BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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Keywords: NPR, NPR Music, National Public Radio, Live, Performance, tiny desk, tiny desk concert, tony desk, tiny concert, BTS

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Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2020

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[u/dazedandbemused1]

I'm imagining 642,144other fans sitting in their offices grinning goofily at their monitors right now.

eta: that was too short! Will re-watch....

[u/oinochu]

They look so happyyyy, Hobi is already shining

Edit: HOoooooo JK coming through with the rasp wow

Lol show of hands who thought they'd do Save Me (answer: probably no one)

[u/yodelady]

This style concert is like my dream BTS concert setting!

[u/Anwar_H]

Oh wow hobi's vocals in spring day were flawless!

[u/martiandoll]

The fall palette for the outfits wahhhhh they look great! Yoongi looks so good!

They're standing up and enjoying themselves now lol I love it

Spring Day will always make me cry. Taehyung serving up the vocals this early in the morning for me, I love it

[u/winterbare]

That was over too soon, I need like a one-hour version of this.

Perfect setlist, perfect energy, perfect charm, perfect vocal? Seriously, all this time off from touring sucks for everyone, but it's probably so restorative for the boys' bodies and vocal chords. They are sounding so ridiculously good, and even the old songs have a newer, more emotional texture to them that we haven't heard before. 10/10 my favorite thing on YouTube right now, will be replaying over and over.

[u/tesselga]

Sept. 21, 2020 | Stephen Thompson -- We've been trying to make a BTS Tiny Desk concert happen for years now — even gaming out ways we might move Bob Boilen's desk far enough forward to accommodate the superstar Korean boy band's dance moves.

In the end, it took a global pandemic — and the launch of Tiny Desk (home) concerts back in March — to make something happen. With BTS cooped up in Seoul, the group held true to the series's spirit by convening a live band for its Tiny Desk debut, and even arranged to perform in a workspace with a music-friendly backdrop: the record store VINYL & PLASTIC by Hyundai Card in BTS's hometown.

Opening with this summer's inescapable "Dynamite" — the group's first single to hit No. 1 in the U.S., as well as its first song to be fully recorded in English — BTS leaned hard into the new track's celebratory, "Uptown Funk"-adjacent vibes. From there, the group dipped into its back catalog, seizing on the opportunity to showcase its quieter side while (mostly) staying uncharacteristically seated. The breezily propulsive "Save ME," from 2016, ultimately gave way to a full-on power ballad in 2017's reflective "Spring Day."

The latter track seemed especially true to BTS's hopeful nature: Introduced with a few optimistic words from rapper and singer RM ("It's been the roughest summer ever, but we know that spring will come"), 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.

SET LIST

"Dynamite"

"Save ME"

"Spring Day"

MUSICIANS V: vocals; Jin: vocals; Jimin: vocals; J-Hope: vocals; RM: vocals; SUGA: vocals; Jungkook: vocals; KHAN: drums; DOCSKIM: keyboard; Kim Kiwook: bass; Shyun: guitar

CREDITS Video and Audio by: Big Hit Entertainment; Producer: Stephen Thompson; Audio Mastering Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Video Producer: Morgan Noelle Smith; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

Y'all they thought about moving Bob's desk forward so they could dance. 😭 I want a true tiny desk concert at NPR's office now so much. One day maybe. Covid go away!

[u/soundsbetterinmyhead]

Had a bad day and hearing Dynamite made me smile so hard. But then Save Me and Spring Day activated the tears... not that I was sad but more like I felt so comforted. Ah, Bangtan.

This performance is up there as one of my faves, along with the ARMYPedia one. I love when they do acoustic or live band stuff cos it brings a different energy and we can really appreciate how amazing they all sound. Like wow, everyone sounded sooooo beautiful. The harmonies were so lovely, JK doing allllll the adlibs in the last bit of Dynamite.

I'm greedy and this could've been twice as long.

[u/roastbroccoli]

ITS BEEN 283U4O3I3 YEARS SINCE OIR LAST SAVE ME AND WE GET THIS BEAUTIFUL LIBE BAND VERSION AAAA