Fly like a G-Dragon
Big Bang leader and K-pop stylemeister G-Dragon came, smoldered and pulled off not one, but two feats beyond any K-popster's wildest dreams.
1. He's the first K-pop boybander to hold a solo concert here.
We're referring to full-fledged concerts, not small-scale fan meets, mind you. Even without his Big Bang mates, G-Dragon managed to pack the Indoor Stadium with 14,000 adoring fans over 2 nights. As far as flying solo goes, pretty boy Kim Hyun Joong comes in a distant second place with his fan meet last year. Even then, KHJ has to high-five every one of his 3,000 fans present. Super Junior, Girls' Generation or even Big Bang have easily filled two nights at the Indoor Stadium before, but would Suju's Choi Siwon or GG's Tiffany be able to hold the fort as a one-person-show? Hard to say.
Yes he cane: GD is living up to his name as K-pop's king of swag. The 24-her-old pranced around on stage with a blinged-up walking stick during parts of the two-and-a-half-hour gig. He first incorporated the cane into his act a few months ago when he sprained his ankle. He recovered but kept the cane as a prop 'cos "everyone said I looked cool holding it." Not shy, this one.
Get your cray on: Your not a true K-popster until you've mastered the art of flirting with thousand of fans at one go at a gig, a practice known as, um, "fan service" in K-popdom. And, boy, does GD know how to, well, service his fans. In perfect American-accented English, he'd coo: "I miss this beautiful city and the beautiful girls. Team Singapore! Did you miss me?"
Thorny issues: Few men can boast that they've got tailor-made DJ decks to flaunt their skills for just one verse of a song. Even fewer can pull it off wearing women's clothes. Yes that's a sequined blazer from Saint Laurent's line of womenswear on GD.
2. He reduced Singapore's cool crowd to a bunch of bumbling fans.
A day before his gig, GD turned up at a private party at Salon by Surrender to launch the AMBUSH x G-Dragon capsule collection, a collab between him and designer pals Verbal and Yoon of Japanese cult label, Ambush. Teenage fans showed up outside the MBS boutique as early as four hours before the invite-only party for a glimpse of their idol, but it was the 200 invited guests who behaved like starstruck fans hoping for a brush-- or an Instagram opp-- with the K-pop star. (And we're referring to the supposedly 'in' crowd here that normally wouldn't even admit any K-pop song besides 'Gangnam Style'.) But that's not why GD and his posse spent a considerable part of his hour-long visit ensconced in the dressing room. It was just too warm in the crowded shop area. Perhaps GD would have been better off hold up in the comfort of one of his three hotel rooms-- we hear he booked rooms in three different hotels (including MBS) to evade the watchful eye of fans.
Is it too bright in here?
GD meets Fiona Xie, artiste-turned-citizen of the world-turned-director of Shanghai branch of multi-label Singapore boutique, Surrender. The star flew home just for the event and jetted off to Paris the next day to suss out new threads for her store.
GD meets Fiona Xie, artiste-turned-citizen of the world-turned-director of Shanghai branch of multi-label Singapore boutique, Surrender. The star flew home just for the event and jetted off to Paris the next day to suss out new threads for her store.
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