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When lining up for the concert, members of one of them fanclubs in Taiwan passed out three things to everyone attending the concert: a paper saying "Welcome back, We Miss You So Much" a la the concert in Korea, a sticker saying "Pray For SooYoung" and a card with (I'm guessing) instructions on what to do during certain songs or parts of the concert.
Unfortunately, I can read Chinese characters as well as I can read Korean (not at all) so I was a little confused. It doesn't take much to realize that when in Rome raise the paper when everyone else raises the paper, but I couldn't tell what to do with the other parts until I saw someone point to their palm with the sticker.
It seemed like the events started with "Complete", unless I missed something happening before that. Similar to the concert in Korea, everyone raised the paper by the end of the song until when looking around the arena, you could see the white papers being held up everywhere. At the same time, people on the second floor turned on green lights which spelled out "소녀시대9". A few of the girls did tear up, I think Sunny in particular.
From what I could tell, the next thing happened after "Forever", when the girls left to prepare for the encore stage. Instead of chanting "encore", the whole crowd instead chanted "let's go soshi, let's go" for several minutes until we heard the introduction to Into The New World start playing. They definitely seemed to notice, cause Tiffany repeated the chant during the talk after finishing with Into The New World.
After "It's Fantastic" there seemed to be some attempt to get a crowd wide chant going of something with "So Nyeo Shi Dae", "Saranghae", and "Sooyoung" but it kinda failed since some of the girls started talking and saying their farewells. Looking around at the audience you could kind of see people thinking "**** what do we do?". At the very end though, before leaving the stage, one of the girls called the whole group back, and I think it was Tiffany (I can't remember, hopefully someone got that on fancam...) who pointed to her palm and said something about Sooyoung. With that the planned events seemed to be successful, and the concert ended. I hope someone gave them a sticker to take to Sooyoung ^^.
Here's just some random things about the concert as I remember them, not really relating to what was planned by the Taiwan SONEs:
The filler videos in the concerts are some of the greatest things you'll ever watch. I guess I didn't see all the fancams from the Japan Tour or the Korea concert, but seeing some for the first time is amazing. The "Smile!" one where Jessica's toasting some bread is too sweet for words, the opening video gets you excited like nothing else, the one where they're infiltrating some kind of building with guards and guard dogs is too cool, Black Swan was ridiculously hot, Key one is hilarious, and the video that played before and along with Danny Boy was really touching.
During all of the filler videos, Sooyoung always got the loudest cheers, without a doubt.
If you remember the outfit Sunny wore during her solo at the second Seoul concert that got people going crazy, well....... she wore it again. Sunshiners, prepare yourselves.
It's pretty funny listening to people try to sing along with some of the Japan album songs that the girls ended up singing in Korean. Through the hook it's nice and loud in the crowd, but then it dies off quickly hahaha.
Someone on the concert planning team was also the one who did the Japan album teasers. Half the night, the largest screen in the back of the arena was playing some weird crap that reminded me exactly of the Japan album teasers. Random things flying out, weird colors, and nothing to do with the actual performance. The other half of the time it was just a shot of the girls... why not do that the whole time? Weird...
The girls tried their best to speak some Mandarin (I think it was Mandarin......) during the introduction section. Perfect maknae was just about perfect as always, but the rest seemed to be have some trouble based on the laughing in the audience. Yuri and Jessica are pretty hilarious. It was too cute for words.
Some solo stage stuff! Skip this if you've seen photos and fancams from the Japan tour and Seoul concert, there's nothing new, just ramblings from me haha. Yuri's "If" is so hot it should be illegal. Seriously, that Ministry of Gender whatever is going to rate any DVD with that performance as 19+. No worries though, at the rate SM goes, if you're not 19 yet you will be by the time they release the DVD. I spent all of Yoona's "4 Minutes" telling myself "don't blink, don't blink, don't blink" cause if you blink, you're gonna miss it. You know what I'm talking about. Well, I didn't blink, I didn't miss it, and man it really is like magic. Jessica's "Almost" is amazing. Her dress... is something else. Seeing Taeyeon and Tiffany perform "Lady Marmalade" is probably the height of the TaeNy shipping part of my life, and Taeyeon's "Run Devil Run" intro is jaw dropping. Sunny's "Three" sounded really good, and she actually seemed to do what Yuri does in her solo....... just wait for the fancam. Hyoyeon had an amazing solo, I'm glad that this time she decided to take on singing this time, as opposed to the First Asia Tour. Seohyun..... ahh god I love the maknae and how she thinks. "All my unnies are going sex goddess, I think I'm gonna tap dance." And of course, perfect Maknae does her singing and tap dancing perfectly. No "Sway" by Sooyoung, but, well, there's a video she made that'll make up for it.
Last part! One of my favorite parts of the night was the Into The New World performance. I can never get tired of that song and it gives me chills when I see fancams of it at their concerts. Seeing it in person, with 10,000 other people singing along to the all the lyrics.... that was something else.
Really, I hope everyone reading this, every fan, every SONE, one day gets to be a part of the pink ocean at one of their concerts if they haven’t already. To be at a concert where you don't have to wonder if they're next, to be one of those screaming fans, to be one of those people swinging a pink light stick, there's nothing like it. If the chance comes, take it! You won't regret it.
Also, I'm pretty sure I was the only one wearing Soshified shirt lol. Represent, yo.
