ITNW Concert Shanghai Stop Fan-account Translation [No. 3]
This is a much shorter fan-account; I’ve included it because I thought the pre-concert details about fan-stalls and scalpers were fun to read. This fan doesn’t talk much about the solo stages, and I’ve only translated content relevant to our girls.
ETA: Fan-accounts have started piling up D: I counted 13 more in the Baidu thread, and all of them have observations/details which will be interesting to extract and translate. I don't have much time this week, so I'll be translating (painfully) slowly over the next few weeks. Now, if only we could get paid to fangirl...
You know the drill: parts with quotation marks are direct translations, parts without quotation marks are my paraphrasing of the original account, and parts in square brackets and/or italics were added by me to make the account more coherent and "flow" better.
Credit for the original Fan-account goes to Crazy小甘@ Baidu SNSD Tieba [Thread]
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... “I was originally worried that there would be too few male fans, I didn’t want to feel embarrassed, but to my surprise there were really loads of male fans, even samchon fans, and my confidence immediately sky-rocketed!
I bought some stuff from the surrounding fan-stalls [set up outside the concert venue], you don’t get to see such stuff everyday, and I carried off fan-items to my heart’s content. [From what I’ve seen of post-concert pictures, these items included keychains, mousepads, and clothing items associated with the girls or bearing their picture, just to name a few.] I wanted to buy the RDR poster, but I didn’t see it even after walking around the place a few times. I bought a red hoodie with Sica’s number on it [he means the one seen in the Girls’ Generation MV], from the stall that was selling them at 100RMB per piece and 180RMB-for-two hoodies. I heard that they cost a few hundred RMB per hoodie if you buy them online!
I also chatted to that stall’s owners for a long time, all three of them were from Beijing and came down on the cheapest train tickets, each of them carrying four big bags (full of clothes), they said all the people on the train looked at them with amazement, keke, respect+thanks, without you, we couldn’t have bought such awesome clothes! You worked hard!
Another stall-owner told me that one of the ticket-scalpers offered her 5000RMB if she would sell him her ticket for the Inner Circle, she said that she’d sell it over her dead body, atta girl!!!
The ticket-scalpers also offered to buy my ticket, hehe, what kind of person am I to do that; in order to watch the nine girls’ first stop on the Asia Concert Tour-the Shanghai stop-(Girls’ Generation first solo concert in China, and the first concert I’ve watched in my 23 years of life), I even skipped my accounting exam. I am a SONE, how could I sell you my ticket?!”
…When I entered the concert venue, “I suddenly saw that there were still [some seats] in the centre seating zone, talk about being stunned. The female SONE beside me told me that they were released/opened much later, for 1380RMB, and I wanted to die of regret, it was only 100RMB more [than my own ticket], and they were such good seats!!!”
…great thumpin’ audio-visual effects, the first song was Genie…all the SONEs stood on the chairs as soon as the concert started.
“Before this, I’d only watched them in video-clips and seen their pictures, now that I could see them in person, OMG, I didn’t dare to believe my eyes, in person they’re really totally gorgeous!!! Dorkie [Taeyeon]’s skin is soo white, and her face is soo small, I was just gaping at her. Sica, my little Goldilocks/Golden Mane, I wanted to faint. Sunny ah, you really are an explosive ball of Cuteness.
Fany, psshh, what jewels, you shine even brighter than anything. YeonBaby/YeonTreasure, she’s more beautiful in person, and her dance was just too awesome. Yuri, you really are so very playful, but I liked it. Sooyoung, your long legs are so attractive, you live up to your name of “being in charge of height”. [Yoona] you sneaky little thing, [innocent-looking on the outside but deviously naughty/choding-like on the inside] as beautiful as a little deer, you had a halo of light around you. (1) Seohyun, you are so lovely, you will definitely be a ‘virtuous wife and good mother’.”
…great fan-support, the male fans were really loud, the greatest noise-level was when they were yelling “Gee Gee Gee Gee” and “Oh Oh Oh Oh”. [He’s really pleased about the level of the fan-chants, especially from the males, and many of the fan-accounts emphasize that they fan-chanted with all their might.]
…The Chinese SONEs were all really pleased and happy with the concert, especially when Yuri said, “Really, our fans with Great Voices/Lungs, you are the best.”
…The next day, when I was waiting for the subway, I heard the staff also discussing you girls, ah really, our nine girls, you are the best!
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(1) the original phrase used was 腹黑, which is a term from Japanese, haraguroi. Its basic meaning: to look innocent/friendly/benign/as if butter wouldn’t melt in your mouth while scheming away on the inside. In anime, games and comics, this is used as a positive, almost playful and cutesy term, as it is here.
-R.