yo yo so my friend Klarisse hooked me up cuz she has all da magic with SM from work and the 4th of July, she let me know that i could get free tickets as long as I was like 500% sure we would go and show up.
So at first I was like, why not it's free and I want to jam out to some songs. I thought about bringing my mom along since I know she wouldn't let me come back home alone on the bus but I asked Klarisse if the seats were going to be together. At first, she wasn't super sure so I didn't want to do that to my mom. I thought about inviting other people that would most likely want to go and enjoy the show as well and then maybe they could possibly give me a lift back home.
At first I knew I had to invite Nayeli because we had seen the poster last time we were in Little Tokyo and she seemed really interested except we both had no money. Then I thought about Ela since she isn't too far and I know she has bought their albums before. Then I thought it would be a miracle if Maria could make it out overnight so I thought about asking her either way. I just didn't want to sort of rub it in her face like i have tickets but idk how to get you here ;~; but either way i asked and at first it seemed like she could make it which made me super excited but it didn't happen creyz.
So Nayeli took forever to respond to me, she still didn't know if she could make it out and Klarisse was already reaching the deadline to mark us down for tickets. She told me that under groups of 4, we would be sitting together and so I told her that I only needed two tickets first, just me and my mom for sure we would make it and right before that, ela said she could go so Klarisse got me the three tickets. Nayeli then responded that she couldn't go anyways so I was like aw man well it's alright.
So anyways, that day i spent sometime outside of Anime Expo and made it back home again like an hour before to get ready and stuff. Ela came by to pick up my mom and I and we got there pretty quickly. It was packed with all the anime expo people, all the tvxq people and they were having a new kids on the block concert at staples centers lmao so it was a huge mixture of people. We tried to look for some good cheap parking but everything was just looking hell shady. I didn't want ela to spend so much on parking but she got a good place for like $25 dollars. It felt like a lot to me but like she said, better safe than sorry.
Once we got to the venue, I was confused because I didn't know where I had to pick up my tickets. I went to the box office but wasn't sure if it was there and I wouldn't know what to explain if they asked me where or how i bought them, as I DIDN'T BUY THEM MYSELF and i didn't want to say something and get my friend in trouble. So i called Klarisse and my phone was acting all weird and she was busy eating and I couldn't find a table she was telling me to go to. Finally, i bumped into her and she looked all cute and happy haha I was really happy to see her, she told me that it was actually at the box office in some separate line. So I said bye to her and I could have gotten into that line all along but i didn't want to make a fool of myself.
I got in line and overheard that the girls in front of me had also gotten tickets from Klarisse and that they didn't know where they would be sitting either as those were the conditions. When i bumped into Klarisse, she told me most of the people were in the right orchestra seats and although I've been to this venue for the CNBLUE concert, i couldn't remember where the fuck that was so i was just like omg it's ok i don't really care lol. So when I gave my name, the girl searched for three and she got two out of one pile with some sticky notes and then one out of another pile of sticky notes and I was like oh no. I already sort of knew what was happening but I didn't know if i should tell her if she could find me three together instead. I just walked out and checked the tickets and there were two next to each other in one row and the other one was one seat, two rows behind the other seats.
I didn't know what to do at this point and then ela came back from picking up her glasses so we had this huge dilemma where i was very conflicted because i didn't really want my mom to sit alone as that had been our agreement from the beginning but I also didn't want to leave ela alone. I had thought about me just sitting alone but nobody wanted that really so it was just very hard for me to decide on. I wasn't already feeling well from so much caffeine i had taken in with some Starbucks drink i drank earlier so with all of this pressure and not being able to meet up my friend Megan from the b.a.p concert, I ended up having a panic attack in public.
That is something else i will talk about but I was able to control it for a bit with the help of ela and my mom comforting me the whole time. So I'm happy it didn't become much worse. My mom was already suggesting she would go home before that happened which I think triggered me a bit because I really didn't want her to leave at all, I wanted her to come along and sit with me so I just felt really bad and guilty. After the attack, i guess she didn't want to push the situation further and just told me that she felt better if she went home so i could just already go inside and watch the show.
I didn't know what else to do and I knew my mom was already determined to do this, i couldn't change her decision by breaking my head anymore so I told her i would wait with her until the bus stop came. Luckily, the bus didn't take long and I was able to say bye and stuff. We walked back to the long ass lines and I kept racking my brain to see who else would want a ticket to go because I didn't want to get Klarisse in trouble. In general, everything that went down with the tickets wasn't her fault, she then told me that she wasn't aware that they were first come first serve so i definitely missed out because of that and it was enough already that she was giving me a free ticket of which i appreciate entirely.
We finally got in after a while and they had merch there but we didn't bother really, we got in and our section was pretty empty tbh. Our whole row was empty except for just like three people on the edge of the row which we had fun timez with later on. There was almost nobody behind us except for a couple of people and I felt so sad because my mom could have just come in and sat next to us. Nobody was going to sit next to us anyways. I wish i could have just been like, fuck it! let's try it out. I have seen so many people move during concerts before without getting in trouble and this would have been the easiest mission. I just really thought it was going to be packed inside and that maybe there wasn't going to be an empty seat in our section.
As you all know, when I get anxiety attacks, i get very exhausted after where i sleep for hours but I really don't know how i survived this concert tbh. I did feel very sleepy and heavy half of the time but when the jams came out, i totally forgot about my tiredness lol. In the beginning, i did try sleeping a bit but then it started and they had all the loud noises with the filler short movies and shiet, so i couldn't do that lmao. I texted my mom and she got home really fast so I was glad she didn't have to be waiting a lot for the next bus. i still felt really sad about the whole thing but i hoped to enjoy this as much as i could for everyone else that would have wanted to be there.
So the concert started and I'm going to tell you right now, I am probably the worst DBSK fan and this is why i feel so bad that i couldn't invite 500 people because they live so far away. I know they totally deserved this tickets a lot more than i did. I believe that they sang "Rising Sun" first which in my head i was crying and laughing hysterically because it will forever remind me of Maria and her awesome cover at SMTown. At that moment, I really wished she was there with me so she could scream along with Changmin and stuff creyz.
After this, I don't remember what other songs they sang or their orders. The cool thing is that everyone got a red glowstick at the beginning of the show so it was a red ocean and other people had their own lightsticks of course. Let's see, they sang several slow ballads and jams. Some of the movies were a bit boring to me, maybe mostly because I'm not really someone who screams just cuz they see their bias on screen....(don't bring up chanyeol ever pls that was a long time ago).
The only one i remember well was one where they were like swordsmen fighting on the streets and it turned into straight up kill bill with cool scenes from the movie and i was like ey this is up my alley. Then another one was Yunho being with Sulli and like dancing all sexily and i was like aw yeaaa WHY CAN'T U JUST DO IT ON STAGE THO. Like this is something that bothered me a bit, many of the videos in the songs could have just been performed on stage instead of having me sit through this video.
They sang "Wrong Number" which was great cuz i used to really like that song. I'm happy i got to see that one cuz we never saw it in SMtown. That's what i was hoping to catch you know, more songs we hadn't heard already. I was hoping to also hear "Maximum" because that's forever a jam but they didn't sing it. Then Maria showed me the "Viva" song before the show and I was like aww shiet they better sing this one, BUT THEY DIDN'T WHAT A WASTE OF A GREAT JAM. They sang "Purple Line" which I almost was in tears because it was perfect. That is Maria's and Kala's song, our purple line song. I recorded that one for them as well. They also did "Mirotic" and "Keep Your Head Down". They also did "Catch Me" which was probably the best performance of the night tbh. It looked really cool live I have to say, i recorded it but got really crazy after so my video is all shaky and not even filming anything lmao. That's the true Marol song, gawd i could have done the dance with Maria and everything, it would have been epic.
Anyways, I danced through most songs that were upbeat and did the whole swaying lightstick thing with the ballads haha. Tried to enjoy it as much as i could and i did have fun dancing and jamming. Still, I was really surprised to see everyone so dead like this wasn't my favorite group and I'm still enjoying the music. Everyone was more set on supporting with lightsticks but not many people were dancing at all. That made me a bit sad. Also, like I've said before, I've been to this venue for the CNBLUE and Ftisland concert and during that concert, it was certainly loud, everyone singing along, people screaming, me and maria couldn't breathe, shit was crazy. For this concert though, it was awfully quiet and not many people were uncontrollably screaming. Everyone was really reserved and only when one of them probably did some sexy moves or something, there would be a higher level of screams but they would die down quickly. I can't help comparing every concert to B.A.P but like B.A.P was really crazy and that one is probably my second favorite after CNBLUE so this concert was just idek i expected more reaction from the fans.
Yunho and Changmin were great as always, i really think they are talented and impressive artists, they always do their best to put on good shows and have all the skills but I didn't really like how the concert was put together. Nothing wow about it or extravagant as I had believed for it to be. For this, I'm really happy it was free haha but I still had lots of fun!! Let's not forget that this was probably the first concert they have ever gotten into the sea of piranhas and what i mean by that is gone into the columns filled with fans. At first Changmin walked to our right side where ela was closest too. I don't really care for Changming but all i kept thinking about was Jess and how much she loves him, how i wish i could have brought her there. There was this fanboy and another girl and ela slipped in with them to wait for changmin. She filmed him walking up and also was able to touch him hahaha. Everyone was spazzing and screaming. Yunho got lost somewhere and eventually they went back on stage. They did this again towards the end of the concert and again ela went towards the edge of the row to touch Changmin.
I didn't touch him but i did decide to get closer to see him and he looked real soft and cute. He shined like powdered gold and sunshine rays. That's the best i can explain him and his smile was funny to me. He is nice looking in person and this is probably my third time seeing them so it was cool to see them at real life height.
Then then thenekfjwjf dfthen Yunho was walking in the back rows and I saw that he was going to come down eventually to the stage but nobody seemed certain where he would go and then he decided to go down the right side of our section. I swear that in that moment, I looked like Raven when she was asked by Protozoa to go up and sing on stage LIKE I ZIPPED BY MY EMPTY ROW SO FAST IDEK WHERE THAT ENERGY CAME FROM. I stood there and watched him make his way down and I felt like i was waiting for my bride at the altar holy shiet lmaoooo. He was walking down happily with like 3 security guards surrounding him and from the beginning I was just like, bah I'm just going to wave at him and not look threatening, maybe I'll touch him if i can but just keep it cool. I admired him most of the time, he looked so great. He wasn't as tall as I had always thought him to be, he was still tall but on stage, they look really tall so i could never compare with my own height. So then, he started getting closer and idk if it was the fucking lights from the stage or something but he was so shiny to me like a diamond, he shined so bright like silver and looked very shiny and soft like satin, that is Yunho.
As he was coming down, he had this smile on his face and all i did was wave calmly as he came down and he looked happy ;~; and then as he was passing in front of me, i just reached quickly to pat his shoulder and as i did that for like 3 seconds, the security guard came like a ninja and just moves his hand to block someone else and managed tO ALMOST RIP MY FACE OFF OHMAGAWDDF LMAOWIOFJJ LIKE HIS FINGERS HIT MY MOUTH AND PART OF MY CHIN AND GAWD. At first I thought he had busted up my lip or something cuz it really hurt a lot!!! lmao but nah i was okay, i kept checking my lip though cuz i was sure it was probably hurt but ela was like CAROL IT'S NOT CLAMWEJFEIWO DOWNWW IT'S OK. OMg tho i was so pressed like i wasn't going to attack Yunho, clam down. I understand tho how there are some other crazy fans and they need to prevent any crazy shit from happening but no need to beat up fans. STILL IT WAS WORTH IT BECAUSE I GOT TO PAT YUNHO'S BACK/SHOULDER AND IT FELT SOFT AND NICE AND WARM. AS EVERY HUMAN MOST LIKELY DOES. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT HAND I TOUCHED HIM WITH THO SO OH WELL.
Before that tho, we had the encore trolling where they leave and then they come back after everyone screams. I really thought at some point they weren't going to come out because people were being very floppy and lame with their encore screams. I was screaming more louder to try to get people excited and motivated to scream louder gawd. That was really lame tho, nobody was chanting hard enough man. Also during one of the dances, Yunho was trying to like do a flip i think so he stepped onto one of the hands of the dancers so they could propel him upwards to do the backflip but Yunho ended up just falling down hitting his head. I got real worried shit, it sounded really bad and like it probably hurt a lot. I was expecting him to really just walk off and get it checked out, I WAS ACTUALLY HOPING FOR THAT A COUPLE OF MOMENTS AFTER TO BE SUPER SURE HE WAS DOING FINE. Poor thing tho, he probably didn't want to ruin the performance or get the manager's angry. Big props for him for sticking through until the end, i really hope he didn't get any other injuries or start feeling really bad after.
OVERALL, THE SHOW WAS FUN, I HAD FUN WITH ELA, I LUCKILY GOT TO MEET UP WITH MEGAN FINALLY AS I HAD PROMISED HER. I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE HER TOWARDS THE END, SHE ALWAYS BRINGS THE HAPPINESS AND SPAZYNESS AND GIVES ME ALL HER HAPPY WAVES. SHE WAS VERY ECSTATIC WITH HER FRIEND WHO ALSO TOUCHED CHANGMIN AND I'M GLAD THEY HAD FUN TOO. Ela was able to drop me off home despite the crazy traffic of downtown and that was it! Forever thankful for Klarisse offering. I HOPE DBSK FANS DON'T HUNT ME DOWN FOR SAYING WHAT'S ON MY MIND THO LIKE IM SORRY notsorry.
FANCAM TIMEZ
So here are my fancams that i took mostly for Maria so she could see what happened but DON'T WATCH THEM CUZ THEY ARE HORRIBLE.
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Then you can check out the legit HD fancams here:
INTRO/ HUMANOIDS
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RISING SUN
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CATCH ME IF U WANNAAA
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I DON'T KNOW
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WHY KEEP UR HEAD DOWN
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HERE I STAND
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PURPLE LINE
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CHANGMIN SOLO
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YUNHO SOLO (THIS IS WHAT I PAID FOR SHIET...JK I DIDN'T PAY FOR ANYTHING)
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MIROTIC
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DESTINY (AW YEEE)
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DA BEST
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