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

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

But the boys of BTS are however capable of pulling off a summer-completely ready smoothie with their new one, “Butter.”

The newest one from the K-pop sensations, produced on Friday, is an additional dose of fizzy exciting from the South Korean septet.

Even if you fail to remember about it as shortly as the 2 minutes and forty five seconds are more than. (Can these guys even make a music more than three minutes extensive?)

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

But, of program, the splendor — and world wide attractiveness — of BTS is that they are the furthest issue from “trouble,” no make any difference how substantially hip-hop posturing they may strike.

And, hey, who can blame them for so certainly likely for a summer jam correct prior to Memorial Working day — and their effectiveness at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards this weekend?

Next the good results of their initial English-only one, “Dynamite,” which achieved No. one last yr, BTS is back to court docket the US market with this track.

And while it rarely breaks any new ground for the boy band, it is plenty of of a bop to preserve them grooving as a result of lots of a pool, yard and rooftop cling near you this summer.

In the meantime, the tune’s vibrant, formal music online video is spreading rapid, sliding correct past 89 million views by mid-afternoon Friday.

And as they say in the “Butter” lyrics, the heartbreaking gang of 7 undoubtedly “got that superstar glow” as they boogie and “flirt” as a result of a succession of dance sequences that remaining hearts “pumping” and supporters melting like, well, butter.

The team is just about everywhere these times — including doing the job with McDonald’s on a “BTS meal,” reportedly collaborating with 27-yr-aged “Yummy” singer Justin Bieber and making heritage at the 2021 Grammys.

The around the world phenomenon will conduct “Butter” for the initial time at the Billboard Music Awards, exactly where they have four nominations. The event — hosted by Nick Jonas and airing at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 23, on NBC — will aspect other musical visitors including The Weeknd, Doja Cat, SZA, AJR, Undesirable Bunny and Karol G, DJ Khaled featuring H.E.R. and Migos, Duran Duran, Glass Animals, Twenty A person Pilots, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with Sounds of Blackness featuring Ann Nesby. In addition, singer Pink is slated to acquire the music brand’s Icon Award, and Alicia Keys will mark the twentieth anniversary of her debut album, “Songs in A Minor.”