--- title: BTS and Lauv Join Forces for a Sweet New "Make It Right" description: BTS's new version of "Make It Right" includes an English verse from Lauv and a sweet new music video. canonical: https://time.com/5704898/bts-lauv-make-it-right/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-18T17:13:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:56.069Z og:title: BTS and Lauv Join Forces for a Sweet New "Make It Right" og:description: The pop artist and K-pop group banded together for this earnest remix og:url: https://time.com/5704898/bts-lauv-make-it-right/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: BTS and Lauv Join Forces for a Sweet New "Make It Right" twitter:description: The pop artist and K-pop group banded together for this earnest remix twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # BTS and Lauv's 'Make It Right' Is an Ode to the Fans and Yes There's an Animated Dragon Battle > Sponsored content. 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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](https://time.com/5681494/bts-bang-si-hyuk-interview/) and Lauv are also outspoken advocates of mental health awareness, the former making it a topic of conversation in their [public statements](https://time.com/5405422/bts-k-pop-united-nations-address/), 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](https://www.jedfoundation.org/a-conversation-on-mental-health-with-lauv-and-noah-cyrus/). 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](https://time.com/5650024/is-bts-taking-a-break/) from their intense touring schedule. 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