“The best birthday present” Girls‘ Generation’s Taeyeon, successful solo debut 10th anniversary concert (comprehensive)[DA:On-site]

The energy gushing out from her small frame was explosive. Girls‘ Generation’s Taeyeon, celebrating the 10th anniversary of her solo debut, rewrote the ‘Legend’ concert. It was a moment when the stage skills she had built up over the past 10 years from Girls‘ Generation, the representative idol group of Korea, to solo artist Taeyeon, shone brilliantly.

Taeyeon held ‘TAEYEON CONCERT - The TENSE’ for three days from the 7th to the 8th at the KSPO DOME (Gymnastics Arena) in Olympic Park. With a total of 30,000 people filling up KSPO DOME, the performance on the 8th was live-viewed in 17 Megabox branches nationwide and 8 regions including Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and the performance on the 9th was also live-streamed through the global platform Beyond LIVE and Weverse. For the last concert, Taeyeon’s big fans BamBam and Mamamoo‘s Moonbyul, as well as Ive Riz, JaeJae, Seunghun, and Hanhae and P.O from ’Amazing Saturday‘ were in the audience.


This concert, ‘The TENSE’, is a meaningful performance that Taeyeon is presenting for the first time in about 1 year and 7 months since ‘The ODD Of LOVE’ and marks the 10th anniversary of her solo debut. The concept was to share Taeyeon’s past 10 years, her current situation on stage, and the days she will create in the future, just as the dictionary definition of ‘tense’ suggests.

The last day‘s performance was especially special because it was held on Taeyeon’s birthday. Taeyeon said, “I thought I would be less nervous because it‘s the third day, but I’m still nervous. It‘s been 10 years since I’ve been solo. I think it‘ll be a meaningful performance to commemorate my 10th anniversary and have a performance.” She added, “I thought it was a great opportunity to enjoy my birthday with so many people, so I thought it would be great to have a performance on my birthday. I wanted to receive more congratulations. I like to spend my birthday quietly, so I usually stay at home, but I think this birthday will be unforgettable. I hope the time I have left for the performance and the performance will remain as good memories in everyone’s hearts.” At the end of the concert, Taeyeon had a grand(?) birthday party where she blew out birthday cake candles amidst the congratulations of her fans.

Taeyeon has released a series of songs including her solo debut song ‘I’, ‘Why’, ‘Four Seasons’, ‘Weekend’, ‘INVU’, ‘To. From all-time hits like ‘X’, to stages that contained her own unique sensibility like ‘Fabulous’, ‘Blue Eyes’, ‘Hot Mess’, ‘Disaster’, and ‘Ending Credits’, to stages where you could fully enjoy her powerful singing skills like ‘My Tragedy’, ‘Melt Away’, ‘Time Lapse’, ‘Blur’, and ‘U R’, she performed over 25 songs live with the entire band for over 2 hours.

Taeyeon‘s concert, famous for paying attention to even the smallest details, including directing the orchestra herself. On this day, the concert also maximized the sense of space by utilizing various colors, and various types of LEDs that filled the concert hall, large stairs that changed from the top to the bottom, wings, picture frames, flowers, and other types of sets, and special effects such as a shamak (semi-transparent screen) to a conveyor belt, eight types of confetti, scent effects, and a bubble machine that were performed according to the mood of the song, and these were added to maximize the atmosphere of the scene.


Taeyeon finished the concert and said, “While preparing for this concert, I was worried about my stamina a lot, but I realized, ’My body is not my own.‘ I need to take care of my health for you all to like it, enjoy it, and laugh. I felt a sense of responsibility, ’I‘m not someone who can just lie down because it’s annoying.‘ Thank you.” He said, “Thank you for waiting for me and filling the concert hall every time an album is released and I perform. This concert was especially held over three days, but I didn’t know it would be so full. I‘m so touched. I feel like I received the best birthday present. I think this will be an unforgettable birthday,” she said. “The Seoul concert has ended, but I will tour overseas, meet my fans, have fun performing, and return to Korea.”

Taeyeon also said, “I’ve become a lot stronger now, so I don‘t cry easily. I could cry, but I don’t shed tears because so many people are watching. I think I‘ve become a lot stronger,” and added, “I was able to perform like this thanks to the staff who worked hard behind the scenes, the team that directed the concert, the dancers who were with me, and the band. I felt strong and grateful. He also said, “I’m grateful to all the directors.”

Meanwhile, Taeyeon will be going on an Asian tour starting with this Seoul concert, visiting Taipei on March 16, Manila on the 29th, Jakarta on April 12, Tokyo on the 19th and 20th, Macau on the 26th, Singapore on May 3rd and 4th, Bangkok on May 31st and June 1st, and Hong Kong on June 7th, visiting a total of 9 regions to meet with local fans.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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