“It was a short but happy 1 hour and 10 minutes!”

If it had been a fan meeting where they spent half the time singing and half time talking, there might not have been such a heated debate. It is true that the highest ticket price was 220,000 won, and the running time was around 1 hour and 10 minutes. However, if the original goal was to be a ‘compressed concert’ with even the usual talk corners and intermissions minimized, then Jennie‘s perspective might have been a bit ‘an of a distant case’.

‘It’s a hot topic anyway’ Therefore, Jennie proved herself to be a ‘top icon’ with her first solo concert ‘The Ruby Experience’, which was held at Incheon Inspire Arena on the night of the 15th. The show, which started 10 minutes later than scheduled, at 6:10 PM, ended after 1 hour and 12 minutes, at 7:22 PM. Compared to any other K-pop performance format, such as fan meetings or fan concerts, it was in fact a ‘light-fast progress’.

However, considering that the talk corner, which is usually a part of a concert, was excluded to the point of being stingy, it seems ‘somely unreasonable’ to have it appear on the stage based on numerical evidence that it was a ‘ultra-slim performance’ with absolutely no frills. In fact, Jennie finally gave her thoughts on the performance, along with her thanks, 45 minutes after the start of the performance, and even that was essentially a relay live that lasted only about 3 minutes.

There is also controversy over the VVIP ticket price of 220,000 won, which would have allowed for a ‘front-row direct view’ on the front stage. The ‘Ruby Ticket’, named after the performance, costs 220,000 won, but it only accounts for a small portion of the total admission ticket price, and considering that it includes access to the sound check and special goods such as necklaces, it may be an acceptable phrase for K-pop fandoms who ‘have seen a lot of the performance’.

The ‘numbers’ of 220,000 won and 1 hour and 10 minutes are overwhelming, but the so-called ‘my money, my money’, intuitive reviews of Jennie‘s performance in person are ‘quite different’ from some of the seemingly brutal online opinions.

The ‘indirect reviews’ posted on global SNS or famous community bulletin boards are giving a considerable number of favorable reviews such as ‘certification shots’, “It was a short but happy 1 hour and 10 minutes”, “She tore up the stage”. From the fandom’s perspective, it seems that the fact that it has only been two years since Blackpink‘s “Bone Pink” in September 2023 and the Japanese omnibus concert in November of last year also had a big impact.

At the concert that day, Jennie performed all the songs from her first full-length solo album “Ruby” live in a concert version.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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