#kcon16la

so I saw Monsta X at KCON LA 2016, and at the time I had a few of their songs but knew close to nothing about them. I knew Jooheon best at the time, and considered him my fave of the group (still do love him BUT) and I got a pass to their fan meeting. My friend was considerably more into Monsta X (her bias is I.M) at the time and we waited FOREVER in line to get a good spot to watch the fan meeting. (side note: everyone in line was so nice like DAMN we were out in the heat and one girl straight up gave me her sunscreen so I wouldn’t burn) BUT.... they came out SUPER LATE (not their fault, scheduling issues) and they had no questions, just said hi and started the fanmeeting. Immediately I noticed Shownu. Everyone else was super casual with the fans, high-fiving them, smiling, laughing, talking... but then there was Shownu. Yes, he was smiling and stuff but he also looked hella nervous. His arms were constantly up, at the ready to high-five people and every time he did, it looked like in his head he was like “nailed it- ok don’t mess this one up... nice! Nailed it again, ok- now seriously don’t mess this up” lol and I pointed it out to my friend and she started laughing when she noticed it too. He was like, so dead-focused on each high five and not messing up it was hilarious. I immediately had him on my radar after that. They were all so grateful, and sweet and smiling and seemed genuinely shocked and appreciative of all the fans that showed up. At the concert, I kid you not Monsta X was the MVP for me. I didn’t know them super well, and they were just SO GOOD. So interactive with the audience and really funny. Their stages were killer, they did random lil cover of Moves Like Jagger and were just all around very entertaining. Literally all I could do was stare at Shownu while they performed. He didn’t even have the best hair at the time (I don’t like when his bangs are super short in the front lol) but I still was like goddamn there is the most beautiful man in this group, and like he was buff but squishy??? (I still don’t understand how he’s both) like he is just SO GOOD LOOKING and on that massive screen at the concert I was like?!?! Who is this man??? How is he is so damn attractive?? Also Monsta X started a massive confetti war at the end when all the groups were on stage and it was HILARIOUS I think it was started by Minhyuk (?) and at first was just to other Monsta X members, but someone smacked a member of BTS in the face with a fist of confetti (I really wanna say it was Suga but I can’t remember) and hell broke out from there. I swear, I could’ve watched this confetti war go on for another hour it was so entertaining and a really great end to a fantastic KCON.