Thursday, April 9, 2015

My LIVE Favorites

Music videos are awesome, and live performances from music shows are just as great but there's a different feeling you get when watching non-edited performances. Another name for this would sometimes be called "fancams"! For an international fan like myself, it's really the closest I'll ever get to "seeing" my favorite K-Pop artists in person. Haha!

Now, I have put together a couple of favorite Live stages that I can't NOT share! In actuality, there's a lot that I like, but after endless searching and lots of deliberation, I managed to narrow it down to these five:

1.) "Like a Dream" sung by 15&'s Yerin


Yerin is the quieter one of the 15& duo, and seeing her get into the groove of the song here was such a pleasure to see. Her singing voice is mindblowingly AMAZING. It demands your attention. Just look at the the passerby in the background down there! "Who is that up there?" the could be wondering. This is my favorite live performance from Baek Yerin. The original singer of this song, Chrisette Michele, had even watched this video, and it brought tears to her eyes.

2.) "Pretending to Smile" sung by Ladies' Code's Sojung


This was back during Sojung's predebut days. But the time I cam across this video, I was already a big fan of Ladies' Code. Sojung was my bias, but after seeing this performance it made me love her even more! That vocal range is incredible!

3.) "Fine China" by Seventeen's Hansol, Jun, Chan, Wonwoo, and Ming Ming


These boys make dancing look easy! Look at that move at 0:53! Hansol makes it look so simple. ... Unless, it really IS simple and my inexperience with dancing is doing the talking here. Their dance was choreographed by none other than the Seventeen members themselves. The movements are fluid, and they match the song perfectly.

4.) Special dance stage by Kim Hyoyeon and Kai and Lay of EXO



Make way for the dancing queen: Hyoyeon! Their dance is powerful and they're in sync the whole time! Quick fact: the music had suddenly got cut off in the beginning, but the three dancers kept their cool and continued performing! What you're seeing up here is the edited version where the producers put the music over the video. They performed this special stage on the hit TV show Dancing 9. While it's competitive concept is somewhat similar to K-Pop Star and The Voice Korea, the competitors on Dancing 9 focus solely on dance instead of than singing.

5.) "DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again" by TaeTiSeo and EXO's Sehun, Luhan, D.O., and Chanyeol


This performance looks like a lot of fun. It makes me want to join in and dance along! This was during their music label's world tour: SMTOWN. It's one of my top favorite live stages, even if it was slightly tweaked here and there. It's understandable. With all those screaming fans, it would be impossible to hear anything from the artists!

BONUS: EXO's Lay and Xiumin dancing in their practice room with Greg S. Hwang


Smooth. That's all I can say.

Next "Rambling":  SHINee, U-KISS, and 2NE1! Bringing back some famous tracks! Can you guess what they are? Here's something to you can chew on: Ti Shrut, Erlapy, Otn Guoyn

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