New world tour ‘Light Here’ starts at Goyang Sports Complex Main Stadium
58,000 people gathered on the 12th and 13th
Incheon Asiad Main Stadium (March), Seoul World Cup Stadium (April), Gocheok Sky Dome (July), and even Goyang Sports Complex Main Stadium in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the 13th.
The popular group ‘Seventeen’ toured all stadiums and domes in the domestic metropolitan area for about 7 months. In the meantime, they also toured overseas, including at Nissan Stadium in Kanagawa and Yokohama, Japan. In addition, he was the first K-pop artist to enter the main stage of the large British music festival Glastonbury Festival, the ‘Pyramid Stage’ (July), and also headlined the main stage of Lollapalooza Berlin in Germany (September).
It is a tight schedule to create a new performance concept and narrative. However, the day before and on this day, ‘Seventeen’ opened fire at the main stadium of Goyang Sports Complex. [라이트 히어] World Tour (SEVENTEEN [RIGHT HERE] As Hoshi assured, ‘WORLD TOUR’ was a scene where not only performance but also mastery of narrative and directing was even. It was no exaggeration to say that Seventeen had now patented the ‘stadium performance’.
The early productions, which included ‘Poison: Fear’, ‘Fearless’, and ‘MAESTRO’, were sung to overcome one’s fear and prove one’s worth. I raced all the way to the end, telling a story about a bright light appearing at the end of a dark passage.
Just after 6 p.m., we sang ‘Our Dawn Is Hotter Than the Day’, but as dusk came, it created a dawn-like atmosphere.
The overall performance was magnificent, befitting the stadium. The fact that there were relatively many stages with intros also shaped the gigantic narrative of the performance. ‘Poison: Fear’, ‘Fearless’, ‘What Should I Do’ and the new song ‘LOVE, MONEY, FAME·LMF (feat. DJ Khaled)’ were like that.
Of course, the genres are different, but the songs included in the 12th mini album ‘SPILL THE FEELS’, which will be released at 6 PM on the 14th, including ‘Water’ (hip-hop team), ‘Rain’ (performance team), and ‘Candy’ (vocal team), are overall different. I followed the narrative of the performance in a serious mood. ‘What Happened’, ‘Snap Shot’, ‘God of Music’, and ‘Ima’ What led to the Korean version was the part about Seventeen’s ‘show stopper’.
The title track of ‘Spill the Feels’, the R&B hip-hop genre ‘Love, Money, Fame’, was also revealed for the first time. Instead of simply accepting the world’s rules about love, money, and fame, Seventeen’s hip interpretation stood out. Seventeen continues to create their own style of speaking.
This tour will be comprised of 11 members instead of 13, with the exception of Jeonghan, who is serving alternative service, and Jun, who is filming a Chinese drama. Here, the advantages of centrifugal and centripetal forces, which are the advantages of multi-member groups, were revealed. Although the movement of the song is bound to be different, it encompasses a wider spectrum with centrifugal energy, while at the same time demonstrating greater cohesion with centripetal energy, carrying the energy of the previous complete body.
K-pop idol work is a special and specialized labor that involves handling the body. But the key thing they cannot compromise on is sincerity. The key is to maintain a sense of tension accompanied by excitement with the fans. When performing numerous performances, your body and mind can move inertically.
Seventeen, who said, “I can’t control my strength right from the opening” (Hoshi), does not perform with great skill. There is no calculation that says, ‘If I do this, it will be impressive.’
At the end of the performance, a drone show decorated the night sky. The cheers grew louder every time the logo of SEVENTEEN and the fandom ‘CARAT’ and the diamond symbolizing CARAT were engraved in the air. It contains a promise to be with Carat forever. After singing ‘Youth Hymn’, the Seventeen members shouted: “Every moment spent with Seventeen is youth.”
A total of 58,000 people gathered the day before and today. Jeonghan received attention as he was watched from the audience both the day before and today. Seventeen will continue ‘Light Here’ for 10 episodes in 5 cities in the United States starting from the 22nd to 23rd. Of these, 9 performances were sold out less than a day after ticket sales began. Seventeen will go to Japan next month and conduct a dome tour in four cities. Afterwards, they will also perform in major Asian cities such as Bulacan, Singapore, Jakarta, and Bangkok.
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