GOT7's 'Fly Tour' landed in Singapore's Suntec City Convention Centre on 24 June 2016. It is their much-anticipated first full-length concert in Singapore, after visiting Singapore thrice previously for fanmeetings and promotional activities. GOT7 consists of 7 members, leader JB, Junior, Youngjae, Jackson, Mark, BamBam and Yugyeom.
GOT7 started the concert with 'Put Your Hands Up', dressed in black and shining silver suits. They hyped up the 4,500 fans with crowd favorites like 'Girls Girls Girls', 'A' and 'Magnetic'. A platform in the middle of the front extension stage rose up during 'This Star', bringing GOT7 closer to the fans who are seated behind.
True to their roots as a multi-national boy band, GOT7 interacted with their fans directly by speaking English. BamBam introduced the concept behind their 'Fly Tour', he said "I practiced this (English speech) for two days, the concept is, we are going to fly to all over the world to meet our fans. We have flown to Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka, today finally we fly to Singapore!"
Moving on to the special sub-unit stages, a white piano appears onstage, with Youngjae playing the piano in the beginning of '1:31AM', a duet with JB. This song was named '1:31AM' as it was the time when they composed it. They took turns to hit the long, high notes, which sounded amazing.
Junior and Mark performed 'Higher', a song that fits the theme of 'Fly Tour' well. Junior wore a bright blue suit and Mark wore a pink suit, as they sang the lyrics "Take me higher, higher, higher", the fans in the standing pen got more high and danced along.
BamBam, Jackson and Yugyeom started their 'We Only Live Once' performance while seated on futuristic throne seats. When the music tempo changed, they started dancing as Jackson rapped in his husky voice. The popular phrase is 'You Only Live Once (YOLO)', Jackson jokingly said the reason they changed it to 'We Only Live Once' is due to copyright.
After screening a hilarious video on how GOT7 learnt the essence of girl group dances from Lee Guk Joo, a Korean comedian, the segment on girl group songs begun. Junior, Mark and Youngjae took the stage with 'Me Gustas Tu' (originally by GFriend); they had their own style of dancing, which was a mixture of cuteness and oddness. As they donned wigs and purple dresses, they executed cute dance moves in a strong style, which did not quite fit in with their newly minted "girl" image. This contrast made cross-dressing boy bands fun to watch and fans clearly enjoyed every minute of it.
Joining the cross dressing party with 'Dumb Dumb' (originally by Red Velvet), BamBam, Jackson, JB and Yugyeom danced enthusiastically while wearing red-white dresses. They changed part of the lyrics and dance moves. BamBam teased fans by asking "Are we cute? Are we pretty? Are we sexy?" Both girl group teams later combined to perform 'Hooked'.
A funny moment arose when the talkative Jackson spoke a little too fast and got their song name wrongly, "My favorite song is 'I Can't'." Mark replied, "Wait, the song is called 'Can't'. Jackson attempted to cover up his mistake, "No no I meant I love 'Can't', so I, paused (silent pause means love) 'Can't'. We trust quick-witted Jackson to come up with brilliant ways to explain himself.
GOT7 performed a series of new songs from their recent album 'Flight Log: Departure', 'Fly', 'Home Run' and 'See The Light'. When Mark shared the sad news of 'the show is coming to an end." Fans screamed "NOOOO!" Jackson asked, "Do you want to start from the beginning?" Mark shouted, "Let's rewind!" and started their performance of 'Rewind'.
There was an interactive segment called 'Spin The Wheel', the camera will zoom in on enthusiastic fans and the chosen fans were asked to dance along to GOT7's songs. Although GOT7 members were not onstage, they were viewing it backstage and fans could hear their live commentary.
Before the encore stage, GOT7 members expressed their heartfelt gratitude in English. Mark said, " Thank you for coming today. Get home safe, guys, until the next time we meet each other, stay healthy and take care of yourselves. We will be back soon!" Jackson continued, "As Mark said we are going to be back soon, maybe for a fanmeeting, maybe for another concert, or maybe for a visit in YOUR HOUSE! Singapore is great, Sentosa, Night Safari (both are tourists attractions in Singapore) are great, but you know what's better than that? It's YOU!"
JB said earnestly, "Please always be by my side."
BamBam expressed his love for Singapore by saying "I might come back here with my family for a vacation."
Junior asked fans, "You guys promise me that you love only GOT7. Promise?"
Youngjae tried his best to speak English, "Today is very very funny, I am so very happy and in Singapore so hot. You guys are so hot people. I'll be back." He sang 2PM's 'I'll Be Back', on a whim, while Mark and Jackson started dancing.
Not forgetting to promote their K-Live hologram show in Resort World Sentosa, Mark announced, "If you guys want to see us again, you can watch the hologram concert."
As GOT7 members gave their word that they will be back, we look forward to seeing them again in Singapore!
'Fly Tour' continues with the North America concerts, which will kickoff in Dallas on 1st July and end in Los Angeles on 11th July 2016.
Special thanks to ONE PRODUCTION for inviting KpopStarz.com to cover GOT7 1st Concert Fly in Singapore.
Writer: Ashley Ngo | Photo Credits: ONE Production / Marcus Lin
Setlist:
1) Hands
2) Turn up the music
3) Girls Girls Girls
4) Back to Me
5) A
6) Magnetic
7) This Star
8) Playground
9) Can't
10) I Like You
11) 1.31am
12) Higher
13) I love it _ Wolo
14) Me Gustas Tu
15) Dumb Dumb
16) Hooked
17) Fly
18) Homerun
19) See the light
20) Just right
21) Rewind
22) Stop stop it
23) If you do
24) Confession
25) If only (JJ Lin)
26) Follow me
27) Bounce
28) Fly (Remix)
29) Before the full moon rises
