BTS and Lauv’s ‘Make It Right’ Is an Ode to the Fans and Yes There’s an Animated Dragon Battle

It makes sense that BTS’s “Make It Right” is getting new life with Lauv, an American pop singer-songwriter. For one thing, “Make It Right” is one of BTS’s most balladic recent songs from the spring’s Map of the Soul: Persona EP, and an earnest expression of gratitude over melodic, R&B-lite production. (It happens to have been written by Ed Sheeran, too.) Meanwhile, Lauv is best known for downtempo pop that lays a bleeding heart bare.

Both the K-pop supergroup and Lauv are also outspoken advocates of mental health awareness, the former making it a topic of conversation in their public statements, and the latter developing outlets for his fans to focus on the subject at his shows and sharing his experiences at a World Mental Health Day discussion.

So together, on the new “Make It Right,” they’ve released a song that naturally speaks to both fandoms — and particularly to the powerful force that is BTS’s ARMY. To top it off, the music video that came along with the release is a sweet love letter to those fans. It intersperses footage of the septet performing on their recent world tour in front of their many thousands of supporters with an animated fairy-tale narrative, in which a lost boy battles a dragon and is saved with the help of a magical female character that’s been by his side all along.

BTS recently returned from a month-long break from their intense touring schedule. Lauv has been on a U.S. tour this fall, with an upcoming debut album titled How I’m Feeling.