As someone who frequently attends concerts - especially K-pop ones - outside of work, my expectations for Aespa's were the same: A powerful entrance, multiple outfit changes, strobe lights and additional dance breaks to spice things up.
Interactive visual effects, AI solo stage: Why Aespa's Singapore show is epic even for a frequent concertgoer
The four-member K-pop girl group - consisting of South Korean members Karina and Winter, China-born Ningning and Korean-Japanese Giselle - opened the show with a bang, performing 2023's Drama. By now, I expected a ment - short for comment, a term referring to a talking segment - as artistes would usually introduce themselves after one or two songs in the past K-pop concerts I've been to, which included those by Blackpink, BTS, Seventeen and Itzy.The pre-recorded videos in between performances were longer than most K-pop concerts too, but the peculiar yet intriguing storyline was enough to keep me entertained.
The next half of the show had the most impressive visual effects I'd seen for all the K-pop concerts I've attended from displays of the four members in a cute comic-like format on screen for We Go - their soundtrack for Pokemon Horizon: The Series - to an interactive text animation asking the audience: "Are you ready?"Though I knew the group has a metaverse concept where each member has her own avatar in a virtual reality world - after all, Aespa stands for "avatar x...
The wait before an encore is when I'd usually start scrolling through social media to pass the time, but my eyes stayed glued to the screen for an unexpected interactive segment.
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