lol 
Well, for you to hear of them, you’d have to learn something new. Something you said you never do
Im beginning to think those smilies are not actually denoting warmth and friendliness. 
I had never heard of them until I saw them on Saturday Night Live. After my initial “what the hell was that” reaction, I looked them up.
As for their androgynous look, let’s pause and remember Justin Bieber’s first album.
It means B.uy T.his S.tuff!!! Its the ever present subliminal feedback loop that is the undercurrent to all their music. Im telling you guys, all the pop up blockers, Tivos and HBOs have come back to bite us. The ads just adapted, grew stronger.
To quote the oft-quoted: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was, and now what I’m with isn’t it. And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me.”
This is happening more and more each day that passes. Particularly with technology, something I used to pride myself for being quite clued up on. But music goes without saying. It all looks strange and unpleasant and cookie-cutter bland. When I think back on my youth, music was innovative and making strides in new directions and it was amazing. Now it just seems like a dull tuneless hum.
I hadn’t heard of them. I blame satellite radio. I never listen to broadcast music except through SiriusXM, and my wife and I share hours. She selects the station during the odd hours and I select the station during the even hours. My presets are Symphony Hall, Alt Nation, and Met Opera Radio. She listens to Classic Vinyl, NPR Now, and Deep Tracks.
BTS doesn’t show up on any of those stations, and I just don’t feel the need to shop around the dial. In the old days when traveling you’d lose your home presets after less than an hour so you’d have to look around for an acceptable alternative. That way you were almost forced to listen to different genres. Now, I can drive clear across the continent and never have to touch the dial. It’s easier, but maybe not better. It might do me some good to force myself to listen to other stuff.
I may have heard their music as background in movies or TV but not been aware of the source; I wouldn’t recognize them by sight or sound.
It’s the only way I can show a friendly, somewhat serious question on this board
Highly doubtful you would like them, but one never knows. As I said, I don’t particularly like them, and I love kpop.
But facts are facts: They are astoundingly popular.
It’s starting to come scross, to me at least, as a tad passive-aggressive. But I’m usually wrong in my convictions, so take that as a good sign and keep on keeping on.
I agree, it might be a tad.
Their music is shit and their videos are shit, like all “k-pop.” What’s the surprise here?
Ok that time it was funny.
*like
Only at discovering its existence in the first place.
I think that’s a detail which can be shocking to someone living in an English-speaking country, but which many other people are already used to. Most of the fans of Metallica or of Justin Bieber have no. Fucking. Idea. What the lyrics say. I’ve had people ask me to translate one of their favorite songs: I always begin by asking repeatedly if they’re sure, because the immense majority of the time they are shocked and disgusted to discover that “Rehab” is about wanting to go on drinking and doing drugs, or that the reason you’re supposed to “Love yourself” is because nobody else will love you…
Despite being in my mid-50s, I listen to K-pop all the time… while I work out. Nothing kills the urge to sing along like not knowing the words in the first place. 
Aside from “Dope” and “Not Today,” can’t say I’m a big fan of BTS. I still listen to EXO and Big Bang more often. It seems to me that it’s simply a matter of K-pop cresting in the US while they were the top Korean boy group, rather than anything outstanding about them. And while I like Blackpink more, I think they’re benefiting from the same phenomenon. Which kinda sucks because I think 4Minute had just found their sound before they broke up and disappeared.
And note to the K-pop companies - I don’t think any group with nearly 10 members or more will ever take off in the US. I could never keep all the members of Girls Generation straight and Twice is just as confusing; I never even tried to figure out EXO. I only know the nine members of Momoland because they started with seven and Nayun disappeared for a year, so I just had to add Daisy and Tae-Ha to the members I already knew.
Eight members? Eight members? Ha!
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There’s nothing weirder in this BTS video than there was in Madonna’s song at the Billboard Awards, and that was done live:
I have to accept now that musical acts will suddenly rise into my view regularly. I will assume that they apparently just got together yesterday, but then I will be told that they've been performing for years and that they are now the hottest thing around. That happens a lot now for the musical guest on *Saturday Night Live*. You can't be on that show unless you're relatively well known, but somehow I often find that the group or performer is new to me.People all have different experiences. The first K-Pop song I ever heard was “Gee” by Girls’ Generation, and I was blown away. It was utterly different from anything going on in American pop music.