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Kim Tae-hyung, higher identified to ARMY as V, is rarely removed from the highlight.
With the discharge of his six-track assortment Layover, the BTS star could be very a lot the primary man proper now.
V marked the event by performing one of many first concert events for Tiny Desk Korea, a brand new sequence primarily based on the favored NPR spot.
Filmed in Seoul, South Korea final month, with a newly assembled manufacturing crew and eight-member session band – lots of whom flew from the U.S. for the recording – V unleashed three slinky Layover cuts.
V kicks issues off with “Love Me Once more,” takes us for a spin of “Gradual Dancing,” and ends issues with “For Us.”
“These songs evoke a way of fleeting tranquility, as in the event that they effortlessly move by and provide a soothing pause,” he remarks in his native tongue.
The 11-minute efficiency video is a part of the newly launched worldwide model of Tiny Desk, a three way partnership between NPR and LG U+, the Korean telecommunications and media firm. The primary few episodes, together with performances by the Kim Chang Wan Band, Sunwoo Jung-A and the Yoon Suk Cheol Trio, can be found on the Tiny Desk Korea YouTube channel, with new content material dropping every Thursday.
Layover, in the meantime, has been warmly acquired since its Sept. 8 launch. Music followers voted in a ballot revealed Friday (Sept. 8) on Billboard, selecting the brand new solo assortment as their favourite music launch of the previous week – with 96% of the vote.
The Okay-pop star’s six-track album, which additionally consists of “Wet Days,” “Blue,” and a piano model of “Gradual Dancing,” is eying a high 10 debut within the U.Okay., the place it entered the midweek chart at No. 5.
V is not any stranger to the Tiny Desk format. Along with his BTS bandmates, he carried out on the flagship phase again in 2020, and once more in 2022.
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