. It will be amazing if we are nominated. I think it will be announced early in the morning. We will probably be awake and waiting for that. I hope there will be amazing news.”

BTS have already achieved No. 1 on Billboard and when asked where they want to go from here, Jin said, “To be honest, it would be at the Grammys. We reached the top spot on Hot 100. That was amazing. That was an incredible honor. The nominations will be coming out soon and we hope that our name will be called in that nomination.”