Meghan Murakami is an associate producer for TODAY.com.
It is 5:45 a.m. at Rockefeller Center, and an army is trickling into what will become a packed TODAY Plaza. But it’s not just any army — it’s the BTS Army, the name given to BTS fans, like Taylor Swift’s Swifties or Beyoncé’s Beyhive. Jung Kook, the golden maknae , of the K-pop supergroup debuted an ambitious full-length album “Golden,” sung entirely in English, on Nov. 3. Now, Army has gathered to watch him perform three songs: “Seven,” “3D,” and “Standing Next to You.
“I feel like BTS has kind of helped open the doors… where people are like, ‘Oh! I actually know this group,’ and it’s not a joke,” Kim says. By the time BTS rose to fame in the U.S. starting around 2015, I had moved away from K-pop, but came back to the genre in January 2022. As a newly minted BTS fan at the age of 23, I experienced the same rush I did as a preteen, but finally felt free to feel it with others. “It’s not just the music, it’s the fandom, too,” says Ann, a fellow fan.
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