'Undeniably, they are the kings of this K-pop generation.' A conversation with author Tamar Herman about her new book, BTS: Blood, Sweat & Tears
The book begins with their history and leads into detailed breakdowns of the music, intertwined with cultural commentary. How did you decide to sketch it out in that way?
Boy bands and girl groups—any music geared towards young people, really—is often talked about in a way that is divorced from any meaningful source material. Not necessarily the musicality, but what it even means, culturally. The BTS story is overwhelming but you distill it in a digestible way.
Between 2008 and 2013, when BTS debuted, there was a bubble of YouTube growth where groups like Girls Generation, Super Junior, TVXQ, 2NE1, BIGBANG were all really popular and there were some sociopolitical criticisms in there, especially with BIGBANG and 2NE1. Korea, in the late-aughts and early-2010s, was in a really good place financially. Samsung was doing really well, second only to Apple. Korea was in this short-lived zenith of consumerism and capitalism.
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