My Story from YG Family 2014 Galaxy Tour: Power in Singapore - Part 6 [Finale]

Hello everyone, it's been long time since the last post!

I’m supposed to finish the story weeks ago, but I got really busy (of being a hardcore procrastinator), so here it is! I promise this is the last one! It’s only few songs left!

2NE1 - I Am the Best

Right after Psy’s gone, 2NE1 is back on stage! Now in their Ashish Coca Cola Classic Sequin Top! Sooo…. chic yet glamorous!

Gw pengen banget kaos itu deh!! Tapi kok ya $1594 satu biji??!! T.T

I Am The Best juga dikemas a la AON, dengan human_motorbike! Mariii nostalgia lagiii~

2NE1 – Scream

Scream as a song is actually very mediocre. Biasa banget. Kalo baca review album CRUSH yang gw tulis beberapa bulan lalu, lo tau seberapa ga sukanya gw sama lagu ini.

Tapiii… There’s a thing called YG Magic and it happens to mediocre song. Lagu-lagu YG yang masuk kategori “biasa”, jika dibawakan dengan liveband, otomatis jadi LUAR BIASA.

Ini berlaku pada Scream.

Dalam bentuk live band, Scream jadi less-trashy, more hyped, and basically upgraded in every level.

Salah satu yang berkesan di stage Scream adalah gambar di layar ketika chorus dinyanyikan, ada efek slow motion gitu. Keren deh!

Actually gw punya fancam-nya, cuma si dodol megang kameranya terbalik jadi yaa…..

T.T

2NE1 - Can't Nobody

Khusus untuk YGFC, kayanya yang dipilih emang lagu2 badass aja ya~ Dari 1^st stage sampe 2^nd stage, 2NE1 sama sekali ga bawain lagu2 slow.

Jadi, kita sama sekali ga dikasih istirahat. Loncat2 terus tanpa jeda!

Overall, penampilan 2NE1 malem itu sama sekali ga mengecewakan. It feels so great to see OT4 live once again, listening to their beautiful voices, especially Park Bom who got me teary multiple times becoz of her voice. CL and Minzy are goddamn sexy, thighs… thighs everywhere. And Dara is very very talkative for both nights. OT4 got everything balanced. Very entertaining!

BIGBANG – Tonight

BIGBANG - Feeling

BIGBANG - Hands Up

BIGBANG – Lies

BIGBANG – Heaven

The queens’ shift is really over again, so it’s time for the Kings!

BigBang went up on stage once again, killin it with Tonight.

I’m really glad they’re performing my favorite song, Hands Up!

I’m sorry I can’t say much about BigBang coz all of their performances aren’t complete without Seungri~ No Nyongtory, TOPRi, DaeRi, SunPanda moments~ T.T

Di sesi kedua ini, BigBang lebih chatty. Well what I mean by chatty is Taeyang speaks a lot~ Hahaha~

GD, TOP, Dae ga terlalu banyak ngomong, atau ga ngomong sama sekali, dunno~ Lupa2 inget, gw ingetnya Taeyang yang banyak ngomong. Dari mulai bilang BigBang mau comeback bentar lagi terus minta doa biar Seungri cepet sembuh.

Abis Taeyang bilang gitu, mereka nyanyiin LIES!

FUCK!

LOL~~

Anyway padahal yaa kalo Seungri ikut, sesi talk BigBang bisa jadi satu stage sendiri buat Seungri dan English-nya a.k.a Seungrish! isshhh~

And if you forget how epic Seungrish is, let YouTube remind you

So that’s all about BigBang.

E.N.C.O.R.E

So look, so far encore-nya YGFC itu selalu dinanti2kan, karena banyak interaksi dan aksi2 bodoh YG Family yang ga akan terjadi di event2 lain.

Go Away

Encore dimulai dengan 2NE1. Cuma mereka doang, padahal harusnya YG fam yang lain udah ikutan naik panggung lagi. Tapi Go Away dibawain 2NE1 sendirian. Yang notable dari penampilan 2NE1 di encore adalah Minzy.

Encore mungkin bagian favorit Minzy di YGFC. 

THE EROMAKNAE IS UNLEASHED IN FULL FORCE!

Di hari pertama, Minzy muncul NGGAK PAKE BAJU!

Instead, dia pake handuk YG Family doang!

Sinting juga ni anak! hahahahaha

Di hari kedua, kayanya dia udah ditelpon papa YG buat ngingetin kalo dia itu maknae, akhirnya dia pake semacam tanktop yang kalo diliat dari jauh KAYAK SERBET! LOL~~

Hari pertama pake handuk doang, hari kedua pake serbet! Edaaaannn Minzyyy~~ Hahahaha

Fantastic Baby

Nah ketika ini YG fam mulai pada naik panggung lagi. Gw ga terlalu inget hal2 extraordinary apa yang mereka lakukan di panggung, mostly selfie2 pake Samsung sama dadah2 ke penonton. Oh ya, hari kedua, Seunghoon jatoh pas lagu ini… T.T

Gw melihat pula kejadiannya, soalnya dia lagi bareng Mino saat itu. Secara mata gw ke Mino terus kan…

Poor baby lion…

Sakit sih pasti, itu panggung 2 meter lebih tingginya. Tapi Seunghoon masih bisa bangun dan balik ke panggung. Pasti nahan sakit deh itu. Yes, profesional! Thumbs up!

Gangnam Style

Okay the last song, yang diakhiri dengan Taeyang memperkenalkan YG Fam beserta band dan dancer. I don’t have anything else to say about encore so I leave you with this:

I hope it explains. :)

Okay overall, YGFC is reaaaally worth the wait, the money, the sweat and of course the watch. They basically have everything you ask for a concert: great music, amazing talents, beautiful visuals, cool stage acts, memorable gimmicks, bombastic band, overflowing energies, electrifying effects, super duper long duration, everything!

It gives you chill as well as adrenaline rush, loud cheers, maximum craziness, makes you forget about your concerns for a while and have fun.

But of course as much as I enjoyed the concert, it’ll be happier if Seungri were there, and AKMU, and Lee Hi, and Team B…

And one thing, I think this concert is really intense because of the song selection. Most of the songs have crazy beats. There’s almost no slow/ballad songs, except BigBang’s Haru Haru and couple WINNER’s songs. It will be more diverse if they insert a ballad or two for each performer, so that it will give the audience a little break. Just chill and enjoy the music. No need to jump and scream.

Okay, last word: it was a surreal experience, I really hate the fact that it’s over and I don’t have any plans to move on. It’s been a long time I never feel this good. Thank you YG Fam ♥

PS: I’ll write this post at the office, I’m gonna update with picture when I’m home. :) 

 

My Story from YG Family 2014 Galaxy Tour: Power in Singapore - Part 5

You know, gw harus bikin satu postingan khusus buat PSY. Ga boleh digabung sama yang lain. Harus spesial satu postingan khusus isinya PSY. You know why? 

BECAUSE HE IS –HANDS DOWN- THE CRAZIEST AND MOST ENERGETIC PERFORMER IN YGFC!

Dari dulu gw udah tau PSY gila banget di panggung. Kalo perform kayak orang mabok, ga bisa dikontrol sama sekali. Segila itu, se-epic itu. Makanya gw sangat menanti2kan stage-nya PSY. Menyaksikan stage se-dope itu, ibarat prestasi lo sebagai manusia di dunia ini. Mungkin bisa lo tulis di CV lo, achievement: watching live performance of PSY.

Putri awalnya underestimate sama performance PSY. Menurut dia PSY tuh ga YG banget, ga kpop banget, overrated, dll. Can’t blame her of course, so many people take PSY’s existence as a joke, which is completely wrong! There is a reason why PSY is so well-respected and loved in Korea as well as in the world. That's what i'm trying to tell you in this post. The PSY-effect.

Anyway, ketika mendengar Putri ngomong gitu, gw ketawa aja.

I said to her: KARMA-KARMA-KARMA IS GONNA FIND YOU!

Lo bakal kena karma, Put! Nobody, I said, nobody is this friggin world is allowed to underestimate PSY. Nobody is allowed to mess with a man of 2 billion YouTube views.

NOBODY!

And I was right, of course.

Baru opening video-nya aja PSY udah gila banget! Dikasih liat cuplikan dominasi Gangnam Style dua taun lalu sampe sekarang, ditambah poster-posternya di Billboard, MTV, dll, semuanya bikin hype memanas. Sampe akhirnya mukanya Psy muncul di layar penonton udah pada heboh banget.

PSY - Right Now

Adegan munculnya PSY di panggung E.P.I.C B.A.N.G.E.T! Semua lighting menyorot ke tengah, all eyes on him and he stole the spotlight in one go! Intro Right Now langsung menggema. 

This opening song is superb! Sangat bisa bikin pumped up! Kalo denger chorus-nya bawaannya pengen lari sekenceng2nya. Tapi karena ga bisa, akhirnya lompat2 aja di tempat.

Baru lagu pertama aja, Psy udah gila banget. He moved all parts of his body and made sure we all did the same thing! 

Lari dari ujung ke ujung, joget bareng para dancer dengan energi yang sama as if dia ga sambil nyanyi, padahal sambil nyanyi dan berinteraksi sama penonton. Alhasil baru lagu pertama sekujur tubuhnya udah basah keringetan.

Tapi itu ga menurunkan semangatnya sama sekali.

Gw sangat salut!

“Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Psy this is my third time visiting Singapore and I gotta tell you this, whenever I’m visiting this country I see the miracle which is anyone of you don’t know anything about the lyrics, but you seem like you understand the lyrics. I AM PSY HOW ARE WE DOING TONIGHT, SINGAPORE??!!”

Deafening cheers all over the stadium~

“Usually when we do the show on Saturday and Sunday, honestly and usually Saturday audience is more energetic and powerful, but I don’t know why, I see the exception today! Because you know what, we don’t usually get this crazy on Sunday, this is not an easy thing, so wow!”

Crowd cheering out loud!

“Yeah, everybody seems very surprised, yes, because when you see me face to face I know I look skinnier than on TV. A lot of people is like ‘wow, he’s not that much, you know?’”

HAHAHAHAHAHA~~ WHY IS THIS MAN SO FUNNY???

Dia masih sempet2nya bikin lomba adu teriak antar section. 

“Okay, it seems like everybody's applauding, everybody's screaming and dancing, but honestly some of them are like selfish and they are saving his body, especially second floor and third floor, you’re not really jumping!

So, I wanna see first floor, second floor and third floor, I wanna see which section is the most energetic of Singapore, so let’s figure out!

PSY’S THIRD FLOOR MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!”

-loud cheering-

“Okay, now second floor, it looks like they’re standing up right now but they’re actually sitting down, so MAKE SOME NOISE NOW SECOND FLOOR!”

And it keeps repeating until he’s satisfied.

Hahahaha~

PSY – Entertainer

This song is also a hidden gem. Seru banget! 

Kalo lo ga lompat2 pas denger lagu ini, berarti ada yang salah sama sistem pendengaran lo. Hahahaha~

Lagu ini cukup berkesan buat gw karena back in 2011, Psy was performing with Dara. Si kakak mau aja diajak gila2an sama Psy. hahahaha

Sebenernya judul lagu ini ada yang bilang Entertainer, ada yang bilang Celebrity. Karena Bahasa Korea kalo diterjemahin artinya suka beda-beda~  

Lyrics wise and performance wise, this song says everything about PSY basically. 

On stage, Psy is not only a singer/rapper, he is also:

- an orator

- a comedian

- an actor

- a dancer

- a motivator

- a big brother

- a friend

Or basically, a true entertainer.

Mad, mad respect.

PSY – Champion

“So, let’s be honest, those two songs comin in, you’re gonna enjoy, but that’s not my ability, that’s the song’s ability. So from now on, I’m gonna sing a song, and this song you never heard this song, and the lyrics you’re never gonna get it. But you’re gonna be happy, that’s why I’m gonna show my ability.

So this song is called Champion, no, don’t act like you know the song! Hahaha... It's okay..."

HAHAHAHAHA!!! WE KNOW, OPPA! WE KNOW!!! XD

"So this song is about you and about me and about us, who’s enjoying, energizing, on fire and what so ever, whoever that is champion, so if I test my mic to you, you’re gonna say ‘champion’ out loud, not to me, but to yourself, am I clear with that?

So from now on, I need everybody in this building, make a real job, make a real jump, not for me but to yourself, so that tomorrow morning you’re not gonna regret with anything. You will using your all energy from now on. Alright, here we go: CHAMPION!”

And then it slayed, just like that. This song deserves a legendary label on it, just like Gangnam Style.

The message within the lyrics is so strong.

Ah gw lupa bilang, di setiap performance, ada subtitle bahasa Inggris di layar. Jadi kita bisa ngerti apa yang dia nyanyiin. I strongly recommend any Korean act, or whatever act, who is not using English in their song, to put subtitle too. It works a lot, you know. Membantu sekali dalam memahami maksud di balik setiap lagu. :)

PSY – Father

Dibanding yang lain, Father ini less-dancing dan less hype. Tapi di lagu ini Psy nunjukin skill menyanyinya.

Di speech awal sebelum nyanyi, dia bilang lagu ini buat semua ayah yang ada di Singapore, termasuk ayah dari semua yang menonton dia malam ini.

Gw pun langsung teringat bokap gw saat itu. How thankful I am to have a father like him. I’m having so much fun here in Singapore it’s all thanks to him to be honest. So I feel really attached to the song.

I love you, aboji. ♥

And thank you Psy, to remind me of that. :)

PSY - It's Art

“The next song is called An Art, and it’s about an art. What I describe an art about in that song is like our situation, we don’t know each other, and we are from different countries and different cultures and different languages, different thoughts, different concerns, and we just met, happened to meet in this place and we don’t know anything about the lyrics, and song and anything else. BUT, we forget about our concerns, our anger, and we’re just happy like children, that’s why I’m doing this job, so everybody, your taste and your feeling at this moment is an art.”

Aaaww…

Well said. :)

His forewords are always beautiful!

The way he engaged the crowd n the content of his speech is just captivating.

He speaks as if he’s our friend and thank God for his English!

Can’t imagine he’s speaking in Korean, we prolly has slept during the translation.

PSY - Gentleman

PSY - Gangnam Style

After Champion, Entertainer, Right Now, Father drained all our emotions, Gentleman dan Gangnam Style seakan cuma jadi formalitas aja. Bahwa Psy di sana, bahwa Psy tampil, kurang afdol kalo ga ada Gentleman dan Gangnam Style, so here they are.

Setelah nonton stage-nya Psy gw jadi ngerti kenapa bayaran dia mahal banget, kenapa dengan ikut sertanya dia di YGFC, Lee Hi, AKMU dan Team B ga bisa ikut, kenapa dia ditaro paling belakang padahal sebagian besar yang dateng adalah fans BigBang, kenapa stage-nya dia paling lama, kenapa dia udah jarang stay di Korea dan memfokuskan diri berkarier di US dan sekitarnya…

That night Psy was basically shitting on everyone in YGFC. BigBang, 2NE1, dll jadi ga ada apa2nya dibanding Psy. It’s totally a mindfuck. Your mind that has already blown away because of BigBang and the others, once Psy came out and did his thing, you be like “FUCK BIGBANG! GIVE ME PSY ONLY AND THIS EXPENSIVE TICKET IS ALREADY WORTH IT!”

Another thing yang bikin gw salut adalah PSY tuh kalo bikin lagu dipikir banget ya. Bukan sembarang lagu yang enjoyable/buat seneng2. But it's actually a song that has an impact. Kalo lo telaah dari liriknya yang tercermin juga dari stage act-nya, banyak lho kritik sosial yang dia masukin ke lagunya. Like if you think Gangnam Style is all about that horseriding dance, you are so wrong, there is a bigger picture behind the song and basically in every song Psy has made. We're just too lazy to figure it out.

In the live performance, Psy is kind enough to always tells us about it. About the meaning behind every song. Something that I think every musician should do every time they have a chance to interact with the audience/fans: to speak their mind that later comes out with the music. Music should be honest and expressive. Not many musician understand this true nature of music unluckily.

In conclusion, Psy is that dope.

All this contentment after watching him performing is just unexpected.

And to be able to watch his live performance is not only a blessing, but also an honor. He’s indeed the entertainer of our century.

We should be proud of his existence.

Thank you, Psy.

You bring joy to us.

Thank you so much.

(to be continued)