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Originally Posted by budonkadonk
Got back from her Xmas Live show about an hour ago and it was great!
They actually announced a 20 minute intermission before the show started... so, I was left wondering why that was.
BoA came out, and after opening with "The Christmas Song" and covering Yamashita Tatsuro's HIT "Christmas Eve", she announced that the show would be in two parts; Holy Night with BoA and Party Night with BoA.
The first part of the show consisted of ballads, etc and the second half was when she brought out her dancers.
BoA dusted off a few goodies from her digital Xmas album, such as "Rudolph" in English, Japanese, and Korean... she even sang a Jingle Bells in all 3 languages, initialy stumbling on the Korean part.
She opened up the "Party Night with BoA" by giving us a taste of her rendition of "Santa Baby." She really hit the song spot on and gave a pretty rousing performance.
Afterwards, she brought out "Make a Secret" and "Do the Motion" before moving onto a cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." She did a fantastic job with it; it's nice that BoA like to remind of her great singing ability. Her English was great throughout the night, as well... the only part that stood out to me was "Phrase = flays" ... yeah.
Anyhows, BoA brought the cuteness on the mic; she kept telling people not to fall asleep during the first part of the show and would check on us from time to time. Also, she was surprised at how close everyone was to the stage... so, she ended up being really nervous. I guess she likes to talk really slow once she's nervous... so she did exactly that, talked slow.
After she closed the formal part of the show with Jingle Bells... she came back out for the encore and did "Lose Your Mind" ... something else... and wrapped up with "MeriKuri."
Great emceeing from BoA tonight; it was genuine and from the heart... especially since she revealed that she hasn't been enjoying what she does lately, BoA talked about her Christmas memories... Ever since she started working as a singer, she really hadn't built and true Christmas memories... so, these two days of Live concerts have become her "Christmas memory"... and she went on the thank us for that.
Aside from being backed by a band, she was also backed by a strings group... The strings groups was actually named "The Devil's Strings..."
After she introduced them...and the crowd had their fun with the group name, BoA said "Yep... Devils... and, I'm your angel."
She had a tons of cute comments like that throughout the night; she really won the crowd over with her personality tonight.
BoA also managed to fit in rarely performed songs such as "Flower", "With You", "Kimi no Tonari de", "Diamond Heart"... and some song she did during her first live performance ( I couldn't name the song). She even had us sing along during "Kono yo no shirushi".
The line for goods was massive; it extended up 5 flights of stairs around 6pm... They were sold out of the red stocking when I got there.
The perfume smelled great, so I picked it up for my partner in crime... I grabbed a green stocking for my daughter (rabbit) since it's her first Xmas... purple shirt, phone strap... and the tiny ass tumbler.
If you bought at least $30 worth of concert goods and pre-ordered her new album... you were allowed to enter the raffle for a "Grand Prize"
Anyhows, I entered and had my partner, MegaMoki, pick the ball from the box for me... anyhows, we WON!
After the show, we visited the staff, and they gave us this bell from the Xmas tree, which had BoA's autograph and a little heart...
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