Just gonna say that the K-Pop scene is completely controlled by the labels. I don’t think these people get much say in their art or their methods

lowkey reminds me of how bloated kpop album sales are in korea because (among other reasons) albums essentially function as lottery tickets into fanmeets/meet n greets. so you'll have groups moving hundreds of thousands of units in one week, or, in the case of huge groups like bts and seventeen, over a million. super rich fans (usually older businessmen types) will purchase literal truckloads of albums.
and what happens with the dozens to hundreds of copies people buy? they're thrown away, given away to charities (even though charities have gone on record saying that free albums don't do s*** for them,) even left on the street. it's not just kpop either, it happens with idol pop in general (japan, china, etc.)

its breaking that out a bit though, and bts came from what used to be relatively small label and the members are very much involved in songwriting iirc. they own like half the shares of their label too now

For f***ing what

Bro, Butter was literally their manager saying "guys, write lyrics like Michael Jackson, you know, "smooth as butter"" and they were like "wow, that's genius".

im not gonna defend butter and their music isn't for me but they definitely have involvement in their songs and albums, it might have been more prominent on their older songs as they felt more soulful back then

GOAT BTS got peeps in they feels I see.