Yet Big Bang, the first and best idol group of Korean pop-music conglomerate YG Entertainment (whose exponents include Psy and 2NE1) and approaching their 10th year together, still manage to subvert conventions enough to set themselves apart from a billion-dollar industry’s rank and file – and validate a mania that saw tickets changing hands for hundreds of dollars outside the venue. Every familiar accoutrement of the boy-band genre was expected and accounted for on Sunday night and dutifully dialed to 11: the lasers, strobes, confetti cannons and pyrotechnics, the finely tuned choreography, the sleek, modern production ingeniously calibrated with a pitch-perfect touch of Vegas schmaltz. S o entrenched by now is K-pop as a global phenomenon that arena-scaled spectacles like Big Bang’s US tour closer at the Prudential Center, towards the back end of a 15-country marathon in support of their third full-length studio album MADE, are all but incapable of surprises.
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