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BTS drops new track ‘Butter’ ahead of Billboard Music Awards

Buttah-voiced like Barbra Streisand, they ain’t.

But the boys of BTS are nonetheless able of pulling off a summertime-completely ready smoothie with their new solitary, “Butter.”

The hottest solitary from the K-pop sensations, launched on Friday, is a further dose of fizzy entertaining from the South Korean septet.

Even if you forget about it as shortly as the 2 minutes and 45 seconds are around. (Can these guys even make a track more than 3 minutes extended?)

“Smooth like butter/Like a felony undercover/Gon’ pop like difficulty/Breakin’ into your heart like that,” they boast in their very best endeavor at some hip-hop swag.

But, of course, the beauty — and worldwide enchantment — of BTS is that they are the furthest issue from “trouble,” no subject how much hip-hop posturing they may perhaps strike.

And, hey, who can blame them for so naturally heading for a summertime jam appropriate ahead of Memorial Day — and their effectiveness at the 2021 Billboard Audio Awards this weekend?

Adhering to the success of their 1st English-only one, “Dynamite,” which achieved No. 1 previous calendar year, BTS is again to court docket the US industry with this monitor.

And although it hardly breaks any new ground for the boy band, it is adequate of a bop to retain them grooving via numerous a pool, yard and rooftop hold around you this summertime.

Meanwhile, the tune’s vibrant, formal audio movie is spreading quickly, sliding proper earlier 89 million sights by mid-afternoon Friday.

And as they say in the “Butter” lyrics, the heartbreaking gang of seven certainly “got that superstar glow” as they boogie and “flirt” by way of a succession of dance sequences that left hearts “pumping” and lovers melting like, effectively, butter.

K-pop boy band BTS introduced a new dance tune, “Butter,” and a boogie-loaded songs video clip on Friday.
Image courtesy of BIGHIT Songs

The group is everywhere these times — together with performing with McDonald’s on a “BTS food,” reportedly collaborating with 27-year-aged “Yummy” singer Justin Bieber and generating record at the 2021 Grammys.

The around the globe phenomenon will carry out “Butter” for the initial time at the Billboard New music Awards, in which they have four nominations. The function — hosted by Nick Jonas and airing at 8 p.m. Sunday, Could 23, on NBC — will attribute other musical friends such as The Weeknd, Doja Cat, SZA, AJR, Undesirable Bunny and Karol G, DJ Khaled that includes H.E.R. and Migos, Duran Duran, Glass Animals, Twenty A single Pilots, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with Sounds of Blackness showcasing Ann Nesby. In addition, singer Pink is slated to acquire the tunes brand’s Icon Award, and Alicia Keys will mark the 20th anniversary of her debut album, “Songs in A Minor.”