How you dare? (3x)” it no longer felt like it was directed to their haters. Keep on and runnin’ and runnin’ until I catch up. I’m so firin’, firin’, boy, your time’s up. When they sang, “ Come and follow me, follow me with your signs up. Add to that having a giant Steve Aoki on the screen backdrop, made the setup look even cockier. With 2020 being the year of general distress, BTS opening 2021 with “MIC Drop” felt like a kick in the butt of the worst phase of our lifetime. However, when BTS performed the song at the 2021 New Year’s Live online concert on January 1 - making it their first stage performance of the year - the song completely took on a whole new meaning. It’s high energy choreography and the boys’ intimidating outfits that go along with it make a truly bold statement. “MIC Drop” has always stood out as one of BTS’ strongest and most electric stage performances. I bet it got my haters hella sick (hella sick) MIC Drop to an awful year What you think ’bout that? (well) What you think ’bout that? (well) It’s hella trophies and it’s hella thick (hella thick, hella thick) Inspired by former US President Barrack Obama’s final White House correspondents’ dinner speech in 2016, the first half of the song’s pre-chorus say it all:ĭid you see my bag? (where?) Did you see my bag? (where?) This sequence basically shows how BTS is smacking their haters for saying they couldn’t make it and for disregarding their art and hard work during the first four years of their career.

In the album’s tracklist, the song is carefully positioned right after “Skit: Billboard Music Awards Speech,” which is a recording of BTS’ acceptance speech of their first Top Social Artist Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards. As followers of BTS’ career and discography, ARMYs know exactly what the song “MIC Drop” means.įirst released as a B-side track in the 2017 EP Love Yourself: Her, “MIC Drop” is basically a diss track for BTS’ haters and naysayers.

Meaning of mic drop