{"id":1039254,"date":"2026-09-02T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1039254\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:15","slug":"bts-opens-four-night-stand-at-inglewoods-sofi-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1039254\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS opens four-night stand at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BTS began a four-night stay at Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium on Tuesday night \u2014 the last North American stand of the K-pop boy band\u2019s first world tour since the group\u2019s seven members completed their mandatory South Korean military service.<\/p>\n

For fans, the concert was an extra-special occasion given that it came on Jung Kook\u2019s 29th birthday; late in the two-hour show, his bandmates put a crown on Jung Kook\u2019s head and led the audience \u2014 some wearing paper party hats \u2014 in a giddy rendition of \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n

BTS\u2019 tour follows the release of \u201cArirang,\u201d the group\u2019s first studio LP in six years, which debuted atop Billboard\u2019s album chart after it came out in March. Yet K-pop entered something of a transitional phase while BTS was away: On one hand, the genre reached a new level of cultural ubiquity with the Academy Award-winning \u201cGolden,\u201d from Netflix\u2019s \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d; on the other hand, acts like Enhypen and Stray Kids \u2014 though huge sellers to an ultra-devoted core fanbase \u2014 failed to match the kind of crossover success that BTS achieved before its hiatus with smash hits like \u201cDynamite\u201d and \u201cButter.\u201d<\/p>\n

To complicate matters further, BTS recently said it would boycott<\/a> next year\u2019s Grammy Awards ceremony in apparent protest of the Recording Academy\u2019s introduction of a new category for Asian pop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language,\u201d the members said in a statement in July.<\/p>\n

However fraught the state of the K-pop industry, BTS seemed to be in high spirits Tuesday; though the three-act show featured plenty of intricate choreography (and costumes and pyrotechnics), the evening\u2019s lengthy final chapter had the singers and rappers basically milling around the stage as they performed songs while trying to crack one other up. The show\u2019s surprise songs \u2014 a fan-favorite element of every tour date \u2014 were \u201cBoy in Luv\u201d and \u201cMagic Shop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS began a four-night stay at Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium on Tuesday night \u2014 the last North American stand…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1039255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[59677,2859,415738,171,415737,5169,2327,16636,287063,6467,13141,975,4370,58326,19514,1446,67,132,68,1628],"class_list":["post-1039254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-birthday","tag-bts","tag-cultural-ubiquity","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-awards-ceremony","tag-group","tag-hand","tag-inglewood","tag-jung-kook","tag-k-pop","tag-member","tag-music","tag-show","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-song","tag-tour","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117202606428634883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}