BTS - Pied Piper @ Japan Official Fanmeeting Vol.5 2019 (stage mix) [ENG SUB]

💜 The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the titular character of a legend from the town of Hamelin, Germany. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, describing a piper, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument’s magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. There aren’t many bands who would write a song comparing themselves to the Pied Piper and their fans to children he lured away, but this slinky 2017 track saw BTS do just that. Billboard writes in an article: “This is BTS’ most subversive song of their career, thanks to its takedown of the very fan culture that has helped the act thrive. A take on K-pop’s rampant and highly profitable fan culture, “Pied Piper,” is BTS doing what they do best: addressing a societal problem through their jaunty music. In this case, the obsessive nature of fans, originally derived from “fanatics