But nonetheless, it's up!!!!
Yes!!! I went for Skull & Haha's showcase on the 20th July. Before I talk more about the showcase, here's a little on how I gotta know them. Well I am sure many of you gotta know HaHa through the popular variety show: Running Man. But I gotta know HaHa and his reggae music on another show: Infinity Challenge, where he performed with 10 Cm: 죽을래 사귈래. (jukeullae saguillae). This vid showed the Dokkbogi song too, that was sang during the encore.
This song caught my attention before the Singers did for I was only watching that episode as
G- Dragon was in it. But yes, awesome song! You guys should check it out too.
As for Skull, I only knew about him when I head about this duo and some buzzes about him once being in YG before this duo turn out and stuffs. But honestly, when he got on stage, you can not not like this man's voice. So essentially, it didn't matter if I really knew this man or not, his husky voice rocks!
Reggae has been hitting out the markets more often recently especially with 2NE1's Falling In Love making top charts. While that's the case for idols like 2NE1, the duo said during the showcase that they never made number one in Korea, but they were thankful that Singapore Fans place them number one in their hearts.
So the evening started with fans queuing outside the hot and humid weather waiting to get inside Zouk. When we finally get to enter, DJ IT (incidentally one of the award winning DJs) brought the beats and the volume up. It was kinda sad to note that while the beats were pumping the crowd still remained as cool and careless as they await for their stars to arrive.
As the crowd started to fill in the floor, the MCs got the ball rolling by getting the crowd warmed up to Skull & HaHa's first entrance. As the crowd cheered, Skull & HaHa arrived and got the crowd cheering to their first song: ReggaErilla. They even tried to be cheeky by speaking a bit of English asking each other how they are, that had the crowd cheering and they started on the chorus again. You would have thought that would be the end of it, but no, as they ended their first witty entrance, they started the chorus again and got the crowd high!
The MCs did a slight interview with them starting with what's their favourite Singapore Food . Both said in union: "Chili Crab!" "Black Pepper Crab". That sounded almost as rehearsed as I tell you that my favourite Korean Food is Kimchi. But HaHa had the crowd laughing after by saying that he loves "Singapore Beer, Tiger!" Also, before they started on the next song, Skull said that he's thankful that that he saw many "Chio Bu"s down stage, that had the crowd raving mad. They also promised those who partied the hardest presents. It can be seen through this interview that Skull's more fluent in English, which was perhaps due to the fact that he did do some promotions in the USA. HaHa also requested the crowd to jump! He said he didn't want much and if the crowd could just jump on their toes, he'd be happy enough. (He even did a demonstration for it).
So they did their second song: From Fool to Fool. To say that this song is fully Reggae won't do this song much justice as the chorus is rather upbeat accompanied by loads of techno. Maybe it's base is Reggae? They had the crowd raving mad when the chorus started. If you guys are wondering who's the sunglasses dude that's taking a vid behind them, he's HaHa's stylist. Not to forget, HaHa also sprayed water to the crowds. (Should I feel lucky that I got sprayed by it too?) Hahahahas, wells he did not leave himself out too, he poured a bottle of water on himself and had the crowd screaming MAD. But wells, his poor stylist had to mop the stage after that was done as a safety precaution for the stars.
After the second song, they had this mini competition where 3 fans are chosen for the lyrics they wrote for Busan Vaccation that includes Singapore inside. Wells, obviously the normal stuff came out like: Merlion, Esplanade, Sentosa...I mean what else can there be when you are writing lyrics that describes the landmarks we have over here. But out of the 3 contestants, the third one who is also the youngest stood out in with better singing tone and a better lyrics fit. Hence the audience chose her as the winner via their cheers. Congrats to this young lady (whose name HaHa couldn't manage to pronounce as it was slightly hard for him) she got herself a Skull & HaHa T-shirt!
Right after this prize presentation, the duo said that the third song would be their last one due to time constraints and Skull said "Maybe, maybe if you guys say encore, maybe we might just do one more song". That had the crowd laughing so in any case, the duo jumped straight into their hit song: Busan Vaccation. By that time, the crowd was fully warmed up and they screamed and belted out "Oh Oh" with the duo.
Of course the crowd shouted "Encore Encore" after this song and they got on stage again and belted out about 3 more songs. Recording was prohibited after that (sadly, i don't see why, maybe copyrights issues or something) but one of the songs that caught my attention was the one HaHa called: 술변 (sul pyeon). He requested the lights to be turned off and have the fans to switch on their phone's lights so that they can like his little stars shining on him brightly. The scene was rather pretty and HaHa sounded rather emotional when he sang it.
During the whole period, they kept throwing towels, T-shirts and some fans to the audience. That kept the crowd wild! To the fact that HaHa even asked if the fans prefer the presents or him. Wells he did a slight test on the cheering and when the presents flashed out, the screams got even louder. I think he knew the answer by then. They even invited a lady on stage and danced with her! Wells, ain't she lucky? She got to hug them too!
The night ended with the duo having a photo session with the audience. They went from stage left to stage right and conveniently missed the center. They also took phones and ipads from audiences within their reach and took photos using those too~lucky fans huh?!?!
Oh wells, I gotta say that these 2 men were really good at their fan service and the music was good! I have tagged the vids on the song titles, you peeps can check them out!!!!
Till next time!!!
<3 FJ
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