Music Festival Draft Poll: BTS

[theo]

“ 1) Only "active" or potentially active acts can be drafted. If you're planning on booking a reunion, you need to demonstrate that there is a reasonable reason to believe that it could happen. (This rules out Talking Heads, for example.) An artist is considered "active" if they have had or will have one public performance(s) of six or more songs between 1/1/17 and 12/31/22. (This eliminates things like Rock and Roll Hall of fame performances, one-offs for benefits, awards show reunions, talk/variety show appearances, etc.) An artist would be considered inactive if they don't meet the live performance requirements or if there is credible documentation that an act has broken up or has no plans of touring.”

[theo]

This poll locks in about 24 hours

[Cookin' Mama]

Remember when LCD Soundsystem said they weren't doing anything for awhile and then a month later they announced their NYC residency?

[Ellie]

BTS announced they're moving toward a focus on their solo work, including J-Hope putting out a solo album in the very near future: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bts-j-hope-solo-album-jack-in-the-box-1374267/

J-Hope is also headlining Lolla on July 31

They're not going to stop collaborating, but they have no plans to perform in late 2022 and 2023, and we're starting to see individual members perform on their own.

[gocatsnu]

I voted yes (not my pick) because of this:

[Cookin' Mama]

Also voted yes

[Ellie]

Jun 26, 2022 17:54:16 GMT -5 Cookin' Mama said:

Remember when LCD Soundsystem said they weren't doing anything for awhile and then a month later they announced their NYC residency?

it's not like Pat Mahoney announced a solo album and a headlining slot at a major music festival, this is different

[cdevaney]

The standard I personally use for this stuff is would I consider them inactive in the headliner thread if someone predicted they'd be headlining next year.

I don't have a dog in this fight because I know one song by them and they would not inspire me to vote for a lineup just because they were on it. But I'm not the target demo for them.

[cdevaney]

To Ellie's point, a lot of band break ups start with a break. But they're definitely trying to keep BTS fans on the hook.

[Crab Mech]

If the festival can take place in 2023, which the OP says it can, I don't think we can really expect BTS to be inactive for the next 18 months.

[jpbrez]

They are on hiatus. They had to retract the official word hiatus because of how much the stock price fell for Big Hit Entertainment. Not to mention their military service deadline isn't that far away.

[tЯist♡n]

Jun 26, 2022 17:56:37 GMT -5 Ellie said:

BTS announced they're moving toward a focus on their solo work, including J-Hope putting out a solo album in the very near future: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bts-j-hope-solo-album-jack-in-the-box-1374267/

J-Hope is also headlining Lolla on July 31

They're not going to stop collaborating, but they have no plans to perform in late 2022 and 2023, and we're starting to see individual members perform on their own.

by this logic Radiohead is ineligible.

[Ellie]

Jun 26, 2022 21:26:37 GMT -5 tЯist♡n said:

Jun 26, 2022 17:56:37 GMT -5 Ellie said:

BTS announced they're moving toward a focus on their solo work, including J-Hope putting out a solo album in the very near future: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bts-j-hope-solo-album-jack-in-the-box-1374267/

J-Hope is also headlining Lolla on July 31

They're not going to stop collaborating, but they have no plans to perform in late 2022 and 2023, and we're starting to see individual members perform on their own.

by this logic Radiohead is ineligible.

...yes

just picking and choosing my battles, I'm not gonna litigate everything