New York Times critics have selected the U.S. leg concerts of 2NE1 and Big Bang as the second best concerts of this year.
On December 26th, New York Times revealed its list of its best concerts of 2012 and it included concerts from the past year by artists such as Jay-Z, Radio Head, Nicki Minaj and more by the critics. In it, Jon Caramanica, a pop critic and one of four co-authors of the article, picked the YG artists’ shows at Prudential Center, Newark as the No. 2 of his favorite live events of 2012.
They wrote, “This was the year K-pop arrived — not in the form of “Gangnam Style,” which was everywhere and yet completely evanescent — but in these arena shows, which were full of thousands of young, paying fans eager to see the girls of 2NE1 and the boys of Big Bang, groups with zero American hits between them, but rabid American followings all the same.”
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