Even Aston has gotten a piece of the BTS pie

Yep, Aston Merrygold is a member of the BTS Army.

Not only is the former JLS star a huge fan of the K-pop boy band, but he has actually written a song for the group.

And you could have been bopping along to it this whole time.

Aston, 30, reveals he wrote a song called Bounce for one of BTS’ last albums – either Love Yourself: Tear and Face Yourself and, quite frankly, we had no idea.


It doesn’t appear that the song made it on the album as it’s not listed – the name could have changed – but Aston was thrilled the boy band loved the track enough consider putting it on the album.

It’s not known if BTS will use the track on another album (Picture: GC Images)

Speaking to Metro.co.uk at a Clearblue event on Thursday, the pop star revealed: ‘It was already written and in my pile of songs that I was looking at but the publishers were also looking through that and said, “Are you happy for me to play these songs?”’



According to Aston, the song was translated meaning he had to ‘split the pie four ways’ in regards to the royalties.

Explaining how Bounce ended up in BTS’ lap, Aston explained: ‘It’s just one of those things as good as it is, it’s the same thing if I ever do a song written by someone.

‘Unless you know them that’s when you probably see them and talk to them unless it’s someone in your team who’s gone out to find the song, planning the research. It could just come through a really weird avenue like that one came from, they heard the song and my publishers.’

BTS could give JLS a run for their money in the dancing stakes (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

With bands like JLS and One Direction taking an indefinite rest, the way has been paved for BTS to conquer the world.

Offering some friendly advice for the k-pop stars, Aston said: ‘It’s a new world so you just have to enjoy it. Time’s are different and even if you look at the path [JLS] took on The X Factor, when we did the show we were locked up in the house and nobody could even really get a picture of us.

‘It was just kind of held back whereas fast forward a few years in the One Direction era, that was the time social media launched. Now, it’s a whole new level of social media so it’s just a different world.’

The singer continued: ‘The only thing I can say is just you have to enjoy it them times when you’re on the tour bus or in the hotel room and you can just sit there and go, “Phew”, and actually think, “Oh, I’ve actually just performed in front of 20-30,000 people”, appreciate it and that you’ve done it.

‘Because it will actually end at some point. It’ll come to an end so just relive those moments as much as you can.’

Aston was known for showing off his famous backflips while performing with JLS and he admits that BTS’ slick choreography could give him a run for his money.

He told us: ‘Listen those K-pop bands… it’s militant. I would love to see it more over here because… dare I say [JLS] were the only commercial ones out there dancing. Everyone else was like, “I don’t really dance” but it’s part and parcel.’

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