BTS at their Wembley gig. Photo: Big Hit Entertainment
At a press conference before BTS took to the stage at London's Wembley Stadium on June 2, rapper Suga mentioned their goals when deciding on the set list for their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour. "We wanted to make it more like a festival than a concert," he said. And judging by the party atmosphere in the stadium, even long before the band appeared, it wasn't difficult to tell where the idea might have come from.
As their music videos played on the screens flanking the stage, the crowd screamed, singing along in lyrics both Korean and English. After the video for single Idol faded to black, a showreel began, featuring all seven members pacing about the screens in turn, posing as though they were in fashion ads, staring out at the adoring crowd. They didn't sing but received rapturous screams anyway -- BTS, after all, is often much more about the seven people in the group than the music.
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