Review: 'The Tonight Show' hosts K-pop sensation BTS for a perfectly fine late-night stunt
BTS are about to take over NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!” So exciting! I have yet to knowingly hear their music, but it’s not everybody who gets an entire hour of “The Tonight Show” dedicated just to them. I can’t sleep! I have been assigned to watch and report on this thing and, literally, I can’t! Tuesday they’ll be doing Carpool Karaoke on “The Late Late Show With James Corden”; I may sleep then.
Of all late night hosts, Fallon, who can sing and dance and is still basically a 16-year-old boy, is the nearest thing to the member of a boy band. So this all makes a certain sense. If Wikipedia is to be believed, BTS are by many metrics bigger than the Beatles, a band from the 1960s I will tell you about sometime, and their appearance on “The Tonight Show” likely benefits “The Tonight Show” more than it does BTS, though it has been timed to the release of “Map of the Soul: 7.
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