According to chart data, their second Love Yourself era album, Tear, was when they really began to explode on a global scale, and maybe when you started hearing about them all the time. After being rebellious, maturing, and figuring out their beliefs in the world, Bangtan’s current era is about love - for yourself and those around you (see: their most recent hit, “ Boy With Luv“, in which everything is pink and it is cute). And finally, in 2017, we arrived in the Love Yourself era, where we currently reside to a degree. Dark! Brooding! Their most popular song during this era was “ Blood Sweat & Tears ,” which you should watch just because it’s quite nice to look at. In 2016, BTS released their album WINGS, ushering in a new era that dealt with the themes of temptation, the fight between good and evil, and the discovery of one’s own beliefs. Come back to those once you’ve got love in your heart for the boys.
There are themes of growing up and maturing, both visually and within their music, and the vibe is more similar to where they’re at now, so if you’re fully new here, maybe start with one of these albums instead of right from the beginning. This era was a kind of a coming-of-age story, and the boys play characters of themselves in the music videos and their alternate universe. Their sound and image really started to shift around this time, and they became a lot less cringy, in my humble opinion. People change! Sometimes for the better!ĭark & Wild was a short era, one album, and it provided a bit of a ~transition~ period before their next era: “HYYH.” HYYH stands for “Hwa Yong Yeon Hwa” (Hangul: 화양연화), and it means the most beautiful or happiest time of one’s life.
They weren’t really embraced by the K-pop or the Hip Hop community, and there are clips of them defending their work on radio shows back in the day, but their debut concepts are honestly a bit cringe compared to their current work. Groups have different concepts for different eras, which are basically album cycles for the rest of the music world.īTS debuted with a Hip Hop (and… school? There is a school bus in the video) concept with their video “ No More Dream ,” which drew some criticism, both from inside the industry and outside of it.
For starters, in the world of K-pop, groups base albums on “concepts,” which basically just means the vibe & lyrics of the music, as well as the visuals they use in music videos. Here are the main things you need to know about how K-pop differs from Western pop music. So the global success of BTS is pretty cool, especially considering that they were ~underdogs~ of the industry for so many years.Ī post shared by BTS official a lot of K-pop distribution is the same as Western music (they… release music), some of the terminology and timelines are a bit different. In fact, BTS was the first group to debut entirely under BigHit’s management, and they currently manage just three acts. We won’t get too in the weeds about specifics of the K-pop industry, but there are three massive entertainment companies (YG, SM, and JYP) that produce a lot of talented and prolific acts. Sometimes they’re called Bangtan Boys, but we (the fanbase, aka “Army”) usually just call them BTS.īTS is a seven-member group that debuted in 2013 under the management of BigHit Entertainment.
They later tried to backronym BTS to mean beyond the scene, but that didn’t really take well with fans… I have honestly never heard someone who wasn’t a 70-year-old cable news reporter use this term. Let’s begin.īeing a BTS fan has ruined my brain in that anytime I see “BTS” I automatically assume it is about my K-pop boys and not the term “behind the scenes.” Regardless, in the context of K-pop, BTS stands for Bulletproof Boy Scouts, or “ bangtan sonyeondan ( 방탄소년단) ” in Korean.
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Their infectious tunes combined with their truly precious group dynamic turned me into a full fan, and now I’m here to usher you, dear reader, into the wonderful world of BTS. They were on SNL, they sold out a world tour, their albums are in Targets across America, but… They’re a K-pop group? This is BTS’ history explained Listen, I was just as disoriented as you may be when my roommate forced me to listen to their music a few summers ago. You’ve heard the name BTS so many times you’ve started to confuse it with “behind the scenes,” but you’re still not sure what they’re all about.
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