jimin liked and left a heartfelt comment on a bus driver's appreciation post for bts
🐥 its people like you who make this world a brighter place, even more than we do. thank you, always. we'll keep doing our best to give back, even if its just by being a small source of strength 🤍
Your analysis is good but it ignores one thing. When the Beatles were first rising to fame, it was women who supported them. Women, who were ridiculed for fangirling and “Beatlemania”.
As the Beatles gained more pop culture legitimacy (and as their lyrics and legacy got more misogynistic), more men became Beatles fans. Every Beatles ‘expert’ was a man. A Rolling Stone list of 10 “best books” on the Beatles are all written by male authors.
Today, the Beatles are thought of as “classic dad rock”. There is a masculine, classic edge to them. Men have taken over their fandom, and play the role of gatekeepers and tastemakers - while avid female interest in the Beatles gets treated with the same degree of suspicion directed at young women wearing band T-shirts. Female Beatles fans are subjected to questions from male fans “testing their knowledge” on the band, and suggesting that even if they do know the band, they aren’t appreciating them properly. How ironic, when it was women who first spotted a diamond in the rough.
This is the underlying misogyny underpinning the likes of what men like Gene Simmons had to say about BTS. It is not the number of fans, but the number of MALE fans, by whom the seriousness and worthiness of music is measured.
Misogyny, and a contempt for anything women support and enjoy, is what your analysis was missing.
as someone who has done 10/10 Euro concerts, my favorite was Munich D2. The vibe there was just so good! They had amazing acoustics, the crowd was so loud, but so fun and loving!! Just overall such a fun concert full of joy and love from all over Europe!
last concert in europe today and I cannot thank enough all the army that attended our spots. madrid, brussels, london, munich and paris crowds made history and I am sure they’ll add more european dates next time they tour here. they’ll never forget us. we did so well 🥺