Dave Holmes, Editor-in-Chief of the American long-standing men's magazine "Esquire," shared playlists on his Twitter of the 30 best songs in 2020. The playlists on Spotify and Apple Music included the song "Dis-ease" by member J-HOPE of BTS.
Dave Holmes said these are the best songs for a turbulent year and included links to listen to songs on Spotify and Apple Music.
J-HOPE's song is ranked at No. 6 and is the only song by a Korean artist. "Dis-ease" is a song with the genre "Hip hop old school" written by J-HOPE himself, in the third mini-album "BE" that BTS released on November 20. The song is a story about an occupational disease with a state of inability to enjoy the fullness of a sudden break and calls on everyone to overcome it together.
Some of the other songs on the list selected by Dave Holmes are the works of famous American, British and Irish artists such as "Cool" by Dua Lipa, "The Last Great American Dynasty" by Taylor Swift, "Babylon" by Lady Gaga. The two non-English songs on this list are "Dis-ease" by J-HOPE and "Anthropic (Cold Times)" by boy group Hilang Child (Indonesia).
The American entertainment website "Consequence of Sound" on December 4 also voted the song "Dis-ease" by J-HOPE to the Top 50 songs of the year 2020. Before that, on November 23, the page "The Art Dask" is also the UK website that reviews British artworks, also commented that "Dis-ease" is the best song on BTS's "BE" album. Famous media agencies such as The Independent (UK), music critic magazine NME (UK), Time magazine (USA), website Slant Magazine (USA) have also given endless praise for the song "Dis-ease."
I'm very happy for j-hope, because by being the main songwriter of this song, I hope he starts to be getting recognized by music critics in the west. I hope he will make a name for himself as a talented writer/composer. The fact that Rolling Stone also picked EGO (Hsk- main songwriter too, main and only vocal and rap arranger, recording engineer ) as one of the standout from MOTS: 7 album and Dis-ease from BE is very telling that music critics love j-hope's style, CoS music journalist said that Dis-ease blows just about everything else out of the water, that it’s got J-Hope written all over it and they love it .
Big Hit, pay attention!!!! No more 6 seconds lines for Hoseok.
Also congrats to Ivan Jackson Rosenberg (also producer), Ghstloop, RM, Pdogg, SUGA, Jimin and Randy Runyon, because they were involved in writing/composing of Dis-ease too.
My personal opinion, this is the best song on Be album.