Big Bang concert in Newark!
Okay, I'm going to try to do my damnedest to do a coherent fan account, so bear with me if I'm fail at it, my brain just doesn't remember shit like this in a way that's anything like organized. Also, I read gdgdbaby's fan account and A LOT OF THE STUFF IS TOTALLY THE SAME LOL. WAY TO MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL GUYS.
Anyway.
Okay, so first of all, the whole day leading up to the concert (I went on the 9th) was honestly kind of ridic. Because I failed to make good choices when booking my flights, my initial flight to Philadelphia was at 7:00am. BUT because of all of the rerouted air traffic and craziness due to Sandy, my being at the airport an hour before my flight left me just enough time to get to security....and see that my flight had left. Without me.
SO I had to run up to ticket and get a new flight that was a couple hours later. Which, okay, fine, no biggie. I get to Philadelphia, end up having to go to some back corner of the renovated airport, which is incedentally the only part of the airport that doesn't have WiFi (large chunks of this trip should be called, WHY CAN'T SARAH HAVE FUCKING FREE WIFI JESUS). So then, my flight to Newark was delayed, a half hour in the terminal, and then forty minutes on the runway. We end up going on this tiny little puddle jumper plane with propellers (PROPELLERS JESUS) and the ride is so rough, I'm like, hunched over in my seat with nausea. But we make it to Newark without incident, and my hotel is lovely (KING SIZE BED I WAS IN HEAVEN) and all was well.
The cabbie that took me to the Prudential Center was super-nice, a little too nice, actually, cause he gave me his number to 'call him for a pick up later'. I did no such thing, because I watched a Study in Pink on the flight and yeah. No. BUT IRREGARDLESS I ARRIVED AT THE CONCERT CENTER.
I got my t-shirt before the show (and wow was it expensive and wow was the guy selling them a dick--he looked at me pulling out my debit card like i was showing him a used tampon and was all pissy at me when i had the audacity to ask to see two shirts) and then went to get my seat. I'm insanely jealous of all the people who got VIP seating, because I was rather far (and the stupid screens were effing tiny) but I sat next to really nice people (two of whom were also from pittsburgh, solidarity) so it was all good.
CONCERT
-first off, the lightsticks are the absolute most awesome thing ever. seeing everyone's lights going to the beat of fantastic baby when it was starting was just so surreal and it got me so freaking hyped and when alive started up i screamed like a total banshee. the dude next to me was so sweet and was with his gf and was all mock-shriek when top started rapping and i was all OH YOU KNOW YOU JUST WENT A LITTLE GAY DON'T LIE
-everyone's talking about how much more handsome ri is irl but DUDE. freaking DAESUNG. everything about him is so damn attractive holy shit. he's so magnetic to watch on stage and he has so much energy it's ridic
-speaking of so much energy TAEYANG WHAT ARE YOU ON COKE WHY. boy couldn't keep still for the whole concert, i kept losing track of him cause he's so tiny and he'd never be in the same place, always running back and forth and squiggle dancing by his lonesome. seriouly, yb on stage acts like how most people act alone in their bedrooms. his whole life is a risky business scene
-I HONESTLY KEPT FORGETTING TOP WAS THERE LMAO. HE DID NOTHING AND I LOVE HIM BUT JESUS. i about died when they were all doing the talking bits and taeyang just turned to top and was all TOP SAY SOMETHING. RIGHT NOW. SAY SOMETHING YOU LOSER. and top said five words in english and then rambled in korean hahaha. that and choomed his little heart out at the end, which was love to the nth. plus his whole 'how are you feeling' 'FANTASTIC BABY' which had everyone in the place freaking out lolol
-everyone's english was like, really surprisingly good! bae's was of course the best, but daesung's, which i've never even heard, wasn't half bad! and seungri was just too fucking funny. he kept going I'M SORRY MY ENGLISH IS SO BAD. I WANT TO KILL MY ENGLISH. SO SORRY. and we were all just like alkdjflsddka WE LOVE YOU JESUS. and he kept saying NEW JERS. WHAT UP NEW JERS. I LOVE NEW JERS. and i was just like SEUNGRI STOP TRYING TO BE GANGSTER. IT HURTS.
-SEUNGRI DOING GANGNAM STYLE CHOREO WITH A PANDA HEAD ON MADE MY LIFE. THIS BOY.
-taeyang rapped the opening bit of crayon which was fantastic and called gd his homey which made me laugh my ass off
-the b-boys for how gee were sick
-EVERYONE IS SO GOOD LIVE I SWEAR. taeyang's vocals are just amazing, so are daesung's. i legit got teared up during haru haru.
-all the songs that they have with english in the chorus, and the ONE SONG they were all like DO YOU KNOW THIS ONE SING ALONG was Haru Haru, which has a chorus TOTALLY IN KOREAN. everyone in my row was just like, awkwardly making noises-that-sound-like-korean-HARU-HARU-eh-eh-eh-eh. so ridic.
-gd is fantastically charismatic and so ON during his performances and it's just !!! but he's so fade-into-background when they're not doing a number. it's WEIRD. and you could tell he was nervous about his english, he spoke so softly every time.
-at the very end, top was chooming and they were all GO TOP GO TOP and then ri started shuffling and they were all GO RI GO RI and then Daesung started and Taeyang was all WELL THAT'S ENOUGH, COME ON and fucking STARTED TO LEAVE LMAO. HE'S SUCH AN ASS.
In short, everything was absolutely perfect and they all were fantastic and i was so touched by them making such an obvious effort to speak english to all of us and how they kept promising to come back and just daesung's whole life and them dealing with all the travel nightmares to give us a good show and how touched THEY all seemed that so many people were there for them in a place they've never performed in. i was just on cloud nine all night.
On a funny end note, the concert was so ridiculously packed when it let out and the streets were blocked off, so it took me FIFTEEN MINUTES of trying to hear my ESL cabbie on the phone try to explain to me where the fuck he was in relation to where the fuck I was and finally I had to stand on the street corner and wave my lightstick for him to spot me lmao. he kept saying I'M BY THE POLICE CAR DO YOU SEE IT and i'm like THERE ARE FOUR POLICE CARS ON THIS STREET ALKJDSF WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU.
Also, I'm so out of shape that just standing for two hours and waving a light stick enthusiastically had me in SO MUCH PAIN IDEK. i popped a Tylenol with codeine and took a hot bath as soon as i got back to my hotel. I'M GETTING OLD GOD.
I hope that was kind of coherent, lolol.