no. 12 - ateez (la day 1)

vocals: 9/10 || setlist: 9/10 || stage presence: 10/10 || audience: 8/10 || logistics: 0/10

I’ll get the best stuff out of the way first - this tour was just insanely poorly managed. They sent the VIP info email to the wrong email? Not sure how that happened, but then LA traffic caused me to miss soundcheck which I was really pissed about. This is just the worst trip I have ever gone on and honestly I can’t even say it was worth it. However, the concert itself was really great. I did not expect to see Cyberpunk again, so I was literally losing my shit when that came on. It’s also crazy that they actually did the flag version of Guerilla, and Hongjoong even played guitar for the beginning of it. The energy was just so good - being able to just scream with them is so fun and it was awesome to feel that energy from everyone around me as well. People were pretty nice at the concert, but there was someone behind me that was screaming crazy loud lmao. Like damn… please chill out LMAO. Vocals weren’t perfect but they were pretty crazy for singing and dancing at the same time and still doing all of that. I also loved the remix of Say My Name like it was CRAZYYY and that song is just so iconic. My complaint with the set was that they didn’t do We Know, Dune, and Outlaw. They are usually really good about doing new songs from newer albums that have never been performed before, so I don’t know why they didn’t do that this time. However, the set was pretty well-made since it almost had a storyline to it. The message was really positive and honestly really well-constructed within their set!