From the moment the ticket prices were announced I was feeling quite unhappy. Almost 300 dollars for a VIP ticket, close to 200 for a Gold with no real benefits apart from being closer in fantasy to putting a marriage sack over Taeyeon, I decided to go for gold. For the most part, this was a good choice.
Our true realisation about the clientele of this event came when I received a call a few hours before the concert from a friend. He had a very simple message "Hurry up and come, its terrible here, I'm 20 years older than everyone else here", considering hes only 24, this was unsettling. The promise of sitting next to a cute girl (my age) was one step further.
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| "COME AT ME GIRLS!" |
Our second realisation came when waiting on the platform at Central Station. As indicated by the phone call, the girls in fact did not exceed the age of 10. There were a few fat white chicks sprinkled through-out for good measure (the ones that watch anime, you know the ones I'm talking about, refer to video) with the odd Korean here and there wondering why there were so many Indonesians here.
every white girl at this concert pretty much
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| there is probably a total of 5 koreans in this shot |
Options included: We were Korean language students that won a contest at uni and got free tickets, We worked for marketing company that sponsored us because they wanted to make an investment in Korean entertainment companies. Basically whatever story that resulted in free tickets.
Being probably the most bad ass people out of this whole crowd, we cut in line and got to our allocated seating and patiently waited. At about 7PM, a countdown started on the screen and havoc in the form of thousands of girls screaming ensued... we decided to make the most of our money and join in the excitement.
SHINee opened with "Lucifer" and the screams got louder. Ring Ding Dong came on next I gave up what dignity I had left and sang along and danced, intentionally laughing to suggest I was only doing so in humorous purposes (rather than you know, actually enjoying myself).
It was too our delight that alcohol was served at this event and I quickly downed 5 coke and bourbons. This was when shit got real.
Sistar took the stage and man... they looked hot. By the time "Ma Boy" came on, I was rocking out like I was at a club (though being careful not to stray too close to the underage girls in front and behind of me). Martin however, lost all sense and began yelling profanities at the stage such as "SHOW US YOUR TITS!" "I WANT TO PUT MY COCK IN YOUR MOUTH" etc. He had very little regard for the age of the people around us, I kindly reminded him that its against our wishes to be arrested.
I really got in the mood to dance when Secret played their set, "Madonna" is such a sick song. I'm not sure if the people around me were shy or they were just retarded, coming to a concert with danceable music and just standing still trying to film rather than getting into it. (I don't care that they're 15, I was much more bad ass when I was 15).
Boy bands were really filler time for me to go get more drinks and to visit the rest room, or in Martin's case, get a nap. I also noticed that the camera man was probably specifically instructed to film as many white people as they could find, so that they can pretend that the concert wasn't 95% Australian Southeast Asian girls.
Miss A performed "Good Girl, Bad Girl" and "Good Bye Baby", 4 Minute performed "Muzik" and "Hot Issue", one awesomely notable performance was the cover of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Outta My Head". I felt like we were part of a very small handful of people who were alive when this song came out. I pretty much died and went to heaven during the "set me freeeeeeeeeeeee" part of the song, dear LORD it was good.
It wasn't long before I saw what we came to see... S.N.S.D.
They started their set with a song that was very true to their words, they had brought the boys out. Though their set was short lived with only "The Boys", "Kissing You" and of course unarguably the greatest song of all time "Gee", it was possibly a good contender for the greatest 20 minutes of my life(yes I realise how ridiculous that statement sounds). I'm glad they didn't do too much off their new album, it was classic SNSD, classic adlibs from Taeyeon. I chuckled at how adorable Sunny was when she flinched at the fireworks and I was sad when they handed out roses, sincerely regretting not spending an extra 100 bucks (having spent close to that on drinks already at this point).
CNBlue's set was actually quite good, their music was surprisingly catchy and they were a lot less gay boy than I had previously imagined. I'd say comparable to the "Songs About Jane" period of Maroon 5. Quite fun and funky pop rock. Except their instruments weren't plugged in on stage and somehow played their songs?... hrmm weird.
Our appreciation for CNBlue was very kindly rewarded by KARA's performance of "Jumping" "Lupin" and of course "Mister". This was the moment we started to grope the air in front of us as they taunted us with their extremely fit bodies. Martin "the Hulk" Won, had truly released the hulk inside of him in the form by wiggling his ass around (again disregarding the girls behind us), but the tight leather outfits of KARA really negated all of our morality and will to stay out of jail.
TVXQ closed the show with some surprisingly good songs, I still can't get over how homo-erotic "Keep Your Head Down" is.
Despite a slow start, it was a very enjoyable experience for me, despite the music being drowned out by preteen screams at times, I thoroughly enjoyed the performances, the price is a different story. If the tickets are not made to be cheaper, then I would strongly reconsider going again (or I might just have to go all -out with VIP tickets and a marriage sack ready next time).
I'm not a big fan of taking photos and videos during live events (I'm there to enjoy the performances) so I didn't take many, but heres a shot of the gold and vip areas.
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| There is no doubt how much money there is to be made in the coming years |
We managed not to get arrested and I managed to resist my urge to run away with Taeyeon and grow old together.
