Dancers had to change their masks every hour and staff had to both wear masks and show another negative PCR test before every practice. On top of all that, things at the Grammys were inevitably stricter than in the past due to health regulations around COVID-19 prevention. It wasn’t until the day before the Grammys that j-hope and Jung Kook could finally practice with all the other members after practicing separately in isolation in the meanwhile.
So significant is j-hope’s role that, on a V LIVE, SUGA said, “Without j-hope, the practice didn’t feel right.” Jimin, too, noted how “there’s no order in the practice studio” without him.
Things weren’t any easier for the remaining members: With j-hope out, the others felt the effect of his absence while practicing together.
Jin was unable to join the group in some of the choreography due to still recovering from a finger injury, while j-hope and Jung Kook caught COVID-19 and had to quarantine in Korea and the US, respectively. In a V LIVE immediately after the awards ceremony, j-hope himself said, “we actually practiced really, really hard for the performance, and the whole process was a little rough,” showing how, before BTS could make it to the stage at the Grammys, all sorts of fairly dramatic things happened. He added that the fact that the lasers were activated in the middle of their performance suggests the security system was automatically triggered because they were in a “well-established, classy museum that demands high security” and that the lasers “represent the adversity they were pushing through.”Ī challenging performance where you only make it to the stage by dropping in on a wire and dodging lasers: Considering everything BTS went through to be there at the Grammys, this describes more than simply the setup for their performance. “For a concept like the gentleman thief Lupin, it would be more likely they enter from somewhere other than the stage, like from the audience or from out of thin air, rather than making a grand entrance from on stage,” Ha explained. The motivation behind having the members all enter the stage through different means was born out of that idea. “They stole the card from a formally invited artist and gained entry that way.” According to Ha, the group’s performance of “Butter” at the Grammys was built around the idea of the members of BTS infiltrating the stage like spies reminiscent of James Bond or gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. “The way they opened the stage was through a security card,” he said.
#Smooth like butter like a criminal undercover meaning professional#
Ha Jung Jae, Lead Professional at the Concert Production Studio, explained the meaning behind the card that V grabs from out behind Rodrigo’s back. Once there, all the members sang and danced, even moving around the stage “smooth like butter” to avoid a web of lasers. Each member of BTS infiltrated the stage like undercover agents: Jung Kook coming in on a wire, V taking to the stage after hiding out in the audience where he had been talking with Olivia Rodrigo, and so on. With those two lines from their song “Butter,” BTS jumped right into their performance at the 64th Grammy Awards on Ap(Las Vegas time). “Smooth like butter / Like a criminal undercover.”
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