Read your interview @genesimmons on @NME.
I don't need you to say anyone is the 'next Beatles' but to say BTS won't be iconic is foolish at best. BTS are people of color who have manged to gather a mature fanbase despite not singing in English and not being +
Played on radio.

It takes something truely unique to be able to achieve that and make it last.
To dismiss their artistry because you haven't bothered to look into it is foolish. You don't have to give an opinion on something you clearly don't know and haven't bothered to +
Give a f*ck about.

BTS write they're own lyrics. They are composers, they are producers, they all play instruments. They write 'chords, melodies, harmonies'.. Sometimes they are even sound engineers.

Also you must've forgotten how the Beatles used, what was then new +
Technology, in their music exploration to mock today's young artists for taking such creative leaps as well.

I know you probably meant auto-tune but today's technology can do so much more then that. Even auto-tune can be used in an artistic way and shouldn't be immediately +
Dismissed.

BTS music has meaning, it has depth, it has a purpose and it has touched millions from corners of the world, all ages, races.

It is though provoking and challenges it's audience in a way few things are.

They are outsiders in a world that fears an alien invasion. +
They have already done the impossible it's just that you are too used to western artists to see it.

You can dismiss them all you want but in 30 years their legacy will stand on it's own as impressive as the Beatles' is and far more iconic than KISS' ever was.
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