Coldplay continued their week-long run on The Late Late Show with a performance of recent single “My Universe.” Appearing in front of a live studio audience, the band gave the track an upbeat, buoyant feel. The performance of “My Universe” follows Coldplay’s collaborative appearance withSelena Gomez earlier this week for …
Read More »Did 'Butter' Butter Butter?
Let’s start with: Correlation is not causation. (Listen to your imploring math teachers, kids; the ramifications of shoddy data science are no joke.) And yet, when the most popular band in the world releases a song primly named after a pantry staple, one has to wonder — by which I …
Read More »A Deep Conversation with BTS' RM on His Group's Early Years, Drake, Whether BTS Is K-Pop, and More
& #8220;I was someone who wanted to go to a top college, an Ivy League school by American standards,” says RM, BTS‘ leader. “I was a typical student who was trying hard to achieve. And then I trusted [HYBE founder] Mr. Bang, and I started to walk down a different …
Read More »Big Hit and Universal Music Will Launch a New Boy Band Together
Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, and Big Hit Entertainment, the Korean record label behind international superstars BTS, are partnering in a new label joint venture to develop a new boy group, the two companies announced in a pretaped livestream on Wednesday. The new venture, based in …
Read More »The Company Behind BTS Is Pouring More Money Into K-Pop's Success
K-pop‘s world domination seems to get closer by the day. Just months after the folks at Big Hit Entertainment celebrated their star groupBTS‘ chart-topping success with album Map of the Soul: 7 —which became the South Korean icons’ fourth consecutive LP to go Number One in the U.S. — the …
Read More »Watch BTS' 'Kinetic Manifesto Film' for Single 'On'
BTS has released a “kinetic manifesto film” (a.k.a. music video) for their single “On.” In the stark video, the seven-piece group leads a dancing army of warriors inside a canal. According to the press release, the “Kinetic Manifesto Film is an expression that best depicts the concept of the lead …
Read More »See Lil Nas X Perform 'Old Town Road' With BTS, Diplo, Nas at 2020 Grammys
Lil Nas X capped off his blockbuster debut year with a star-studded, genre-crossing performance of “Old Town Road,” featuring many of the artists — BTS, Diplo, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Mason Ramsey — who had appeared on the seemingly endless list of remixes of the song throughout 2019. Opening by …
Read More »BTS' Suga Stars in 'Interlude: Shadow' Comeback Trailer
Hot off the heels of their album announcement for Map of the Soul: 7, BTS have released a new trailer featuring group member Suga. The singer and rapper performs “Interlude: Shadow,” which samples the group’s 2013 track “Intro: O!RUL8,2?” from O!RUL8,2?, their first extended play. While surrounded by a crowd …
Read More »Watch BTS Perform 'Make It Right,' 'Boy With Luv' on 'Dick Clark'
BTS performed as part of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest to help ring in the new year and the K-Pop group took the opportunity to play two of their popular hits. The musicians performed Make It Right” and “Boy With Luv” for the crowd in Times …
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