Are We Too Old to Fangirl? | BTS, Fandom & Finding Joy After 50

High Five Hot Mess Podcast · Sep 10, 2026 · 38m · transcript

Are We Too Old to Fangirl? | BTS, Fandom & Finding Joy After 50

When did women supposedly get too old to completely lose their minds over something they love?

Men can scream at football games, spend a fortune on tickets and build weekends around their fandom. But when grown women fangirl over BTS, K-pop, a TV show or celebrity crush, we're supposed to be embarrassed?

Absolutely not.

This week on High Five Hot Mess, Lisa Smith takes us inside her BTS ARMY era — concerts, 70,000 screaming fans, light sticks, fan gifts, biases, bias wreckers and the question of how much is too much for a few…