Review: On pandemic album ‘Be,’ BTS longs for better times, then dances through the tears
LA TimesThere’s been a loose coterie of “pandemic albums” this year, whose shifts in sound and mood from an artist’s usual fare rose to meet the world’s feelings of fear, boredom and limitation. Quickly following February’s “Map of the Soul: 7,” which already feels like eons ago, it’s the band’s most overt attempt to ascend the U.S. pop charts. The group’s powerful fan base, known as ARMY, has come to expect BTS to veer left when other K-pop acts swerve right, and the first few songs on “Be” will come as a non-surprising surprise: gentle throwback hip-hop, a little melancholy and nostalgic, but zeroed in on the world as fans see it now. “Be” captures something about the totality of BTS fans’ life in a pandemic: bored, scared and lonely, then resolved and raring to see what comes next.
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