"Bangtan Boys" (Sound In Media Culture) (Week 9)
Wednesday, 6 September 2017 | 04:40:00 | 0 Words
As everyone knows, BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys or Beyond The Scene, is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment. They debuted on June 12, 2013, with the song "No More Dream" from their first album called 2 Cool 4 Skool, for which they won several "New Artist of the Year" awards including those at the 2013 Melon Music Awards and Golden Disc Awards, and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards.They also has been one of the most popular songs in our country nowdays.It is amazingly that the song has touched most of us where we still listen it now.It also shows how unique is the music with their choreography include in their most of their videos.Their songs also has been popular thoughout the year.
Known for their large social media presence, BTS were listed by Forbes as the most retweeted artist on Twitter in March 2016. Following that, Twitter launched its first ever K-pop Twitter emoji featuring BTS. In 2017, BTS won a Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist. In June 2017, Time magazine named the band one of the 25 most influential people on the internet.
Thanks to a massive fan base that stretches around the globe, BTS was able to overtake pop superstars like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez and capture the Top Social Artist award, presented by ION360, during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night (May 21).
The K-pop group had made headlines by announcing that they would be in Las Vegas for the ceremony at the T-Mobile Arena, and their presence dominated social media during the magenta carpet prior to the awards. When Top Social Artist was presented, the group took the stage, looking overwhelmed by the moment and remaining gracious for their fans’ support.The music can be said to be very catcy because the beats that's being played by BTS as well as his amusing dance moves. Most of us should have known the famous step shown by BTS in the music video and it had been used by most of the countries as a step for choreographing their dance steps. The song has contributed much regarding the culture of South Korea where the lyrics were written with a mixture of South Korean language and English language as well. The mixed mode of the music of the song also has captured people’s attention. The song had been connected directly with people all around the world. It was a tremendous accomplishment by BTS where he was able to get people all around the world to get attracted and to listen totheir songs although it was from the South Korea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwzBICPhdM