BANGTAN BOMB: "N.O" and "We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2" Special Stages at 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards

Honestly, for me, the best part of the holiday season is BTS performing at the year-end Korean music award shows. They put on these epic performances with huge production values and they're all free to watch (and re-watch and re-watch again...). And then BigHit will post all the Bangtan Bombs of their performances, too, so you can catch the whole stage without the weird, chaotic filming they do at some of these award shows (seriously, you miss at least, like, a third of the full stage because the camera will pan to the audience or to one member only or just the upper body so you miss the insane footwork of their choreo). We got not one, but two throwbacks at this year's MAMA in the form of "N.O" and "We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2," both of which I never thought I would ever see them perform live, ever. These haven't been on their concert set lists for years, so seeing these being performed now, in 2019, in front of so many people, is surreal and somewhat bittersweet, but also kind of a really satisfying middle finger up for all those naysayers from all those years ago.