BTS: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

For new music, the latest Tiny Desk (home) concerts and more, sign up for the NPR Music newsletter, sent weekly: Stephen Thompson, Sept. 21, 2020 We ve been trying to make a BTS Tiny Desk concert happen for years now even gaming out ways we might move Bob Boilen s desk far enough forward to accommodate the superstar Korean boy band s dance moves. In the end, it took a global pandemic and the launch of Tiny Desk (home) concerts back in March to make something happen. With BTS cooped up in Seoul, the group held true to the series s spirit by convening a live band for its Tiny Desk debut, and even arranged to perform in a workspace with a musicfriendly backdrop: the record store VINYL PLASTIC by Hyundai Card in BTS s hometown. Opening with this summer s inescapable Dynamite the group s first single to hit No. 1 in the U. S., as well as its first song to be fully recorded in English BTS leaned hard into the new track s celebratory, Uptown Funk adjacent vibes. From th