Smeraldo Garden Marching Band

Album: Muse (2024)
Charted: 46 88
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Songfacts®:

  • "Smeraldo Garden Marching Band" blends hip-hop beats and the lively, brassy sound of a marching band. The lyrics delve into themes of longing and unspoken love.
  • The title, "Smeraldo," is Italian for the gemstone emerald. It's also the name of a fictional flower that pops up in BTS lore, including on the Love Yourself: Tear track "The Truth Untold" featuring Steve Aoki. This mythical flower symbolizes "the truth I couldn't tell" – a sentiment that runs deep in this song.

    Legend has it, the Smeraldo bloomed in a lost Italian city called La Citta di Smeraldo, which was abandoned after the Black Death. The story goes that a kind man created this unique flower to help a poor girl make some money, a symbol of compassion blooming in the face of hardship.
  • "Smeraldo Garden Marching Band" reunites Jimin with the producer trio PDogg, GHSTLOOP, and EVAN, who worked with him on his debut solo album, Face. They branded themselves the Smeraldo Marching Band in a playful nod to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band record.

    Two of Ariana Grande's go-to collaborators, Los Angeles-based producer Tommy "TBHits" Brown and Minneapolis-born producer and songwriter Mr. Franks, also helped with the production.
  • Jimin is joined on the song by Loco, a South Korean rapper who throws down a lovelorn guest verse.
  • The song is part of Jimin's album Muse, which explores the theme of love and features seven interconnected tracks about the journey to find inspiration.
  • The video shows Jimin performing on a fairytale woodland stage, bringing couples together as he glides through the scene. Loco joins him to rap his verse, and the clip concludes with the pair dancing amid a shower of flower petals.

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