2AM Live In Manila... and some thoughts about Kpop fans being pigeons

The hot ballad foursome of Jo Kwon, Seulong, Jinwoon and Changmin are on their way to Manila from April 27 to 30 to give us a taste of their brand of soulful ballads... and hopefully some hot booty shaking from Jo Kwon!

I'm looking forward to their fan meet at the Venice Piazza @ McKinley Hill near Bonifacio Global City on the 29th (of course... it's where I work! I would obviously go there, right?). But folks can also meet our crooners at the fabulous Newport Mall on the 28th, or at the Eastwood Mall on the 30th for their showcase concert.

The boys of 2AM --- Jo Kwon, Jinwoon, Changmin and Seulong

This piece of news has been flying around the net and the papers for around 2 months now. We don't really get to see many KPop artists visit Manila --- so when they do, the tendency is for people to flock together like pigeons around bread!

It's something funny that I observed when I started attending events like these. You'd see some hard to miss faces, and then you suddenly realize... "Wait a minute... she's with CassPH, right?" (Cassiopeia is the name of the fan club of Dong Bang Shin Ki / DBSK), or "Hmmm... I remember he's an ELF." (ELFs would refer to fans of Super Junior --- referring to "Ever Lasting Friends"). Although when you look at things from a broader perspective, it's great to see fans of different groups come together to support Korean music as a whole. We all have our personal bias / preferences (my bias is for SHINee and the Brown Eyed Girls / BEG), but it's great to see a healthy appreciation of all the acts that find their way to our shores. No in-fighting or anti's running amok... just a lot of screaming, and heart-wrenching sighing. Hahaha!

For those of you who haven't heard of their work, let me post one my fave 2AM songs --- "You Wouldn't Answer My Calls". These guys are so good at what they do... I was crying my eyes out when I watched the vid for the first time.

But then again, some people would want to watch 2AM for the simple pleasure of this...

Can there be any other reason why any sane person who likes Kpop wouldn't want to see these guys... I think not... hahaha ^^p

p.s.
In case you're not a Kpop fan, and you're reading this and you're wondering "Why pick a name like 2AM for a group?". Well, these guys were actually recruited from a reality TV show that aimed to create a huge boy band like Super Junior. The show came up a great roster of 11 talented (and, obviously, gorgeous!) guys who they dubbed "ONE DAY". But instead of developing them as one group, they were split into two groups --- one focusing on ballads, and another group focusing on pop-dance music. The ballad group came to be called 2AM, and the dance group was called 2PM.


There you go ... ^^