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Hello
everyone! For today’s post, I will write about a concert review or to be exact,
my experience in watching EXO Planet #2: The EXO’luXion in Jakarta. It’s
my first time writing a concert review despite often plan to write it on my
blog. I actually have watched quite a lot of K-Pop concerts, but I never wrote
it. I don’t know maybe because I don’t have enough confidence or maybe because
I’m just too lazy to write it hahaha. But, today I finally write it! Thanks to
my love for EXO J
Anyway,
boy group EXO just made their third visit in Jakarta, Indonesia on
Saturday, February 27th to hold their second concert, The
EXO’luXion in Indonesian Convention Exhibition (ICE). It’s the third times because
they have been to Indonesia for SM Town concert in 2012 and EXO
Planet #1: The Lost Planet, their first concert in 2014 (For Chen
and Xiumin, it’s actually the fourth time because EXO-M was the
guest for Super Junior’s Super Show 4 in 2012). Apparently, Indonesia is
also their second last stop before wrap up this whole EXO’luXion tour.
It’s
my first time watching EXO solo concert because I didn’t watch their first
tour. I only watched them during SM Town stage four years ago. I watched
EXO’luxion with three of my friends and booked tickets for Blue Section. For
those of you who plan to watch EXO’luXion, I strongly recommend the Blue
section because you get a clear image of the stage and the boys up close.
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The
concert started around 6.30 PM and opened with a VCR that related with their
Pathcode teasers. Basically, it’s about nine objects from outer space that came
to earth. The VCR stopped and the end of maze in Overdose music video slowly opened. The eight boys of EXO (Lay didn’t
present) appeared and went straight to perform Overdose. It’s an epic opening accompanied by VCR and lightning
that constantly changed. They followed through History and El Dorado where
EXO moved to the front stage and played with light saber.
After
three songs, EXO introduced themselves. They made sure we moved back so nobody
got hurt. Baekhyun and Sehun also made sure we knew that they
just had a haircut for today’s concert. EXO continued with the fourth song, Don’t Go that has beautiful choreography
with delicate hand movements. The seductive Playboy
became the next song where the boys went into different stage and danced in
pair. I was captivated by Kai’s dance in front of me. He
continued to mesmerize me again when he danced Baby Don’t Cry on the water for the next song. This boy is magical!
Baby Don’t Cry followed with another
ballad, My Answer where Baekhyun
displayed his piano skill.
We
took a break until Chanyeol introduced us again with EXO, who now
changed into red and black suit. They performed The Star, Exodus, and Hurt on the stairs just like in Broadway.
It showed elegant and mature side of them. They worked those expression,
especially Chanyeol and Kai every time the camera shot them, although you can
see some of the boys’ move were a bit loose.
The
next section is an adorable EXO time where they acted as elfs in coffee machine
for VCR. They continued with Peterpan and
XOXO with playfulness and
mischievousness. For Lucky, the next
song, they teased audiences by changing their outfit on stage behind white
curtain. Everyone was hysterical while I was shocked to see how fast they changed
from the stripes outfit to pink shirt hahaha.
The
boys had a chat with audiences after singing 3.6.5 and leader Suho pointed out there were many
embarrassing photos of EXO that we brought. Cue to Chanyeol took
out Baekhyun’s ugly photo from audiences and made him imitated it precisely.
The best part was the note behind the photo mentioned that it belonged to a fan
boy! EXO then talked about how lovely it is to spend Christmas in Jakarta and began
singing Christmas Day, First Snow, and Miracle in December. During Miracle
in December, Chen stopped singing for a while to listen audiences singing
his part.
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Our
singing got praise from Xiumin in the next section. He and Chanyeol asked us to
jump carefully and sing like their instruction. Both of them began to rap Full Moon while another member came and
changed the song into Machine.
Chanyeol took a center stage while acted as a DJ inside a diamond for the next
song, Drop That followed by Let Out The Beast, which displayed breathtaking
lightning, including green laser that came from Baekhyun and D.O’s
jacket. This got to be my favorite
section of the night. We finally see the different side of EXO. Forget the
perfectly executed choreography; they ran around the stage and motioned us to
jump while say E X O. It actually worked and audiences were completely hyped
up. Everyone sang along until the last song for this section, Run.
Another
VCR played. Kai called somebody, which of course led to the next song, Call Me Baby. The boys started to look
tired, but then Growl came and it
turned audiences crazy. The fan chant was so loud, even Chanyeol motioned us to
sing the fan chant during his part. The boys had a chat with audiences again
while threw off their jacket because it was hot. At this time, audiences held a
banner that said, “Terima Kasih EXO (Thank You, EXO in Indonesian language)”.
They performed the last song, Love Me
Right all smiling and energetic before said goodbye to us.
As
expected, the audiences weren’t satisfied and began chanting encore. Finally, a
VCR showed behind the scenes of this tour accompanied by a piano of Promise. Everyone sang along until EXO
came back again with Sing For You. We
continued to sing throughout the song while held the banner that said, “우리 꼭 다시 만나요 (We will meet again for sure)”. The boys
looked touched, even D.O stopped singing and motioned us to sing his part.
Suho
mentioned about our fan project during the last segment and felt touched to see
us thanking and asking EXO to comeback even though it was them who supposed to
do that. Chanyeol praised us saying that we did a great job in singing, knew
how to enjoy the concert, and told us that we’re beautiful. D.O said that we
will meet again for sure in exact same way like our banner while Kai suggested
us to take a hot shower after the concert because we must be tired. Chen kept
saying thank you in Indonesian language while Xiumin said, “Aku Cinta Jakarta (I
Love You, Jakarta) and other members followed him. Baekhyun said, “Terima
Kasih” in the most playful way and Sehun closed the greeting, talked about how
great it is to eat watermelon in Jakarta hot weather and repeated saying we
will meet again. EXO took a picture with audiences and performed Unfair as the last song while strolled
around picking up gifts from audiences.
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Overall,
The EXO’luXion was a great concert! Effective set list to build up the concert,
spectacular lightning and VCRs. The audiences are energetic and I love that we always sing throughout the concert. However, it was EXO attitude as performer that
made this concert memorable for me. To be honest, I didn’t expect much from
them because most of K-Pop groups tend to have a “perfect” performance that we
can’t really relate too. From what I experienced, only some of them worked it
such as Big Bang, 2PM, and 2NE1.
EXO
proved the otherwise. Their performance doesn’t perfect; some members voice
sounded off pitch at certain part and their movement was slow at some point.
However, they made it up with great stage presence. They know how to interact
with the crowd, dominate the stage (the blocking was really good because each
member takes turn to different stage), and the most important thing is they
enjoyed the concert. This kind of attitude really brought the concert to life. It’s
a completely different EXO that I saw four years ago in SM Town concert. EXO that
I see now is more mature and more confidence. Definitely
deserved the title as top tier group!
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