If you wanna see our uncut reaction/analysis with the ending speeches, click here: www.patreon.com/maxbeaumont I had to cut them out to avoid this video being blocked. The full video is available in my silver tier on Patreon.

2!3! is 100% one of their most popular songs among ARMY! It was their first song they wrote specifically FOR ARMY! They wrote this for us after a very difficult time for them and ARMY. It was a "thank you for staying with us" and "it'll get better".

this performance is actually their first time doing the song :))) its how the purple ocean of army was born

Your friend seems to be very empathetic and authentic. I would love for him to react to some more bts content if he wants to :)

Yes please, he seems so genuine sweet guy 💜 He will fit perfectly to our army family, welcome 💜

I so enjoyed Eli’s pure openness. I was in tears watching this. Please encourage him to watch more BTS with you. The world is a better place because of gentle souls like you two. Thank you for sharing 💜

Eli hit the nail on the head. The song itself was a gift to ARMY, too-- this was the first official fan song, written specifically for the fandom after everything BTS and ARMY had been through together. And that's the look BTS always gets in their eye when ARMY sings back to them... ARMY singing the chorus of "Born Singer." The "Young Forever" ARMY TIME event at Wembley Stadium. Brazilian ARMY singing "WE LOVE YOU" to RM every time he sang the "I wish I could love myself" line in Reflection. And Seoul K-ARMYs taking over the "Everything's gonna be okay" mantra in Agust D's "Snooze" when Yoongi was overcome by emotion during the final D-Day concert. They're as immensely proud of us as we are of them. 💜

I've seen them live a few times. The first time was in a 3000 people venue and the third time was in a 90,000 people venue. But in all 3 the energy of ARMY was the same. ARMY sang so loud and participated so much that you could feel the positive energy flowing around you. The love coming from BTS was the same as well. They didn't change. I can't describe the love and unity you feel at a BTS concert. It's like nothing else. ❤

This is what being grown up means to me, everybody, watch and take notes: Cheering for eachother, being open and honest about their feelings, owning their flaws and insecurities, but also their joys and passions; still finding ways to be appreciative and happy. Very wholesome, Max & Eli, thanks a lot and take good care of eachother. Borahae! 💜

I love how he turned the audience singing to BTS on its head (for me at least) as a gift BTS was giving to ARMY. It’s so true. It’s also equally true that it’s ARMY’s gift to BTS by meaning every word. That’s what makes BTS and ARMY so special.

Eli gets the connection. It's impressive to hear the Korean ARMY sing so beautifully, but what really blows my mind is when English audiences sing to BTS IN KOREAN..that's something special too. Thanks for reacting Max and thanks Eli for giving BTS a listen.

zero o clock is another song that touches on a relatable thing that everyone feels! its in my top 3 all time favourite BTS songs!

10:39 and he's correct. Bcz it is first gift song to army. BTS were going through difficult time, got slandering from everywhere. They also know how army was trying to make everything right, wanting to protect them for false accusations standing strong getting wounded emotionally at same time. So it was like "thank you for staying with us and being stronger". I'm so thankful to BTS & armys for their endurance especially BTS. When whole world is against you and you're just helpless

This concert was the third muster in seoul, which basically means the third annual “fan meeting” where the guys meet their fans. 3,000 fans attended the first one … two years later at the 3rd muster, 38,000! This was 2016, so still early days for the guys. The third muster was when army did the “purple wave” project, where audience members put a purple plastic bag over their army bombs. This was the same year BTS had faced a “black ocean” at the golden disk awards, where the audience in an organised protest switched off their light sticks, creating, well, a black ocean! So seeing army do the purple wave, during this song, at the muster would have been very touching for the guys. ALSO, you saw how the audience knew the song so well … I’m pretty sure this was the very first live performance of 2! 3!, and the album came out less than one month before this performance. ARMYs are very adept at learning new material really quickly (even learning tricky and clever call and responses and fan chants, so that they become an unforgettable part of the performance). I think the day I attend my first BTS concert, if I’m ever so lucky, this army will think she’s died and gone to heaven 🥲

pls show him more bts content i love his energy

Your friend is charming and will, I think, enjoy the BTS journey you take him on - and we all look forward to seeing him fall…🤗💜💜

I feel like Eli would really, really love to see Magic Shop live. He'd get it. 💜

Speaking of authentic, your friend came across that way very much. Looking forward to further reactions by him. As an aside, a couple of the members talk about this song and why they created it in the new Beyond the Star documentary on Disney+. They wrote this song because they (and ARMY) had experienced so much hate from other fandoms and the industry in general, and while they were intended to be the "shield" for ARMY against those bullets, ARMY was really becoming just as much THEIR shield. They felt things were spiraling downward and needed a reset, so this song is for that - to say, "on the count of three" let's all start over and move forward with happier hearts.

RM sets it up, that nothing is going to be perfect, we have a lot of problems in front of us, but we have each other to help each other over the hurdles.

This song has always made me cry. But in a good way. Being ARMY was the best decision I ever made solely for myself.

This is one of the first BTS songs that really blew my mind. My daughter asked me to get tickets for the concert in Amsterdam and I failed miserably. So when the concert was going on we were watching cell phone footage by Army. Some of it was from the solos’s which I didn’t realize they had (now I know! Stigma, Lie, Begin, First love…) and then there was 2, 3, totally sung by Armies, in Korean, in the Netherlands. That’s what got me to study Korean.

I've said this before but it's so cool how open and honest you are about how BTS makes you feel and also that you're sharing your love for them with friends and family (who all seem really open-minded which is amazing). I feel bad for saying this but I haven't really told any of my friends or family that I'm into kpop for fear of being judged. Even though I'm pretty certain they wouldn't even care that much anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️ Loving your friend's vibe. He seems genuinely interested in this and he seems to really get what BTS is about. You should definitely show him more 😊

*I love what ur friend said about Army singing and how it almost feels like a gift that BTS is giving 🥹🫶🏼 Eli seemed cool. At first I thought he seemed a bit shy so I wasn’t sure how this was gonna play out lol. But it was a good interaction. And I really liked how he kept eye contact with you and would smile everytime u spoke. And the fact that he got chills over BTS as his first time with em was so nice 🥹🥹🥹 I can’t wait til he watches more of em and feels connected 💜*

Bravo, Max!!! This was the first song I tried to sing, exactly by the beauty of its lyrics (the second was House of Cards). To me, what makes them special are the subjects of their production. It is always about love, not romantic, but among friends or self-love, empowerment, or simply hope. The amount of songs made for Army is huge. I can say that they didn't save my life, thank God I was fine and happy when I met them... but they have been my best friends for almost four years. When something makes me sad or angry, I simply listen to them or watch some short video where they are laughing, and the smile is inevitable!

Your friend is so honest. I loved his reaction. I'm sure he would love Epiphany, Mykrokosmos, Magic Shop and Love Yourself.

2!3! is one of the popular songs actually but we don't talk about it too much since it's personal, it's a special connection we have with the boys and amongst fans that is hard to explain. This is a fan song, a song made for Army by BTS but i know everyone and their mamas can relate.

The boys 100% felt those words; those lyrics came out of a dark time for them and the Army. I hope Eli will join you more on your BTS reaction videos; he has beautiful energy.

Totally loved seeing his reacting and listening to his perspective 💜 Welcome to the Bora world our friend 💜💜

I love this !!! Bring your friend in more if he likes it. And also share with us your favorite song of the moment. This is great. I like knowing that 2! 3! Is your song of the moment. Mine is Tomorrow.

This song means so much to ARMY since the guys said they wrote this for us! I truly hope that this is one of the songs they perform for us when they return home to the stage. Thank you for sharing this with your friend. 💜

As a viewer I can rly see when a person’s personality will match rly well with appreciating bts and their talent, relationships, and messages, and Eli rly has that!!

Ok! He’s a keeper, let’s see more of you both.

After all these years, they still greet us every time with 1, 2, 3 - cept that time when RM called it out during a Live to prank the maknaes 😆we all wait for the day they return to us as 7 and call 1, 2, 3 again. Glad you guys enjoy it!

Jin’s middle range - woah

I got so emotional. Thank you very much, Max, for spreading our guys' love.

Magic Shop live is one of those songs that just makes me feel instantly better. Thank you Max. You never disappoint 💜

It was lovely to see Eli sense the sincerity, hopefulness, and beauty of 2!3! and BTS. I agree with you, Max, that BTS also unites us through their lyrics and actions. I'm not sure how to say this, but the guys feel like amazing role models yet feel like they are not above anyone else. They're so humble. Thanks for the video and I hope Eli will join you for more! 💜💜

Eli seems like such a great friend! Please thank him for being willing to share his thoughts in a reaction video. It really helped me cheer up and remember the beauty of BTS and ARMY 💜 You're a great ARMY, Max! I appreciate you.

Petition to have him back on the channel for more reactions please. He has such good energy.

there's something really beautiful and pure about seeing someone trying something with an open heart loved your friend's reaction and opinions, he seems so sweet and genuine, i hope he can come by more 💟 2!3! always makes me cry, but it also always makes me feel good after. Like it was something that I needed, to hear, to feel, probably because you can feel their beliefs and good wishes in everything about that song

Wow your friend is genuinely touched by the song and BTS considering it's his first time watching them. I love how he appreciates them and gave his feedback. I hope you can do more reactions with him.

Awwww the army connection with 2!3! 💜Enjoyed this with both of you.

Tengo 49 años soy mamá Army 💜 de verdad que estos 7 chicos han cambiado mi vida por completo 🇲🇽🇰🇷. Me encantó su reacción, muchas gracias y saludos 💜🫶🏻🫰🏻

The song is incredible. I get teary eyed on this and Bullet Proof Eternal, just incredibly touching!!! Great that you shared it with your friend. I tried to share with my friend....she was not having it. Made me happy to see your friend enjoying it. Thank you for sharing.

this song also always gives me chills so I love it, plus their performances of it are so great and feel so genuine. they’re great performers since they can execute both songs like this and can also fill up the stage with amazing stage presence in other songs that have a more intense and fast-paced energy. i haven’t watched bts in a while but i have recently watched a couple of their performances and it gives me a lot of nostalgia, their stages are truly amazing so I should watch more of them again☺️

What an enjoyable video! Thank you for sharing. And you helped me remember how nice this song is

Your friend is such a good listener and he's got such good insight on everything you have him listen to... I really love his reactions to the songs you have him listen to, and I've watched all of his reaction videos with you by now, he's a really and truly amazing guy. I hope that you bring him on more often, cause I love the way he thinks, he is such a deep guy, and the conversation with him is so interesting... Truly a remarkable guy!

Thanks for spreading the good word!! I loved this. ❤❤❤

Thank you for this wonderful post of you and your friend. I am a pretty new "Baby ARMY" even though I am a super senior so I love that I got to hear a song I didn't know about (yet). I am slowly trying to catch up from their training days to the present so I FEEL everything even though I wasn't "there" at the time ARMY and BTS were going through so much. I also loved reading everyone's posts and though I was not ARMY a long time ago, I have "found the light" now and am so loving who they are, where they came from and how much love they have for ARMY and each other. Priceless in this lifetime!!!

2!3! Es mi canción favorita también. Cuando estoy triste por algo simplemente escucho la canción para animarme

the combination of watching this exact performance right after watching their 2015 Born Singer performance was the turning point for me. Those two videos made me ARMY for life. One of my tattoos was inspired by this song/j-hope's verse and I really hope I'll be able to see them perform 2!3! live one day.

Another part of their connectedness is that the rappers all write their own bars for each of their parts. So it literally comes from their heart and mind.

He really gets it! Would love to see more BTS reactions together 💜

Oh please, Eli! Come back and do more reactions. Your smile warmed my heart! The two of you together make a terrific team. 74 year old senior Army - I purple both of you. 🫶💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

This song is one of my favorite BTS songs. I found it at a time when I really needed the message. And of course it’s like so many BTS songs - beautiful poetry set to beautiful music.

I adore this song. Although I do have a hard time getting through it without tearing up. In the worst times in life, sometimes the only thing you can hope for is someone to hold your hand and say "a better day is coming". This song just gets it all. My license plate says DOOLSET. They hold ARMYs hand daily. I'm so glad you shared this with your friend! Spread the love. 💜

Definitely one of my favorite song that always hit me in my feels and in tears again. What makes BTS so special to us is that they don't just perform for performance sake but more that they genuinely share their feelings through their songs and performance which resonates with the audience. Thank you for sharing this special song with your friend. I hope you both find more smiles and better days with BTS.💜

Love this reaction! I appreciate how he was open and willing to be open and not marring the reaction with pre-conceived notions. Super cool. One of my top fav songs has to be Paradise!

Great reaction and yes their performance live always comes through with authenticity and sincerity, we do believe them !

Max i love your friend because his reaction about bts is very genuine One of my favorite song of bts ❤❤💜

My heart was bursting with joy. I love his reaction show him more and armyfy him😂

Trust me I almost cried watching this ...thanks for understanding the emotions between BTS n Armys 💜

I love when you bring guests, they are always so wonderful and open hearted like yourself! 2!3! is definitely a comfort song for all of us, ARMY and BTS included. Thank you for sharing! 💜

Thank you for the goosebumps & the reaction. Really enjoyed your friend too.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Your friend’s reaction makes me feel emotional. My eyes sweat! 🥹

Yeah exactly BTS are (special) gifts which not all artists are like....BTS are special, just so special to me.

I agree that we don't need to understand the words to understand their songs. It's the vibe that is speaking to us - and BTS are great at channeling that vibe of acceptance and comfort and companionship. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Thank you so much for sharing BTS with your friends and also for choosing 2!3! Its also what keeps me going..it's so beautiful

I absolutely love Eli's energy and what he had to say with this reaction! This was amazing and I'm here for it. Hope to see you both again reacting to some more BTS content 💜💜💜 Borahea

I love 1,2,3! One of my favorite songs. Glad your guest got introduced to BTS with this song. Magic Shop and Mikrokosmos are also excellent songs and very moving. 💜💜

your friend is actually very sweet and fun

He is a keeper for sure. Great reaction.

You both worked so hard to connect to Army. Thank you!!💜 v lost his grandparents on this tour. His grandparents who raised him. And a couple months later lost a model friend from high school. It's when he made "Borahae." It's a complicated dynamic to adjust.

I loved Eli's take on this.. invite him more!! I love your insightful reactions and love for our 7. Thank you for shining your purple light to the world.

10:20 but seriously this is is the best feeling that nothing can top even awards when audience sing with you, enjoy performance with you. I remember when I sing the song during farewell, I sing that song which many of them weren't familiar but my teachers, friends, seniors enjoy alot, did little dance, howling that even next day my teacher ask me to sing again. Trust me this is the best feeling. I always got it when boys express how they love performing want to do for long time. I can imagine but in the same time i can't imagine (as i never attend single BTS concert) the energy army & BTS share during concert or any performance bcz both party love giving eo energy and love

I love this song. Makes me emotional from time to time. Gets you in the feels.💜🥹

2!3! is a song for army this makes me happy and my life better.

Sweet reaction. Can you show him BTS We are Bulletproof Eternal please Max.

Gotta get Eli to watch videos of the guys interacting and listen to them speaking of the team, their music, their craft, etc. I'd be interested to see who becomes Eli's bias. I'm a Yoongi bias like you. His last SUCHWITA episode with his friend EL CAPITXN was sooooo good!

Love your thoughtful conversation about this song! Casting my vote for your friend to do more BTS reactions esp their live shows.

You two vibing to BTS is its own vibe and I’m here for it! 💜

when you said that the song felt like an 'i got you' 'you got me' i immediately thought of mikrokosmos, if you haven't heard it, you should.

Its really cool to see new ppl just get bts so fast not everyone is like that and its nice to see such cool open ppl experience bts for the 1st time. Your mom was so cool and so is your friend its nice to see

Love this song by BTS. Honestly for me personally - it's right up there with Spring Day. This particular stage of the song you reacted to has an amazing resonance, right? Each time I watch it, it goes right to the heartstrings, and I tear up 😢every single time. Your friend is right. What we ARMY believe in is BTS' sincerity, honesty, and even vulnerability. And it shines right through - all those qualities. And which is why the boys have legions of loyal fans - fans who appreciate the boys helping each of us pull through when we have been in difficult situations. For real. Thank you for this. It was interesting to hear your friend's first-off impression of BTS. Watch out, but he might just go down that rabbit hole, too. Take care, till next time.

It was so lovely! I loved your friend! Thank you for the reaction. Please bring him to react to more BTS songs 💜

Your friend did awesome for the first time on video. 💜💜💜🤟🇺🇸💜💜💜💜

This song gave me powerful too in my hard time. Thank BTS.

This was so awesome! I hope you'll have him do more reactions. 😊

It’s actually more about “let’s count to 1 2 3 and forget all that past s**t and start fresh. It’s a song about re-setting since they they had gone thru so many difficulties in the industry….and ARMY is so protective that they felt every criticism……BTS was saying “let’s all count to 3 and forget the past and move forward….we made I!

🤗 🇲🇽 , claro que sí , me encantaría le mostrará más BTS 💜 a su amigo , realmente lo disfrutaré !

Loved seeing your mum on here & now this lovely young man! ❤❤❤ BTS 🎉

Please bring your friend more

Thank you Max, for introducing your friend to BTS - and to us. Eli seems like a really good person. And like someone who will really enjoy BTS - both their music, and their message. I'm sure many of us would love to see you introduce him to more of BTS' music, and to the amazing, honest, humble, and caring men they are. If he would be willing, please have him back on. And please, extend my sincere welcome to the wonderful world that is BTS, and ARMY. Borahae.

Welcome Eli! You have a great smile and screen presence. Awesome first KZfaq appearance. Do come back sometime!

Of course we would love to follow you showing Eli the BTS universum (Not the BU!), the Magic Shop that we are all in together. Welcome to the Magic Shop Eli !

Nice to meet you Eli! So glad your intro to BTS was *this* song. One of the ones that touches my heart deeply, this song and this performance are an important part of the history between BTS & ARMY (I'm hoping others are filling you in throughout the comments). I hope you are inspired to learn more, and it would be great to share your journey with us. Crossing my fingers to see you again🤞🖖💜 Thanks for sharing your friend with us. I'm struck by how you must take deep account of the people you're sharing with us and which songs will resonate with them most as their intro to BTS because each one is different.🎯 Great job, and way to represent (yo!)😉💜🫰

I was feeling uneasy due to some things happening with my life lately, so I'm thankful that I get to hear this song and once again fully absorb its calming lyrics. Again, thank you so much😊

Yor friend reacted soo beautifully we would love to him again please consider it❤❤

watching this and crying. I miss BTS so so much 😥

I am so happy that your friend felt BTS's sincerity. I hope more people can experience BTS, they're incredible. Thank you Max & Elie, I'm smiling throughout.