Sunday’s JYPE concert was hosted at the historic Hammerstein ballroom in NYC.  Despite many technical issues that plagued the performance, the talented troupe at JYPE put on a successful concert. The beginning of the concert started with the beautiful Lim Jeong Hee addressing the audience flawlessly in English. The singer, who now goes by the stage name J-Lim, also sang an English version of her song “Music is My Life”. Due to the fact we only got one song from the singer was really disappointing. J-Lim may not be as teenage-idol as the other JYPE performers but she deserves more than just one song. Missing from this concert was Min and G-Soul, many fans wondered where did these once hyped trainees go?

Surprising the music industry was how the audience reacted to the next performers 2pm. These guys took the stage to the loudest screams and cheers of the night, even surpassing cheers for their JYPE nuna’s the WonderGirls. This should be a sign, 2pm is the time for an American crossover, regardless of some of their members lack of the English language their charisma captured the crowd. Their 2 song set also seemed cut way too short and technical issues with mic’s muted some of the singers performance.

I almost felt worried when the WonderGirls took to the stage. The hammerstein stage was too small for the backdrop sets but they put on their best and rocked the house. Most impressive was their direction and live singing… and although they went to 2 opposite ends of America, put on 3 concerts in 4 days they showed no signs of exhaustion. Most enjoyable was YeEun, who seemed to have more confidence than the other girls reaching into the crowd at times to touch fans. I really hope to see JYPE put out a wondergirls live album from all of this because this was far more entertaining than prepackaged music.

Ending the evening was JYP, I have to admit I got a little preview of JYP’s rehearsal before hand and my heart nearly burst into fan-girl utopia. It was clearly already set that out of all his trainee’s JYP was going to rock it. His section of the evening had converted Hammerstein into “The House you live in” and then took us through a forbidden love story.  Of course he got to sing “Delicious” to one lucky audience member (IM SO JEALOUS) and he got to tie her to a levitating bed (Still Jealous). Before he ended his set he told the crowd he gets to be a singer only one time of the year and I felt instantly lucky again to see the CEO of JYPE live once again.