the band of my teeny bopper days

Okay, so amidst of the problems that’s going on with my life right now, I’m still trying to grab every opportunity to enjoy life, so when I heard that the Jonas Brothers, the band of my teeny bopper,  days was going to have their concert here in cebu, classifying my feelings as a form of excitement was a major understatement. I was very desperate to have the ticket and so I bought it. nope, unfortunately, I was not so fortunate with my monthly allowance so I just got the bronze ticket f magmag who was also a fan of my band.

Oct. 20, 2012 came, the day of the concert. Era and I decided to go to the venue for like as early as 3:00pm so that we could snoop around for the happenings in Waterfront. Of course the hotel was huge and we took some pictures in the lobby and even in the comfort room while waiting for the Jonas Brothers to arrive, but we became hopeless when there was actually no sign of the brothers yet so by 5pm we decided to line up for the opening of the door that would lead us to see the concert.

Needless to say, there were lots of people who lined up with us; kids, teenagers, and there were even moms who were chaperoning them and using their motherly powers to get their children on the lines first. A lot was pissed and hungry (especially me) during the whole wait but the suffering ended when the concert doors officially opened at like 8:30-ish pm.

Era and I found our places in the balcony, enough to see the figures of the local musicians doing the semi-opening number. Later on, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, the girl buddy of the main antagonist in Camp Rock did the real opening number. I know she’s a Filipina but I was kinda shocked when I heard her speak Tagalog and also sang OPM songs like First Romance, Torete, and Hinahanap-hanap Kita. It was almost 10pm and after singing her two self-composed songs, she officially called out the Jonas Brothers and everyone in the place was chanting “Jonas! Jonas! Jonas!” and I was just there beside Era, and all I could ever think was ‘oh gosh oh gosh im gonna see the band of my teeny bopper days! Right here, right now, at this very moment’.

The dimmed lights turned bright and Nick, Joe, and Kevin came out of the stage oh gosh I still cant believe im typing my Jonas brothers concert experience oh gosh yea, they came out of the stage and I saw them came out of the stage right before my eyes, even when they’re not that close to me, but still they are breathing the air I was breathing it made me feel so ASDFSKDFSADFJSD! The crowd went crazy and I don’t know whether they greeted us or they directly sang When You Look Me In The Eyes, because that certain time, I was in my own world, thinking how many times I’ve abused the replay button of the WYLMITE music video and how many hours ive spent on Disney Channel just to catch that music video and how many times I’ve listened at it in their self-title album which I have, is now performed by them live, infront of me. Like in those years, ofcourse I had daydreams of watching them personally but ive always known I have no chance I mean, just come to think of it, they are living in Hollywood and im just here in the other side of the globe wishing for them and that I thought that’d always be my status but no, because at that moment, I was seeing them live. You know that feeling where you just go numb and you cant even let your tears escape even when you’re drowned out by a certain emotion? We usually feel it when we’re overly depressed over something, but last night was the complete opposite. Like my tears were at the tip of my lids but I was just too filled with happiness and excitement that I cant feel any other emotions at all! And at the second part of WYLMITE I was able to come back to my senses and I sang along with them and the feeling was just soooo amaaaazing!

The Jonas Brothers sang a lot of songs in which the crowd didn’t know about, in which I happen to know by heart! I thought I already forgot the lyrics but when they played it I was able to sing it on the top of my lungs that ive received looks from the girls beside me and Era but then too bad that time I didn’t care if I looked like an idiot or that you guys didn’t know the songs that made me fan girl over them throughout the years!
Some of the songs they performed were:

Hold On – they kinda used a different tune in this one almost didn’t recognize it!

That’s Just the Way We Roll – after singing this song I felt like ive lost 75% of my voice!

Give Love A Try - I love how they were able to include it even when it was from their show J.O.N.A.S. (nick’s song for Penny) I was crazy over this song and my bb sang it perfectly.

Turn Right - I could still hear the echoes of Joe’s voice singing its chorus, its like what I watched in their concert videos and I heard it live and he sang it ahmazing!

Fly With Me – I can still remember the way sang “peter pan and wendy turned out fine..”

Still In Love With You - I cant believe I was able to hear these parts, live: “We had fun under the sun, and when winter came she’d be my angel, we were so inlove..” and “I don’t know what hurts worse baby, seeing you with him or being alone on my own; I know he doesn’t love you baby not like I did oh what’s the point, you’re not listenin”, ive been replaying that part in their videos and CD over and over and nick’s voice is just so shmexy, they sing it good even when live. just exactly like in the cd oh gosh except that it was live oh gosh.

Hello Beautiful – it was just sooo perfect like a thousand times than in the album srsly I cant even asdfghjkl especially when Nick replaced “California” with “Cebu”, so it went like “Hello Beautiful, how’s going? I hear its wonderful in Cebu..”

I Gotta Find You
Much Better
Who I Am
BB Good
Goodnight and Goodbye

They also sang:
We Found Love by Rihanna
We Are Young by Fun.

And their new songs:
Let’s Go
First Time – where kevin has actually a part in singing it loud!
Wedding Bells - a personal song written by nick dedicated to somebody whom we pretend we do not know of even when we do

And ofcourse their famous hits in which the crowd really enjoyed singing:
When You Look Me In The Eyes - like I said earlier, not in a million year ive thought I would hear them and see them perform this live! Ive tell you about my emotions over this song already!

Paranoid – heard them play this one during soundcheck even when we were still outside the concert doors haha

LoveBug – the crowd knew the lyrics by heart so Joe was like letting us sing especially when in the chorus. Hnnngz nick’s voice when he started singing “Called you for the first time yesterday…” and when joe sang the first “now im speechless, over the edge and just breathless..” and kevin was rockin his guitar during the rock acoustic part urghhh

SOS – this was like the first song that JB was recognized for and everybody was just rockin out while singing this one then after, clever band left us out for a few minutes, letting us chant “we want more! We want more!” A lot actually thought it was the final song and some of them were heading out already and then I was like “no that’s not possible they didn’t sing the ‘im hot, you’re cold..’” and then the jobros went up to the stage singing Burnin up rockin the venue once again.

Burnin Up – hot hot hot I tell you! Especially when they returned on stage and sang this immediately and everybody was just like slippin into the lava and burnin up. My ears went crazy when in the middle of the song nick was like “c’mon girl..” and how he pronounce the word ‘baby’ like ‘babeyy’.

I wasn’t able to remember if this was all of it because there were times I zoned out in the plasma screen then to their figures then to the plasma screen again, then back to their singing figures once again, especially at nick because its like I tweet to him and I’m always joking like he’s going to be the father of my kids and I just cant believe that it was actually nick jonas standing before my eyes and inside my head I was like ‘that’s really nick jonas’ and then I tell era something like ‘that’s really nick jonas’ and she was also like ‘yea, that’s really nick Jonas.’ Oh gosh.

Asdfghjkl ofcourse and ive seen the famous Jonas Brothers pose where they place joe in the middle then nick and kevin would be both rockin out their guitars and then they walk together a little and they make history by doing it and that it was beyond words to see it live! After making the crowd heat up with their last song they did their roll calls and just immediately left and still left the crowds wanting for more and im just soooo happy I the amount of my ticket wasn’t actually wasted!

After that, Era and I went to the lower box and took pictures and finally grabbed our dinner at mcdonald’s while I was also using the privilege to connect to their public wifi to tweet out my feelings. We decided to go home at like 12:30am after eating and hailed a taxi and until now my inner fan girl is screaming that it was one of the best nights of my life!

-geianne (Typed in MS Word Oct. 22, 2012)