As you may or may not know, I am a pretty big BTS fan. I guess you could actually say I’m ARMY as I’ve even subscribed to the official fanclub the past 3 years. Ryan and I saw them perform at Rosebowl for the Love Yourself Speak Yourself tour and then I saw them again at the 2019 Jingleball, both of which I posted videos from on my YouTube channel. I had floor seats for the MOTS tour that was cancelled, and you better believe I cried my eyes out over that. I posted a video, too, about the terrible experience I had with the Ticketmaster pre-sale for the Permission to Dance in LA shows going on right now. Rampant errors on the site caused me to end up with what folks call “nosebleed seats” at the SoFi Stadium for Day 2. Sigh.
Honestly everything about the SoFi Stadium handling of this tour has been very unprofessional, from the lack of staffing and completely unorganized stadium entry system, poor sanitation — I could actually smell sewage from my seat in the last hour of the concert — to Ticketmaster not forewarning us that our view would be obscured by a gigantic unused screen on the ceiling. Plus the sound was terrible way up in the 500s with the roof closed! It was echoing like crazy and amplified the top end of the sound so that it was very crispy and hurt our ears. My ears are still ringing 2 days later! I don’t want to turn this into a rant blog, but suffice to say that I was not nearly as pleased by my experience here as I was with Rosebowl. I’ll just leave it at that.
Me being me, however, I did film a lot of the concert because I often find the sound is actually better on my recordings than what I experience in real time. I think my videos this night are definitely an improvement on what I heard, especially since they don’t seem to have all the screaming coming from behind me. I posted 2 videos to YouTube; one in my standard horizontal format and one in vertical format. There’s some great songs on each video as well as a good amount of the band’s “ments” — the Kpop term for “comments” that the band make to the audience. One video has their Intro Ments and the other has their End Ments. I have a ticket for Day 3 in a much closer section, so I am really looking forward to being able to hear and see them better! <3