What feels like a million years ago, Anna went to her first K-pop concert and forgot to blog about it...so here it is with the mother of all delays:
Simply K-Pop Tour 2014 Shenzhen
Performers: Crayon Pop, 4Minute, VIXX, Boyfriend, Block B,
U-KISS, Winner, G-Dragon
MCs: Kevin and Eli from U-KISS
Award for stupidest event security: Shenzhen Bay Sports
Stadium
Reason: They wouldn’t let people stand up from their seats. It’s a POP CONCERT
where 90% of the songs are electronic DANCE numbers and people weren’t allowed to
stand up!
Award for least natural eyes: Hyuna from 4Minute
Reason: whatever lenses she was wearing it looked like some had photoshopped
her eyes on her face
Award for most adorable group: Crayon Pop and Block B
Reason: you just want to pinch Crayon Pop’s cheeks, and Block B manage to be
adorable in the most badass way
Award for shortest performance: 4Minute
Reason: two songs…
Award for creepiest English spoken: G-Dragon
Reason: was he on drugs or does he just always sound like that? At least he got
the audience involved though
Award for best unexpected pleasant surprise: Boyfriend
Reason: they were so into their singing and dancing it was a pleasure to watch
and they had cheat sheets with Chinese sentences written on their hands so they
could talk to the fans, when there was a technical problem and the music didn’t
start, they filled the gap with chatting and fan service
Award for most energetic dance group: U-KISS
Reason: they were also really into it and their energy was great, they made me
want to dance but I COULDN’T because we had to SIT…
Award for slightly disappointing: VIXX
Reason: it felt like they were just going through the motions, kind of tired
Award for most popular act: WINNER and GD
Reason: half the stadium came just to see them, Big Bang light sticks
everywhere, when WINNER came on stage the security guys gave up and everybody
was standing on their plastic chairs
Award for most fricking beautiful face of the night: Zico
from Block B
Reason: I honestly had no idea…only idol I know who apparently looks better live
than in pictures
Award for most live singing: U-KISS and Winner
Reason: their singing sounded live and good
Award for best Chinese spoken: Eli from U-KISS
Reason: only person who spoke Chinese, he seems to be pretty fluent
Pictures
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| The venue |
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| Dudes selling light sticks on the road to the stadium |
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| Yeah I got there early... |
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| Lots of empty space |
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| Two lovely dudes MCing |
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| Thanks to those dudes for standing still long enough so I could take one picture that is not 100% blurry |
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| Can you spot which dude on the stage is GD? Because I sure can't...thank heaven for the huuuge screens |
