Watch BTS and Halsey’s ‘Boy With Luv’ music video

Halsey got in on the K-pop craze on Friday, aiding K-pop superstars BTS debut their new single, “Boy With Luv,� and revealing several behind-the-scenes details from its accompanying music video.

By Friday morning, the video had already notched an impressive 29 million views on YouTube, though that’s small compared to BTS’ record-breaking 724 million views on its 2018 video “IDOL� and 485 million on “Fake Love.� But it’s a solid start.

The seven-member troupe, which became the first K-pop group to land an album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last year, has been credited with bringing the busy K-pop sound into the U.S. mainstream in recent years.

The energetic dance track “Boy With Luv� is their latest offering and a riff on the South Korean group’s 2014 hit, “Boy In Luv.� It’s also the lead track on their new album, “Map of the Soul: Persona,� which also dropped Friday and features a collaboration with Ed Sheeran.

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Meanwhile, Halsey called their collaboration a “historic opportunity� that she had a blast doing.

“I went all the way to Korea to make this dream a reality!� the “Bad at Love� singer wrote on Instagram. “[F]or years these guys have impressed me. They have always been so creative and so concise. But this time they impressed me by how welcomed and at home I felt working on this collab. They are truly great artists and even better friends.�

The singer also took to Twitter to field rampant fan questions, revealing that the album/streaming version of the song features more of her vocals — and less of her dance moves.

She said that she’d never done choreography in a music video before and BTS “were so awesome� and “made me so comfy,� she wrote.

Halsey also told fans that the chorus was stuck in her head for weeks after she recorded it and her handshake with Joon (rapper RM) “is actually a lot longer and more complex than the clip� shown in the video.

As they gear up for their world tour, BTS will perform on “Saturday Night Live� this weekend.

Meanwhile, Blackpink, a four-woman group from Seoul, will also make inroads for the K-pop sound this weekend by becoming the first K-pop girl group to play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. The show will also be livestreamed in New York’s Times Square.

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