Sunday night’s Grammys cemented a long-brewing impulse within, one that I’ve tried to suppress for the sake of my sanity but is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: I want to swan-dive down the rabbit-hole into ardent BTS fandom.
In a Grammy night colored by perfectly good but somehow sleepy performances (not you, H.E.R, Lenny Kravitz and Travis Barker!), during a too-long awards show at a time when awards shows feel ever more irrelevant, BTS brought more than a performance. They delivered Bond-themed theater of their nominated bop “Butter,” wrenching me from boredom and directly into ecstasy. Each and every one of these men—Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook—is a consummate showman who fully committed to the spy premise, from the moment Jungkook descended from the ceiling on a wire, apparently effortlessly, despite having recently recovered from COVID-19.
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Meanwhile, the wonder boys had infiltrated the little cocktail tables in the audience in Las Vegas, and V was staring intently into Olivia Rodrigo’s eyes, then slyly whispering in her ear, a scene stranger than fan fiction that swiftly exploded the collective pop musical brain. A bit this may have been, but these people have certifiable chemistry and should probably collaborate immediately? (Asked about dream collaborations on the red carpet, V had earlier told E!: “Olivia.”)
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