It’s about to be a very good year for the nine members of the K-pop girl group Twice, who on Wednesday, Jan. 21 played the first of four nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood.
To the casual music fan, there are two big names in K-pop. The boy band BTS is responsible in large part for breaking K-pop in the United States, selling out Honda Center and the then-Staples Center on their way to multiple nights at the Rose Bowl and SoFi Stadium.
Then there’s the girl group Blackpink, who in 2023 became the first Asian act to headline Coachella and last year sold out SoFi Stadium twice.
But there are many more South Korea-based artists crossing over to ever-larger U.S. fandoms and venues.
Like Twice, for instance, which landed in Inglewood for four shows on its This Is For World Tour, a celebration of the group’s first decade together that includes 35 arena dates across North America to start the year.
Twice has toured the United States often in recent years, playing the Kia Forum in 2019 and another two times in 2022, before making their U.S. stadium show debut with a pair of nights at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles later that year.
At the Kia Forum on Wednesday, the set mixed new songs from a pair of 2025 albums, “This Is For” and “Ten: The Story Goes On,” with older material to the delight of a packed house of the fandom known as Once, many of them waving colorful light sticks called Candybongs throughout the show.
It also included a song sung by three members of Twice, which played over the end credits in Netflix’s hit movie “KPop Demon Hunters.” The film received Oscar nominations for best animated film and best original song on Thursday, Jan. 22, and has given K-pop another significant nudge into the mainstream since its 2025 release.
The show kicked off with “This Is For,” like many of the songs in the set, a girl power anthem. “This is for all my ladies, who don’t get hyped enough,” Chaeyoung sang. “If you’ve been done wrong, then this is your song, so turn it up.”
With nine members, everyone in Twice gets individual moments to shine, trading verses, switching off on the choruses, spotlight dance breaks and more.
Like all K-pop groups, the production and choreography are sharper than sharp. At the Forum, a large square center stage sat at the middle of the floor, surrounded by fans and the backing band in the pit. A pair of offset ramps led to remote stages at either end of the floor.
And all of that space was used by the Twice women, dancing at the center as they sang, strolling to either remote stage where they were often joined by up to 20 male and female dancers, and generally filling the space with moves as crisp as their vocals.
Except, we should not forget, poor Dahyun, who was relegated to a chair at the corner of the main stage for most of the night due to an ankle injury, though she gamely sang and performed the arm-and-hand choreography even as her Twice-mates were often more than 100 feet away from her spot.
Twice songs, like most K-pop music, are as crafted as any modern pop star’s; the music features contributions from the singers on some tracks and a team of producer-songwriters do a lot of the heavy lifting. The songs fit into the upbeat pop that dominates the charts everywhere this decade, with touches of dance music, soul and R&B also in the mix.
In the first of four acts, “Make Me Go” delivered fat dance beats as the center stage split into smaller platforms that lifted smaller groups of singers up and down. “Set Me Free” built on that, with the bassist laying down funky rhythms beneath the melody. “Options” and “Moonlight Sunrise” wrapped that act with slower, gentler ballads before the women vanished for five minutes for the first of five costume changes.
Highlights of Act 2 included the infectious pop melodies of “The Feels,” a song with which Twice opened and closed their 2022 show at the Forum, and “Hell in Heaven,” which featured a cool syncopated rhythm beneath lyrics that addressed the way falling in love can feel so good and so bad at the same time.
Act 3 offered a terrific spotlight into the individual talents of the nine Twice members. With the 2025 album “Ten,” the group did one track as a unit with the other nine all solo performances, a pattern that was replicated here with the exception of Chaeyoung, who swapped out her “Ten” tune for “Shoot (Firecracker)” from her 2025 solo album “Lil Fantasy Vol. 1.”
Tzuyu and Mina opened with dance-centric performances of “Dive In” and “Stone Cold” before Nayeon performed “Meeeee,” a dreamy electronic dance tune.
Jeongyeon’s “Fix A Drink” was K-pop as a country song, featuring her in a cowboy hat with pink-and-fringed chaps and jacket and a choreography that saw her and the backing dancers doing hoedown moves. It really worked.
Dahyun and her bum ankle appeared next, seated at a grand piano where she opened “Chess” by playing the opening melody of Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” which carried over into the melody of a song with lyrics Taylor Swift would have surely approved about getting back at the guy who hurt you.
Twice’s leader Jihyo impressed with her hazy hip-hop solo piece “ATM,” a song cowritten by “KPop Demon Hunters” singer and songwriter Ejae.
Sana and Momo returned one after the other for the dance-based numbers “Decaffeinated” and “Move Like That” before Chaeyoung, Jeongyeon and Jihyo appeared for a performance of “Takedown,” the song they perform in “KPop Demon Hunters,” which, as you might guess, elicited massive screams from the crowd.
The final act included more fan favorites, and more wild cheers and applause, with “Dance the Night Away” a perfect Swedish-style pop confection, and “One Spark” a fiery finale.
The encore, which seems to shift most nights on tour based on the cheers earned by Twice’s song suggestions, opened with “Feel Special,” another terrific melody.
It closed with “Talk That Talk,” both of which were performed in more casual clothing and choreography. The young women walked the stage, waving to fans, splashing water from bottles on those pressed up against the pit barricades, cooling the crowd as night one at the Forum wound down.
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