Txt are direct label colleagues from BTS and not wrongly one of the most successful boy bands in the K-Pop world-they demonstrated that with a show that audiences and band had fun alike. Daniel Koch was on site for us.
Ok, my title may be a little try to move the spoken, older me subscribers: inside the colorful world of the Gen-ZK pop. But it is also somehow Sweet that Bandmember Taehyun contained the entire second act of the live show in a shirt on which there was in large letters: “Listening to Klaus Schulze Life Begins”. It remains to be seen whether the 23-year-old Korean really knows the composer, pioneer of electronic music and producers of ideal and DIN A test picture. But Klaus Schulze, who unfortunately died in 2022, would probably have fun that a bunch of young K-Pop fans now google his name, maybe ends up with the dark instrumental piece “Ruins” and realizes that this is not that far away from many Txt-intro or remix.
The basics of Tomorrow X together
A few days before TXT’s first concert of Germany, someone asked me again why I always go to these K-POP shows again and again. The music journalist in me said something like: “It is one of the most exciting and successful pop phenomena in recent years. It is my duty to report on it and understand the background.” Sounded terribly serious and clarified. But when I looked at the third song of the concert with a grin, the more honest answer occurred to me: “Because K-Pop concerts just make you great fun!” At least if you run out like the Txt-Gig in Berlin.
Tomorrow X Together (TXT) are a fourth generation K-pop band and consist of five young men in the early twenties called Sobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun and Hueninga. They made their debut in 2019 and were captured by the perhaps most successful player in the millions of K-Pop game: Bang Si-Hyuk, head of Big Hit Entertainment (today Hybe Labels) and discoverer from BTS.
The handy -titled world tour “Tomorrow X Together World Tour ‘
The good-sitting K-SWAG
As soon as the intro video was over, this deafening ecstasy noise rushed somewhere between cheering, screeching and joling through the Uber Arena. Txt relied on a fairly simple stage structure: a platform in the audience on which they spent most of the show and three huge LED screens. But that suited her show: Txt or Hybe, have always been able to impressively visuals, and the popping particularly well in this way. The intermediate films according to the individual show blocks were almost all of the cinema material. Even if you are 50 percent from face shots on Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun and Hueningkai-The Third Traps of the K-Pop Stands …
The first part of the show was one of the strongest. Txt remembered what only Idols have: the good-sitting K-POP-SWAG. You recognized it when you first enter the stage. They stood in the stage fog like a perfect band photo, then stepped on side by side, with which it trained for years, which may not be innate, but perhaps precisely because of that. Of course, one can and must of course talk about the hardships of the idol training in Korea again and again, but the homicide argument that these performances are somehow cold because this culture is openly talked about the training that is in them, is simply bullshit. Here every smooth body movement calls, every raised eyebrow, every step, every grip on the good -sitting jacket: “I am a performer!”
More highlights than a trailer
Songs such as “Over the Moon”, “0x1 = Lovesong (I Know I Love You)” and “Sugar Rush Ride” (TXTS acoustic thirst trap) celebrated Txt in the style of classic boy bands. They all wore well -sitting black suits, sang live and danced particularly spoiled and coordinated choreographies that had almost winking elements – for example, when they let up a bandmember or how to fall over the domino stones. They were almost perfectly “in Sync” and still had visible fun: they grinned, dramatically threw themselves into their vocal parts and still disagree with the cameras and the audience.
In the two and a half hours, which followed there were more highlights than trailers. As an actual indie nose, I can assure at this point under oath that TXT has many songs that should also like the music express audience. The cheeky “Good Boy Gone Bad”, for example, the pop point “Lo $ er = Lo ♡ er”, or the alternative pop of the ballad “Anti-Romantic”, which was rightly a Tikok hype a few years ago. “Quarter Life”, a hymn on the “Quarterlife Crisis”, I felt a little too much, although my Life Crisis would be more “mid”. But the gene z that sang around around me already felt what Txt meant.
As it should be, every member got its “time to shine”. Hueningkai in particular surprised with a fairly impressive drumolo. In general, he sometimes looked as if he liked an emo-punk band as Side Hustle. Musically it was Yeonjun, who scored the most with the solos. He played his rap-banger “ggum” and briefly gave the ramp sow: jumped off the stage, clapped the audience, let the fans favors from the front row.
The only thing that can be accused of the show is that dramaturgy sometimes seemed a bit off. The first sections were very tight and rather longer, after that it sometimes seemed a bit dismembered when only two songs were played and then a video interlude came again. The speeches could also have been more compact. With K-POP shows, of course, it should be the case that every idol always addresses the audience, but sometimes Txt throat a little. On the other hand: they were miserable too.
After a good two and a half hours, TXT sent her very sweet, very passionate audience happy home-which actually happens on almost every K-POP show of this size. Maybe another reason why I keep going there …