COVID-19 pandemic: Difference between revisions

* [[BTS (band)|BTS]] has claimed that their album ''Be'' (released on November 2020, and whose production began around April (shortly after lockdowns were enacted on Korea) in lieu of their then postponed world tour) is about the effects of the lockdowns on their mental state, and that that album and their English-language singles released on 2020 and 2021 were created as a way to comfort their fans during the crisis.

** The music video for "Life Goes On" shows band member V going outside in a facemask of the medical type, and looking wistfully at a stadium while driving; later in the video, the band is shown singing the last chorus on stage while in the same (very empty) stadium.

** The music video for "Permission to Dance" and its teaser caused a minor controversy, as the teaser showed band member Suga<ref>Who within the fandom has a fame of being a future-teller due to having accurately predicted every major accolade the group has ever received</ref> reading a fake newspaper dated [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|on 2022]] claiming that the pandemic crisis would be over by then, and the actual video showed prople ditching their face masks, as for an unfortunate coincidence the video got released during a period when there were spikes of contagions and a new COVID-19 virus variant was discovered in several countries, causing quarantines and public mask use more strongly enforced.