DJ keep spinning all the songs BTS has forgotten because it is super funny when we know them word for word and the guys are like 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
The director explained how the concert is structured around a thematic progression of han, heung, and love, corresponding to three acts titled BTS, KOREA, and ARIRANG.
Because the album was shaped by “the group’s personal concerns about and pressure around living up to expectations after a four-year hiatus,” it was only natural for the first act to “be paired with BTS with the idea of han.” It’s also why, during the song “Run BTS,” when j-hope raps the lines, “Jimin, V, worked hard / Namjoonie, Hope, worked hard / Yoongi hyung, Jjin, worked hard / Jung Kook and everyone so thanks,” the camera shows each of the BTS members’ faces in turn, as if paying respect to them and bringing them some solace for everything they went through.
The second act reflects the director’s intent to capture “Koreans’ sense of heung, where they just let loose and have fun.” The “FYA” and “FIRE (FYA mash up)” performances see the group moving full tilt all over the stage, creating an atmosphere where anyone can jump in and lose themselves in the moment, while back-to-back performances of “Body to Body” and “IDOL,” staged with immediately recognizable symbols of Korea, become a highlight of the concert by “ramping up the heung to its fullest.”
The final act puts the theme of love front and center. The director explained that this section was designed by “taking ‘Arirang’ and the question ‘What is your love song?’ and putting them together” to “bring the love and bond between ARMY and BTS to its zenith.”
After wrapping up the setlist with “Into the Sun,” the group walks off from the main stage, passes through the audience, and makes their exit to bring the show to a close—right back into ARMY’s embrace, bringing all the han and heung, the sadness and the gladness, along with them.
I am so freaking blown away by this 🤯
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“Now that I'm done with my mandatory service, I see this as a chance to step into my 30s and meet ARMY all around the world, say my thank-yous, and share in this 10-year-plus history. I hope I can get you to feel all the emotions this year's tour has to give. I hope it's fun, exciting, and brings plenty of tears and plenty of joy, too”