Don't they look fake. Can't blame me for
worrying that I can't get in with these
On the day of the concert, Ya Fei and I went to have dinner first and then took the Path train into New Jersey to the concert hall. The ride there didn't take that long but we got lost a little bit when we got out. We finally saw some concert goers and just followed them. I started jumping for joy when I spotted the concert hall. As we got closer, we notice how long the line was. Never underestimate the popularity of international singers. I know how popular they are in Korea and Japan but because I don't personally know anyone that like them so I didn't think a lot of people would know them. Boy, was I wrong. Not only were there teenagers but there were also men (surprise to see a lot of them) and ajummas (older woman, mother's age) that were there waiting on line. Dads that came with their daughters, husbands that came with their wives and boyfriends that came with their girlfriends. It was amazing to see all these people who love JYJ/DBSK.
Long line. This is around the corner from the
entrance. There's another line behind us at the
second entrance
So anyways, YF and I walked over to those people giving out free light sticks and bracelets. We got ours and went on line to get in. After a while standing on line, I felt so out of place. Everyone who were in front of us had either huge banner cards with words of encourage/love on them, or they were wearing T-shirts with JYJ on it. Even the ajummas were wearing really nice T-shirts. Some of the shirts were DIYs and some were professionally made. We, on the other had, had nothing. I wasn't even wearing red, the official color of DBSK. Sigh...well..at least I was wearing the earrings from them and I have Micky's name on my bracelet. But that was the least of my worries. I was worried about our tickets. The tickets were printed on a piece of paper so I was afraid the barcode might not be readable and I won't be able to go in. When the guy finally scanned my paper and told me okay, I was overjoyed! So we headed upstairs to the second floor to enter the arena. This is the same place where the Nets play basketball and the Devils play hockey so it was pretty big. First, we went to use the bathroom and then went to buy some water cuz we knew we would be screaming. Water inside the arena were sold without the caps because apparently, without the caps, they don't throw as far. AND it was FOUR WHOLE DOLLARS!!! I told myself I will drink every little drop of that water. So we headed into the arena. It was breathtaking to see how big it was and to see that the screens already had "JYJ" playing on it.
We walked down from the top to the floor where our seats were. After we got seated, I took a look around the people sitting near us. A lot of them had red T-shirts on and had personalize lights of either Micky or Junsu. People had Mickey Mouse ears with lights and pink towels with Junsu's name on it. This is the second time I felt out of place. Then after sitting for about 15 minutes, a video came on showing the dance moves to one of their songs. Everyone around us knew how it went and was dancing along with it. Third time I felt out of place. I had no idea there was even a video teaching how to dance to that song. There was a group in the front close by teaching the people around them a chant. And here I thought only fans in Korea chant. Gosh, I felt so old and so so out of place.
The only picture of us that night. The
rest was reserved for my boys...
...and maybe just a couple of the audience.
Gotta love the red color lights glowing and
giving them encouragement
When 8:00 hit, everyone started to get antsy. I figure people were still trying to get and find their seats. I saw that a lot of the seats on the side were still empty. All the seats on the floor were filled tho. I wonder why it was so hard to find tickets when there were so many seats left. At around 8:10pm, the lights dimmed and everyone started chanting "JYJ" and that's when it all began...
When it started, everyone was still
good and stayed in their seats
But when they came out, everyone stood up and
those seats that were meant to be sat on were probably
stepped on or crawled on.
The screen started the introduction and at this point, everyone was screaming and were out of their seats already. I whipped out my camera and got it ready for their entrance. The music started and from somewhere we heard Micky say "Yo, ready?" Everyone was at the top of their lungs! And slowly the three of them rose to the stage and the first song started. At this time, everyone on my row to the right of me had already ran to the middle isle. People to my left was probably staring at me waiting for me to go too so they can go. But I was taking the video and I didn't want to move.
Aren't they amazing singing live? and Junsu's "Everybody sing!" got everyone hyped up
When they finished their first song, I finally moved to the middle isle and everyone who were waiting for me to move stampede to the middle too. In the middle of their second song, I realized I left my bag under my chair. I told YF to get it for me cuz I was in the middle of a video. But people had crammed into each of the rows that she wasn't even able to go back to our seats. She had to crawl on the chairs to get back. The $4 waters we bought with no caps had spilled. So much for drinking every little drop of it. At this point, they had finished their second song and everyone was screaming. Then, devastation occurred. My camera said I had no more space. WTF!!! NOW?!?!?!?! So I switched it back to photo mode and it had only 40 pictures of space left. How will that be enough when they just finished their second song!!! NOOOO!!! But I couldn't think that much. I just kept shooting, hoping to get good shots of them. When my camera said no more space, I flipped thru all the pictures and deleted all the bad ones and continued snapping pictures. It must have been like the 3rd or 4th song when I totally didn't have any more picture space left. Oh GOD, why did I not delete all the old pictures from my camera? I had initially checked my camera to make sure I had enough picture space. I had 900 plus picture spaces so I thought I would have more than enough. It never occurred to me that I would be taking videos too. The videos took up so much space. What to do!? My phone camera was very slow and the quality won't be as good as my camera. So I had to bite my tongue and delete the second video I took to make more space for photos. That gave me another 60 more pictures. At that time, I thought I would be okay that I had deleted the video because I could use my phone to take more videos later on. So here are all the pictures I took with the space after deleting my precious video.
Song title: Nine
Song title: Pierrot
Song title: Be My Girl
Song title: Be The One
Song title: Ayy Girl
Micky's solo: I Love You
The dancers had their hands all over him.
I was thinking "get your hands off him!"
Song title: Mission
Junsu's solo: I Can Soar
Look at those guns!
Jaejoong's solo: Still In Love
Aigoo...so much touching from the dancers!
Jealous!
I told YF that Jaejoong took off his jacket and
YF is telling him to take it ALL off! LOL!!
Song title: Found You (Chajatta)
If you have not watch it already, please do.
This is the theme song from Micky's drama
SungKyunKwan Scandal
When Jaejoong sang the chorus part, everyone
sang along...
...and for the rest of the song. This song must
have been on repeat on everyone's MP3 player
because everyone knew the words
Song title: Fallen Leaves
Micky told us that this song was
written for us, their fans. ^__^
Here is where I started using my phone
to take pictures. I had absolutely no more space
left on my camera. =(
I noticed the quality of the pictures were not as good as the ones from my camera and the time it takes for my phone camera to be ready for the next picture is just too, too slow so for the rest of the songs that night, I took videos of them. So here they are. After the first one, you'll probably know why I regret so much deleting that second video on my camera.
Song title: Boy's Letter
Terrible audio, right? I know!! WTF! But I didn't even have time to replay and check on it because the next song started right afterwards. So for the rest of the videos, please mute the volume and just watch them. If you want to hear the song, just youtube it. I'm positive there's a concert version much, MUCH better than mine. Even though only the video part is good, just watching it is still worth it. They came so close up (even though it doesn't seem so on the video) so even if I knew the audio would be bad, I would still shoot the video. They were just awesome! See Junsu giving so many smiles!? That was super exciting. Everyone kept screaming every time he smiled. Our little dolphin has such a cute smile. Hope you enjoy the rest of the video, muted.
Song title: Be My Girl (Remix)
This was the song that they had showed us the video of in the beginning before the concert had started. Everyone was dancing along with them. So awesome! Even tho I didn't know the moves, I just followed along. It was so much fun!
Song title: You're
This was the last song before the encore started. They came all the way to the front and Micky was giving out smiles non stop! And what was I doing? I was screaming every single time he cracked one. I think I would've yanked him down and take him home with me if I was in reachable distance. When the song finished and they went in, I almost fell over from OD of his beautiful smile. And that's the face that kept coming up every time I think back to the concert. I think it's going to be imprinted forever. Neomu Haengbokke!
Song title: Get Out
This is the first song of their first encore. It has a nice beat to it. And coming up front dancing like that just made every single girl in front at the top of their lungs. Hence why you see all the hands! And even with a fast song like this, they were dancing hard but still were able to sing it live so well. They are truly great performers.
Song title: Empty (Remix)
This was a good interactive song. All of us sang when they gave the gestures with the mics facing us. The dancing was impeccable. And Junsu's hand stand was WOWzers! They took off their jackets and showed their concert t-shirt. I really wanted one. Before the concert started, I overheard the girl sitting in front of us ask the girl next to her where she bought all the stuff they were wearing and the special glow sticks. That girl said people were selling them upstairs. WTF!! How come I didn't see anyone selling them?? Boo them for not announcing it while we were waiting on line outside the center.
Song title: In Heaven
This is the second encore song and also the last song of the night. I don't know if my phone camera knew this was the last song or something but the audio was a little better. I could at least hear the music in the beginning. This music was the exact music that was playing before the concert started. It's a beautiful tune. Everyone was given a white glow stick in the beginning of the concert and the direction was to wave it when this song came on. But I cracked my stick long before this last song came on. I saw other people waving it already so I cracked mine to wave along too. But even when this song came on, everyone was waving their red light sticks and the white glow stick. The directions told us to put all the red light sticks away, even our red bracelets and only wave the white one because the song title is "In Heaven" so waving the white one would be most appropriate. Oh wells, everyone was just too excited about the concert that they didn't care anymore. The song ended too fast. Micky told Junsu to say something to the audience. He kind of hesitated but I think Micky said it's okay to say it in Korean. So Junsu gave a short little speech and they said their last goodbyes and left the stage. Boo hoo hoo!!! =*(
So that's how the concert ended. We went back to our row to find Yafei's umbrella and to our surprise it was still there. I also found my $4 bottle water was still there untouched. YF's bottle spilled all over the floor. I would've taken mine but YF said leave it since we don't know if anything fell in. Oh wells, so much for drinking every single drop of it.
The next day, my neck muscles and shoulders were so sore. Holding up the camera for two hours straight and keeping my head up wasn't an easy job. But all the pains and sores were all worth it. I fulfilled one of my dreams - to seem them in concert. Although it wasn't all five of them, it was still all good. Maybe some day, the other two will have a North American tour and I'll get to see them or even better, they might get back together and do a Comeback World Tour. That, my friends, would be awesome!
Here's the song list:
1. Opening
2. Empty
3. IDS
4. Nine
5. Introductions
6. Pierrot
7. Be My Girl
-Change of Clothes-
8. Be The One
9. Ayy Girl
-Change of Clothes-
10. I Love You (YooChun Solo)
-Change of Clothes-
11. Mission
-Change of Clothes-
12. I Can Soar (Junsu Solo)
13. Still In Love (JaeJoong Solo)
-Change of Clothes
14. Chajatta
15. Talk
16. Fallen Leaves
17. Boy's Letter
18. Be My Girl (remix)
19. You're
-Change of Clothes
20. Get Out
21. Empty (remix)
22. In Heaven
Here is the song In Heaven. It is a beautiful song. The original studio version has not come out yet. But the live version is still very good. Jaejoong composed and wrote the song. So talented! Can't wait for studio version!!
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