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BTS brings boy-band precision, and bedlam, to SoFi Stadium

LOS ANGELES — At 7:30 p.m. on the dot Sunday, the seven members of BTS appeared onstage at SoFi Stadium, each dressed in white to open the sold-out second show of the K-pop group's four-night stand in Inglewood with an elaborate jail-break sequence set to the band's song "On."

Anytime a popular boy band dabbles in prison imagery — and Seoul-based BTS is without question the most popular on the planet — you have to ask what the young men are imagining an escape from.

The simple

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