It's been like forever. I apologize...
But know finally the full story of "What happened in Paris"
My friend, her boyfriend and me went to Paris (I wanted to go to the SM Town Concert. Alone. It's not easy when your friends don't like your music...sigh)
We drove for 10 hours and when we finally got their I had 2 hours left till the concert started because it was on the same evening we arrived.
And driving a car in Paris is really not easy. Maybe if you are Parisian but even then you probably have a carcrash every few weeks.
The parked cars on the sideway all looked like they were either involved in huge carcrashs or somebody stole the tires, windows, seats etc. Kinda a fun sight (But maybe it was just the area we lived in).
Sitting 10 hours in the car and then 100 cars honking around you, at you and at each other is not fun.
Luckily we made it safe (more or less) to the parking lot of our small rented apartment in St.Ouen.
Our apartment was really cute. It had the theme 'space'. So everything was covered in tin foil or kept silver. And it was cheap aswell.
But the area it was in was not so nice. Shady people everywhere.
I had one hour left to the concert. We decided that my friends would drive me to the concert (crazy traffic nontheless) because I had no clue about the transportation system.
At the 'Le Zenith' were the concert was held I met 2 really nice belgian girls and together we searched for the hall.
We barely made it in. I could already hear f(x) playing and us three ran to buy some (hugely overprized) fan article.
I seriously considered buying everything but one postcardset was 15 € and a fan aswell!
Not even starting with the T-Shirts.
I asked the dude for a Taemin fan and SHINee postcards.
He handed me them and I ran in without checking, saying bye to the two girls.
Later after the concert was over I realized that that guy gave me the wrong Postcards!
I got Suju ones instead of Shinee. T_T Nothing against Super Junior but .... what am I supposed to do with them?? *Cries*
Anybody need some Suju Postcards?
Anyway...
SM TOWN
When I got seated f(x) was already playing their 2nd song. My seat was at the back but I had a good view over the mainstage and the screens.
Every artist would introduce themselve and try to say some things in french. I was swearing the whole time that I switched French class for Spanish, but I guess it was ok because not even the french people seemed to understand what they were saying.
But it was really cute watching them try.
SHINee had their standard intro and then everybody said something in french. Key beating the others of course. While OnJongTaeMin said 'Hi, my name is ... and so happy to be here' Key was literally having a speech in French. That fabulous bitch. (When Key was finished talking I also screamed 'Key, you hot bitch', but I don't think he heard me ;P)
Also, judging from the amout of applause and cheers I think that the audience was mainly Shawols (and Cassies) that evening ;)
I missed f(x) intro so I can't say anything about them.
Suju was quite fun to watch cuz they were just blabbering random stuff the whole time XD
When Girls Generation introduced themselves Hyoyeon got a really, really loud cheer. Like, the fans wouldn't stop screaming.
She was so surprised and beaming from ear to ear, really cute.
TVXQ's intro was just BOSS. Like everything else about them.
There was church bells chiming, it was dark, the melody was really letting one anticipate.
And then the lights went on and Max and Yunho were flying on ropes on the ceiling just staring intensly and it would have been awkward if their was no music but like this it was just really... intense.
By all means, I'm a hardcore shawol. But I'm not the sort of fan who blindly defends their idols.
And if I say that TVXQ had the best, the coolest and most intense intro I've ever seen at a concert I mean it.
They were the only ones who got chairs to sit down for their introduction but they also had performed on ropes in the air and sweated like crazy before so it was only fair.
And from all the artists TVXQ definetly had the most profesionalism.
Their singing and dancing at the same time was perfect in sync and flawless.
I guess they are not called "the Kings of K-Pop" for no reason.
But SHINee's performances were definetly a close 2nd to me ;)
When it comes to the moodmakers of the evening Super Junior was definetly the winner.
They maybe were not as professional as others but they had a lot of charisma and humour. To me they are better entertainers than singers. They were really funny XD
The sound unfortunately was not that nice. In the middle if the concert during ca. 5 songs (2 of them being Lucifer and RingDingDong) there seemed to be some problems. Maybe it was because I was sitting at the back but the bands really sounded like the chipmunks for a while.
The horror of a Lucifer and RingGingDong Chipmunk version, I can not comprehend.
They fixed it but I was still pissed for having my favourite song ruined.
The dancing was of course superior. I really have never seen something comparable in Europe.
The dance-off was soo awsome. Eunhyuk, Hyoyeon, Yunho and Taemin really stood out.
Seeing Taemin dance live I understand now why everybody keeps on talking about his dancing skills.
He moves so naturally, I just can't describe it. It's really beautiful to watch.
Other Performances included a lovely duett of Kyuhyun and Seohyun, and Onew singing Opera.
Yep, it was definetly worth going.
Looked up from 'the incident'. That was quite a story -__-
So, two chinese girls were sitting next to me. 1 of them seemed to be dragged along by her friend, the other was a hardcore Sungmin fan.
Well, she was having a Sungmin T-shirt, a Sungmin fan, a Sungmin lightstick and was screaming Sungmin whenever he appeared on screen. When Suju wasn't on stage she just would sit down with a pissed of look on her face until Sungmin came out again. So I guess she was a Sungmin fan. (But I must note that she nodded her head with the melody when TVXQ sang. So maybe I could be wrong... in case you didn't get it: that was sarcasm.)
Anyways while Suju sang a ballad I sat down because it was freaking hot inside, because it was a ballad and everybody sat down and just because I friggin wanted to sit down.
Of course, Sungmin's fan stood, not wanting to miss a glance of him.
10 seconds later someone tapped my shoulder. I turned around but there was nobody so I didn't think much of it and looked at the stage again. I got tapped on the shoulder again, this time harsher. I looked to my side and the girl made an innocent face and ignored me but as soon as I turned to the stage again, I swear she slapped me on the shoulder. Like, not touch or tap, seriously punch. I almost fell out of my seat and stared at her. Se stared back at me, motioning me to get up.
I got up.
Mainly because I wanted to be able to enjoy the concert and not get into a fray. Also because she really scared me. I have heard from die-hard-fans and that they can be really obsessive and protective over their idols but that was just plain ridiculous. You don't just slap people because they sit when somebody you like sings.
Looking back I actually think it's funny. But back then I was really a little shocked.
PARIS
We spent 3 days in Paris.
We visited a flee market, the triumph arch, the louvre, the notre dame and, of course, the eiffel tower.
Paris is a beautiful city at the tourist spots but in the living areas it can look quite ugly sometime.
Personally, I really liked it their. It didn't have the hectic atmosphere of most of the big cities I've seen.
Paris is very relaxed and chic ;)
And if you know the good places to go it will definetly be an awsome trip.
(Who am I talking to? Nobody even reads this... fml.. but at least I can practice my english... it's getting worse)
Hehehe~
