“Wow, you guys have hella energy,” rapper j-hope says as he praises the crowd at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles after the electric first set of his Hope on the Stage tour. “Am I in heaven? So many angels here,” he continues, setting the tone for the rest of the night as he gently teases and flirts with his audience.
Just a month after j-hope opened his solo tour at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., drawing approximately 178,000 attendees throughout his 12 shows in six cities across North America, the BTS member closed out this leg of his tour with two sold-out concerts in Los Angeles. Full of fun, cheeky interactions with fans, and surprise guest R&B singer Miguel on both nights for their collaboration “Sweet Dreams,” the superstar performs so that even those sitting in the nosebleeds feel his passion and power reverberate through their bodies.
As the second member of global K-pop band BTS to embark on a solo tour and the first member to do so post-military enlistment, j-hope is the first K-pop soloist to headline a North American stadium. With five of the seven members still doing their mandatory South Korean military service, j-hope’s concerts are the first chance many fans have to see a BTS member on tour since fellow BTS rapper Suga’s D-DAY tour in 2023.
Celebratory and joyful, j-hope doesn’t disappoint. He is luminous, radiating joy and gratefulness, and his happiness to be finally back on stage is evident in every dance move, smile, and carefully memorized English lines to communicate with his fans.
Most refreshingly, despite his own impressive dance skills (j-hope used to be an award-winning street dancer and is the dance leader for BTS), he willingly cedes the limelight to allow the talented street and backup dancers to shine in dance solos despite him being the headliner. This generosity of spirit and security in his talents contributes to his vibrancy on stage.
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