okay where to begin. lol.
the venue itself, CLUB NOKIA, is located in the heart of Los Angeles city. it is a really beautiful area! not only are there concert venues, but it's also where my WORLD CHAMPION LOS ANGELES LAKERS play (sorry, i'm a huge Lakers fan!) so, there are three concert venues, and the CLUB NOKIA is the smallest and the most intimate one. i kinda had a hard time locating it because it was on the 3rd floor of the building. the whole area is new and renovated, so the venue was just really nice. i was impressed that the show was booked there. (Johnny, you did good!)
i was also impressed with the amount of Japanese people there. most of them came from Japan to Los Angeles! lots of Japanese housewives too. LOL. there were only a few guys. it was 86.7% girls. XD
the show started @ 6:15 or around that time. it was 2 MCs first, Boogie & Juice, or whatever their names were...they tried to pump up the audience and there were some mini, very short opening numbers.
i'm not sure if most people know who Joey Tee is...you have to be an old JE fan like me to remember him. he was a Johnny's Jr. back in the day. well, he did some dance moves for us. he's grown up! he's like 16 now. he does all these modern, isolation, body bending dance moves. it was pretty impressive, imo. i guess like Jin, he's into hip-hop.
the next opening number was a dance team. they were named the "Strikers All-Stars". i'm not sure if any of you guys watch ABDC (America's Best Dance Crew), but they were performing for Jin. i was so impressed & shocked! they did this routine for us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymoBI491LE (but extended!)
the next dude was like some guy named DOMINIC. he wrote some songs with Jin, so he sang 2 songs for us. ehh, he was OK, i guess. lol.
the pre-show also showed 2 video clips with Jin in them. the first one was him outside the venue being cute. he was walking around the area and pointed to restaurants & stuff. (one of them was "Katsuya", a famous Japanese restaurant in the area, lol) the second clip was the dance auditions and some solo dance lessons. "WE'RE LOOKING FOR 6 DANCERS" lol.
HERE WE GO, IT'S JIN TIME!
okay, i like stole the list from kattunlove, ahahaha.
Christmas Morning: Jin was wearing a white jacket, his hair was tied up, and he had on his big aviator sunglasses. it was all very robotic-like at first. Jin was in the middle with the dancers in gold sequined outfits. he was playing numerous instruments: drums, synths, & a guitar. it was completely in autotune and his voice was SO HIGH. throughout the whole song. it was like a bittersweet love song, from what i read on the screens. they showed the lyrics. but it was interesting, to say at least.
Bass Go Boom: i think this one is a new song specifically for the Los Angeles shows. from what i remember it was a hip-hop song. LOL. memory fail.
WONDER (feat. Crystal Kay): i screamed! i wasn't expecting to hear this! in the background, they showed the PV on the screens. if you saw the Break the Records DVD, they TOTALLY blocked out the PV that was playing in the background. however, if you saw the fancams, you could see it. so, i was glad to see it on the screens in the venue. CK & Jin were dancing together, haha.
I.N.P.: INTER. NATIONAL. PARTY. can you guess this was a dance song? it had this really funny hand-motion to go with it they showed in the screens. but it was a fun song. everyone was dancing & grooving!
Adjust the Love: this one was a bit more serious lyrically. it had some trademark high notes, but not as intense as Christmas Morning. i think the screens had a "peace" or "world" theme to them.
A PAGE: YOU & I~ YOU & I~ everyone was screaming when he started singing this song.
LOVEJUICE: OKAY. EVERYONE WAS SCREAMING AND JUMPING WHEN WE HEARD THE BASS IN THE BEGINNING. he did the dance routine similar to the QOP tour. he was wearing a black fedora, black dress shirt with a white tie, and jeans for this one.
*dance segment*
Paparats: this is the song that completely floored me. it was SO AWESOME. it wasn't hip-hop or dance, it was a pure rock song. and it was one of few that didn't have autotune, lol. it was just a powerful performance and even though the lyrics look plain as hell on paper, you can definitely tell Jin does not like how the media treats him at home.
Hey girl: omg, this song was just one big LOL. the lyrics were just playful (...such a total playboy song!), it was campy, & wow, Nishikido Ryo wrote the music to this. HAHAHA. those two.
before the intermission, he went to the bar downstairs and got some drinks for himself & his dancers.
they filmed him drinking & stuff!
-intermission- (aka my bathroom break, LOL)
*dance segment*: OK. i'm actually going to comment on this dance segment, because after the intermission, the show was a dance-off for a really, really long section of the show. it wasn't boring though. tons & tons of different dance moves. pop dance, locking, tricks, and a lot of his dancers had solos during this section. there was also this screen dance, where Jin & another dancer were wearing these white suits and these lights were like making images on these suits. it was really awesome.
if you don't know me, i make fun of Jin being an "American Wannabe" BUT. he actually included a Japanese inspired routine here. all the dancers had kimonos at one point and there were some panels with traditional Japanese clothing that were brung out. he also had a mask on for one part of it. it looked like the mask Kame wore in his 1582 performance during Break the Records Tour. he also did this red cloth section with a lot of illusions too. i really liked this section of the show. i haven't seen this type of performance before! it was really interesting.
oh yeah! there was another dancer from America's Best Dance Crew working for Jin too. she was from Beat Freaks (an all-female crew). BGirl Shorty! (the one with the red hair!)
Yellow Gold: I LOVED THE MUSIC to this song. it was soooo hot! it's a dance/hip-hop song, but it was very, very distinctive from his other ones. i think the lyrics are pretty eh, but goooood lord, HOOOOT.
My MP3: this was a really, fun dance song. the screen in the back was pretty awesome for this segment too. lots & lots of colors and dancing.
Tipsy Love: i bet 2 cents he wrote this when he was drunk or something. LOL. there was a short break before this song, so they could bring out the big inflatable globe prop. this song had an island/reggae vibe to it, but it was just a fun, cheesy little number. i was waving my hands everywhere, lol.
after the song, he named all the dancers and hugged every single one of them. lol. he was screaming their names and was just...cute! haha. he thanked us all and told us he loves us.
there was no encore, sadly. but all in all, it was a fun show. it's usually something i wouldn't normally see! i was very impressed with all the dance segments. JIN CAN MOVE. wow. he is exactly how he looks like in pictures. like i was sure all the photoshop or whatever would hide all his flaws, but he looks...like Jin! ahaha. i wanted him to speak more English, but you could tell he was a bit nervous. but after some drinks & stuff, he became calm and a party animal! lol. i still think he needs to work on pronunciation. there's still that Japanese accent when he speaks.
it was a good almost 3 hour show. the venue for the most part was full and it seemed like everyone was having a good time! it was my first time going to a rather "Japanese" concert. so it was full of clapping and waving. i usually jump and scream (like i did for Lady Gaga) and sing loudly. but it was a smaller venue, so i guess it's understandable.
all these Japanese ladies dress so girly & cute. i was like in another dimension in the stand-by. i couldn't get good pictures, unfortunately because security kept hounding us for cameras and my phone's camera SUCKS SO BAD. D:
so yeah, that was my day. gonna SLEEEEEP. lol.