SMTown LA 05/20/12

SMTown LA was held at the Honda Center in Anaheim on May 20th, 2012. The stage was smaller than the previous ones (Staples Center in LA and Madison Square Garden in NY), and I was sitting at the middle of the 200 section. The view was pretty good and I could clearly see the girls when they walked down to the front part of the stage. The overall quality of the concert was not as good as the one held in MSG, and yet the ticket prices were higher. I spotted many seats at the 300 sections were left empty compare to SMTown NY were a nearly sold out crowd. They didn't have a lot of "effects" in this concert either, where they had fireworks and artists being held 100 feet above the ground in NY. Instead, they had water shooting from the floor, and that's the only effects they had all night. It's a little bit cheaply made to me. Some members didn't appear in the concert, only 8 members of Super Juniors were there, and 7 members of SNSD (Yuri and Yoona were missing). I don't know if that has to do with the ticket sales. There were some adjustments on the songs that I liked and disliked. SHINee combined few songs together into one song (Ring Ding Dong, Lucifer, and one other song that I forgot the name). It wasn't a good idea, as I thought the original was much better, and I kinda of thought that they were doing it to shorten the concert time. The concert time was shorter than the one held in NY (maybe about 30 minutes shorter). SNSD has performed some songs that has never been performed in previous SMTowns, such as Twinkle, Devil's Cry, and California Girls. (See the list of songs below). Jessica and Krystal finally performed a different song, where they performed Tik Tok twice in previous SMTowns. I enjoyed the cover of California Girls by them. The solo dance part were cut, maybe due to Yuri and Yoona absence. The only artists that have new songs from last SMTown concert were Shinee (Sherlock) and SNSD (Twinkle). EXO had their first debut of SMTown on this night.

The songs that SNSD performed in this concert (Not in order)

1. Devil's Cry (Taeyeon Solo)
2. Run Devil Run
3. Genie
4. Gee
5. Kissing You
6. The Boys
7. California Girls (Jessica and Krystal)
8. Twinkle (TaeTiSeo)

The concert was still a good one overall, but it's a bit of downgrade compare to the previous. Hopefully they will have another epic one at NYC in the near future.