Big Bang on Fashion, Fans and their Concerts
BIG BANG'S PRESS CONFERENCE
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By: Big Bang! Fansite
After Big Bang's successful concerts in Japan last March 28 and 29, the group held a press conference last March 31 in a hotel in Tokyo. Only 4 of the members, excluding V.I were present because V.I had to return to Korea for his solo work.
During the press conference, they were asked what their thoughts are on the concerts.
"I was tensed but I was able to show my own style. It was satisfactory although there were still things I could have done better," TOP said.
"(In Japanese) I was happy to sing in front of Japanese fans," SOL said.
"It was meaningful because it was our first time. It's something that I'll never forget. We'd like to do a concert in a bigger venue," G-DRAGON said.
"It's great because fans enjoyed it but I was tensed because it was our first time to hold a concert in Japan," D-LITE said.
With regard to how Japanese are as an audience, G-DRAGON said, "There is no difference in South Korea and Japan. We had fun and sung together. In the first concert, everyone was sitting but the recent one, everyone was standing."
When asked how G-DRAGON makes music, he said he also gets ideas from members. TOP also shared that when G-DRAGON suddenly gets an idea, so he won't forget about it, he'll immediately send a text message.
Big Bang is interested in fashion and it seems that the group also has passion for shopping. "We can't shop in Korea that easily but in Japan, if we have time, even if it's just an hour, we go shopping." Big Bang says that it loves going to Japan because the members get to sleep a lot, prepare nice meals and have fun.
Meanwhile, plans for a concert in Thailand and a 5-city tour in Korea starting April, 2nd album and SOL's solo album are already scheduled. The "GLOBAL WARNING TOUR" is also scheduled in October to become bigger in scope and include provinces.
Big Bang's 2nd Japanese mini album "With U" is set to come out on May 28 and SOL said that it's an album where members' styles are shown. The mini album also includes the Japanese version of "Ma Girl."
To cap it all, fatigue still remains after the back to back concerts but the members are enjoying the after-effect of the concerts' success but Big Bang expressed that the group is yet to develop. "We're still young and still have a lot of things to improve on."
They sounded careful in their comments about the comparisons between the Japanese fans and Korean fans. TVXQ does the same (on giving careful comments). The big difference that I see is that most of the time, Korean fans are really really loud during the entire performance / concert (just most of the time).
In TVXQ's case I noticed Korean fans shout and scream for their oppas even on their mellow songs. The Japanese audience usually listens quietly when the group starts to sing mellow and slow songs. People tend to think that the Japanese fans seem more reserved (or behaved?) when watching concerts, or looking at the obvious reason -their culture. Hard to explain it verbally, but you know what I mean.
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