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BTS MotS ON: E Day One (D1): An Unforgettable Concert Performance

BTS MotS ON: E Day One (D1): An Unforgettable Concert Performance
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The first day performance of BTS live online concert Map of the Soul ON: E D1 was aired on October 10. What a spectacular experience it was!

The expectations were big, real big indeed! Big Hit was making ambitious statements about the concert one after another. This raised even more the already high expectations. What kind of an online concert would it be?

It was an unforgettable concert as of the first day! The whole world witnessed an unprecedented online concert on October 10, 2020. The scale of the concert was the grandest ever in history for an “online event” .

BTS Map of the Soul (MotS) ON: E , we had a completely different experience with multiple interconnected giant stages, magnificent costumes, projection of the audience to the concert area via LED screens and augmented reality applications.

Stage design, costumes, led screens, and virtual effects were all fantastic. But the music, choreography and emotional intensity that made the BTS a genuine BTS concert, were also at their peak. 1.5 hour concert was elongated to 2.5 hours; but nobody was intending to leave; BTS members in particular!

Let’s start from the end, where the ocean of emotions was upsurging among the audience. Emotional outbursts were peaked too during the closing conversations of the of BTS members in the Encore part. J-Hope stated that he was 80 percent satisfied, but 20 percent disappointed because they couldn’t see their fans face to face. When the word passed to Jimin, I noticed that his little finger was trembling, the edge of his lip was contracting; I said he will likely cry. He tried to hold back, but he couldn’t resist and started to cry. He said that the concert not being face to face affected them deeply. “We did our best to prepare, we worked really hard“. Then he said that he could not perform the performance he wanted and he was very sorry for it. In fact, he had a very good performance but it seems that he was gravely concerned because he thought he was not able to reflect the things he was prepared for. Jimin is an artist who always wants to present the best and does his job with intense passion. Whatever they asked him in interviews in recent weeks, he always said the same three things: “ ARMY , live concert, new album”. Indeed, these are the three most important things to him; you understand this clearly.

RM was deeply sad about being distanced to their fans, but in parallel to the words of Spartakus  – “We will either find a way or open a way”; he said: “we can draw our map together, if necessary”.  Jin was again very sincere with his words of: “frankly, the online event does not wrap me up, it feels like we are just promoting on camera”. Jungkook said it was very good for him to be able to see the fans on the LED screens and hear their voice, and emphasized that he missed their voices very much. Jungkook went on to say: “I had a lot of fun today, I was very happy. Take care of yourself, don’t forget to put on your mask”. Suga told us: “We would go on our concert tour in spring, but it was not possible. In Bang Bang Con online concert, we did not have the opportunity to interact with you at the online concert.” V said that everyone had a lot of trouble due to the pandemic, that they were preparing this concert for hopping and jumping together.  “We were only 7 people at the beginning, but now we have you ARMY “.

Returning to the beginning of the first day ( D1 ) of the BTS Map of the Soul ON:E live online concert; the concert started with joint performances, continued with individual performances and ended with a joint performance. At the normal end of the concert, the band said we will sing three more songs in encore (which is the part they return to the stage after the end of the normal duration of the concert and continuing a little more performance), but they sang six more songs. If it was up to Jin, he was ready to sing ten more songs.

Bang PD, boss of Big Hit Entertainment was boasting about huge, never seen before stages. We first saw the width of the stages in the transition from Jin‘s Moon performance to V‘s Inner Child performance.  Augmented reality application bring RM side by side with giant RM. Towards the end, the scenes took on images from the movie TRON with the look of the virtual effects. Especially the giant elevator descending fiercely looked spectacular. We can say that the first day of the BTS Map of the Soul ON:E live online concert redefined the concept of “online concert“, and even the concept of “the concert“!

It was an excellent idea to integrate the audience into the concert via LED screens. On the opposite side of the group members, five giant LED screens harboring 500 ARMYs through their computer webcams. The audience was also present on the stage walls surrounding the group members on there sides. It was an unforgettable moment when V sang Inner Child and everyone was accompanied from their LED screens. I guess there can be no better experience for an artist. During the closing song  We are Bulletproof: Eternal , the audience’s LED screenshots were shown as cubes floating in the air. How a beautiful scene it was.

RM performed his first individual performance at the concert with Intro: Persona . It offered tremendous stage energy. Dancers wearing the same cloth mask over their faces; it revealed a persona of RM in contrast to the dancers without a persona. Both emotional and majestic, what a beautiful leader you are, RM ! Namjoon for the President!

Suga, Interlude: Shadow literally made me lose track of his performance. The combination of contrasting background colors, smokes and other dancers’ shadowy dances create the atmosphere that this wonderful song deserves. The sound before the lines that start with “ I wanna be … ” and Suga’s entry with his voice after it are incredible. How we’re going to pay for this man’s musical genius, I really don’t know. The UGH performance naturally formed the moments when Suga and the other rappers stood out. With its impressive stage design, this magnificent song was also given its duet! Suga‘s hair is also on the agenda today. I saw a random tweet saying:”I am not an ARMY at all, but that Suga boy was so cute with his slouched, sexy looking hairstyle”.

Jungkook sang the sad track “ My Time ” in his individual performance. This song is actually about the sensuality and sadness of not having (the chance to go through) a normal childhood. It is also a bit about not being able to live a life in proportionate with his current age. Jungkook emotionally did justice to the songe, but while we were hoping to see a tearful, resigned Jungkook , we had a way much different  Jungkook ! What we actually had a fireball who was doing abs show, polling his leg muscles. Aggressive, sexy dance figures made with leather pants and muscular, shapely legs made us watch a authoritative Jungkook on stage. Jungkook featured a visual beyond the world in the first part of the concert. The red GUCCI jacket is also doesn’t get out of mind for the whole day. Jungkook did the facial gestures and other gestures that ARMY asked him to do (see carrying up Jimin and while he is kicking everyone). He has also slightly shaved the sides of his hair (got an undercut). This is the 23 year old Jungkook , he is real fireball!

Thanks to this concert, we achieved Jimin’s much much anticipated  Filter performance. There is no scientific explanation for how he went from his first dress to the red suit in one second, it can only be explained by magic. While Jimin was changing clothes, I guess they worked with chubby dancers so that they could stand in front of him but not see Jimin. Thanks to Jimin , he is very elegant, he disappeared behind them. And at that moment, the world met the”Jimin’s dance in red suit “. Wooowww! Apart from the Filter dances, Jimin presented his extended solo dance at the end of Black Swan. The Twitter pose he shared three days before the concert was also from this section. With Augmented Reality , during  Black Swan, BTS and Jimin looked as if they were dancing underwater. As if this perfect image wasn’t enough, Jimin was turning his arms and shoulders so back while dancing that I really thought he was going to grow wings! In this part, the dance moves he made while leaning and lying on the ground seemed very difficult to me. The music in this episode was also incredibly good. Although he did these successfully, he was still not completely satisfied. Finally, in terms of style, the black velvet jacket of Jimin decorated with snowball patterns is literally etched in my mind. It doesn’t get any further.

Great backgrounds were prepared for Jin ‘s performance of Moon. Jin sang the song incredibly sincerely, almost at the expense of his lungs rupture. As he walked (and then started to run) from one scene to the next in the last part of the song, I started walking around the room without realizing it. He caught me that degree. He was so cute while trying to kiss the Earth-shaped globe hanging from above at the end of the piece. The other piece that Jin showcases his genius was  Zero O’clock .

In the performance Inner Child” of Taehyung, he devastated our eyes with his out-of-this world beauty and our hearts with his angelic voice. This is how a beauty? How is it even possible to compose such a beautiful song and then perform it so emotioanally. As we mentioned above, it was almost like a dream when fans accompany V from their webcams. Also, a separate parenthesis should be opened to V‘s dance performance in the concert. He was dancing like an energetic volcano ready to explode. He was incredibly motivated. All of the BTS members looked beautiful, but at this concert, V caught my attention the most. Both he and his costumes were fascinating. All over the world, I think the person that khaki trousers look best with is him. Moreover, he looked like a true Lord with his dark blue GUCCI jacket.

J-Hope, entered the scene very cool on a red classic sports car. At first sight the jeans suit caught our attention, and we later learned that it was a burning suit with its price. The total label of the Louis Vuitton jeans suit is $ 3700. The shoes are also from Dior ($ 2390). He started to establish the authority in style. I am watching with admiration. They left the individual performance of J-Hope to the end, as they started joint performances immediately afterwards. He led the dance in joint performances right after the crazy beat in his own dance. It is debated if there is any other artist other than J-Hope who can endure dancing at such a long sprint pace. In the first part of the concert, there was a very, very ferocious J-Hope , with her hair, gaze and leather band wrapped around her one arm, almost like a Gladiator.

In the scene where the BTS members are wearing stylish jackets (that scene where umbrella was not opened), the designer of their jackets was GUCCI . It means that you cannot become a brand for nothing.

Individual performances on day one of the BTS Map of the Soul ON: E live online concert ( D1 ) were very successful one by one. In joint performances, each member gave their best performance to the last drop of energy. The concert was over, the first encore songs (of three songs) were over, we had come to the extended encore, all the members were still jumping like crazy during the performance of RUN . Incredible energy, incredible motivation, incredible dedication!

At the end of the concert, the band members climbed the hill in the concert venue. The director said that the concert is over, let’s go, and when BTS members did not listen to him, he had to put his closing poster on the screen! The closing poster was also very emotional.

When the closing poster at the end of the concert came to the screen with the text “ We are together, We are not seven, With You, We are forever “, you were staring at the screen with damp eyes!

CONCERT PARTS LIST (23 tracks) : ON – NO – We Are Bulletproof pt.1 and pt.2 – Intro: Persona – Boy in Luv – Dionysus – Shadow – Black Swan – UGH! – Zero O’Clock – My Time – Filter – Moon – Inner Child – EGO – Boy with Luv – DNA – No More Dream – Butterfly – Run – Dynamite – We are Bulletproof: The Eternal

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