March 23rd, 2012 was a very memorable day for Malaysian SONEs as Girls’ Generation performed for the first time on Malaysian soil. After almost 5 years of waiting, the girls had finally landed and performed in Malaysia. On this historical day, fanwonder.com news and media teams were there to witness the Soshi effect in Malaysia.
In conjunction with the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix weekend, a free-to-public concert ‘TWIN TOWERS @LIVE 2012′ was held at the outdoors near the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur and was reportedly attended by over 68,000 people! The first of the two-day concert was also graced by the ex-lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger and local artistes.
Fans were at the venue as early as the night before and crowds had already formed at the foot of the iconic buildings by the morning of the event. Prior to Girls’ Generation’s performance during the night, the audience were also entertained by the local DJs and huge responses were given when Kpop songs were played. MC of the night, Jojo Struys, were also amazed by the audience participation.
Girls’ Generation arrived in the city at about 5pm on the day itself and left about 6 hours later, immediately after the concert.
In the half-hour performance set, the eight girls, minus Yuri who could not make it due to conflicting filming schedules of ‘Fashion King’, stunned with their all-white outfits and sang six of their hit songs – ‘The Boys (Korean version)’, ‘Genie’, ‘Hoot’, ‘Run Devil Run’, ‘Mr. Taxi’ and ‘Gee’.
Despite the hastily organized concert, which was only announced three days beforehand, fans came prepared with banners and printed paper messages which says ‘Finally, You’re Here’, to which the girls replied, “Yes…finally, we are here!”. The paper message was displayed on the huge LCD screen on the stage as the girls prepared to rock the stage with ‘The Boys’. The ground was shaken when the fans chanted ‘GG!’ along with Jessica.
Other than greeting fans with local greetings such as “Terima Kasih”, “Selamat Datang” and “Kita Cinta Malaysia”, fans were also ecstatic when Tiffany said, “Malaysia, put it back on!” during ‘Genie’ after years of waiting for the girls to come to Malaysia. Upon seeing the enthusiastic and passionate fans, Tiffany said ,”Wow, Malaysia, you’re so hot!”, probably referring to the hot weather and the explosive reactions from SONEs.
Despite performing in the hot weather with perspiration oozing out from their pores, the girls pulled off brilliant performances as usual. Since the girls arrived on the day itself, they did not get the chance to rehearse but their excellent professional display proved that they were ever ready to rock the stage at any place, anytime.
Although Yuri could not make it to the event this time, the girls made their promise to come back to Malaysia with all nine members in the future, much to the joy of all the fans.
