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Review: 'The Tonight Show' hosts K-pop sensation BTS for a perfectly fine late-night stunt

Dear diary _

Monday, 11;15 p.m. ET. BTS are about to take over NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!" So exciting! I have yet to knowingly hear their music, but it's not everybody who gets an entire hour of "The Tonight Show" dedicated just to them. I can't sleep! I have been assigned to watch and report on this thing and, literally, I can't!

Of all late night hosts, Fallon, who can sing and dance and is still basically a 16-year-old boy, is the nearest thing to the member of a boy band. So this all makes a certain sense.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, BTS are by many metrics bigger than the Beatles,

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