Paris has six major station, Nord (North), Est (East), Monparnasse, St Lazare, Lyon and Austerlitz.
2 of them are directions, 3 of them are places in France but the last one is not in France. It is now in Czechia.
That is because when the station was named in 1840, Napoleon's corpse was brought back from St Helena so sentiment on him was high, so the King of France decided to name it after the deposed Emperor's greatest battle for national pride.
At least that station does not have trains going toward Austerlitz, now called Slavkov by the Czechs, or places like Vienna and Prague.
The English, never losing bad humor, named the Waterloo Station as the terminus for Eurostar train which goes to Paris directly under the sea. (After UK lost its grandeur the terminus was moved to St Pancras Station)
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BTS' defeat of Cardi B in mid 2020 with the song Dynamite is a historic moment in the history of pop.
In 2020, as the Covid scare enveloped the entire world, Min Yoongi perhaps unwisely agreed to collaborate with the Owner of Edam Entertainment, who will be referred as such throughout this post, whose song Eight was about to become the Song of the Year of 2020.
The Owner of Edam Entertainment promptly discarded Min Yoongi's lines and sang the whole song herself, making the song entirely belong to her.
That is comparable to the Battle of Trafalgar in Oct 21, 1805, which would make sure that the French Empire would never control the seas.
But at that time no one , except maybe me who might or might not have written about it at that time (My older writings are mostly lost), pointed out the significance of this huge slug on BTS' future. It proved to be fatal to BTS in the end, but this post is not to discuss that.
On August 21, 2020, Dynamite was released.
It blasted off the most viewed video record in 24 hours, 101 mil views, breaking BlackPink's record of How you like that , 83.3mil.
(The highest record of most viewed video in 24 hrs is now held by Butter at 108m views)
At one single shot, BTS now belonged to a different dimension from the Owner of Edam Entertainment, whose dreams of re-claiming the Throne of KPop and reverting KPop back to the bad days of isolationism seemed to have ended... or it seemed so.
Dynamite advanced further, and began to challenge "WAP" of Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion.
WAP actually held on well, even beating Dynamite once .
but it was finally defeated by BTS and a tectonic change in Pop began to occur.
After Dynamite, a rap duo composed of '24kgoldn' and 'iann dior' took #1 in Billboard Hot 100, but it was eventually defeated by BTS' Life Goes On. We have not heard too much about these two. The first disappeared, and the second as well after featuring in a #1 Hot 100 song by a British alternative band called Glass Animals.
The defeat of the rap/hiphop faction, which ruled pop since mid 1990s, was complete.
That is comparable to the Battle of Austrelitz, Dec 2 , 1805, which end the Holy Roman Empire which lasted, in various incarnations, since the beginning of the middle ages.
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By the end of 2021, the end of rap/hiphip faction , and the entire domination of world by BTS , was complete.
In the entire world, for all practical purposes, only the Owner of Edam Entertainment stood against it.
Why Bang and BTS failed to exploit this world domination is a subject which deserves its own book, but BTS now are just a bunch of washed-up ex soldiers, poorer than the now former owner of Edam Entertainment, and treated worse than a Min Heejin, who struck Bang's back, which has made sure that BTS won't last beyond whenever its current contract would end, probably in 2027.
IT won't dominate the world like it did in 2020 and 2021 , while Koreans rejected it in favor of Min Heejin's group.
If it decided to jump Korea, continue to dominate the world and crushed its foes, we would not have heard too much about Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen or Shaboozey, along with a lot of other names, but now BTS will have a hard time beating any of them.
Still its world conquest and defeat of the rap/hiphop genre deserve to be remembered for ever.
