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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, let's talk about BTS being in Madrid, specifically let's talk about Taehyung.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they kicked off their Europe leg of the tour and Taehyung is immediately pouring water into that fan's mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was freaking out about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is like delusional fans like all of their imagination.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything like fake scenarios coming true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like can you imagine being that fan?
[SPEAKER_01]: No
[SPEAKER_01]: and he comes over what I love is that not only does he have the bottle of water in his hand, but before he gets to the fan, he like signs for her to like open her mouth, basically.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's just sharing, hey, open your mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she does, and he goes and pours the water in her mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could not believe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it truly, I told Kayla this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It goes beyond what I could handle with the hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I would not be able to.
[SPEAKER_02]: In that moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: To function after it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know like if like your brain would process like if he's like motioning to open your mouth like you just be so like star-struck.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even think that I remember right after you sent me that video I texted you I was like if this were you you would never drink water again like that would be the last water you ever consume in your life
[SPEAKER_01]: I would black out for the remainder of the concert too, like I don't think I could remember anything about that, just because I would just be replaying that over and over and over and over.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm fully unable to recover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that was honestly like beginning of just how crazy BTS are being in Europe right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it has been so fun to watch and to see and to fan
[SPEAKER_02]: all the foam out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, seriously.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost hard to watch because of the foam out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're delivering some excellent concerts over there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what we're going to talk a lot about today.
[SPEAKER_02]: So excited to get into it with you all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back for your host.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Kayla.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm Bethany and this is standing BTS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, today we're going to hang out for about an hour and we're going to be talking about all of their stops in Europe so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll talk briefly about Paris because it hasn't happened yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're going to talk a little bit about some of these promos going out about normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, expecting a little bit more for normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then also just a little bit about the FIFA World Cup and how BTS are gonna be performing at the halftime.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we're super excited to get into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even though this episode is gonna be a little short and sweet, we're still super grateful that you're tuning in and just want to say thank you to my colleagues for being here and for all of your support.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, as of recording right now, BTS are in Munich and we just have to talk about these jerseys or kits, I guess that's what they're called.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am not surprised by that at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're red and on the back is just the number seven for all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says FC Bayer and then Rm Sugar Jay Hope Jim and John Cook V. and they all have their own
[SPEAKER_01]: Kit, and it's just so, so cool, like who ever got these, like truly, like these are gonna be worth so much on the road, I'm sure, like there's so special, very cool, very timely for the World Cup going on right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Tae Young actually just recently wore the full kit, like Jersey shorts and socks all to their last night in Munich, which was really, really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, he looks so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, whoever at FC Baron Munich, Munich that had the idea to do this collab is a freaking marketing genius.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is, it's like,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like their regular kit, but it's also perfect because red is the Auditon color and like on top of that BTS are performing at that stadium where that team plays like it is just so freaking smart and not to mention like it is like the most popular team in
[SPEAKER_02]: Germany, I think, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could be wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just what Jeremy said.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, I trust him on soccer stuff But yeah, it's just cool that they they personalized it with the seven and then with each member's name underneath.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like not only is it also already a thing in the fandom to get the members jerseys at the concerts as the special merch.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is like an additional
[SPEAKER_02]: Jersey that you can collect, like, I just thought that this was genius and then it was, like, simultaneously super hot and also hilarious and very Taehyung to wear the full kit, like down to the socks really struck me, you know, on staying committed to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like the members are all performing come over, you know, in like their more casual concert outfits and Taehyung standing there in this full bright red kid is just
[SPEAKER_02]: Polarious and I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love him.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very him to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Super him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Kayla you've been talking about how he just looks incredible in red Which is very true.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does so.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, getting this full red outfit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he looks stunning.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does look stunning
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of all these jerseys, Wobby Tess was in Madrid, their first stop in Europe, Yungi, going incredibly viral for wearing... Oh, he went viral.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, he was wearing the Athleticom Madrid kit.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, oh, he looks so fucking good, like, why does he look so buff?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is this man constantly posting on Instagram about how much he's running?
[SPEAKER_02]: And, like, running 10k's, all of his, first of all, he has the best Instagram posts of any of the members right now, like, he's really living it up on his tour, like getting that time out in nature, that time to himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's going on these runs, how is he getting more buff?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, his chest in this jersey, his arms in that jersey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also Bethany you pointed out talking about him here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the full forehead exposed the hairpushed back Full forehead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes Yeah, okay, going back to just like the fact that he's been running 10k is like he's been running all the time But all this sudden we're also getting buff like I don't understand like he must be really putting in the time Because dang this jersey is just so like it fits him well, but like his chest looks like it's just like
[SPEAKER_01]: Pressing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's filled out really see it is filled out and then his neck is exposed his forehead is all Yeah, it's yeah, the forehead though the hair really is like throwing me through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like it looks so good I almost can't look at these pictures like it's just these two handsome and like oh my god like
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's full gloss full gloss like shining radiant.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is why we always get I'm getting flashbacks literally We just get wrecked and destroyed by Min Yungi because he's just perfection I'm seeing all of these clips of him like in Munich where like the other members are like for example Jay Hope like going hard with his dance and then you just like over this is the side like poppin around But so cute and just like so him and he's everything so Yeah, obsessed
[SPEAKER_01]: What if these screen shots Kayla it must be from like it's from Tetsakar Yeah, the just one little show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, someone has like a caption over it like Just joking me like literally kill me.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're staying over him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah literally all of us He looks so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also while we're on the topic of Madrid and what they're wearing in Madrid This is where BTS debuted some new concert outfits that they weren't wearing on their first leg in the U.S
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is wearing this black leather fucking trench coat with sunglasses.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's right out of the Matrix, but like the super hot version because on top of that he has like a very deep V. It's like a button down shirt completely unbuttoned until the name of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like chest out, you can see his packs, you can see his abs, like muscles, and then he's like, mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: hip thrusting and oh my god like it's the extremely defined pecs that I'm like damn damn it literally like the last two buttons of that shirt are buttoned and that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This trench coat, the sunglasses like it really does look like he's stuffed out of a matrix, but
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah he looks so hot all of their outfits for the European leg have been so incredible like I just can't get over how hot they all look they all look dangerous like I feel like they're just like ultra sexy in Europe like there's something in the European air that is just making them
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just, it's too much to hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the vaccine is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, like, we've already said that we have such extreme foam, but we were talking about this yesterday.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like, right when we left the concert in Tampa, we're like, we need another one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, two bad, we can't, we literally cannot fit another one of their North American tour dates into our schedule.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know because with every other BTS concert we went to we've been like that was phenomenal that was incredible that was the best concert of our lives but we felt like so fulfilled by it we're okay with not going to another tour stop this is the first tour that we're like why didn't we buy more tickets like we should have kept going on this yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and like seeing them and you know, it's like I linked it what dates what dates are they in Arlington I don't know sometime in August.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, as long as it's before the school year until eight August because I know like why we can't go to Chicago because like that's literally the first week of school And I just there's no way I could take off, but yeah, yeah, I just I don't even care if we're in like
[SPEAKER_01]: the nosebleeds like I would absolutely I do not care.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not care.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would see them a million times with this tourist so phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they've been absolutely knocking out the park with the surprise songs in Europe too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's let's talk about those
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so in Madrid on day one, the surprise songs were airplane part two and wings, which are just both kind of deep cuts, especially outrow wings, like how special to get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then day two, they got microcosmos and best of me, which I would have been so in my
[SPEAKER_01]: I would be like on cloud now and just like euphoric, like serendipitous, this is it, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Best of me is one of those songs too, like you just have to hear the title and instantly you can hear it in your head, it's like stuck in your head, you know, it's such an incredible song.
[SPEAKER_02]: They love performing it, they have such a great time and like microcosmos with all of army there, just like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a beautiful song to hear live.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're next stop was in Brussels in Belgium and on day one they did freaking Tom Maro Hello, and Hello, boy with love, and then on day two they did on and for youth from their proof album So two like proof songs, I think that that's pretty iconic to perform those both on
[SPEAKER_01]: Day two yeah for youth was really a shocking one like I am not gonna lie for God about that song a little bit Yeah, and we had to go back and listen to what I was like, oh, yeah, like oh, wow like I would not have thought that there would be a surprise song, but what a blessing yeah, and yeah I mean anyone who gets tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm immediately jealous like Completely, you know, it's that that meme of like I'm so happy for you But you're like actually like really angry like you know
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the meme of the guy who's like angry crying, but like he's wearing a mask.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like a happy face, and That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then we have to talk a little bit about London here because they performed in London after seven years and the last time that they performed there was at Wimbley Stadium in 2019
[SPEAKER_01]: So, huge moment for England and European fans, this time they were at the Tottenham Hot Spurs Stadium, I hope I pronounced that right, and just a huge moment for all of the fans in England for day one at the surprise song was Life Goes On and then Dionysus, which
[SPEAKER_01]: Those two are so they're polar opposite man like I can't imagine hearing life goes on and then just like boom In today and I don't know which way I don't know which way they went with it, but like that's that's like a Yeah, whip like total five shift.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and then day two they got saved me and up a log young forever and I saw this video of Jim and Kayla told you about it That was kind of going viral.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're during up a log young forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a fan that was crying and he took like both his fingers over his eyes and just like random down his cheeks like
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just kind of like not making fun of her but kind of like you kind of was I saw that TikTok and like the one of the top comments was like girl he did not care like it was so funny
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, uh, his reaction to that was so funny, but it just how if it was you and I, Kayla Let me sobbing we would be sobbing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would be sobbing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just gonna say be freaking out how many times have we cried at a BTS concert We freaking almost cried during who again when they came out into it But we both turned to each other like why did we want to cry right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: But like literally we also had like a running threat on our Twitter It was mutual though.
[SPEAKER_02]: No seriously.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to fight it back for like 45 seconds before I turned to you and said that
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We used to like always take a picture at the end of the concert, it's where we were literally freshly sobbing.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, relatable.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't blame any army who's crying at a concert.
[SPEAKER_02]: How could you go to a BTS concert and not cry?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought his reaction was serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw during the end to the sun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was, I wrapped my hand around you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had my hand around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we were just swaying, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a beautiful moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my gosh, this is the sun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it into the sun?
[SPEAKER_02]: Such a great song for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gorgeous love and then let's see So after they went to London, that's when they went to Munich afterwards and day one they did Babsay and Pied Piper, so they got Piper also.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have to be jealous because we got it in Tampa
[SPEAKER_02]: but Bapsae, iconic, fucking incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bapsae, and Piper, like, that crowd had to be fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: Insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, how do you get Bapsae hip thrusts and like sexy serenading Piper, like, dang.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, like.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just will never forget during Piper, during Jungkook's part, and he was right over by us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, singing his beautiful siren song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Never ever forget.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is really cool that they performed to me like Bapsay, by the way, because we talked about that last time they were in London was in 2019, they hadn't been to Germany since 2018 for the love yourself tour.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the first tour that we saw BTS on, and we saw them about a month prior in Fort Worth, and then they went to Europe after that, and you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, Germany really waited so long.
[SPEAKER_01]: So long.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like a lot of these European stops.
[SPEAKER_02]: They all waited a long time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree especially because thinking about like after, you know, the map of the soul seven map of the soul tour being canceled, when BTS did produce a few concerts like Post COVID, it was just in the state.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was LA Las Vegas.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so a lot of European fans weren't able to either get tickets or travel to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yes, these fans waited so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you know BTS are having an incredible time being there again with them being able to perform for them see them again I'm just sure that it means a lot that they still have such fans over there after all this time and for the fans to be able to like experience BTS again after all these years
[SPEAKER_02]: night two of Munich they performed louder than bombs for the first time ever louder than bombs has never been performed and then they performed blood sweatin tears which is just fucking incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the clips of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I wish Blood Swin tears was on the set list.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of those iconic songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, stand the tests of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like when you think like 50 years down the road, and you think of BTS, you'll think of Blood Swin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just one of the best stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Definitely one of their top 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: Huge moment for louder than bombs because that has been a like deep cut fan favorite for a lot of army And it finally got performed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that's so so amazing and how special to like save it for
[SPEAKER_02]: They're German fans that they have not seen in eight years, you know, like those fans deserve that so much They deserved pipe hyper.
[SPEAKER_02]: They deserved babesay and bloodswence years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the thing is too when BTS were touring there the last time babesay was on the regular rotation, you know So like they gave them a song that they were like we know you love the song We know that it's been eight years since you've heard this song in concert like I love that they did that for them same thing with bloodswence years, you know
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They probably performed those songs back in 2018.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The live yourself concert there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So so amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they are headed to Paris next.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be on July 16th and July 17th.
[SPEAKER_01]: super excited for all of the fans there and I can't wait to see more of what surprise songs they're going to be performing, but crazy moments they're going to have on stage with each other, outfits, et cetera, so just love getting to see everything that's happening over in Europe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just this tour has been so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really been so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a blast and we just we love that they're continuing it and then shortly after, Paris.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're zip and right back to the US.
[SPEAKER_02]: For a huge event.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're going to come back to the US because BTS are performing at the FIFA World Cup finals next week, which is crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, all of the American Army, I'm sure, and also, like, just North America in general, because of the FIFA World Cup being hosted here, especially like Kansas City, hello, like, it's in our city.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been so prominent, it's been everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, we, I think, have been more invested in the World Cup than we ever have been.
[SPEAKER_01]: But at least you and I, Kayla, and so the fact that BTS are going to be performing at the halftime show is so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be on July 19th.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're performing at MetLife.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a couple other people like Justin Bieber, Shakira, Madonna, and Madonna.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gustavo Coltman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, is there?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's curated by Chris Martin from Coldplay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's a BTS fan, I know, I know, I just am really happy because I don't feel like we have anything more to prove of like BTS's talent and popularity at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but
[SPEAKER_01]: the fact that they're performing in the states where more U.S. fans are now more involved in the FIFA World Cup than ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to be seeing BTS at the halftime show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need that extra validation of their importance and talent and how incredible they are, but I'd like to show that they are like truly the biggest band in the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I honestly...
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited for this lineup of people headlining the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I think Shakira, obviously.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like Shakira does like every other World Cup.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is just like synonymous with World Cup half-time show music.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her song was like the World Cup song this year that they debuted to open the World Cup just like Jungkook's dreamers was in 2022 for the World Cup in Dubai.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that like Madonna's performing, because this is the North American World Cup, so we have like an American artist Madonna, we have a Canadian artist Justin Bieber, the other guy who's on the list Gustavo Duda Mal, he's not a Mexican artist, which I thought he might be before looking him up just because we have like the American North Canadian, you know, and we have the North America, but he is the conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in LA, and he's been a Swaylin.
[SPEAKER_02]: So bring that musical element into it like a Philharmonic orchestra conductor into the halftime show like we're going to have some really beautiful music and like blends of different styles like we're going to get like the pop from Madonna BTS and Justin Bieber honestly all have great pop music you know, um, Shakira's just so iconic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think that it's so cool to that Shakira and Junguk are the only people on the list now to perform at the World Cup more than once.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fucking iconic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that's special for Junguk.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really wonder what
[SPEAKER_02]: But I have no idea what they'll perform.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we do what they're going to perform.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they going to go all out with Hooligan?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, right off the bat?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, really just...
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like they had a little bit of performing stuff from Auditong because it's like, hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so I'm really curious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really curious.
[SPEAKER_02]: They probably had BTS also because they expected the South Korea team to go further.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got out much earlier in the World Cup than what was expected from their team.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, they're probably thinking that, like maybe they wouldn't be in the finals, but they would have been like in the last round before the finals or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm really curious to see what they end up doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now that we know it's curated by Chris Martin too, I think that's good news for BTS.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to watch it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm for sure gonna watch it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, we're gonna we're going to like a watch party and like our friends invited us and I was like as long as you know Actually before I could even say anything Jeremy was like we can come as long as you know that we need to have the half time show it full volume and like we will be watching BTS and I was like
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so as long as you guys are ready for my crazy when BTS are on the stage, like, yeah, so I'm excited for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, yeah, I don't, I don't think we're going to like watch pretty or anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you'll watch it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll be, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tuning in for sure woke up finals man.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was really cool that some of them were hosted in KC It's awesome Well, maybe one of the songs that BTS will perform there is normal because They're teasing normal right now heavy on their social media and on Spotify So this started with each member updating their Instagram bio to say Lamron in all caps, which of course is normal backwards
[SPEAKER_02]: and then BTS' official Instagram posted an image with the caption, Lamron, the real, and they also changed their profile picture to like Lamron normal spelled backwards.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the image that they posted looks like film, like maybe film negatives, of maybe potential shots of music video, or like a highlight real type of situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know but it's all of these different like you can kind of zoom in and maybe see like like jungle reflected in a mirror or like RM lane on a bed like very much giving wings energy we're wondering like why are they doing this backwards like why
[SPEAKER_02]: Lamron, you know, and is it just them being cryptic, but then when they released this image We were thinking about how usually film negatives are backwards or reversed like left to right and also inverted colors So it makes sense that like okay, maybe these are like the film negatives from What they're actually gonna end up releasing and
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I love that theory, just because seeing the actual visual of these like films, you see Lamron spoke backwards and like I could envision that film running through like a recorder and being able to see like how it would go from right backwards to forwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, except BTS isn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: But
[SPEAKER_01]: I digress.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you can see how it could potentially just be backwards because of them using these like film negatives to promote it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so another theory that we kind of came up with is just that because their lives are very much not normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what the song is about.
[SPEAKER_01]: That maybe the backwards normal represents how they are quote on normal looks very different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's very backwards a very different feeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: other people's normal is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which I love that interpretation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like that's like that's like the you know like what I first said is like the literal interpretation but what you just said is like where they want you to get with it you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like you can make out that yeah like it's normal but clearly it's not normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we hope that we get a music video, but we are speculating that maybe we won and that it might be something more like the love yourself highlight Reels where they're like short films or short videos What kind of see but based on this film it definitely looks like it could either be a photo shoot or a reel of some sort
[SPEAKER_01]: short video or potentially music video too.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll have to wait and see there hasn't been any kind of formal announcement really about like a potential music video or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, today, just today, Billboard announced that normal is going to be the best radio single promoted from Auditong and it's going to be entering into like circulation on the radio the week of
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe that's all that the promo is about or they'll drop a music video for it around that time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll have to wait and see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm very curious to hear normal on the radio and see how it takes off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like how it's received by a digital public.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it isn't the hit track.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now it's being released and pushed as a single.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, like we hear swim all the time on the radio.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, so it'll be very curious.
[SPEAKER_01]: if a like people start picking up on it because it is such a fantastic song like Khaled is one of your all time favorite songs in the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude yeah when the album first came out it was like normal gets me I get her it's incredible and honestly I remember saying when the album first came out I wonder if they will promote normal on the radio because it's a fully English track
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like they usually do push their full English tracks to the radio and promo that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I kind of just like forgot about that because it's been months, but it makes sense that they're kind of doing the secondary thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It also is very interesting timing.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're doing it as they are coming back to the states.
[SPEAKER_02]: That week is the week that they kick off their, if I think their second leg of the North American tour, when they're going to be like in the North East.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it'll kind of go along with now they're touring back here.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have like hype for being on the tour.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the song will also be playing on the radio at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's right after them being at the World Cup, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they'll get more visibility out the World Cup and yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why it was hoping.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you put it that way, it seems very strategic.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's super strategic.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I hope that they drop a music video because then we can even promote it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I feel like a music video is gonna promote it even more than like a real, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: But an artsy real is always super fun to look at and kind of like tear apart and maybe that gets us back into like the bantan universe and all of their like alternate universe story like maybe they're gonna continue with it because that Mary go around music video was definitely referencing some of those things that felt like and a little bit more out there in artsy so
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah well the bass on just these negative films that we have that they released it does look artsy like it just it's giving blood sweat and tears it's giving fake love it does it it's angsty already like I can get past this like jungle with like it looks like wet hair in the mirror in the mirror yes it's reminding me of like Jimin you know during like yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what song.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one that he's in the bathtub, why can't I think of the name of it right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's very much giving me like wings, blood, sweat, and tears type of vibe, especially the one where it looks like Taehyung sitting at a table outside and there's a tree like all above him and surrounding him and
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I just have to say I need you just so yes, I need you That's what you think it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, maybe run.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the two.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those It's so gonna change the world when a picture it's I need you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a choice.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all the matters Going back to the BTS universe like the one below Taeyang sitting at like the table outside underneath the tree the one below that I'm pretty sure is Jen and he's waning against something And it looks like he's looking at a pocket watch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, it does look like he's looking at a pocket watch
[SPEAKER_02]: What the fuck?
[SPEAKER_02]: Time traveling BTOs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Time traveling BTOs for turn.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm... God damn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some baits Chocco.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seven baits Chocco.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring it back.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm really hoping and like I want music videos so bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so fucking greedy You know, like they've given us so much with this era and I'm just like no more Give me more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need a yeah Well one last thing for the promos that are going on for normal on Spotify They release links and I think you have to go to Instagram We kind of had a hard time figuring it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's linked in our doc, but
[SPEAKER_01]: On Instagram, you can click on their stories and each member has their own normal day spotify playlist.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you go there, you can vote what song you want to listen to for that member on like a quote on normal day.
[SPEAKER_01]: so like on that playlist you get to select and a lot of them are like the members solo tracks but there's like some BTS songs that are like more specific for that member like Jimin has a black swan on his playlist so you have to just pick what song you would listen to with that member on a normal day which to me just makes me think of like which song makes you think
[SPEAKER_01]: of those that member.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or like if you're hanging out with them, what do you want to hear with them?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it was honestly I went through and voted earlier.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get one vote per day and it ends on the 15th.
[SPEAKER_02]: It probably ends when this episode comes out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's just a couple of days to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the votes are supposed to quote complete the playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you're voting the last song on to the playlist.
[SPEAKER_02]: and tough choices, honestly, like, for a lot of the members, because they just have such iconic songs on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I think that's a fun little promo for normal to kind of continue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the second time that they're like partnering, well, like the third time, they're partnering with Spotify, for... What's the wrong side?
[SPEAKER_01]: Pororo Lo's, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: And having this like, fan engagement with voting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Creating playlists, and, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: But man BTS, they're keeping us on our toes.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're they're getting their little bit of rust on the tour.
[SPEAKER_02]: We love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We see it in their Instagram posts of, you know, getting little breaks.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we are not getting breaks from them because we just keep watching what they're doing and we're so I love seeing them on my feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just get a BTS like
[SPEAKER_01]: here for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love it so much and I love seeing everybody have an amazing time at their concert and I'm just so happy for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so happy for BTS.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited to see them perform at the FIFA World Cup half-time show.
[SPEAKER_02]: We will have a full episode next week where we'll talk about that performance because how could we not?
[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll be back very soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know this is a little bit of a shorter episode, but intentional.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that way we can really dive into the halftime show next week and talk about more things all BTS.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, we hope you guys enjoyed this little dive into what they've been doing in Europe, and also a little speculation on this normal upcoming whatever it is at least a radio promo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, you can find links for all of the things in the description.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening and thanks for standing BTS.