BTS kick off their tour with 60,000 screaming fans in Los Angeles

The K-Pop boy band BTS rode the ever-stronger wave of popularity breaking on U.S. shores straight to the Rose Bowl on Saturday. From the looks of their tricked out performance, the boiz gave their mega-fans a night to remember.

BTS kicked off their “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” tour with a sold-out show at the Pasadena, CA stadium in front of a crowd of 60,000. With a Saturday Night Live appearance and a record-breaking collaboration with Halsey, the group is being hailed as one of the first K-Pop stars to break out in the US. 

At the Rose Bowl on Saturday, there were giant panther statues, a bounce house, fireworks, holographic hearts, and a human-sized plastic bubble — along with singing, rapping, dancing, and levitating group members. 

THEY HAVE LITERALLY TWO MASSIVE PANTHERS TO OPEN A CONCERT WHEN I SAY NO ONE DOES IT LIKE BTS NO ONE IS DOES IT LIKE THEM PERIOD pic.twitter.com/WvbGNQpDA7

— pran with luv 🤟🏼 (@beemyhope_) May 5, 2019

just in case u missed it, this tour has giant panthers, jimin in a bubble, taehyung on a bed, bts in a bouncy castle, and jungkook inventing levitation pic.twitter.com/tU4jkv2zcL

— myrcka 🧚‍♂️ (@bffjeongguk) May 5, 2019

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Fans did not take pains to contain their excitement on social media for the wild show that BTS put on.

Namjoon asked us to ‘put our lights up in the air’ and we put up our ARMY bombs but he turned around to the whole stadium and went ‘actually I meant your cellphone lights sorry’ sksdnnd pic.twitter.com/1WBJTuRnix

— 𝖊𝖒 | ROSE BOWL | SPOILERS (@taehyungthugg) May 5, 2019

Even Nick Jonas was in the audience, bopping along from on high. Boy bands gotta support boy bands!

It also caused a fair amount of FOMO and appreciation from afar for people not lucky enough to attend.

The Rose Bowl will clearly never be the same.

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