For those who don't know (which you probably do if you follow me on twitter LOL) I went to the B.A.P concert on Saturday night.
It was an amazing concert and experience and I extremely extremely enjoyed it.

It was a good night for several reasons but I think the one thing I noticed myself feeling was the fact that B.A.P are real.
For me, kpop is a form of escapism. Everybody in the kpop world seems so perfect and I would just love to live in that world. Of course that is far from the reality of kpop because kpop isn't the perfect, shiny world that they make it to be.

During that B.A.P concert, one of the things I couldn't help thinking was that they were actually real. They weren't a figment of my imagination or a dream. I've only been able to see these people through a computer screen and I always thought that, that was all it would ever be.

After using the internet after these years, I think you learn to be sceptical over everything that is on the internet. Even unintentionally, I think I've just felt sceptical about kpop and at times I just think to myself "are these actual people" but that B.A.P concert affirmed to me that yes, B.A.P are actual people (or aliens whatever you want to call it LOL) and that they are pretty close to what I'm presented with from the internet. I think I've kinda expected less of these people because I have this mentality that "anything on the internet is of course 10x better than it is in real life" or "something that amazing can't be real" but actually seeing them being this perfect makes the whole kpop experience more real.

I've been a fan of kpop for approx. 6 years and it's sort of been an internet exclusive thing. For me, seeing kpop in real life catches me really off guard and there's this feeling of surprise and happiness that goes through my body when I see anything remotely kpop related (I remember going to a garden nursery and nearly screaming when I saw flowers called "Hoya"). I have attended three kpop concerts in the past four years and the feeling of seeing kpop stars in the flesh doesn't get old. The realisation that these people that you would normally admire (well more than admire in my case LOL) through a computer screen, are actually real and are as amazing as you imagined is just a feeling that has really surprised me.

For the people couldn't attend the B.A.P concert, I'd just like to say that everything you imagined B.A.P to be, they are that and 100 times more. That is how amazing they were that night. (ok the bias is showing here but u can't blame me i mean they were pretty darn perfect)


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