Love Yourself: Tear
by BTS
  • Record Label: Bighit
  • Release Date: May 18, 2018
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 1209 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,030 out of 1209
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 1209
  3. Negative: 165 out of 1209
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  1. gabrielcipriano
    Dec 21, 2018
    8
    This is one of the best K-Pop albums I can hear. Simply BTS is surpassing and proving that this is increasing! Small details to be solved, but tracks that make you dance and reflect at the same time and this is incredible. I look forward to the evolution of the next albums.
  2. Derling
    Oct 4, 2018
    8
    These guys are really onto something! I could sense a raw, bittersweet yet at the same time quite soothing energy throughout the album with "Paradise", "Magic shop" and "Truth untold" being the tracks that hooked me the most. The outro of the album, "Tear" got me to the guts! I feel guilty for being surprised because I thought I didn't have any prejudice when in came to music... Turns out I did!
  3. gilush04
    Sep 2, 2020
    8
    Probably one of, if not, their best album so far made. Incredible lyrics, instrumentals, and by hearing every song, you can truly feel their emotions given. They never stop impressing us, and this is the proof.
  4. hkillmain
    May 19, 2021
    8
    te amo demais vida, não há outro álbum do bts que tem outro:tear e esse verso cabeludo do hoseok
  5. JhosepKingsley
    Jul 21, 2018
    7
    A good combination of pop and EDM with a great uncommon composition in Asian pop. Definitely Fake Love is the jewel of this album and of the current music.
  6. Nitsu
    Nov 2, 2020
    7
    La temática estuvo más o menos, me gustó pero al mismo tiempo fue muy cliché. Sus bailes y voces deberían mejorarlo, aunque los ritmos sí están bueno (o la mayoría)
  7. ihateadverts
    Apr 17, 2023
    6
    It is not my favourite album from the group, but it is saved by one of the best songs the group has ever released, Outro:Tear.
  8. Jeffwith2fs
    Sep 22, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a good álbum but I expected to be better. They can do way better than this.… Expand
  9. Urbeingwatched8
    May 25, 2018
    4
    I think that this album is average, but it doesn't mean that I don't want to give a chance to kpop: in contrast, I know kpop too well, and I listened to BTS before they gained international populatity, before daesangs, bbmas, etc. I know that they CAN do better. I hope that someday they will put their soul into their studio albums and EPs again, just like they did before with their oldI think that this album is average, but it doesn't mean that I don't want to give a chance to kpop: in contrast, I know kpop too well, and I listened to BTS before they gained international populatity, before daesangs, bbmas, etc. I know that they CAN do better. I hope that someday they will put their soul into their studio albums and EPs again, just like they did before with their old albums and mixtapes. The title song, Fake Love, brought back that feeling, but sadly, I can't say the same about other songs, which is sad, since even b-side tracks on Love Yourself: Her were much better than these ones. LY:Tear is literally 1 great song + 10 unmemorable b-side tracks.

    And no, this is not another 'I wish they never changed': I'm happy that they changed, but now they just produce the kind of music that western market demands with simplified lyrics, which is tragic, since I always appreciated honesty of their lyrics.    … Expand
  10. spongki
    Jul 22, 2021
    4
    It started off so well and then the production just took a turn for the worse in the second half.
  11. CherDeVie_102
    Sep 7, 2018
    3
    Though, bts is surprisingly success- Fake Love is the best track for sure. But we can't deny that" Idol" makes this album worse. It has been overrated. I'm sorry
  12. Hatcavi
    Aug 29, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's good, catchy but need more in chorus and lyrics to be unique than others. Howe… Expand
  13. EGrignon
    Jun 7, 2018
    0
    Generic Kpop album, the sound of ultra-calculated, focus-group, slick and polished pop music ready for mass-market consumption with no artistic merit whatsoever. It will probably appeal to their fanbase but there truly isn't anything on this album for anyone out of the craze, who were already seeing it as the album of the year before a single note had been ever heard. It's great andGeneric Kpop album, the sound of ultra-calculated, focus-group, slick and polished pop music ready for mass-market consumption with no artistic merit whatsoever. It will probably appeal to their fanbase but there truly isn't anything on this album for anyone out of the craze, who were already seeing it as the album of the year before a single note had been ever heard. It's great and diverse only as long as your musical scope is too narrow to see what is going on musically in 2018.… Expand
  14. MartynaM
    May 27, 2018
    0
    Sounds like every other album, didn't enjoy it one bit. Songs blended together, nothing really stood out, the lyric content is equally good as a one direction song.
  15. valegol
    Jul 6, 2018
    0
    No thank you. Uninspired. Annoying. Unoriginal and most of all, unnecessary.
  16. EmptyWords
    Jun 25, 2018
    0
    Repetitive, full of similar songs we've heard from every korean group, zero innovation, only the fans like this
  17. Awesomeboy12
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    It was okay nothing too grand. The latter album was better. Nothing more just overhype only 1 song okay and it got the most views so overhype.
  18. P1superclean
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    I've heard better KPOP!! Like Big Bang!!
    This group just overhyped for no reason! They got Blood Sweat Tears & FIre was there bests I'm guessing it not getting any better. DNA and Mic Dop was boring and not memorable at all.
    Better groups :
    EXO
    SuperJunior
    2NE1
    SHINee
    Henry Lau (talent what can't he do?? Plus he gives all his songs in different languages this guy)
    awesome!!
  19. BestofBest24
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    Generic! Generic! Generic!
    Fake Love the best song on this.
    The 12th song on here I see why it didn't make this cut maybe next time.
    Most of it the same Generic pop like Airplane.
    Very repetitive in the worlds as well.
    This the best Korea (kpop) got to offer?!?
    I'm not getting why this was supposed to be the next best thing but it's a NO FOR ME DAWG.
  20. schubert1992
    Sep 26, 2018
    0
    basic, the most basic that I've heard in my life the worst of the worst nothing innovative and full of just autotune and music zero voice in the whole album
  21. ursoosinn
    Oct 5, 2018
    0
    This album is very unique and their song is lot of meaning and inspiration to us
    This song was explained BTS leader and his name is KIM NAMJOON also known as RM
    and also other members work on their song . so that album and song it really goods
  22. noor2cool
    Dec 9, 2018
    0
    I did not like it and I did not like it. I think I love myself a lot before I listen to them or I watch films that talk about this. Technically, they are bad and not new to the artistic field at this time.
  23. RoseDol
    Aug 28, 2020
    0
    Horroroso, los ritmos y letras genéricas de siempre, cada vez se vuelven más comerciales, todo el álbum es muy mediocre.
  24. Steph92
    Mar 4, 2021
    0
    Not as good as some of their more recent releases.

    They can certainly do better than this.
  25. jensoo
    Oct 4, 2020
    0
    it’s just a no from me, didn’t really like it and nothing to catch my attentionnn
  26. cristalea
    Jul 7, 2021
    0
    repetitive, but not so generic like their recent albums... i still don't like all of their songs
  27. Tay690
    Jan 16, 2022
    0
    Un album que es parte de una trilogia tan mediocre y aburrida, no se podia esperar nada de ella, es un completo fiasco.
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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. The 405
    May 29, 2018
    70
    Love Yourself: Tear shows off each individual member’s qualities fairly and acts as a well-structured introduction to a wider global audience that is all too eager to pick out negatives.
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  2. Pitchfork
    May 24, 2018
    71
    Tear aims for cohesion and produces fun, prismatic songs in the process.
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  3. Rolling Stone
    May 24, 2018
    70
    Throughout it all, the members of BTS affect melodic sincerity, singing with intensity and melisma, rapping in tones that show their effort and strain, as if caring never went out of style.
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