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We Don’t Need Permission to Dance | by Dave Lu | Medium

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Growing up in New Jersey in the 80s and early 90s, I vividly remember my girl friends fawning over New Kids on the Block with posters all over their lockers of Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight. My little sister’s room plastered with pictures of *NSync and Justin Timberlake. Just like Meilin and her friends in the latest Pixar feature, Turning Red, melting over her favorite boyband 4*Town. One thing was consistent, almost all of the big boybands were all-white. If you had told the 15 year old me, that in someday there would be sold-out football stadiums of screaming and fawning teenage girls (and grown women) of all ethnicities across America, for a Korean boyband who barely spoke English, I would have thought you were insane. And yet, a group of 7 young men from Korea known as BTS have become the most popular music artists in the world. The gatekeepers of American media would never have supported BTS or any other Asian band to the meteoric rise that they have had. But that didn’t stop B

We Don’t Need Permission to Dance Dave Lu 13 min read · Apr 26, 2022 -- 18 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size BTS selling out stadiums around the world There’s always something that’s standing in the way But if you don’t let it faze ya, you’ll know just how to break Just keep the right vibe, yeah, ’cause there’s no looking back “Permission to Dance” by BTS Growing up in New Jersey in the 80s and early 90s, I vividly remember my girl friends fawning over New Kids on the Block with posters all over their lockers of Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight. My little sister’s roo

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