BTS’ Very Fun ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ Broke Records Almost Immediately, And For Good Reason
Warning: May cause awkward chair dancing.
With NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series going virtual, it’s finally managed to nab BTS for a 15-minute set, where the group smash through three tracks, including latest single ‘Dynamite’. And within 25 minutes of upload, it broke the series’ stream records for most views in the first day, currently sitting just below five million views.
Filmed and recorded in Seoul at record store VINYL & PLASTIC, the group abandoned all notions of a desk — it, uh, would’ve been too tiny to fit all seven of them, plus their live band.
It marks the first time the group performed ‘Dynamite’, released last month, with a band. The track, their first English-language song, leans disco, and the gang get into the spirit with a little bit of stool dancing and glittery microphones. It’s a lot of fun.
They also performed older tracks ‘Save Me’ and ‘Spring Day’, the latter of which was a message of hope for those watching for better days. As RM says introducing the track, “it’s been the roughest Summer ever, but we know that Spring will come”.
“[‘Spring Day’] seemed especially true to BTS’s hopeful nature,” writes Tiny Desk’s producer Stephen Thompson in the video caption, “…the song reflects on a need to wait out hard times, even as the weight of present-day pain feels oppressive.”
“BTS had intended to spend 2020 delighting the BTS Army in arenas around the world, only to spend these last few months performing in isolation. Released on the last day of a grim season, ‘Spring Day’ provides a nice reminder of what awaits us on the other side. We just have to get through fall and winter first.”
Watch the Tiny Desk Concert below.