SkyBlu at the Social Star Awards 2013 Press Conference

Posted on 24 May 2013 by jovenatheart

SkyBlu’s interview at the Social Star Awards 2013 press conference is actually pretty entertaining. He is so cool and happy to spill the goss. Haha. SkyBlu was asking for spicy/saucy questions (which reminded me once again why I usually prefer stalking and talking/interviewing English international acts). They are way more cool with naughty/fun questions and are not worried to mess up. It was pretty much whatever goes.

I thought it was pretty epic when SkuBlu spilled how back in the days (before he has a girlfriend), he would used to take a laser pointer, aim it at the girls in the audience and tell the security folks, “I want that one, that one and that one back in my room later.” True story as he says.

Once again, coz I was also taking photos and live tweeting at the press conference, I couldn’t man the camera to zoom in and out properly. I know visually it sucks but you can hear the interview in full here:

And here are the photos which turned out well:

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Carly Rae Jepsen at the Star Social Awards 2013 Press Conference

Posted on 23 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Carly Rae Jepsen was the first of the performing artists who were brought out to meet the press at the Star Social Awards 2013 press conference.

I must admit that I was tired as hell from all the running around (since last friday) that I didn’t bother to take notes on what Carly said during the press conference. That said, I thought why don’t I just upload the whole segment of Carly’s interview and then you guys can watch it.

NOTE: I was taking pictures and tweeting at the press conference so I couldn’t really man the video camera and zoom in and out nicely. Forgive me.

And that said, I actually didn’t take as many photos as I thought I would since I was still fiddling around with the video camera. Oh well.

Here are the shots which came out nicely:

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HP YouTube Fan Fest 2013 in Singapore Day 2 Post Mortem

Posted on 23 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Well, I initially didn’t want to bother with posting about whatever little I saw of the YouTube Fan Fest since I missed like half of the thing. Didn’t bother making any notes on what happened either.

However, since I took photos in that little time I was there (I just had to), I’m just going to post the photos that I took.

Must say that I was a little sad that I couldn’t watch Little Boots perform her whole set because it was already so late when she started. She is really good live and she sounds exactly like the CD when she performs live! I had to leave after 2 songs because of the time and I was almost dozing off and I probably missed “Remedy” if she performed it… :(

Oh well. I hope there is a next time.

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Meeting Joe Perry of Aerosmith in Singapore 2013

Posted on 23 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Holy shit people! I met Joe Perry of Aerosmith at Day 2 of the YouTube Fan Fest!!!

OMG!!! If you guys don’t know, I love my rock bands and Aerosmith is one of those legendary acts which if you claim to be a music lover, you need to know who Aerosmith are and where they stand.

How I met Joe Perry was pretty epic really.

As you know from my last blog entry, I went to the press conference for the Day 2 names of the HP YouTube Fan Fest. So after the press conference, there was this 45 minutes interval so I went off to get some food. However, I didn’t know that the procedures from day 2 was going to be different from Day 1. For example, on the first say, with the press conference wrist band, we could just get into the Fan Fest.

So when I got back to the Ritz Carlton Ballroom for the Fan Fest, I was totally surprised that the people at the door and the organisers said that “Media cannot enter. You need a ticket to enter.” Seriously.

And in the end, I didn’t get the required wristband to attend Day 2 of the YouTube Fan Fest. Needless to say, I was miffed. However, in the midst of trying to sort out the issue, Joe Perry walked into my line of sight.

Holy crap.

Suddenly, it was like nothing else matters any more. I also didn’t really care about attending the YouTube Fan Fest any more. It’s like it’s Joe Perry from Aerosmith! He is legendary and who is everyone else?

So in the end, someone did tell me that I could enter the Fan Fest and like I said, I was miffed and while I was debating if I should still attend and blog about the Fan Fest, Joe Perry walked out.

Holy crap again.

I literally ran to grab my stuff and headed as quickly as I can to get to the main entrance/exit of the hotel. Within 2 seconds of reaching the main lobby, Joe Perry walked out of the lift.

Oh. My. God.

I must say that I was quite hesitant to approach Joe at first because I’m not very sure how he would react. He was all rock & roll man and I just didn’t know what to expect.

It turns out that all my worries were unfounded. Joe Perry is super cool and very, very nice despite him oozing so much of the “I’m too cool for you” (and hence kinda scary) vibe.

I was spazzing so badly that when Joe Perry actually said to me, “Nice shirt” I think I just went blank on him. Lol. And then as I went to stand beside him to take a picture, he repeated again, “Nice shirt”, I finally snapped out of it and replied, “Thank you”.

You can see my totally spazzed-out face here:

Joe Perry of Aerosmith

Joe Perry's autograph

After the autograph and photo, I’m not sure where I found the courage to ask Joe Perry for a hug after squealing “I’m such a big fan!” Lol. I think Joe was very amused by the whole episode and I know for sure that @Dongho_Princess and @PopCultureBoy were laughing at me the entire time. But whatever you know. :)

It was such an epic night. Being denied entry at the door for the YouTube Fan Fest turned out to be such a blessing in disguise! :)

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Meeting Little Boots in Singapore 2013

Posted on 23 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Little Boots was one of the performers at the YouTube Fan Fest powered by HP. Honestly, she was the only artist that I knew about and cared about because she used to be signed to a major label and I liked the song “Remedy”.

Also, she has been in Singapore previously for some DJ-ing gigs but I’ve never been able to spot her. So here’s finally meeting Little Boots!

Little Boots

Little Boots' autograph

She is a lot shorter than I thought but she is really nice and very sweet as well.

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HP YouTube Fan Fest 2013 in Singapore Day 2 Press Conference

Posted on 22 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Present in the Day 2 press conference for the HP YouTube Fan Fest were Joseph Vincent, The Viral Fever, Eat Your Kimchi, Boyce Avenue, GAC, Dome Pakorn Lam and Little Boots.

The second day of YouTube Fan Fest is way more crowded than the first. I suspected that everyone was really there to see Eat Your Kimchi and Boyce Avenue. For me, it was mostly there to see Little Boots.

So like the previous day, they were split into 2 groups and Dominic Lau was the moderator for both sessions. Also, because of the bigger media audience, the atmosphere was more tense than the first day’s.

However, interestingly, when Dominic Lau opened the questions to the floor, nobody wanted to ask the first question. Lol… In the end, I stopped typing my tweet and raised my hand.

So I started it all off and asked, “You guys make fun of a lot of the kpop stuff in your videos, so how do your subjects of the video respond/react to that? Do they actually contact you/confront you about the things you said in the videos?”

Simon then asked who is “they” that I was referring to, the viewers, labels or the kpop idols. I wanted to know what the labels and kpop idols think of coz! :)

So it turns out that the younger executives in the labels are cool with it and so are most of the kpop idols. And while some Beauties/B2ties are not happy with the way Eat Your Kimchi refer to Beast/B2st as “Btwost”, Cube Entertainment actually finds it very funny. Hahaha. So there you go.

And Eat Your Kimchi has also revealed that some kpop idols have also confessed to them privately that when Eat Your Kimchi made fun of their song/dance in the video, they actually agree and hated their own song/dance as well but Eat Your Kimchi didn’t want to mention any names. Dammit!

There’s more to their response and I do have a video of Eat Your Kimchi’s full reply as well. However, I don’t really have the time to post the video up right now but I’ll probably get to it next week or something.

For the second group of names, I didn’t really have anything to ask them because if I know about them (ie, Little Boots) I don’t have anything else that I want to know about them. And for the rest, I actually don’t know enough about them to ask them anything despite my friends prodding me to ask questions.

Anyway, I do have most of the press conference on video and I’ll work on it after the madness of this week and post it up later. Stalk my blog, Twitter (@jovenatheart) or YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/jovenatheart) to see when it is up.

I must add that Boyce Avenue and Dome Pakorn Lam are very handsome. Hahaha. Boyce Avenue are performing at Music Matters Live and you can check out the details of their performance here.

I shall end off with photos from the press conference. Enjoy!

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HP YouTube Fan Fest 2013 in Singapore Day 1 Post Mortem

Posted on 21 May 2013 by jovenatheart

This is the first ever YouTube Fan Fest and it happened in Singapore. Cool cats huh? :)  The YouTube Fan Fest is done in conjunction with the cool people at HP and it features the superstars of YouTube.

Present in the Day 1 were Steph Micayle, MyChonny, Namewee, Cooking With Dog, Hikakin, David Choi, Natalie Tran (via Google Hangout), Mighty Car Mods and Chester See.

The format of YouTube Fan Fest is like a talk show where there are live performances if the name is a musician/singer. The atmosphere was pretty cool and a bit laid back which is cool.

The 3 hour long session was actually very taxing considering how I actually was at the press conference which happened just before the show. It meant that I was there for 6 hours and not to mention that I was actually awake since 8+ am.

I must say that the biggest highlight for me was Hikakin and Namewee. If you don’t know, Hikakin is from Japan and he is one of the best human beat boxers in Japan. Go check out his YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/hikakin to check out his beat boxing. Damn bloody amazing!!

Namewee is from Malaysia and what amazed me the most about him is how he actually sings in all kinds of languages. While his lyrics might be too in your face or even offensive to some people, he does make a point and the tunes are catchy as well and it does stick in your head. :) Also, at the YouTube Fan Fest, he premiered his latest song and video called “Learn Cantonese”. At the point of writing, he hasn’t uploaded the video onto his YouTube channel yet but I can tell you it is a typical Namewee song with a really nice melody. Go check him out at www.youtube.com/namewee!!

Anyway, I really enjoyed myself during the YouTube Fan Fest although I was tired like hell after the whole thing. You can to go to www.youtube.com/fanfest to catch Day 2 action for the YouTube Fan Fest.

Here are the set lists for those who performed:

Steph Micayle

  • Troublemaker (cover of Olly Murs)
  • Valerie (cover of The Zutons/Mark Ronson + Amy Winehouse version)
  • Medley (Turn Up The Love: Far East Movement feat Cover Drive, Where is the Love?: Black Eyed Peas, Die Young: Ke$ha, Rumour Has It: Adele, Set Fire to the Rain: Adele)

Namewee

  • KICK來料! [thanks to Tdxiang for this in the comments!]
  • WORLD PREMIERE OF MV: Learn Cantonese
  • Thai Love Song

David Choi

  • That Girl
  • By My Side
  • Missing Piece
  • You & Me (a special HP video)
  • Thinking of You

Chester See

  • Who am I to Stand in Your Way
  • Bromance (a part of it)
  • Goddamn You’re Beautiful
  • Nice Guy

If you have missed Day 1′s actions, you can watch the highlights here:

Finally, here are some photos which I took during the Fan Fest. Enjoy!

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HP YouTube Fan Fest 2013 in Singapore Day 1 Press Conference

Posted on 21 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Present in the Day 1 press conference were Cooking With Dog, MyChonny, Steph Micayle, Hikakin, Namewee, Mighty Car Mods, Chester See and David Choi.

I must admit that I didn’t really know who most of them YouTube superstars are (I know David Choi of coz). I am pretty music centric so when Might Car Mods and Cooking with Dog were mentioned, I was like, “who?”

Still, keeping an open mind, I headed into the press conference with no idea what I was in for and nothing prepared to ask. Haha.

It turned out to be a pretty good idea actually. I just went with the flow and just chipped into the conversation as things went on. The press conference was actually quite enjoyable because the guys from Mighty Car Mods and Chester See talk too much and they were basically having this huge and pretty entertaining insight/debate into their idea of subscribers/views/fame/popularity.

MyChonny is hilarious as you’d expected and his videos are really just an exaggerated expression of his real personality and self.

It was a pretty informal press conference and it kinda felt like a house party with the artists literally showing up one by one. That said, Chester See made this super epic grand entrance actually. He was too early for his slot and ended up gatecrashing/interrupting the interview session for the previous group.

There was basically too much information being shared and talked about during that short 1 hour session. And I’m sure you’ll read all about it via the other media articles. I’ll just give you guys what you love best… photos. :)

I apologize for the brief nature of this post but there’s just too many things to talk about and there ain’t enough time for me to put everything down. If there’s anything else that want to know, just give me a @mention on Twitter or leave a comment here and I’ll answer what I can. :)

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Ronan Keating Live in Singapore 2013

Posted on 21 May 2013 by jovenatheart

So you heard the man himself. I didn’t see anything on his official website or anything yet.

Watch this space…

[21 May 2013 | Update]

Ronan Keating will be performing on 8 July 2013 at the Star Performing Arts Centre.

Tickets are priced at $168, $148, $128 and $98. Prices are in Singapore dollars and does not include the $3 Sistic fee.

Tickets go on sale on 23 May 2013 at Sistic.

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Fall Out Boy Live in Singapore 2013 for the Save Rock & Roll Tour

Posted on 20 May 2013 by jovenatheart

Whoo! Finally there is information!

Fall Out Boy are performing at Fort Canning Park on 6 August 2013 as listed in my calendar.

Tickets are priced at $88 (early bird, limited quantity) and $110 (standard). Prices are in Singapore dollars and does not include the $3 Sistic fee. Also, they will go on sale at 10 am on 21 May 2013 at 10.00 am.

You can click here to go to the Sistic page directly to buy tickets to see Fall Out Boy.

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