Tuesday, February 20, 2024
BTS member
J-Hope is less than a year into his mandatory 18-month military service in Korea, but that won't stop him from releasing a pair of projects next month.
Amazon's
Prime Video has scooped up the six-part
HYBE-produced docuseries
Hope on the Street, the first episode of which arrives 3/28.
BIGHIT MUSIC/
Geffen will release an accompanying six-track "special album,"
Hope on the Street Vol. 1, the following day.
Prime Video says the series spotlights J-Hope's longtime love of dancing as he explores Osaka, Seoul, Paris, New York and Gwangju in tandem with his former instructor,
Boogaloo Kin. The corresponding album is J-Hope's first since 2022's
Jack in the Box. BTS itself has not performed live since October of that year.
See below for a teaser of
Hope on the Street. We sure wish
we could still dance like that, but, you know, arthritis ...