{"id":11,"date":"2019-10-09T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-projectsite\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:54:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Mindful Social Media Kings: Creating Sincere Fan Connections while Spreading Relevant Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" style=\"width: 974px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/files\/2019\/11\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"641\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b>BTS laying on the couch for <\/b><b><i>MAP OF SOUL: PERSONA<\/i><\/b><b> Album Version 4 <\/b>Source: BIG HIT ENTERTAINMENT \u201cMAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA Album version 4\u201diBighit, https:\/\/ibighit.com\/bts\/eng\/discography\/detail\/map_of_the_soul-persona.php<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTS, a South Korean pop group, has been charting on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mainstream American<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> music scene since the release of their 2017 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Yourself: Her.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album would later\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">peak<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0at number three for the Billboard Digital Album chart. Soon after\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTS were the first Korean artist to perform at the American Music Awards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTS\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ever growing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> success can be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attributed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to their accessibility to fans via social media. As well as, the group\u2019s discussion of themes that resonate with their millennial and Gen Z audience. The flawed Korean education system in the first three mini-albums, the struggle of youth in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Most Beautiful Moments in Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> album series, and mental health in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Yourself <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album series. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" style=\"width: 965px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/files\/2019\/11\/graph-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"402\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music Ally U.S Chart Data on BTS&#8217;s album Love Yourself: Her<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-113 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-25-at-5.29.02-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BTS, a South Korean pop group, has been charting on the mainstream American music scene since the release of their 2017 album Love Yourself: Her.\u00a0The album would later\u00a0peak\u00a0at number three for the Billboard Digital Album chart. Soon after\u00a0BTS were the first Korean artist to perform at the American Music Awards. BTS\u2019s ever growing success &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BTS Mindful Social Media Kings: Creating Sincere Fan Connections while Spreading Relevant Messages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2180,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[65589],"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus225-s01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}