("DNA" by BTS)
- K-pop fans love some BTS,
and they also can't seem
to get enough of BlackPink.
♪ Hit you with that do do do do do ♪
- But now we have someone
new to obsess over.
A new K-pop girl group is
exploding onto the scene,
and they're unreal, literally.
♪ Aint nobody bringing us ♪
♪ Down down down down down down ♪
♪ They could try but we're
gonna wear the crown ♪
- Aint nobody bringing us down, no no.
Love that move right there.
On Saturday during the
2018 League of Legends
World Championship opening
ceremony in South Korea,
video game developer Riot Games
unveiled a new virtual
K-pop quartet called K/DA,
in what's being called a
mixed reality performance,
that blended live staging and
augmented reality technology.
♪ I'm a goddess with a blade ♪
(singing in foreign language)
♪ Loud, loud, loud, loud ♪
- During the opening ceremony show,
two members of K-pop girl group (G)I-dle
and America singers Madison
Beer and Jaira Burns
performed the K/DA song "Pop Stars"
alongside their League of
Legends in-game alter egos.
Via augmented reality,
K/Da's foursome were visible
on jumbotrons in the
stadium, and on livestreams,
as if they were actually there onstage.
Check out the girls suited
up to provide motion-capture
to bring their digital
counterparts to life
during the show.
Viranda Tantula, creative
lead at Riot Games,
tells Billboard
the 2018 League of
Legends World Championship
presented an ideal opportunity
to explore the K-pop world,
which was a new space for Riot.
So what do you think about
virtual reality music groups?
Love the idea, or hate it?
Has me thinking about Gorrilaz.
Well, let me know your
thoughts in the comments.
I, for one, thought that
video was really cool.
For Billboard news, I'm Tetris Kelly.
