{"id":1279,"date":"2016-04-18T08:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2016-04-18T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:58:04","slug":"muse-concert-first-step-world-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/muse-concert-first-step-world-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse concert &#8211; My first step into the world of ROCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to go home from the\u00a0library when my friend sent me a text message asking me if I wanted to go to a concert with her because her cousin was suddenly busy and could not go with her. Well, I have never gone to any concert without knowing who was going to play except for tonight. I agreed and took the first tube to the O2 arena.<\/p>\n<p>The band performing that night was\u00a0Muse \u2013 the name I\u2019ve never heard of since my taste in\u00a0music has never been rock (yeah! I am a true Pop and R&amp;B fan).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, tonight was\u00a0my first time going to a Rock concert.<span id=\"more-848\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-865 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/2016-04-14-21-38-40.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"international student bloggers muse\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/>Honestly I have to admit that I did not expect anything out of tonight\u2019s concert. I came here just because I did not want my friend to waste her money when she probably had to trash the ticket (she told me that if I had not come, she would have given it to a stranger. Ouch! Sorry, stranger!).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-868\" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/2016-04-14-22-38-48.jpg?w=362&amp;h=204\" alt=\"international student bloggers muse\" width=\"362\" height=\"204\" \/>And I was not let down. The Muse concert was a m a z i n g (I had to write it this way to get your attention), not because I loved all their songs, but because the atmosphere that I got, the feeling they gave me, and all the lighting, silky smooth 3D performance interacting with their songs\u2026 but most of all it was because of the crowd\u2019s excitement and \u201chigh-ness\u201d every time Muse sang a new song. That was goo-oo-ood!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/2016-04-14-22-19-32.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"international student bloggers muse\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/>In my mind, rock performances are not full of dancing, changing clothes or \u201cPR\u201d stunts on the stage, but tonight\u2019s show still left me at awe thanks to a giant space ship flying around the arena, or 10 giant balloons jumping up and down giving the fans a really funny and exciting time trying to break them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that after tonight, I am still truly a pop fan, an R&amp;B fan (to the bone), but somehow I felt like maybe I\u2019ve missed something that is really interesting in my life. Rock is not as rough and hard-to-listen-to as I\u2019ve thought. And I think Muse just got them a new fan!<\/p>\n<p>Read this post and other stories on <a href=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/16\/muse-concert-my-first-step-into-the-world-of-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tung&#8217;s personal blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to go home from the\u00a0library when my friend sent me a text message asking me if I wanted to go to a concert with her because her cousin was suddenly busy and could not go with her&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,14,15,18],"tags":[170,301,485,488,676],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-favourite-memories","category-friends","category-london","category-music","category-student-experience","tag-concert","tag-gig","tag-muse","tag-music","tag-studying-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}