Chatelaine: How The Music of BTS Led Me—A Grown-Ass Woman In Her 40s—Back To My Korean Roots

July 19, 2021

While watching a video of K-pop supergroup BTS performing their song “Idol” in front of a historic royal palace in Seoul last fall, I became unreasonably sentimental.

My throat tightened, my eyes began to twitch, and tears pooled along the rim of my lower eyelashes.

“Snap out of it Vivian, what’s the matter with you?” I shouted at myself silently. I was alone that day, at home in my Paris apartment, watching their YouTube performance for The Tonight Show, but I was still embarrassed and surprised by my own reaction—and not just because I’m a grown-ass woman in her 40s.

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