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So we re-uploaded the BTS Melon Music Awards 2019 REACTION here for ya'll on Patreon!

We couldn't download it (youtube wouldn't allow it) so we had to screen record it. Either way, it survives here!

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BTS Melon Music Awards 2019 Reaction

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Laura Moore

At least we’ll have it here forever lol 😛

Laura Moore

I enjoyed the rewatch 😂 It’s Hope’s birthday and comeback season! And their getting their own hour long special on the Jimmy Fallon show and it has officially been released they they DID film a carpool karaoke with James Cordon. Plus the album’s like 16 tracks long and I LIVE for their long albums because they are usually an art form in themselves. You know they have trilogies of albums but they also love telling a story within an album. I am stupidly hyped and probably calling off work to stream their new MV when it releases

Jessica McGuire

They're also doing a live broadcast on Vlive on the 20th at 9pm central time. It probably won't be translated as it's being broadcast, though.

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2023-05-11 22:15:11 Aw haha, I'm glad!! Happy Birthday J-HOPE!!! That's pretty crazy to hear Jimmy's giving them an hour-long special! Will this be during the show's regular runtime or some sort of special time/engagement?? Makes me happy to hear folks are still invested in albums/the album experience these days. I feel like any great album (whether it's part of a sequence or just on its own) ought'a have some kind of connective essence across the songs to tie it all together. And then if you can get things tying together across several albums that's kinda impressive on a whole new level haha. Few things are more gratifying than an album you wanna hear from front to back. Plus with so many creative minds at play, it makes sense they'd come back with a formidable batch of tunes. Certainly no shame in reveling in the hype & anticipation!! Even if it does cost you a sick day or somethin' like that 😝
2020-02-18 22:41:28 Aw haha, I'm glad!! Happy Birthday J-HOPE!!! That's pretty crazy to hear Jimmy's giving them an hour-long special! Will this be during the show's regular runtime or some sort of special time/engagement?? Makes me happy to hear folks are still invested in albums/the album experience these days. I feel like any great album (whether it's part of a sequence or just on its own) ought'a have some kind of connective essence across the songs to tie it all together. And then if you can get things tying together across several albums that's kinda impressive on a whole new level haha. Few things are more gratifying than an album you wanna hear from front to back. Plus with so many creative minds at play, it makes sense they'd come back with a formidable batch of tunes. Certainly no shame in reveling in the hype & anticipation!! Even if it does cost you a sick day or somethin' like that 😝

Aw haha, I'm glad!! Happy Birthday J-HOPE!!! That's pretty crazy to hear Jimmy's giving them an hour-long special! Will this be during the show's regular runtime or some sort of special time/engagement?? Makes me happy to hear folks are still invested in albums/the album experience these days. I feel like any great album (whether it's part of a sequence or just on its own) ought'a have some kind of connective essence across the songs to tie it all together. And then if you can get things tying together across several albums that's kinda impressive on a whole new level haha. Few things are more gratifying than an album you wanna hear from front to back. Plus with so many creative minds at play, it makes sense they'd come back with a formidable batch of tunes. Certainly no shame in reveling in the hype & anticipation!! Even if it does cost you a sick day or somethin' like that 😝

Toasted Toad

I always find rap performances outside the US a bit weird, because they're copying the hand gestures and styling of a culture that doesn't exist in their country, and certainly not from their own backgrounds. It's artificial. It would be kind of nice if people found their own way to rap.

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2021-07-15 04:53:43 That's an interesting take, I suppose I hadn't thought of that. I'd be fascinated to learn more about the spread of hip hop & its culture across the world, because it is a relatively young genre still. From the vague amount I've read, it took about 20 years (the mid-90s) for the music to really hit Asia, so perhaps Eastern Hip Hop is still working its way up from the obvious influences to form its own identity at the moment? I can see how the posturing & aesthetics could be appropriative, although from here it does seem like there are many qualitative aspects of hip hop's form & culture that are universal & worth opening up. Do you find a similar artificiality with rock & roll outside the US?
2020-02-20 00:35:02 That's an interesting take, I suppose I hadn't thought of that. I'd be fascinated to learn more about the spread of hip hop & its culture across the world, because it is a relatively young genre still. From the vague amount I've read, it took about 20 years (the mid-90s) for the music to really hit Asia, so perhaps Eastern Hip Hop is still working its way up from the obvious influences to form its own identity at the moment? I can see how the posturing & aesthetics could be appropriative, although from here it does seem like there are many qualitative aspects of hip hop's form & culture that are universal & worth opening up. Do you find a similar artificiality with rock & roll outside the US?

That's an interesting take, I suppose I hadn't thought of that. I'd be fascinated to learn more about the spread of hip hop & its culture across the world, because it is a relatively young genre still. From the vague amount I've read, it took about 20 years (the mid-90s) for the music to really hit Asia, so perhaps Eastern Hip Hop is still working its way up from the obvious influences to form its own identity at the moment? I can see how the posturing & aesthetics could be appropriative, although from here it does seem like there are many qualitative aspects of hip hop's form & culture that are universal & worth opening up. Do you find a similar artificiality with rock & roll outside the US?

Toasted Toad

Generally speaking I don’t have as much of a problem with rock and roll, partly because it’s less specific - it might have started in the States, but it spread and evolved into many different forms, performed lots of different ways, and became representative of youth culture in many countries (and then of adult culture too as the youth grew up). But rap is much more specific and hasn’t grown very much (although hip hop as a whole did). By all means take a form of music, make it your own, develop your own songs etc. That’s creativity. But to then imitate the dance stylings is odd, because you don’t have to. It’s not an integral part of the music. I’m not sure if I’m expressing myself very well, but that’s the feeling I get, especially watching a group of clean cut 12 year old Koreans (well, they look 12!) imitating the styling of angry African and Latino Americans from the Bronx.

Elle B.

I know your comment is a few days old but I thought I’d chime in to shed a little light on BTS in regards to this discussion, the members of bts are ages 22-28 in this performance and the three rappers in the group, two of whom were part of the korean underground rap scene as teens, are very authentic in their rapping. They write and produce all their own music. They actually have a song called “Paldogangsan” where they each rap in the dialects of their specific region and what’s special about those regions. They rap about the corrupt korean government, the uptight older generations. They write about the bullying and hate they encountered in their own industry. They rap about their own experiences with suicide and depression and loneliness. They also have fun songs too about being happy or in love and having good times with friends. They learned very early on not to imitate (which they were in some ways doing because they were teenagers and weren’t very educated about it) but to rap about what they know because that’s what hip hop is all about, authenticity. One member, RM, actually was mentored by Warren G here in the U.S. and recorded a song with him. They have a deep respect and appreciation for the history of hip hop and rap culture. Now of course I am white so I can’t speak for a culture I don’t belong to, but there have been articles written by black U.S. music journalists on bts’ authenticity and journey through hip hop and rap if you’d like to read them. I can find links or list them here. And when it comes to dance moves, BTS have a few different choreographers they work with. Son Songdeuk who has been with them since the beginning. They’ve worked with Keone Madrid, Sienna LaLau from The Lab, Brian Puspos and Rie Hata, which can account for the various styles of dances they can do and perform. And whenever they release a choreography, they usually give credits in the press release to the origin of specific dance moves. They don’t try to claim it as their own. The songs in this performance, the first one was Persona which RM wrote and produced is about struggling to know himself and his fears and dreams. The second one was a throwback to 2014 called “Danger” which can seem a bit juvenile because they were teens when they created it lol. The next songs Boy With Luv and Mikrokosmos are mainly pop songs off their last album about learning strength and vulnerability in loving yourself as well as finding support through friendships. The last song Dionysus is what I like to think of as Rock/Metal/Rap fusion. It uses Greek metaphors to talk about their creative process. I’m not trying to come across as rude or argumentative, I just want people to know there’s more here beyond the surface.

KIKI

That’s kinda a weird way of looking at it..I don’t think it’s culture appropriation or anything bad..of doing hand gestures while rapping is that would mean that Eminem or other white rappers would also be doing culture appreciation too..I don’t find it weird if other countries do rap or hip Hop....I don’t see the big deal to it ppl can make the same argument on why white ppl rap bc it comes from black culture. Music transcends languages in my opinion and it’s ok if you find it weird but there’s nothing wrong with ppl outside of america or black culture from doing it..there are limits and there are ppl who actually do culture appropriation but when it comes to this I don’t think it really is