Friday night while most of us were celebrating Seattle Pride, I get a text from Topher asking me the most random question: “Hey Donovan, do you and Brian want to go to the Jonas Bros. concert?” At first, I thought I was just drunk from all the birthday shots people were buying me. Then, the next day when I checked my texts, I realized it wasn’t a booze-enabled hallucination but rather fact. What was more interesting was the realization that I had said YES. EEKS!

Fast forward to Monday. I was feeling the effects of spending three straight weekends away from home (Portland, Toronto & Seattle). The last thing I wanted to do was be surrounded by 20,000 screaming tween girls hoping to catch the eye of one of the Jonas Bros. See, I’ve unfortunately had experience attending concerts where the majority of the crowd were Miley Cyrus look-a-likes. In my previous job at a kids/teen online magazine, I attended many events where I was one of maybe 5 guys in the audience. I either looked like a perv or a loser- either of which wasn’t very flattering. The only solace this time was the fact I was going with Topher, Patrick and Sous who had scored the free tickets from his sister.

The third and seemingly unknown act to us was Korean K-Pop super group, The Wonder Girls. I have to admit, I kinda freaked out when I heard this. I was made aware of them a few months ago while surfing on YouTube. They have a single called Nobody, which is the Asian Single Ladies. There are hundreds of videos online where people would imitate the dance moves from the video or sing their own renditions. The funniest thing about these videos are most of them don’t even know Korean but sing it phonetically or just make up words. After the Wonder Girls gave an impromptu tutorial on how to do the dance to the GM Place crowd, they began to sing their catchy song. The four of us stood up and danced along with the ladies. Since the ladies plan on entering the North American market, they’ve recently done a more radio-friendly English translation of their hit single Nobody. [I will be doing a Saturday video post on the Wonder Girls with my favorite renditions. In the meantime check out this montage.]

Overall, we had a great time and probably would do it all over again. It brought back memories of when each of us went to our first concert and how life-changing that experience was. Love them or hate them, the Jonas put on a pretty good show complete with an amazing light show. My definite highlights of the night were the Wonder Girls, Jordin Sparks and Grade Sex and the City. Thanks Sous for getting us free tickets. It was a night none of us will soon forget.

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[credit: Donovan of homorazzi]