3 Jul, 2019
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What is your opinion of BTS’ performance in concerts?

I went to the Love Yourself In Seoul concert films and watched a few clips here and since I regularly interact with ARMYs who speak in languages other than english, I have different perspective.

Language

Various ARMYs travelled all over the world to attend BTS concerts and can often feel overwhelmed because of the local language used. For example I can read in 7 languages, out of these 7 I am fluent in 3 and can understand 5 spoken.

BTS seemed to have a language coach whenever they are in one country to help them practise for their fans. For example, In Saint Denis (Paris), Jimin french words were very closed to the ‘standard french’.

BTS seemed to focus on 2 languages on concerts, the official local language of the country they are in and korean which is generally translate to the local language.

This can decrease the concert experience for foreign fans.

There was a Brazilian interview that I watched ( I really struggle to understand Brazilian portugese so it’s not very clear), parents, not young fans, had been sleeping outdoors for two days in line to buy BTS concert tickets for their children and themselves. These parents were often crying, hungry and exhausted.

3 Jul, 2019
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Are there any bands whose biggest hit was a cover song?

Joan Baez hit the US #3 in 1971 with a cover of the Band’s The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down. Levon Helm sung the original which Robbie Robertson & Helm co-wrote.

The Animals sole UK & US #1 was House of the Rising Sun which is a folk standard. Like many folk standards it’s songwriter is unknown but it’s origin may be as far back as the 16th Century.

Icelandic Dance-Pop star Björk has released a series of critically acclaimed Albums but her biggest hit was a UK Top 5 cover of Betty Hutton’s Big Band 1951 hit It’s Oh So Quiet which features renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the Brodsky Quartet.

3 Jul, 2019
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Something Else! Festival to collect rock experimental and jazz

I spent a couple of months last year studying bluegrass in North Carolina, and I learned that there are is one tune you never ask a banjo player to play for you. Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Earl Scruggs’s most famous instrumental, is a tune so familiar, so oft-played, that even suggesting it at a jam will mark you out as an idiot know-nothing newcomer. It’s the equivalent of self-identifying as a Trekkie, when the correct term is Trekker.