SMTown in New York, the movie!

Going to SMTown Live in New York was one of the best experiences in my life, so imagine my delight when I heard that it's going to be made into a movie!

A movie documenting the performances and daily lives of SM Entertainment artists at New York’s ‘SM TOWN Live’ concert will be released next year.

The co-producer of this movie, CJ Entertainment, stated, “A movie will be made telling the real story, behind the scenes and off stage, from the ‘SM Town Live World Tour in New York’, which saw stages from Kangta, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, SNSD, SHINee, and f(x).”

The movie will be a joint project between CJ Entertainment and SM Entertainment, and will contain footage of rehearsals, heartfelt confessions, the transformation from trainees to stars, and interviews about the artists’ future dreams.

The movie will be released in the first half of 2012 under the title ‘I am: SM Town Live World Tour in Madison Square Garden’.

Source: Allkpop

I'm gonna have to see this one!

-stormoftara :3

K-Pop Sensations Usher In New Era At Madison Square Garden from NY1

By: Lewis Dodley

The new and improved Madison Square Garden kicked things off with a bang this week as Asian pop sensation Girls Generation took to the stage. NY1's Lewis Dodley filed the following report.

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Their name is Girls Generation. The nine-member group from South Korea was one of seven acts brought to New York by SM Entertainment who packed the arena at Madison Square Garden.

Their energy, youthful beauty and catchy tunes shot them up the charts in Asia. Now they've set their sights on the U.S.

Their first English single called "The Boys" was released just last week but will it make Girls Generation a household name.

"Hopefully it will. We worked with Teddy Riley for the single. And he was very comforting and I think the result came out really well," said Girls Generation member Jessica.

The single is one thing, but is America ready for nine girls in one group?

"Definitely looking forward to U.S. fans liking Girls Generation because there's a variety of personalities and people so I think you can take your choice," said Girls Generation member Tiffany.

There's no shortage of choice when it comes to the growing number of so called K-Pop groups. Though there are more than a million Asians in New York and 14 million across the country their goal is to appeal to the broader U.S market -- something made easier by the power of the Internet.

"Five years ago it would be hard to imagine that people in Europe or all over the world would be listening to K-Pop," said Key of SHINee.

And five years from now we might be wondering what took so long in the first place.

Source:NY1

Key's english is just....daebak!
Those of us who have been into kpop for a while now are ALREADY wondering what took so long! And since I was there...there were fans of ALL race and ethnicity there! Just sayin.....

^.^

To see the extended SNSD interview on NY1 please click the link! 
Really DON'T miss this interview cause its pretty awesome and adorable!

SNSD extended interview on NY1

So mad I couldn't find a way to embed the interview video....

technology does NOT often defeat me!

grrrrrrr >.>

SMTown in New York: TVXQ! and the ending

The last band we haven't covered yet is TVXQ!

I got a lot of good photos of them.







These pictures were all from the song Before You Go. Here is a fan video of that song!


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mmm so sexy....

The other amazing video they did was Keep Your Head Down


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And that's all I've got for our SMTown Live in New York coverage, but here you can watch the amazing ending of the show!


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Until next time!
-stormoftara :3

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SMTown in New York the Introductions!

Some of the best moments are the introductions, everyone tried so hard with English intros!
The screams were deafening! but as a whole it was such a well behaved crowd, we all tried so hard to quiet down and cheer loud at the same time! We wanted all the artist to know we loved them!

Various SM Artists - Intro/Talk Compilation [FANCAM 720p HD] @ SM Live NY (2011.10.23)

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Awwwww Henry and Mimi's intro is so precious! I can't even begin to express how happy I was to see them BOTH there. I had heard that Henry would be there but nothing about Zhou Mi, I screamed so LOUD! Adore my Super Junior M boys!!!!
AMBER!!!!! Omo! She got so many cheers!
The SMTown Live intro video!
[FANCAM] SMTOWN Live NYC 10/23/11 [Part 1]

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HD and full screen this if you can!
Enjoy a lot!
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Lets relive TVXQ's intro into Madison Square Garden!
It was so epic! One of my fav moments!

SMTown Live NY TVXQ DBSK Intro [111023] [fancam]

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Korean Pop Machine, Running on Innocence and Hair Gel

And now the New York Times weights in...leather and hair gel? hmmmm....

SM Town Live Super Junior joined a cavalcade of South Korean groups at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

By JON CARAMANICA

Published: October 24, 2011

Think of the work required to make just one Justin Bieber. The production, the management, the vocal training, the choreography, the swagger coaching — all that effort to create one teen-pop star in a country that’s still starving for them. South Korea has no such drought, thanks to several companies that specialize in manufacturing a steady stream of teenage idols, in groups of various configurations. One of the longest-running of these companies is SM Entertainment, which on Sunday night hosted SM Town Live, a sold-out showcase at Madison Square Garden for several of its acts, any one of which any American reality-TV talent show or major-label A&R department worth its salt would be thrilled to have discovered.

American teen-pop at its peak has never been this productive. K-pop — short for Korean pop — is an environment of relentless newness, both in participants and in style; even its veteran acts are still relatively young, and they make young music. Still, there were subtle differences among the veterans, like BoA and TVXQ, and the newer-minted acts like Super Junior, Girls’ Generation and SHINee.
Members of the younger set are less concerned with boundaries, drawing from the spectrum of pop of the last decade in their music: post-Timbaland hip-hop rumbles, trance-influenced thump, dance music driven by arena-rock guitars, straightforward balladry.

Members of the South Korean boy group SHINee, with the aid of multicolored leather and copious amounts of hair products, added their sex appeal to the mix.
Of these groups, the relative newcomer SHINee was the most ambitious. From the looks of it, the group’s men are powered by brightly colored leather, Dr. Martens boots and hair mousse. Their music, especially “Replay,” “Ring Ding Dong” and “Juliette,” felt the riskiest, even if it only slightly tweaked that polyglot K-pop formula; these vocalists were among the night’s strongest.
But SHINee came in a recognizable format, the same size as American groups like ’N Sync and the Backstreet Boys. But what K-pop has excelled at in recent years are large groups that seem to defy logic and order. Super Junior, which at its maximum has 13 members, was one of this show’s highlights, appearing several times throughout the night in different color outfits, shining on “Mr. Simple” and the intense industrial dance-pop of “Bonamana.” (K.R.Y., a sub-group of Super Junior, delivered what may have been the night’s best performance on “Sorry Sorry Answer,” a muscular R&B ballad.)
Super Junior was complemented by the nine-woman Girls’ Generation, which offered a more polite take on K-pop, including on “The Boys,” which is its debut American single. Girls’ Generation gave perhaps the best representation of K-pop’s coy, shiny values in keeping with a chaste night that satisfied demand, but not desire. (It was an inversion on the traditional American formula; in this country young female singers are often more sexualized than their male counterparts.)
Male and female performers shared the stage here only a couple of times, rarely getting even in the ballpark of innuendo. In one set piece two lovers serenaded each other from across the stage, with microphones they found in a mailbox (he) and a purse (she). In between acts the screens showed virginal commercials about friendship and commitment to performance; during the sets they displayed fantastically colored graphics, sometimes childlike, sometimes Warholian, but never less than cheerful.
In the past few years K-pop has shown a creeping global influence. Many acts release albums in Korean and Japanese, a nod to the increasing fungibility of Asian pop. And inroads, however slight, are being made into the American marketplace. The acts here sang and lip synced in both Korean and English. Girls’ Generation recently signed with Interscope to release music in the United States. And in August Billboard inaugurated a K-Pop Hot 100 chart. But none of the acts on the SM Town Live bill are in the Top 20 of the current edition of the fast-moving chart. This is a scene that breeds quickly.
Which means that some ideas that cycle in may soon cycle out. That would be advisable for some of the songs augmented with deeply goofy rapping: showing the English translation of the lyrics on screen didn’t help. The best rapping of the night came from Amber, the tomboy of the least polished group on the bill, f(x), who received frenzied screams each time she stepped out in front of her girly bandmates.
If there was a direct American influence to be gleaned here, it was, oddly enough, Kesha who best approximates the exuberant and sometimes careless genrelessness of K-pop in her own music; her songs “Tik Tok” and “My First Kiss” (with 3OH!3) were covered during this show.
But while she is simpatico with the newer K-pop modes, she had little to do with the more mature styles. Those were represented by the Josh Groban-esque crooning of Kangta, lead singer of the foundational, long-disbanded Korean boy band H.O.T., who made a brief appearance early in the night, and the duo TVXQ, a slimmed-down version of the long-running group by that name, who at one point delved into an R&B slow jam reminiscent of Jodeci or early Usher. BoA, the night’s only featured solo artist, has been making albums for a decade, and her “Copy & Paste” sounded like a vintage 1993 Janet Jackson song.
She’ll also star in “Cobu,” a 3-D dance film to be released next year, previews of which induced shrieks before the concert began. The crowd also screamed at an ad for Super Junior Shake, an iPhone game app, and for the SM Entertainment global auditions, which will take place early next year in several countries, and will keep the machine oiled for years to come.

Source:The New York Times

SMTown New York, F(x), SNSD, and BoA

Lots of pictures coming your way! I can't remember all the songs that were playing at the time, but I'll try to give some reference if I can.

First on stage was F(x) singing La Cha Ta if I recall correctly. Here are some pictures I managed to take.

After that Jessica from SNSD and Krystal from F(x) sang a cover of Tik Tok!



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One of the funniest songs of the night is when Kangta and Sulli from F(x) sang 7989 and kept pulling microphones out of everywhere.

Onew? Where did you come from you sly delivery boy!

One of the coolest songs they did was when Key from SHINee and Krystal from f(x) sang My First Kiss.

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Then of course when SNSD came out I was way too excited to take pictures, but I did get a lot of video!

Here are some of the pictures I did get, while they were singing HAHAHA.



Then SNSD sang Run Devil Run

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Then they did their introductions and sang Kissing You.

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And then they sang Oh!


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That's the last of the videos I got for the girls, since my phone's battery died shortly after that, but WORRY NOT. We have plenty more photos.

Here are some BoA pictures!

BoA and Key from SHINee sang Did it for Love together SOOO CUTEEEEEEEE

This post is just getting way too long. Look out for more coming soon!

-stormoftara :3

SMTown In New York - The Long Road to the Show - My Music Radar! Style!

It was a long road to this show, not just the trains, planes and automobiles, or the deficits  we were working under, but also because it took so damn long for SMTown to come to New York.
BoA says in her intro that she never thought she would have a show in Madison Square Garden, but, here she was, and she goes on to thank the fans for all their hard work for getting them there. My mind wandered to all the flash mobs...and buying so much music on iTunes and all the love, yes it took a lot of love to get us all under one roof (take THAT Lee Soo Man!). This trip for My Music Radar! was all about the artists and their music. And it was our trip, mine and Tara's with wonderful memories we will have for always.
I got to see a real live Jongkey moment!

And I got to see SHINee perform Replay, still one of my fav songs ever.

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 And Stand by Me where you can actually hear Tara squeeeeing at the end ^^
SMTown Live SHINee Stand by Me

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And Get Down!
SMTown Live SHINee Get Down

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And Oh my Supermen! Really I went wild!
SMTown Live Super Junior Bonamana

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Perfection- we sing this one in the car a lot!
Henry and Zhou Mi!!!! I went wilder! >.<  OMG!
SMTown Live Super Junior intros and Perfection

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Yeah a whole lotta love!
Stormy ^.^

SMTown New York, more SNSD and F(x)

Guess what we have? More pictures! First up is SNSD!

I love the background in this one

The rest of these are from the song Hoot.

And what's this? More F(x) too! This was from Hot Summer.

Amber was so cute during this song :3

I wasn't able to get a video of SNSD singing The Boys so here is another Fan Cam, because this song is too good to miss!



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That's all for the girls, but...I am gonna post one for SHINee too! Lucifer was my FAVORITE song of the whole night! Just check it out and you'll see why.



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Seeing all these bands in concert was probably one of the best things I've ever done! My body aches from jumping around so much, and my throat hurts from screaming too much, but I had so much fun! I hope I can see them all in concert again.

-stormoftara :3

SMTown In New York, The Long Road to the Show

Sorry for the wait, we had about 200 photos and 16 videos to upload! It took a long time, but here we are!

First I will tell you about our trip to New York and how everything we did turned out to be AMAZING

Going to New York isn't that hard from where we live, but it does take some time. Stormy and I drove to New Haven to take the train to Grand Central Station. Then we took a taxi to Madison Square Garden where everyone was gathered. We took some pictures!

Madison Square Garden! SQUEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Some signs from outside of Madison Square Garden

We were very hungry, (and probably a little grumpy) so we went across the street to get something to eat. While we were there we talked with some other fans and thought about how cool it would be to see the SMTown Live bus. OH WAIT IS THAT THE BUS?!

THE BUS!!!!!

I was so excited to take this picture I probably knocked down 20 people >.>

After lunch we got in line to get some MERCHANDISE!!!! I got a t-shirt and Stormy got a tote bag and a shirt too! We were very lucky in that line too, they cut off people from buying merchandise right behind us D: But they did open it back up again so those poor people didn't wait in line for nothing.

Stormy did want to go back outside for a coffee at this point, but I was like NO SCREW THAT! We are waiting in the lobby! This was probably for the best since we were some of the first people to be seated! Here you can see our view of the stage.

We were pretty high up...

Stormy and I waited in growing anticipation for the show to start, waving our glow stick around and talking. THEN THE LIGHTS WENT DARK. This movie is what played:


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Sorry about the quality, we were really high up and recording with...a cellphone...

In any case look out for more LOTS MORE pictures and videos coming your way soon! Stormy will be covering the boys and I'll be covering the girls!

-stormoftara :3

SHINee Jonghyun and Super Junior Sungmin Chill with Their Guitars in Central Park

by: hazelnutthursdays on Oct 24, 2011 

K-Pop and particularly SM Entertainment artists’ fans in New York were all up in excitement when the Big Apple played host to the "SM Town Live in New York” concert. While fans worldwide can get glimpses of behind-the-scenes photos and stay updated of the events through the SM Town official Facebook account, those in New York are able to capture their idols in rare moments of true relaxation.
A fan of SHINee’s Jonghyun was able to snap a photo of him playing the guitar in Central Park. With him in the same frame is Super Junior’s Sungmin, also playing the guitar. The photo was shared on the fan’s Twitter account, with the comment, “Romantic guitar in Central Park, Jonghyun.”
SHINee and Super Junior were joined by labelmates DBSK, SNSD, f(x), Kangta and BoA for the one-night-only performance at the Madison Square Garden on Oct. 23.

Source:SOOMPI

This one pic has indeed been making the rounds, I saved it myself, but wouldn't post it till I had a good source, because its so meaningful in so many ways.

If I wanted nothing more for the SMTown Family while they were here in the States, it was for them all to have fun and an awesome time. What could be better than singing and playing guitar in Central Park? It's like an ultimate experience!

God I love this fan for capturing this once in a life time moment!

^.^

SMTown in the States - SPAM-A-PIC

All from today 111022
Some leaving Korea
Some from the States
All good

 Henry!!!! squeeeee!!!

Key, the point is...his shoes!

Enjoy a lot! ^.^

Update: THE SMTown Live Bus in NYC!!!
Hope we get to see it tomorrow!

SMTown in the States -TVXQ, f(x) and SNSD depart Incheon Airport for New York

by VITALSIGN

Followed by Super Junior earlier today, SM Entertainment labelmates TVXQ, SNSD, and f(x) left for NYC through the Incheon Airport on October 22nd.
The ‘SM Town Live World Tour‘ will be making history on the 23rd, as the artists of SM Entertainment will be the first Asian artists to perform at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Having kicked off in Seoul, the tour captivated fans around the world with concerts in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Paris.
SM artists will be performing for a 15,000 member audience, all tickets which have been sold out. Fans can also look forward to the first performance the English version of SNSD’s “The Boys“.
SM Entertainment’s official Facebook and YouTube channel will be relaying highlight videos as well as backstage photos.
Check out their airport fashion below!

Source: Newsen
Photos: As tagged

Source:allkpop