In February this year, I caught BTS: Yet To Come in the theatres. The concert, which was held in October 2022 in Busan, was a special one for ARMY for a number of reasons. Not only were the septet — RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung-kook — performing onstage after a gap, but this was also scheduled to be one of their last official appearances as a group before they went on a brief hiatus, given that they would have to start enlisting to fulfil their mandatory military service in South Korea.
A theatrical experience meant experiencing the highs of their music, and the melancholy of their words, as a group. In the audience, many of us didn’t know each other and yet, joined in to sing along loudly with Boy with Luv, IDOL, and Save Me. We watched quietly, eyes misting over when the group spoke about their plans for the future, and how thrilled they were to hear the cheers of the crowd there in Busan.
