Some moments in your life become, in retrospect, the dividing lines between Before and After. This year, I experienced a new bifurcation—and that is My Life Before BTS, and now, My Life As a Dedicated Member of the BTS ARMY.
, it feels equally as important to acknowledge that watching their videos gives me the same feeling as when I went to raves in my youth.
what I really appreciate, what I love, is the pure joy they somehow transmit straight from the screen and into my veins Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate when BTS members acknowledge that an entire generation of young people has been fucked over. “It’s hard to get a job, it’s harder to attend college now more than ever,” RMin 2018, adding, “Adults need to create policies that can facilitate that overall social change. Right now, the privileged class, the upper class needs to change the way they think.” As Suga put it, “And this isn’t just Korea, but the rest of the world.
Their dancing! Their styling! Their videos are a visual feast. They’re sexy but soft, the non-threatening ideal object of desire for their fans, who can project all sorts of fantasies onto the seven members of BTS, as the fandom of boy bands have done for decades.
Every generation gets the one boy band that rules them all that it deserves. It feels especially fitting that as the United States wanes on the global stage, America’s pop culture dominance has now been forced to make room for seven candy-haired South Korean boys who have perfected and redefined an art form that was never intended for them, but that they have made indelibly their own.
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