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 We've all heard the same when a new product comes out. "This burger is the new Big Mac." "This horror movie is the new Psycho." The product usually never makes it as popular as the item it's compared to but in music one compassion keeps coming up. Saying that BTS is the new Beatles. It makes sense at a surface level, their bands promoting positivity in their music and are reaching huge international success. But is this comparison fair? The Beatles first started as a duet with members John Lennon and Paul Mcarthy. The two self-taught musicians met George Harrison in the early '60s. In 1691 they meet their manager Brain Epstein who got them signed to Parlophone where they met Ringo Starr. Together they formed the Beatles and recorded the song "Please, Please Me". Throughout 1931 they grew in popularity in Britain and " In the fall of that year, when they belatedly made a couple of appearances on British television, the evidence of popular

 I love music and more specifically K-pop. I also use social media at an unhealthy amount. Therefore I read about people talking about BTS a world-famous kpop band and the inevitable comparison to European boybands, usually The Beatles or One Direction. I never found these comparisons anything. I just thought that it was bloggers saying things to get clicks. Then I read two tweets about how these comparisons really shouldn't be made. The first was that BTS was only being overlooked because it was marketed to teenage girls and if it was market to adult men it's all that would be shown on the market. Which got me thinking, The Beatles are currently marketed to people who grew up with the band as teenagers and being who complain on Tumblr and Reddit that they were born in the wrong generation. So while I could still see how people could compare the bands I started to disagree. BTS (L-R V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, Rm, Jimin, Jhope.) Then I saw a second tweet shortly after BTS released