BIGBANG Named Their World Tour ‘XX:Cosmos’ Because Two Decades In, They Still Run This
the kings announced ‘XX:Cosmos’ as their upcoming world tour, a nod to 20 years in the game. the OGs are booked, blessed, and back.
twenty years in and BIGBANG decided the appropriate unit of measurement was the cosmos. 'XX:Cosmos' is officially the name of the world tour, announced july 15 — 'XX' for the two decades since debut, 'Cosmos' for the whole connection-and-continuity of it. subtle, they are not.
the numbers: 33 shows across 19 cities, opening august 21 to 23 at goyang stadium in gyeonggi province. manila made the itinerary. it's their first world tour in nine years, and the last one was called 'Last Dance,' a title that has aged into a full joke.
this also lands after they turned up at coachella in april and reminded an entire field of gen z whose blueprint everyone's been standing on this whole time. YG has an august return with a physical single lined up on top of it, so the schedule is genuinely stacked.
VIPs have survived a decade on crumbs, enlistment timelines and grainy fancams. thirty-three shows isn't a comeback at this point, it's reparations.
clear the calendar, ruin the savings account. the OGs are cosmos-coded now and nobody's touching them.
Reported by Korea Herald. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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not d.o. naming his comeback 'DOPAMINE' when HE is the dopamine
exo's velvet-voiced menace is dropping his fourth solo mini on september 8 and the teaser rollout starts this week
bestie sit down. doh kyung soo — d.o. to the streets, serotonin to the girlies — is officially coming back and he named the album 'DOPAMINE' like he KNOWS exactly what he does to our nervous systems.
the facts: it's his fourth solo mini album and it lands september 8 at 6pm KST, with the teaser rollout kicking off basically now. clear the camera roll for incoming visuals.
this is his first proper solo moment in about a year — the last thing he blessed us with was the digital single 'DUMB' — so the man is fully rested, fully marinated, and about to remind everyone the vocals were never a rumor.
september 8. write it down. we're going to be so normal about this (we are not).
Reported by Soompi. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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