[article] “THE BEST” 2011 Rain Asia Tour in Singapore Concert.
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Please enjoy this terrific read on Rain’s May 22 BEST concert stop at Indoor Stadium in Singapore, fans. » You can revisit the previous BEST Rain Singapore press conference write-up HERE.
Thanks to co-founder Yan Yi for sending us the article link, and kudos to photographer Ryan for taking incredible pictures of Rain while The Man was in Singapore. Thumbs up to the entire KSnaps.SG team for their dedication to the KPop scene in their country—keep on fighting the good fight!
(Photos credit: Ryan @KSnaps.SG as tagged / Faith &D Entertainment as tagged / Source: KSnaps.SG @Facebook)
KSnaps.SG 5/25/2011 — write-up and photos: Ryan / editing: Clara / assist: Yan Yi
“THE BEST” 2011 Rain Asia Tour in Singapore Concert
22nd May 2011 – Mega superstar Rain was back in Singapore once again for one of the designated stopovers of his widely-anticipated “THE BEST” 2011 Rain Asia Tour. Jointly organized by Faith & D Entertainment and J. Tune Entertainment / C J E&M, the concert featured 22 of Rain’s biggest hit-performances accompanied by spectacular displays of laser shows, pyrotechnics, animation and most remarkably, a 2.5 minute-long raining sequence. Coupled with state-of-the-art stage sound and lighting systems, the explosive night was a major blast for the hordes of fans who attended the concert.
It is suffice to say that Rain brought the house down almost literally with spirals of adrenaline-pumping suave dance moves, showing off his incredible chocolate abs making the girls from left, right and centre go gaga, their piercing screams of sheer joy reverberating within the hall. Weighing in at 75kg, Rain is well-known for his ripped lean body that was made most evident in his starring role in the movie “Ninja Assassin” back in 2010. But aside from his beast-like physic, he is most recognizable for his killer-dancing abilities which eventually propelled him to stardom.
Kick-starting the concert with his soldiery-concept hit song, “I’m Coming”, Rain made an electrifying entry immediately after a dramatic introductory laser show, much to the roaring-cheers from his 5,000-strong fan audience – many of which were overseas fans who flew in from other countries such as Australia and Japan, specially for the concert!
As if watching him perform wasn’t impressive enough, Rain would occasionally tease the crowd with glimpses of his well-defined body in between dance moves. The biggest tease definitely went to the live camcorder footage of him bearing his upper body backstage whilst changing stage costumes. Imagine the chorus of wild screams from the crowd upon seeing his tight abs splash over the huge screen display on stage during the intermission! However just as he was about to take off his pants, Rain gave a cheeky grin before redirecting the camera view away, much to the disappointment of his female fans.
In a twist of events, Rain was unexpectedly rejected by a young toddler girl in his request to join him on stage for a 1-to-1 serenading performance of “My Girl” in full view of the audience – a rare opportunity many others were dying to have. Despite his sincere persuasion, the sudden spotlight perhaps startled the poor little girl into a state of frenzied stubborn rejection, leaving Rain “heart-broken” on stage, face-palmed for that moment. “My baby, I’m waiting for you…” Rain remarked, leaving the multitude of fans screaming in envy.
Overcoming his dejection, Rain went on to choose yet another lucky girl from amongst the enthusiastic crowd – a Malaysian girl in her early teens. Initially blushed crimson, the young girl managed to regain her composure and even joined Rain in dancing and singing through the song, thus earning a bouquet of flowers, a gigantic teddy bear and a big hug from Rain himself, all before the eyes of immensely jealous onlookers – how lucky of her!
Perhaps one of the most memorable scenes from the concert was the 2.5 minute-long raining sequence during the emotional performance of “Me (난)”. A total of 1000-liters of to-be-recycled water was used to create the artificial rain in which Rain drench-danced in (bare-torso-ed, nonetheless) for an aptly melancholic atmosphere.
The concert had many fans ‘demanding’ for an encore, especially after his “finale” performance of “Me (난)”. After showing Rain’s self-reflection video montage of his journey as a celebrity from his rookie days through to where he stands now as a well-respected superstar, Rain went on stage once again to perform 2 of his first album songs, “Bad Guy” and “Instead of Saying Goodbye” as a reminder to himself to never forget the pain and hardwork from his earlier days of his career.
“I will never be lazy. I will never be arrogant, I will never forget the tension and excitement of my first stage.” – Rain (Bi)
Just before bidding his seemingly reluctant goodbyes to the audience, Rain went down the stage to interact with the crowd himself. Some enthusiastic fans thanked him for putting up such a great show while others were simply overjoyed with the slightest physical contact with the superstar. Either way, it was certain that Rain had tremendously impressed all yet again, far exceeding what everyone had expected out of the one-night-only concert. It was definitely a night to be etched in memory for many!
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Photographs and write-up by Ryan (Unless as indicated)
Write-up editing by Clara
Assisted by Yan Yi
Special thanks to: Faith & D Entertainment, CJ E&M and J. Tune Entertainment.
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5,000 fan WAS NOT BAD PERIOD I HATE THE FACT THEY alway mis judge his conncert how many fans he recived and earning just like how he did in Philppines fan they say it was what 3,000 all add up but i found it was totally 5,000 i just don’t understand why they keep have write-up of rain nagitive just like how he was their 7,300 back in 2007 …!!
so what if just 5,000 to me it was COMPELTELY about to me and i think it all wrote to who ever come to concert rain very give it all his singing danc intro and the 1000-liters wafterfall perfrom common now face it rain been put alot jeg-leg all over his THE BEST Asia tour now don’t know how the man fell over his fan react and how much he give them best concert here to me rain truly amazing and megnificent that he could be he is unbilivable and remarkerable perfromace u never regret any of his concert some peoples and report just need to *+FU* do their righ write-up just coz he success all
his concert some just want him be grrrrrrrrrr i swear i just slap the grap out that person for trying to put grain of salt on him u know no matter what he do rain alway be MAZING and nobody can SUAPASS by his stage perfrom and what so ever he dicated to his hardworking periods.. and he is KING OF STAGE !! that NOT on that ppls!! as matter fact 5,000 it big and alot to me considering of he ture Artis and perforamcer too that is PRO… for rain somebody just ned to do some lookup here .
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Very nice write up of the Best Concert in Singapore. Personally, I was a bit frustrated because of the few thousand attendees, but nevertheless, seeing it a very successful concert made up for my disappointment. Rain really showed his best regardless of the number of people who saw him. Now I’m wondering whether Rain didn’t feel the same way as I did. I guess not. I just feel sorry because seeing the large venue with a lot of vacant seats made me feel frustrated. I’m probably oversensitive and over dramatic.
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I hear you, felisshi.
But when I think about it in terms of him filling up the Colosseum for Legend of Rainism Las Vegas and for his other Vegas concerts (the Colosseum holds 4000-5000, and there were 5000 at BEST Singapore), it doesn’t feel bad to me then at all. I think most ZEPP Halls in Japan held about that number, as well… Perspective, I suppose.
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I am not sure how many people have attended Rain concerts in the past. But 5000 people are alot of people to me. From the videos I have seen of his Singapore concert Rain was extremely happy and hyped. I think he was pleased with the turn out.
This was a very nice article and I really enjoyed it. Rain put on an awsome concert in Singapore!
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I looked it up. The Singapore Indoor Stadium holds approximately 7,300 to 7,900 people when set up to do concerts. So 5,000 out of 7,500 or so isn’t bad at all to me. I’d say that’s pretty good! I agree with Stephe, its all about perspective. Rain has thousands upon thousands of fans. We’re just spread out all over!
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Now what pissed me off was a write-up in the Media (in Singapore, I believe) that made a big deal about “low turnout.” If Indoor Stadium holds 7900 people, and 5000 show up, how in the hell is that a “low turnout”? When there IS low turnout, fine, but just be accurate.
Grrr.
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Yes I agree with you Stephe a 5000 turnout out of approximately 7,300 to 7,900 people is not a low turnout. Some people just want to bring negativity to Rains success. Those people are stupid and need to go somewhere.
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Thank you…He truly is “AMAZING”…
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Thank you for this article I enjoyed it very much.
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