Subs by IG @kpopforyoursoul --- The doors open and there's this room and BTS are in there
And I'm like, YES
Hi, I'm Niki I'm Sammy I'm Adele and we're gonna chat BTS
Yes, I think you're a torch more of a fangirl than me.
(No, definitely not)
We've been talking a lot today
I feel like you have a little bit more love in your heart
on the way up in the lift like I had
To tell Sam to calm down actually that happened
For those that may not know Adele is a DJ
On Radio 1 and you were the, as far as I'm concerned the first and most important person to play BTS and British radio
I'll take that | Thank you
And we thought we'd have a chat to you because I know you've got some cool stuff
You'd like to talk about so let's let's start at the beginning. How did you get into kpop Adele?
PSY, I'll be honest with you
Yes | PSY was my first introduction to KPop | Gentleman or like (other PSY songs) | Yeah
Gangnam Style
Yeah, yeah yeah. He was my amuse-bouche (a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre)
Is that a starter? | Yeah, yeah yeah, and I actually thought Gangnam style was about horses. Yeah, I thought was about Cowboys
But then also if you think about it sighs not really kpop is he he's like comedy k-pop
And I didn't realized that at the time
But I like the song
it went off, people loved it, gets people up and dancing and essentially I realized at that point that kpop is a
Positive movement so I was onto that yeah, and also well produced pop music as well
Yeah, even though. It's a bit of a novelty record. It's well produced and then
We do this thing on Radio one called best new pop we do it on Mondays
And we like to go around the world and find the best new pop music
And we couldn't do that without including kpop and namely BTS because they change the game this year
They have | 2017 has been the year of BTS for me | 100% | ??? nothing else happened in 2017
Yeah, and it was October this year and big up to Mel on our music team gave me this track by a band called BTS and
I'd seen people tweeting about them. Probably you guys.(Probably me) I reckon , yeah
Following you and I was like ok I need to check out this band because I see a lot of people are getting excited
Put the song on and it was the first couple of beats, and I was like. This is a great track
Yeah, that it gets into it, and I was like. This is a really good song then I saw them
I was in love
Was there a particularly remember you were drawn to?
Jimin
Yeah | that's my girlfriend favorite as well
Or RM. | Oh yeah, RM's cool | Why Jimin, why is he your one?
He is stunning
stunning | Aren't they all perfect? | They are, it's like someone's drawn them | It's ridiculous
Yeah, almost unfair actually | yeah, totally
so best new pop goes out on Monday and radio one tweeted on Sunday to let the fans know so they get up early if
They want to because this goes out of five in the morning in the UK like real early my Twitter said to me are you?
Okay ??? you having a bit of problems with you notifications?
Because I never get tweets
I was like what Is going on and it was the BTS ARMY tweeting me saying
Thank you for playing the boys
And it was at that point that I realized how amazing the ARMY are and how big BTS are, that's my first taste of it
Didn't the army send you something? | They did
They sent me flowers
That's so nice | Aww -- that's so cute
Never had that in my whole career | yeah | The whole radio that never happens, and I got two bunches, so thank you very yeah | Really? that's so nice
I'm not sending you flowers (?} Don't get any expectations
It's a bit similar, I'm not gonna compare youtubers to BTS but it's a similar thing that some of these youtubers have massive following because they're digital native
It's hard to see that audience
But around the world unless there's an event they're at it's hard to see them
Without a doubt and when we were in Seoul we really got a sense of all the k-pop fans the fans of the key
And the bands really appreciate the fans, it's almost like your fans are in charge they decide who is gonna do well
Yeah It's like they're at the duress of a fan the whole time because you also sit here like the horror stories as well of how
These fans are so intense and like everything they do is critiqued by these fans and like that's why you don't see Koreans
Really getting involved in our drug scandals or anything explicit like that because that's them immediately as that happens their fans stop believing in them
Let's get to the important part. | Before you do, le me just double check everything recording. | Okay | Firstly you met BTS secondly
You've got something exciting coming up, so let's do the second thing first
Okay, so you do the honors
Okay, so the whole reason that we went to Seoul is because we wanted to make a documentary about kpop we went there
We loved it so much that we're gonna make
2 documentaries
exclusive | yeah, exclusive
Put like texts up in the screen right now | alarms alarms everywhere
And I have a date
So the 19th of January is The K-Pop documentary that's going on the BBC iplayer, and that's on the iPlayer yeah
19th of January iPlayer | Onto our YouTube, Radio 1 YouTube, a documentary all about BTS | Oh amazing that's incredible though
It's going on YouTube as well
I think that's really cool because | that's the army is | that's where yeah, that's where these international fans live it's YouTube
And I think that's really great. That's where it's going and also. I play up because I've got my PlayStation so yeah
The fans are driving this scene and the fans have told us what they want and we want to give the fans what they want
Yeah and so it's because of the fans that we're doing ??? | Don't think radio 1's done anything like this before, has it?
We haven't and I think that's what's cool about Radio one. We've listened. We've taken it on board and we are giving you what you want
It's so reactive. I'm so excited | Write comments saying
Thanks Adele in the comments or something
And we were there for nine days
And we were making a documentary about kpop and there was a 70% chance that we would be able to go and see BTS
Now BTS at the time was slaying America. Yeah, they were on Ellen
They were on AMAs
Yeah | This is in where that whirlwind moment where they were like everywhere | Oh, yes, just when they were on the AMAs as well?
Yeah, so it was a pretty full-on time for them. | Yeah totally
I was in Seoul watching them at the AMAs really like please come home
and I thought
There's no way we're gonna get them and the first day that we were supposed to meet them
It didn't happen then the second day didn't happen and I was like please and I thought even if they do come back in time
They're just gonna suck it off. Cuz they're gonna be really tired. They've been on all these shows
They've given their whole heart and soul to America
they just want to sleep because we were saying this it was like I
Personally would be asleep after that | I sleep after my radio show and that's two and a half hours, and I sit down
Adele gets up at 2 o'clock each morning | you didn't know who's gonna happen
Yeah, so you're in Seoul you're doing other bits of the documentary, and then it comes off
And then we get the call and they were like tomorrow
We're gonna meet BTS so I was so excited and we got driven to this place in Gangnam all this sounds very like
Driven to a location | Blindfolded | totally
It was top secret top secret
We got sent into this building that seemed like it was all shut down and I was like what is happening here
This is eerie. Yeah, we get in this lift
Go upstairs the doors open and there's this room and BTS are in there
And I'm like, YES
What did you do at that moment? | I tried to hold it all together I tried to act normal like yeah
This is totally normal and Jimin's just there and he's signing albums for the fans | And you're like "you're perfect" | Suga's there
And he's doing it too | "he's perfect"
Yeah, and then j-hope is just practicing his moves | And the mirror and the whole time you're internally crying,
but outwardly protecting this pure professional there for a documentary
They gave us full energy for a whole hour. That's how long | That's amazing | An hour? | yeah, that's for someone
That's that's quite a lot of time for someone that's a -
A lot of time, and someone's that taking over, you know, this plan
They're doing so well, and then they actually danced for us as well | Really? | yeah
We've got to watch the dance for DNA and then they did the dance for Mic Drop Remix
I've seen | So jealous| Cause you tweeted a picture of you meeting them
And you're like a happy little puppy in it
That's me, once you Jimin you don't Jim-out 😂
Oh, I like that | That's terrible | ??? that's a mistake
Have you got their numbers?
No I asked them where they lived though | That's creepier though
Just to let you know UK army we wrapped (?) you
I don't want to ruin the surprise right? There's something real cool that happens in the documentary
So don't worry we they know that you love them, and we do have a great chat about their fans
So hopefully the fans are gonna get to hear that and hear what the boys think of you. I've got you a gift actually
Okay, okay
Do you not believe me, or?
I don't know I feel like it's really like a pranky gift. No
It's not it's something that I was gonna keep myself
But then you guys were lovely and let us tell everybody about our documentary, so I've got a little present. Okay, all right
It's BTS socks
That's Jimin, isn't it? | Yeah, you've got Jimin
I don't know who that is | You've got Jin | Wait, Jin's ny bias
Oh my god, you want to keep these | No, it's alright
D'you know, I thought about it
But it's okay because I actually got to meet the boys so | I can wear them on my feet| This is better than meeting BTS ???
I love his rings are like actually shiny
Was he #WorldwideHandsome when you met him?
Jin? YES
They're so beautiful all of them | We film this before Christmas, and this is the best Christmas present I've ever received
Thank you | You're so welcome | Thanks Adele
Documentaries out on the 19th January yes, also on the YouTube channel
So we'll go back and put it in the description of this video
There is the documentary on YouTube just about BTS where can people find you specifically your Twitter is
Oh, thank you; @adeleroberts
And your - you have a YouTube as well, right?
Yes, I've just recently joined YouTube and actually I want to say thanks to you guys for inspiring me
because the Stand Up To Cancer thing is when -
Oh, that's what we met you | Yeah, that's right
We fleetingly met you at standuptocance | Yeah, we did; standuptocancer is a live stream
They'd do a live stream on YouTube every year, and we met Adele it was in October
Yeah, that's right
So that's how that's the context of our relationship | So we chatted to Adele about BTS
But she also likes a lot of other k-pop artists, but you aren't aware of GOT7, are you?
No | So I wanted to show you GOT7 just to see your impression. | Yes please | and being you're a BTS stan
It'd be nice to know what you think so we're gonna show you 'You Are'
Which is the latest single from GOT7? And I think you'll like it
Oh wow, they are beautiful
Is there 7? | There is 7, yeah
But there not all Korean. One's Thai, ??? | ??? (inaudible)
So do they have singers and dancers? | Yeah | They all have their own roles, yeah
It's kind of a similar setup to BTS just less rappers
It's weird isn't it how there's a formula that works?
Yeah, and they they all stick to it
But there's a little variation here and there | totally | that's Jackson who's actually good friends of RM from BTS. Okay?
Is he your favorite | no I just know no
I don't really have a favorite okay
Do you know what we noticed the visuals are so slick | yeah
Also the hair dye they go through is ridiculous, and it makes it hard to remember. Who's who?
Oh yeah | Sometime we need to ??? band | Changing all the time
That's beautiful, beautiful voice
D'you know what I quite like as well is that a lot of the men will openly wear makeup yeah, and I was watching a video last night
I don't think many men leave that ??? BB cream on the stuff like that | Really?
I might start invested in to hide the spots
but your there's actually made me think it's like you said to start how I
I don't know if this was on camera or we were just talking about it that kpop is especially with PSY
It's like a positive thing yeah, and and I think that maybe comes down to the relationship with North Korea and how?
It's almost weaponized like kpop is like | its a propaganda | Yeah in a good way. I think in a good way
it's about choosing your life and having your own economic success and
Making your own path whereas obviously everything that happens north of the border. It's not the case
Well said, that is definitely something I picked up from their culture
They work very hard and it's all about choice as well
And that's why a lot of the bands have multiple members of the band, so - | yeah
Hopefully there's someone there that represents or speaks to you. You can relate to yeah, I didn't realize how fashion
fashion centric is there yeah, so we went to Gangnam and
Have you seen the Gangnam Dolls the got? Yeah? Yeah, there's a massive one of PSY at the end of the walk
and yeah, it's it's very bougie like they've got Lamborghinis there and Porsches - | really | - and Maserati
It's Hollywood, isn't it? Of South Korea | Yeah, that's what it's like | that's really interesting
But it is that binary of like North Korea, it's like oh it's not in your face, but this is like
This is what we have you know South Korea has LG it has Samsung it has - | maybe there is a point then
maybe that maybe they need to point behind it to show you like the affluence and like how well South Korea is doing as a
Democratic mind you know NK is a democratic republic, but they're not it's really interesting. Maybe it's literally that's the reason | This got deep | yeah
??? | We're not gonna talk about the DMZs | socks
Right thanks, I mean on a channel Adele | No, thank you for having me | I know we're really excited
for the documentary, 19 of January. Yes, I'm sure the link will be here
somewhere
When it's live, I'll put it in here in like
Retrospect | You can check out Adele's Twitter and YouTube in the description below, and we'll see you guys again soon
if I recover from this fangirl experience
Bye 👋