BTS's 2020 album recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic — their most self-produced and personal album, written and produced largely by the members themselves — exploring pandemic isolation, longing for live performance, and questions of meaning and connection.
Documents the psychological experience of pandemic isolation from the perspective of a group that had just become the world's most popular music act — Life Goes On's quiet acceptance of disruption, and the album's overall mood of constrained intimacy, provide a cultural document of the collective psychological experience of 2020.
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