--- title: Tyra Banks Struck a Pose with BTS and Outed Herself as a Fan description: The 'America's Next Top Model' creator teamed up with the K-pop superstars of BTS to strike a memorable pose at the Billboard Music Awards. canonical: https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-21T19:59:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:02.888Z og:title: Tyra Banks Struck a Pose with BTS and Outed Herself as a Fan og:description: Meeting the famous K-pop group is "better than smizing," according to Banks og:url: https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef123be8c55f9f7c/698931047cdbac5197d5ceed/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2018 Billboard Music Awards - Backstage og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tyra Banks Struck a Pose with BTS and Outed Herself as a Fan twitter:description: Meeting the famous K-pop group is "better than smizing," according to Banks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef123be8c55f9f7c/698931047cdbac5197d5ceed/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tyra Banks Struck an Unforgettable Pose with BTS at the Billboard Music Awards ## Video: K-Pop's Next Act [Watch (HLS stream): K-Pop's Next Act](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2ukAz9Fl.m3u8) (6:04)  _Published 2016-10-31. Riding off the success of Korean pop, artists CL, Dean and Eric Nam have their eyes set on the U.S. music industry_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 21, 2018 7:59 PM UTC  Model Tyra Banks with musical group BTS attend the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Model Tyra Banks with musical group BTS attend the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Matt Winkelmeyer/BBMA18—Getty Images for dcp  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 21, 2018 7:59 PM UTC [_America’s Next Top Model_](http://time.com/4234655/vh1-new-season-top-model-tyra/) creator [Tyra Banks](http://time.com/4699325/tyra-banks-replacing-nick-cannon-americas-got-talent-host/) is famous for her “smize.” But at Sunday night’s 2018 [Billboard Music Awards](http://time.com/5285049/billboard-music-awards-2018-best-worst-moments/) in Las Vegas, Banks met a group of stars who made her rethink her belief in the supremacy of her favorite facial expression. “Meeting BTS is… Better Than Smizing,” she captioned an Instagram video. In the video, the [world-famous K-pop boy band](http://time.com/5241905/time-100-reader-poll-2018-winner/) joins Banks in striking poses full of personality. Clearly, they’re [no strangers](http://time.com/4845531/bts-beyond-the-scene-change/) to hamming it up for the camera. At Sunday night’s show, the popular [group of seven](http://time.com/5181183/j-hope-bts-hope-world-interview/) — who are known for their singing, [rapping](http://time.com/4833807/rap-monster-bts-interview/) and dancing, besides living up to Banks’s standards in posing — took home the award for Top Social Artist (for the [second year](https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/8457059/bts-best-moments-2018-billboard-music-awards) in a row). They also took to the stage to perform their new single “Fake Love” off of just-released album _Love Yourself: Tear,_ making history as the first K-pop act to perform at the BBMAs_._ Throughout the evening, the BTS fans in the audience and online [went wild](https://twitter.com/RossScarano/status/998356970972237824) for the group, who have developed a loyal following that calls itself the “Army” and has propelled them to global [superstar status](http://time.com/4815217/most-influential-people-internet/item/bts-2/). Banks, meanwhile, was [living it up](http://ew.com/awards/2018/05/20/tyra-banks-billboard-music-awards/) at the show, hanging out with BTS, [Lil Hank Williams](http://time.com/5257399/mason-ramsey-famous-ellen/) (real name: Mason Ramsey) and more, and generally enjoying being a part of the audience on the night that [Janet Jackson](https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/8456974/billboard-music-awards-2018-recap-kelly-clarkson-janet-jackson-taylor-swift) won a historic Icon Award and Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato joined together for a duet. > [](https://twitter.com/tyrabanks/status/998378550112665600) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/"},"headline":"Tyra Banks Struck an Unforgettable Pose with BTS at the Billboard Music Awards","datePublished":"2018-05-21T19:59:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:02.888Z","description":"Meeting BTS is \"better than smizing,\" according to Banks","url":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef123be8c55f9f7c/698931047cdbac5197d5ceed/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef123be8c55f9f7c/698931047cdbac5197d5ceed/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Billboard Music Awards - Backstage","caption":"2018 Billboard Music Awards - Backstage","creditText":"Matt Winkelmeyer/BBMA18—Getty Images for dcp","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/","name":"Tyra Banks Struck an Unforgettable Pose with BTS at the Billboard Music Awards"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"K-Pop's Next Act","description":"Riding off the success of Korean pop, artists CL, Dean and Eric Nam have their eyes set on the U.S. music industry","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/2ukAz9Fl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-31T13:20:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2ukAz9Fl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/","duration":"PT6M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5285984/tyra-banks-bts-bbmas/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```