The seats that I originally bought were in the Mezz area so Bon and Lui were able to enter where everyone else was entering. Yaffers and I were seated in the GA2 section so we actually had to make a detour to the 8th Avenue entrance to get our wristbands to get into that section. It took us a while to find the entrance but was excited as ever when we found it. We felt like VIPs because we had a special entrance way. When we finally got to our section, we found that a lot of the people were already crowded near the metal fences that separate the stage from the audience. We just hung out and waited for the concert to start. Since there were no seats, we were able to walk around the whole section freely. It's actually good because we can move around to take pictures from different angles. We waited a while and I took some pictures of the arena. It was so packed with people!
After standing there waiting for about 20 minutes or so, the concert finally began. Everyone was screaming, pushing and shoving to fight for a good spot.
f(x) took the stage and started the concert with LaChaTa.
and here are photos of their intro after the song...
After fx's first song, Krystal sang Tik Tok with her sister, Jessica (SNSD).
and fx took the stage back with Chu~! Here are photos of their performance.
Victoria! do you miss Khun?? Looks like she was
saying "Khun" there, right? hehehe
Everyone cheered loudly when Amber rapped her part
Next to perform was Kangta. Haven't seen him for a while. He looks different from when he started his military service. He sang a ballad song and then had a duet with Sulli (fx). Here are photos of his performances...
The arena was full of people holding up lights to
show their support!
Duet with Sulli
Onew (SHINee) comes in as a cameo to deliver pizza...lol!
There's actually a mic in the pizza bag
A rose for the pretty lady
SHINee's up next. They start off with Stand By Me, a song from the Boys Over Flowers OST...
SHINee introduced themselves. Key did most of the talking and I realized one thing. These boys are really, really skinny! They don't look that skinny on TV. I guess the camera does add ten pounds.
After their intro they started off again with Replay...
...Get Down and Juliette...
SHINee got the crowd really excited! There was A LOT of screaming when they were performing their songs. Some girls standing next to me were screaming so loud, I think they kinda punctured my ear drums a little. Their screaming pitches were so high! I had to move away from them. Taking pictures were just as hard as taking videos. Whenever the artists move, the audience move with them. So when they're at the little stage at the front, everyone just stampedes towards the little stage vicinity. When they move back to the bigger stage, everyone stampedes back. I think I can imagine how that would look like looking from a higher point of view. We must've look hilarious to the people sitting on the side who see all of this happening...LOL! Anyways, the next performers were K.R.Y (Super Junior). Here are photos of their song, Sorry Sorry - Answer...
Up next was Key and Krystal's duet, First Kiss...
and then Seo Hyun and Kyu Hyun's duet, Way Back Into Love...
My first impression of Seo Hyun seeing her in person was that she's really pretty. She has a very innocent and angelic face. I was astounded by her beauty. She definitely looks even skinnier in person than she already is on TV.
Next up were the "rappers". ShinDong, EunHyuk, MinHo and Key strut their stuff on stage with their rapping skills...
All the men get ready cuz SNSD is up next! No matter what they do, they seem to get the crowd screaming louder. All the guys standing around us were ALL holding up fans with one or two of the girls pictures. Some even bought the Soshi pink tshirts and wore them while they dance along. That's some dedicated fans there. I, for one, are most envious of their faces and body. They are all so pretty in person and those legs of theirs...amazing how they keep them so nice and slim. Sooyoung was absolutely skin and bones...she's is so so skinny. The girl who surprised me the most was Yuri. I have to say and please don't hate me, Yuri fans but I am not a big fan of Yuri. I don't hate her at all. I just don't her as much as I like some of the other members. But, wow...she really is very pretty in person. She has the sweetest face and smile. Sunny had her short hair cut and she looks really good in it. Thru out the night, only Sunny, Sooyoung and Yuri really waved and looked to our side. Yoona and SeoHyun waved also. But I really wished the other girls would come over more. Anyways, without further ado, here are the performances from Girls Generation. Up first is Run Devil Run...
After Run Devil Run, they did their introduction. Everyone was able to greet in English very well. SeoHyun had a little trouble finishing her sentence but I think she was just really nervous. She said "It's really an honor to be...It's really an honor to be..." and the audience just finished it for her "here" lol..she's so cute. She was a little embarrassed. Tiffany jumped in and said something that I couldn't make out but she asked us to give an applause so we did. I'm not sure if it was Seohyun or for Sooyoung who was the next to speak. I say this because Sooyoung had a car accident recently and she had just recovered so I don't know if Tiffany asked for the applause to give to SeoHyun to encourage her or to give to Sooyoung to cheer her on. But we all gave the applause nonetheless. The last to intro were Tiffany and Jessica. Tiffany complained that everyone before her used up all the greetings and she can't think of a greeting to use so she just asked the fans to give her some noise...hehehe. She also acknowledge that the fans made the concert happened. I didn't know anything about the flash mob at Central Park in July who protested to have SMTown come to New York until I read up on it. It WAS the fans who really made it happened. Thank you to all the fans who really made this happened. Tiffany and Jessica went on to promoted a little for their new album and told us when it will be released. Here are some pictures of their intro.
hehehe..here was where she was having trouble
finishing her sentence and we had to help her..
Tiffany complaining that the other members used
up all the greetings..lol!
and Oh! (I hope Lui saw this performance. He love them dancing to this song...hahaha)
After the girls, Suju appears with their first song Bonamana...and the fans go crazy! Here are the pictures...
Intro time...everyone introduces themselves...
The girl in front of me suddenly pulled up her poster
so I was only able to take the picture with the two members
seen here, argh!! It was Zhoumi's intro, btw.
I seem to have missed Kyuhyun's intro. It's ok, I have pictures of him from his duet with Seohyun. After the intro SJM sang their newest song, Too Perfect 太完美. They are definitely improving in their Chinese, esp Kyuhyun. His pronunciation is pretty good. Here's pictures of their Too Perfect performance...
I don't seem to see Siwon here. He must be busy filming Poseidon so he couldn't come. Now I'm glad Yunho was only a cameo in the drama because he could attend this concert. I really looked forward to seeing him and Max so I'm glad they were there.
Once again, SNSD took the stage with their happy song, Ha Ha Ha...
and Way To Go...Suju and BoA came out to performed after respectively. I stopped taking videos with my camera because it only had one more bar of battery and I tried to not take too many pictures too. I started filming the past few performances with my camera already but I didn't want to use up the battery because DBSK hasn't even come out yet. So I was saving it for them. Here are some pictures I took of the next three songs from Suju (Miracle Remix and Dancing Out Remix) and BoA (Look Who's Talking)...
Now is when all the songs are worth screaming for. The next several songs were awesomeness! SNSD changed their outfits to their white uniforms and came out on the smaller stage for Genie...Suju came out once again with Sorry Sorry...
SHINee performed Ring Ding Dong...
and fx with NU ABO...
And then my camera battery totally died out on me. Sigh...no more photos...so I only wait for the songs I like. Suju came out to perform Mr. Simple, Don't Don, and Kangta once again took center stage with a dance song. I sneaked in a couple pictures with my phone when SJ was singing Mr. Simple...
Next came fx with Hot Summer...
and HOOT from SNSD...
SHINee came out for A.MI.GO...
SNSD came out again with their princess outfits for their new song, The Boys...
Onew came out and performed an Italian opera song. Never would I ever imagine that such a song would be performed at a Kpop concert. But it was nice to hear something different. It just means they are THAT multitalented.
Next up was the dance battle between the "dancers" of the groups. Eunhyuk, Shindong, Donghae, Taemin, Minho, Hyoyeon, Yoona, Yuri, Sooyoung, Luna and Victoria rocked the stage with their awesome dances...
A few of the songs before had used some awesome stage effects such as fireworks, fire, and lazer. Everytime fireworks was used, it scared me because I was always facing the little stage when it happens and so I wasn't able to capture it in my pictures.
BoA came out once again to perform 3 more songs, Eat You Up, Copy & Paste and Energetic.
NOW...FINALLY...it's DBSK time!!!!! An awesome entrance they had indeed. Being slowly brought to stage from the end of the tiny stage with wires, they descended on stage with much anticipation. Everyone was screaming...yes, including ME! Every time the stage darkened up, I was hoping they were next and it wasn't. When I least expected it, they appeared at the end of the tiny stage held up by wires. All the fans on the other end was going crazy waving and screaming. Being so close up to them must have been awesome and they were held up in the air so it felt like they were just floating there in their handsomeness positions...it was totally to die for. Here's their awesome entrance, medley (The Way U Are/Mirotic) and Maximum performance. I was afraid I would lose some parts of their performance if I saved each part so I just kept the video going until Maximum was done. Their medley bought back memories...
and then they introduced. I think Yunho's mic was having technical difficulties. I couldn't really hear him...
Max announced their next performance at the end of their intro and here it is...Before U Go. If you haven't already saw their MV the dance version, you should here because you'll immediately know which parts I screamed the loudest LOL!
You know what time it is? It's Yunho Time! Keep Your Head Down was next...
You can probably tell that I was screaming every few seconds. I was just so happy and excited to see them perform live, right in front of me. It was an amazing feeling! They rest and fx comes out with their final song of the night, Pinocchio (Danger). I regret not filming this performance because I had no idea this was their last song of the night =( At least I took some pictures of them.
Same with SHINee's last song of the night Lucifer. I didn't even take pictures too =*(
Here is SNSD's last song of the night...the all famous GEE. Everyone sang along...Gee Gee Gee Gee Gee! Bravo to them for winning 8 weeks in a row with this song on the Korean Music Channels. This song is my all time favorite from SNSD.
Suju's last song of the night was U which I had no idea so no pics of them too...sigh...
And DBSK's last song of the night, Rising Sun. Although they performed this without the other three members, I think it was a message from them to us saying that the other three members were still part of DBSK. They still think and miss them. As I listen to the two sing this song, I imagine in my head the music video of this song and who's part they were singing. I think I cheered the loudest here...just for the fact that it makes me think of the other three members a lot and how they would be performing this together as five. The two pulled off the song well. They covered all the parts nicely and Yunho almost made me cry at the very end of the song because that was the way he would dance when they were performing as five. Enjoy!
BoA came out to sing Hurricane Venus and that bought the concert to an end. Everyone changed into their SMTown concert Tshirts and came out for the finale.
The concert comes to an end at 11:20ish. I was so tired. My back was aching from standing and my neck was stiff from looking up for 4 whole hours. This was the longest concert I've been to. I'm surprise there was no encore. I read in the paper the next day that Yunho had said "Thank you, New York" but I didn't hear it at all. During the whole finale, everyone was just so loud which was understandable and at some point, a blizzard of white confetti came gushing out which made it really hard to film. It was blocking my view and some of it were going into my mouth, ack! And all the people standing around me were either jumping, waving or holding up posters/towels. BUT, I didn't give up. I found whatever space I can and continued filming until the end. Although I was aching all over, I had a really good time. I anticipate a concert from SMTown next year. It's a concert you all should not miss if you love Kpop.
Here are the wonderful tickets that my boss gave us for free and streamers that spewed out while SJ was performing Mr. Simple. Everyone grabbed whatever they can, scrunched them up and used them as pom poms for cheering. What a smart idea that was!
