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I'd mentioned about this show before, in my previous review on the last live music show FT Island on. This show is call MBC 음악여행 라라라 (Music Travel Lalala) which is MBC very own live music show. FT Island appeared as a guest in that show which aired on 2nd September, performing two songs and had a 05:00 minutes of interview with the MC.
FT Island performed a song by Yoo Jaeha called 사랑하기 때문에 (Because I Love You). I admitted, this is my first time listening to the song and I instantly fall in love with how beautiful Hongki's voice was. They had a girl, introduced as Jeon Jihyeon (not the actress) playing the keyboard for their performances. Minhwan was inside a separated room to play his drum and I was kind of surprised to see the setting for this show. It was just like in a recording studio. 100% live music, this is not a lie. Jonghoon played the acoustic guitar, Jaejin sticking with his bass guitar while Seunghyun took over the two of the percussion thingy, I am sorry, I don't know what the two instruments were called.
The whole performance was beautiful. I love how the music sounded so beautifully, so harmonize. Hongki's voice was flawless and the song was awesome by itself. Watching Jonghoon played his guitar made me wanted to master that instruments as well, as he played very well. This performance was a bit more to the jazzy kind of performance. I never like jazz music but FT Island made me felt in love with jazz. The music, oh my, I am still in love with it. Very well arranged. If it didn't mention the song was someone else's song, I might just thought this song was owned by FT Island themselves. Once again, FT Island sounded so good LIVE.
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I often said how much I love FT Island with their rockish version of 바래, the kind of performance with blasting loud guitars and drums. For once, when I listened to the ballad version of 바래 on this show, I found that the performance brought me back to the FT Island they used to be, the five-member boy band performing powerful ballad. It opened my eyes to a new perspective all over sudden. As much as I love their transformation for their 3rd album, I am still in love with the band who performed ballad songs, the old FT Island. That was why I felt in love with them before. I didn't expect the ballad version to be awesome by the slow beginning, but once Hongki started to sing, I found myself being blown away by his voice, and by how wonderful this up-beat song sounded in ballad, obviously because FT Island started off with ballads, and this kind of music suits them the most, or at least suits Hongki's voice the most.
The keyboard was a good insertion. It gave such a ballad feel, such love to the song. This song got such a beautiful heart-breaking lyric and sounded sad to me all over sudden. When FT Island performed it in a rock version, I forgot how sad this song's lyric was supposed to be. Hongki's voice brought back those lost feelings. The instruments blended in well together, creating such a heavenly feeling when I listened to it. The boys did very good with their instruments this time, and I have to admit, this is my favorite live performance of 바래. This performance was short, but I didn't want to complain because it was very beautiful. Again, their LIVE performance was flawless.
It got slightly up-beat during the guitar solo, and it was mesmerizing. It was softer and more wonderful during this ballad version. Jonghoon did a great job, and so did Minhwan with his drums. I loved how the bass sounded clear and amazing in this performance too. But overall, I really love how the keyboard was added, creating a good harmony in the music. I also adored the soft guitar riffs at the beginning. Jonghoon's amazing fingers strumming the guitar. They cut off all the solo raps by Seunghyun and Jaejin, instead they rapped together for the final rap part. Even when the song had such a ballad feel, the rap sounded very great. Seunghyun and Jaejin, both did very well. I love the version so much, it made me forgot they had made several version of this song before.
The interview cut could be watch here. I don't know why but the MC gave such a soft and calm vibe to the interview, or probably it was because of the setting. Unlike other live music show, MBC 음악여행 라라라 doesn't have audiences, and it gave a more private interview session. Less audiences screaming and randomly laughed. I liked this feeling, and most of all I like how the MC handle the interview. I can't do any translation, because I am being honest ; I don't understand a whole 90% of the interview. I am lost. I just watched it without saying a word. Just being mesmerized at how FT Island looked so down-to-earth during this interview, and that they wore black and white outfits. However, Seunghyun's half black half white shirt wasn't something I recommended though. It looked weird. This interview however, gave everyone a chance to talk, unlike how only some members talked during other live music shows' interviews.
Okay, I simply just love this show. Enough said. I love how they could just performed, with no audience screaming or clapping their hands out loud during the performance. I had to rip out the audio for 바래 performance, just because I am still in love with it. I have to say this is my favorite live music show's performance by FT Island. Simply love it. This show showed how FT Island is very talented but underrated by K-pop fans because they are a band, and that they could actually show their real talents on live music show. They may not be a typical idol group, but they sincerely wanted to show how they loved music, and wished to be musicians. They played their instruments live, and they had that talent with them.
Didn't I say FT Island sounded the BEST when they played their instruments live?
FT Island is the best. It's okay that they are underrated, I am still proud to be a Primadonna.
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