After keeping fans waiting for more than a year, SM Entertainment has finally released Girls’ Generation’s “The First Asia Tour: Into The New World DVD”. With that said, fans have been eagerly grabbing the goodies off the shelves, and Soshified Writers are no exception. With the prettily packaged DVD in mind, let’s dive in and see if it was worth the money, shall we?
Firstly, let’s start off with the DVD packaging.
In my opinion, the packaging was a little plain on the whole. The colour is very cute and pleasing, but the designs were a little too simple. There could have been more pictures on the disks themselves like the CD version of the concert. That is one of my all time favourite Girls’ Generation disks because it was very well decorated, and it captured the “Pink Ocean” very well.
Photo of CD version of the Into The New World Concert
Let’s move on to the performances put up during the concert. Overall, I think it was a pretty impressive stage considering the fact that it was their first ever solo concert. The concert started off with an awe-inspiring performance of “Tell Me Your Wish”, and I really liked the stage props like the propellers and the pyrotechnics. Of course, the remixed version with the extra dance break just made everything better. “Tell Me Your Wish” is one of my favourite Girls’s Generation songs, so a longer, newer version of it is always welcomed by me. My favourite part of the dance break was when the nine members broke up into groups of three and had a “Pass It On” sort of dance
The solo stages as a whole were, in my opinion, nothing to shout about. Of course, we got to see a different side of the girls as compared to their usual innocent or cute concepts. But I felt that as singers, they should have pushed for a song which showed off their vocal capabilities rather than something like “Barbie Girl”. In my opinion, “Barbie Girl” is a song which doesn’t highlight Jessica’s ability to sing, but instead portrays her as a stereotypical blonde. However, there were a few stages which I thought were pretty good. Out of the nine performances, Taeyeon’s, Tiffany’s and Yuri’s solo stages were my favourites. They had great stage presence (not that I’m saying the others didn’t), and their singing wowed me too. Although I thought the other members’ song choices or singing were just so-so, they still handled their stages pretty well. Yoona’s stage was especially fun to watch because she interacted with the fans, and it also featured Leetuk’s and Shindong’s hilarious rapping. Yuri’s rapping was not fantastic, but I do applaud her for rapping the whole song in English even though we all know that languages aren’t her forte.
The group performances on the other hand were fun to watch, especially during songs like “Kissing You” when the girls ran around the stage interacting with fans. Personally, I think that it’s a much better experience when the artists run around and rile the crowd up instead of simply dancing at the front of the stage, and Girls’ Generation definitely didn’t disappoint. Even though the concert was about three hours long, it was obvious that the girls put in tons of effort to make the concert a success, and I really like that.
Overall, I think that for their first solo concert, it was a huge success. The girls no doubt got a better feel of how it’s like to run a concert on their own, and the success of their second concert definitely showed lots of improvements.
Packaging Rating: 6/9
Content Rating: 8/9
Overall Rating: 7/9
Also, stay tuned to the next review about the individual performances!
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Like this……
does the cd version contains the screaming and chants from the fans? or just the studio version of the song that was sang in the concert?
is it on cd stores?? if yes i would go get it nw
i wish it came out with eng subs
I bought this one as soon as it came out (still haven’t gotten around to buying the CD yet, so I wasn’t too disappointed by the “plain” packaging/design).
I gotta say this one was pretty good. The beginning made me get goose-bumps, and I can only imagine what is was like to have actually been there. I liked seeing the girls singing English songs/classics, and I used this DVD to introduce my mom to SNSD, which was pretty good cause now she’s a SONE as well. ^^
The DVD also includes another version of Jessica’s “Barbie Girl”. It’s nice, but I sorta wish they included Sooyoung and Hyoyeon’s different stages. I have to admit I was really looking forward to Hyoyeon’s “So Sick” performance and was a little disappointed to find that it wasn’t there. But that’s okay, I guess.
All in all, I thought this was a great DVD. Though there aren’t any English subtitles (translate for me mom!), it was still really worth the buy. ^^
i thought this came out a real long time back!? anyway, i rmb watching the perfs on utube, and i ws so regretful that i didnt make it to any of the countries for that…yep..one awesome concert…i wouldnt mind going to see their 2nd asian tour again..tis real awesome ^^ soshi fighitng!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
w8 i tot i came out much earlier???
i want it ~~~
simple and nice
=p
i don’t put really any weight into the packaging that the dvd or cd comes in. it is the content of the package that counts. i love the concert intro. that is one of my favorite snsd songs, and it isn’t even one. i love the group performances, particularly the fan contact, as you pointed out. and i really enjoyed the individual performances. the only ones i thought were lacking were sooyoung and yoona, but they have more than made up for it since with their amazing solos for the japan tour. i actually really liked jessica’s version of barbie girl. her voice and persona fit it perfectly. we all know she is far from a dumb blonde, she just wanted to have fun and it was. i have always found the girls’ strongpoint to be their live performances, so i disagree with your criticism of some of their stages. it was a very good production from beginning to end. the only thing i find disappointing is that this is not their actual first solo concert. this was a later performance in the tour. if you’d like to see some footage from their actual first concert, watch episode 4 of “Right Now: Girls’ Generation”. i thought that was more memorable, not through any fault of the girls, you just can’t beat the first of anything really. it was a bit more meaningful. however, every performance is memorable and you should get this to share in it!!!
ikr, the intro is awesome!
woow, it looks awesome, I really really want it
Where to buy it?
I’m glad that this came out to be worth purchasing. I don’t have one yet but I hope to get one to go along with my CD of the Concert. I really want to see this on the big screen.
i want to buy it……….:3