Tinnitus.

Tinnitus.

That is the one word that best describes my FT Island Manila Showcase experience. In the words of Magic 89.9 DJ Grace Lee who hosted the show (and, I should add, did a wonderful job with it), “I’ve been to many big concerts of international artists, but this crowd here has got to be the loudest!” My ears are still ringing until this very minute. I don’t know if I’ve just officially declared myself “old”, or it’s just that I’m not an FT Island fan, hence I did not scream as much, hence my ears became the unfortunate casualty.

In all fairness, we had fun last night. Even the Golden Girls Tita Ruby and Mommy Chie, who watched the showcase with us because they wanted to see ‘Jeremy’, thoroughly enjoyed the show even they only know one song: Still from the You’re Beautiful OST. In the case of Lou and myself, we armed ourselves by listening to FTI’s latest album Cross and Change a week before the showcase so that we would know at least one or two of their songs. Charity listens to anything K-pop and watches a lot of Korean music shows, so their songs were at least familiar to her ears. It’s also fortunate that FTI’s MV for I Hope (바래) has been on constant rotation at MYX and they naturally had to play that at the showcase. It was the second most applauded song there; first place, of course, goes to Still. The PICC was transformed into a huge noraebang when that song was played.

I don’t have to go into details since I’m sure there will be a lot those littering around the internet - that, or I have no idea about their setlist and I can’t even recite all of the members’ names so I’d really rather not go into details to save myself from further embarassment - so I’ll just give a few comments.
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