NewJeans, about a year into their debut, stepped onto the stage of the large-scale American music festival "Lollapalooza Chicago."
Their electric performance was met with enthusiastic sing-alongs from a crowd of about 70,000, marking a sight to behold.
This was a moment that confirmed a new chapter in K-pop history, resonating with NewJeans' explosive global popularity at the world-renowned music festival "Lollapalooza".
NewJeans Shakes Up Lollapalooza Chicago, Writes New Chapter in K-pop History
On the 3rd (local time), at 5 p.m., NewJeans took the stage at 'Lollapalooza' held in Grant Park, Chicago, marking the first appearance by a K-pop girl group. The "T-MOBILE" stage, where global pop star Billie Eilish is headlining, is known as a "dream stage" for artists.
Despite NewJeans not having significant local activity prior to this, the stage garnered considerable interest from fans. Particularly, NewJeans had attracted even more attention as their 2nd mini-album "Get Up" topped the 'Billboard 200' and three songs from this album were featured on 'Hot 100' in the most recent Billboard chart (dated August 5th).
The passionate 45-minute live performance of 12 songs The excitement among the fans was palpable even before the concert began. Thousands of fans queued up to enjoy various events at the pop-up booth 'Bunnyland', a collaboration between NewJeans and Spotify. As the concert time approached, tens of thousands of spectators crowded together to see NewJeans' performance.
The audience waited for NewJeans' appearance, waving their light sticks, and NewJeans lived up to the hype, delivering a passionate live performance of 12 songs over about 45 minutes, leaving a lasting impression.
As soon as NewJeans' performance began, the audience enthusiastically sang along with the songs and danced along to the choreography. NewJeans, who opened with their debut song "Hype boy", said, "We were really happy to hear that we could be on the 'Lollapalooza Chicago' stage. We prepared a lot for today's great stage, so please look forward to it."
NewJeans Shakes Up Lollapalooza Chicago, Writes New Chapter in K-pop History
The group followed up with the tracks "Cookie", "Hurt(remix ver.)", and "Attention" from their debut album "New Jeans", along with the single album "OMG", the track "Ditto", and the title track "OMG", showing off NewJeans' passionate and refreshing energy with mega-hit songs one after another.
The highlight was the 6-song stage from their 2nd mini-album "Get Up". From the first track "New Jeans", the triple title songs "Super Shy", "ETA", "Cool With You", the interlude song "Get Up", to the epilogue song "ASAP", NewJeans won a great response from the audience with their diverse performances, relaxed stage manners, and stable live skills.
"Together on this hot and beautiful stage, in NewJeans' second summer"
The members of NewJeans deeply connected with the audience with their fluent English skills. They said, "We were really happy to be able to spend NewJeans' second summer on this hot and beautiful Lollapalooza stage. We won't forget the time we spent with all of you for the rest of our lives. We hope to meet again next time."
The heat of the day's performance did not easily die down as "#LOLLAJEANS" trended at number 2 on Twitter US immediately after the concert ended.
NewJeans signaled that they would continue their global march, starting with 'Lollapalooza Chicago'.
