ITNW Concert Shanghai Stop Fan-account Translation [No.1]
I've been looking over the fan-accounts over at the SNSD baidu forum, which is kind of like the SNSD thread at soompi, but those weren't very detailed about the stages. (Baidu itself is mainland China's version of Google, so it's not totally like soompi per se, just in case you were wondering.) Shinjirei/eva found this fan-account at Hyoyeon's baidu thread, which is reasonably detailed and I thought I'd translate it for all y'all who shake yer fists when I skip off to watch SNSD shows with fast Chinese subs :D
ETA: Explanation of translated fan-nicknames for the girls in the comment thread. If anyone finds other decent fan-accounts of the concert, drop them in mah lap, I'll see what i can do.
ETA II: I've found two other fan-accounts that will be nice to translate. Hope to have the first one up tonight.
Credit: Original fan-account in Chinese by _Hyoyeon、藍 (_Hyoyeon Blue) @ Baidu Kim Hyoyeon Tieba [Thread].
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2010.04.17 Girls’Generation Concert Fan-account
I will accompany you always, until you become Halmoni Shidae (Grandma Generation)!
Because I really am too tired, my fan-account won’t be too long.
I reached the concert venue at about 1pm plus, and there were already quite a few fansites who had put up stalls-[Tayeon’s] DorkSpazz Palace, YoonPromise, the main Chinese site, Seohyun’s individual site, DRJC, Unni Community etc. (1) In particular, the main Chinese site even had a group of Soshi cosplayers; they really put their heart into it! There were also quite a few SHINee fansites present. I went round and round the vicinity of the concert venue... [cut a bit here, because it’s just her meeting friends etc. She also adds that there were some really good-looking male and female Soshi fans, whom she wanted to capture on camera!]
After I entered the venue, I chatted very happily with the fans around me, everyone was very friendly. Excluding the girls behind me, the rest of the fans [around me] were all male. (My friend YZ continued to mutter that she never expected guys to be into chasing idols, hehe, now you can see the charisma of our Soshi!) The attendance rate in the upper level was about 80%, there were less people who bought the 480RMB tickets, and the 680-1280RMB seats were all full.
After SME's usual tricks to whet our appetite, the concert finally began. The concert venue is an enclosed venue after all, the sound effects were a little too much, and the seats were all shaking. I advise those with weak hearts to avoid it!~
After singing GENIE and SHOWSHOWSHOW to thundering cheers, it was time for them to introduce themselves. First up was Sica, and I can only say, Sica-ya, you truly are muddle-headed! You forgot when the accompanying music would stop, right, and you forgot how to introduce yourself in Chinese, right? I saw you smile in embarassment towards Longlegs (Sooyoung)! Mind-wandering Sica! After her was Yoona; from our Crocodile Yoon onwards, Chinese was spoken. [I assume that she means all the girls spoke in Chinese.] "Hello everyone!". "I missed you!", "I'm very happy to meet you guys!" The person who spoke the most, and most constructively was Yuri: "Have you eaten?" Of course, we answered her, "Yes, we ate", and this woman then said, "Good!" She really is a mischievous/playful little thing! The most accurate were maknae and HyoBaby/HyoTreasure/HyoJewel, their pronunciation was very accurate!
After that, let's talk about the solos.
The first to come out was Sica, singing ONE YEAR LATER. (Don’t worry, Kitty, I filmed it, it’s very clear!~) Sica was in a very good mood; when she saw Onew come out, she was supposed to put on a deeply emotional expression, but after holding it in for quite some time, she still laughed! Tiffany: The start was a really cool Jackson Hwang-after that, she transformed again into Sexy Queen Tiffany, and with an umbrella in her hand, [it was] the cool/slick/moshda UMBRELLA [stage].
TaeDork’s HUSH HUSH; our TaeDork’s singing technique is really indescribable/I have nothing to say about it, the extremely difficult high notes were handled/sung and interpreted perfectly, exquisitely, to the utmost! It definitely was a visual feast [too]!The teasing in the breaks, with the male back-up dancers, made all the fans below us yell wildly, and I bellowed, “Don’t! No! Back-up Dancer Ajussi, your [job] welfare is awesome!”
Yoona’s SOLO: She wore a wedding dress outfit, looked completely like a princess, and her figure is really great! Her collaboration with Key and Taemin was in-sync/had great chemistry. Really, Taemin is totally a child, this is child labour, oh, child labour!
After this was Sica’s BARBIE GIRL, and DollySica reappeared; Sica, you are totally a Doll! Your petite stature was really cute, and with Key-goon at your side, I felt that Key was a [fully-grown] adult? Keke~
Sunny’s SUNNY really was a super lively song, SunBaby/SunTreasure/SunJewel really is a little cutiepatootie. At the end, she even did a somersault, and everyone screamed!
Maknae’s solo; first, she played a piano piece for us, and then it was the Music Box Doll Coming Back To Life [stage]. Our maknae truly is an elegant beauty with lovely bearing and aura, throughout her whole performance, it felt like she was an immortal. Her split was also done so easily, without breaking a sweat; her foundation/grounding in ballet is solid and true!
Longlegs (Sooyoung) kept to her jazzy cool/slick/moshda style. Ah, actually, our Sooyoung would be good at playing both the masculine or feminine role (in a [Soshi] pairing)! (2)Oh Longlegs, you handsome/cool/moshda woman!
Yuri truly is a combination of healthy athletic beauty, sexiness and enchantress-like luscious perfection. Her sexy yet cool dance, paired with Minho’s rap, and Yuri’cool/slick punching move, I can only say, Yuri-a! Soshi’s Overall Seme, that’s definitely you!
The lights dimmed, and the rows of light which spilled from the on-stage steps focused on one point. Dancing Queen Hyoyeon came out. First, she performed a Robot Dance segment with GENIE as her backing music. (3) [It was] a perfect combination of body and rhythm, and the points at which her muscles locked and stopped were just right, just perfect. (Roundy beside me kept on sighing and saying “She’s dancing so well!” That’s for sure! The nearly 10 years [up until now] of her life in dance have not been for nothing!) Then, to the accompanying SO SICK, Hyoyeon and [her] partner unfolded a tragic story to the beat of the music-A couple together yet separate, close and yet at arm’s length, loving yet leaving each other. Hyoyeon’s facial expressions were also very apt, and she fully portrayed/gave off this sad yet cool feeling of loose, free easiness. At the ending, they embraced each other, and they were lowered from the stage by the hydraulic floor/elevator.
The short skits which were broadcast in between stages were also really fun. The Period Costume Dance Battle was just ORZ, just great. I felt that it was more interesting, watching it live. And then, there was GIRL’S STORY; Soshi really relished dressing up as boys in these roles; go crazy girls!
And, there was also this little incident, right when it was almost the ending. The nine of them, nearly all had a towel from the individual fansites in their hand, and they were wearing the Mickey Mouse Ears and Bunny Ears which we had thrown up [to the stage]. I still remember that while Yoona was dancing, her towel dropped, and she even bent down to pick it up and hold it in her hand, and continued dancing. Fany seems to have been chased by Longlegs [Sooyoung], and her hairclip/hairband dropped off too. TaeDork and Yuri both sent flying kisses towards the cameras, I could see that they really were very happy! YeonBaby/YeonTreasure [Hyoyeon] struck poses at different spots and let us take pictures, she even gave us vigorous thumbs-up signs, keke, we’re really something, eh? In the middle, YeonBaby/YeonTreasure [Hyoyeon] also suddenly said. “Is it hot?”[in Chinese]. (You truly did come to study abroad here [in China], forcing out a few words~) We answered “It’s hot!” ORZ-Yeon [Hyoyeon] nodded vigorously, and used her hands to fan [us]~.
For the first ending, everyone shouted out in unison, “ENCORE! ENCORE!” (Actually, we were all lacking confidence, we all feared that it was ending just like that.) After teasing us for a while, the music for Naengmyun started up, and it totally sent the whole audience into a frenzied HIGH. (ORZ-Yeon [Hyoyeon] sang part of Myung-ajussi’s lines, I’ll upload the clips for that later).
Following this was the HaHaHa stage. Actually, before this, maknae, Sooyoung and Fany had all started crying, especially maknae, her tears just kept flowing. At this point, they still had to sing HaHaHa. I was really touched/emotional. I started liking them before their debut, I accompanied them on their walk up until now; the initial black sea and the initial 913 incident, at that time, they were also girls of only 17 and 18 like me, they had to bear and suffer so much from young, they had to experience various kinds of difficulties before they could debut, and they had to experience/go through so many obstacles before they could stand on this stage, and so, I too got so emotional that I wept. This concert was really very successful, it must’ve left them with a deep impression! From the later bows, you could see these were proper face-sticking-to-your knees 180 degrees bows.
They were all really happy, and they didn’t follow the script when they spoke, all the Chinese lines typed on the big screen were for nothing~ They brought out all the Chinese that they could speak, the Chinese [words] they used in HaHaHa was the Chinese for “1,2,3,4”, and at the end they kept using Chinese to ask “Is this fun/interesting?”Taeyeon also said “I LOVE SHANGHAI!” Sooyoung, on the other hand, was in charge of getting the mood/atmosphere up, and she finished the fan-chant of “Right now, it’s Girls’ Generation; From now on, it’s Girls’ Generation; Forever, it’s Girls’ Generation” with us.
At the end, the nine of them ran around the whole venue once, throwing towels and stuff like that to us, especially maknae, who looked everywhere to see if there were any more towels, and then she’d pick them up and throw them to us. Maknae really couldn’t bear to leave us, before she left the venue, she still kept sending big hearts [the kind with arms over your head] to us, and waving to us. (At this point, the other unnis had all gone in!) She was still on the stage!
This time, we thought the concert had already ended, the male fan beside me was feeling regretful that he did not get to give Sica her birthday fan-chant/fan-support, and I also felt troubled/dazed/confused. Who would’ve thought that those bundles of mischief came out again to sing BABY BABY, and after that was finished, SHINee also came out too, to say their goodbyes.
After this was the surprise for Sica, and we sang the birthday song. Sica just didn’t dare to blow out the candles, because she was scared of getting creamed in the face, with the birthday cake. Thus, before she even finished blowing out the candles, she’d gotten cream smeared all over her face by the 8 ‘uns and SHINee! Sica turned around and stared to wipe the cream off, and at this point, YeonBaby/YeonJewel [Hyoyeon] spoke a sentence of Chinese to us again, “Hold on!”[In other words, wait for Sica to finish wiping her face.] Keke! ~Cute! Sica, who had been wiped “clean” of cream, turned into White Eyebrows Sica; the cream on her eyebrows had not been wiped off, haha, it was super cute!
This time, we thought the concert had really ended, and we started to switch off our lightsticks reluctantly. Who would’ve thought that the nine mischievous imps ran across the main stage again to wave goodbye to us; a wave of screams [ensued]!
The INTO THE NEW WORLD concert ended thus, and again I thank the Heavens for sending me these 9 angels when I was 17 years old, letting me grow up with them, and learning to be strong, grateful, hardworking and diligent together. Thank you!
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(1) I’m doing literal translations here, as I thought it’d be fun for people to get a feel of what the girls’ Chinese fansites are called. I’ll also be translating literally the Chinese nicknames for the girls.
(2) The terms gong (攻)and shou (受) literally mean “to attack” and “to receive”. They can be translated as the Masculine/Femine, Pursuer/Pursued or Aggressive/Passive roles in a pairing relationship, respectively. If you wish, you can think of it as uke/seme, or “Sooyoung would be great as both a Top and as a Bottom!” In general, from my limited reading of Chinese SONE writing, I would say that they use it to refer to the Masculine/Feminine roles in a pairing relationship, rather than straight-up Top/Bottom, which is a similar but un-identical concept. Gender roles discussion, anyone?
(3) In the passage, the writer uses the nickname “Dancing King”. I’m assuming this to be a typo on the writer’s part, and am correcting it in my translation, since Hyoyeon’s usual Chinese nickname is “Dancing Queen”, which is sometimes shortened to “DQ”.
-R.