IU describes Manila stopover as the "perfect concert"
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Korean singer IU praised MAAENAs during the 'Love, Poem' concert last December 2019.
On December 13, 2019, Korean singer IU met with her fans in Manila (called MAAENA) for her much-awaited “Love, Poem” concert at the Araneta Coliseum.
During the concert, IU shared with the concert goers that it was the first time she wasn't able to hear her voice in her in-ear since her debut in 2008.
She told MAAENAs, “I will bet everything that no one can beat Manila.”
She even posted the experience on her Instagram by saying, “My eardrum doesn't work yet. MAAENA is perfect. It's like the whole nation is a singer. I can't forget your blissful faces when you were enjoying the encore. MAHAL KITA.”
A few months later, IU once again looked back at her Manila stopover during the “Love, Poem” Asian tour in her latest vlog titled “Everything of IU concert”
She tells her concert director Jo Hyun-woo, “I was most surprised by the Philippines.
“When I first came on stage, MAAENA screamed very loudly so I couldn't hear my voice at all. I couldn't hear the piano either.”
IU recounted that while she was singing her opening act “Unlucky,” her microphone picked up the screams from her adoring fans making it hard for her to hear her voice.
Adding, “As I stepped down, I told Sojin [her keyboard player], I couldn't hear a thing so I want to go down. [It was] not just me, but everyone couldn't hear anything.
“It was like that until the end of the concert. After I finished the opening, I decided to just let this concert go like that! Let's have fun and be happy. So I did that. In the end, even the band members couldn't hear anything but they just continued.”
She then reflected on the concert as a whole and described the experience as the “perfect concert in a whole new way.”
“Everyone has a different opinion on what a 'perfect concert' means. Some may say a perfect concert is a concert without any mistake or it could be something that the audience feels highly satisfied with.
“But, at that time, I think it was a perfect concert in a whole new way.”
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