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!
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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

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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