In a triumphant four-night run at Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium, BTS pulled off the magic that turns music into memory.
Songs listened to for the first time become the songs that soundtrack car rides and long walks and time spent with friends. The songs that get you through difficult times — a pandemic, the loss of a loved one, a breakup — become the songs you want to scream with more than 50,000 people at the top of your lungs. All of the online concerts in the world can’t quite capture the real feeling, even as they serve as a vital stopgap. And that’s a good thing, isn’t it? Proof of heart and life.
That week is now forever crystallized as Before. Soon after I arrived home: news reports, work from home, quarantine, empty grocery shelves, DIY masks, spiraling dread. Two months later, my dad’s stroke: anxious flight home, quarantine, no hospital visits, pausing the TV during the “Spring Day” music video to talk to him about where his medicine might be and saying I love you one last time on the phone, the long walk down the stairs to break the news to my sister.
That summer, I walked around my mom’s condominium complex listening to an endless loop of “Spring Day” andthinking of what I had lost. In the weeks after my dad died, many non-ARMY friends and family offered me similar kindnesses: they would watch whatever BTS content I sent them. Two of my closest friends came over one night and we sat in the living room as I showed them “Black Swan,” “Blood Sweat & Tears,” “Dope,” “Daechwita.
Almost two years later, I’m writing this story in that same L.A. hotel, in a room that faces the direction of SoFi Stadium this time. It all comes together in a supercut, each of our lives and BTS. Oh, these BTS years. Names memorized, videos watched, lyrics analyzed, articles read and written and edited, tweets sent and discussed, lessons learned, tears cried, inside jokes created, friendships forged, awards won and milestones celebrated, concerts attended.
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