OUR 10 FAVORITE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MTV IGGY #BESTNEWBAND CONCERT

#-6 2NE1\’S ANTICIPATION-RATCHETING WALK TO THE STAGE

We’d planned for cameras to follow 2NE1 from the street to the stage…but that still didn’t prepare us for goosebumps all over as CL, Minzy, Bom, and Dara flitted down endless, twisting stairs and corridors to the insistent, throbbing strains of “I Am the Best.” We know you fans at home were chanting “Nega Jeil Chalaga”…cause we were too.

#-8 ULTIMATE FAN BIANCA STOPS BREATHING

Ok, not really. But she was so excited she could barely speak!! When she said, “I even got my class rings to say K-pop on them” an Iggy staffer thought she meant rings for the whole school and imagined “some sort of K-pop super school. If I had tried to get Backstreet Boys on my high school’s class ring, I would have been kicked in the face.” Upon rewatching the livestream we think Bianca got the words on her own ring, not the whole school’s, but we prefer to hold on to our imaginary version.

#-10 HIGHLY OPINIONATED FAN TWEETS

We wanted to include fans who couldn’t be there in person to still have a presence. So we featured your Tweets on the MTV HD Jumbotron in Times Square and on the LCD screen at the theater…and you didn’t disappoint. From fans waiting outside hilariously bi#ching (“I’m so cold I’m getting gangrene”) to the outpouring of Venezuelan “orgullo” for La Vida Boheme after their riveting performance, to 2NE1 fans noticing every minute detail — Bom’s dress length, how hosts pronounced the girls’ names, the song selections…you made us laugh, sniffle, and so happy to know how your felt.

#-11 THE MOMENT 2NE1 WAS CROWNED BEST NEW BAND IN THE WORLD!

Dressed in red military jackets accented with gold metal, the girls KILLED it. The unexpected call-and-response between CL and the audience to “Nega Jeil Chalaga,” the dizzying dance moves (they owned that stage), the confetti guns showering the room in a blizzard of paper so thick you could barely see 2 feet in front of you…and most of all the delighted looks on CL, Bom, Minzy, and Dara’s faces as they held the crowns in that moment. No amount of rehearsing or planning can capture that moment. It was the best.

Note: Took out parts not relevant to 2ne1. ^_^

Source: MTV IGGY