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Descending to the Depths of Idol Hell and Loving It - Musician's Perspective on #NWIF2022
An excerpt from a blog post written by TomStrike, who attended NorthWest Idol Fest in October 2022:
I wrapped up the day's events quickly so I could talk about the best part of day 1: the Northern Lights Festival. A five-hour extravaganza featuring idols both new to the scene, established veterans, and even for one of them a bonafide professional idol from Japan. To put it simply, what is there not to love? The room was jam-packed with fans from the entire con ready to wave their penlights, cheering on and showing their support for both the idols they knew and the idols they would come to know.
Before continuing, I need to share something about myself: I am a very introverted and introspective person. For me, one of the ways the combination of those traits rears its ugly side is that I can rarely just let myself go and have fun. As counterintuitive as it sounds, I usually have to push myself to have unrestrained fun. (Like, I have fun with a lot of things, but I almost never can just let myself go and fully enjoy myself.)
I can't tell you what it is. Was it the penlights? Was it the idols' hard work and dedication shown through their vocal and choreography practice coming to life on the stage? Was it the crowd's energy? Was it the calls and mixes? A combination of these things? I couldn't give you the answer. The only thing I know is this:
I was able to fully let myself go and just enjoy myself!
For five hours, I enjoyed so much of the amazing performances that came from everyone on that stage! Excepting the guests, the names that still stick in my head from this concert were COOL DIA, Alex Pinku, CODE:MiAO, Project Constellation, and Bunny Kaisui. That said, every idol up there performed amazingly and I am so glad I was able to support them all, but these were the names that stuck with me after the fact. I absolutely loved the energy a lot of them brought. Some were polished, some were raw, but all of them showed such a beautiful love for music and for performing that became such a tangible feeling on that stage.
The article is very lovely, please give the full blog post a read!
A Magical Moment at NWIF 2022
After NWIF 2022, some attendees took to the official IdolFest Discord to talk about their experience. Code:Miao came up in conversation regarding the festival's arcade room:
There was a fantastic moment happening at the arcade at one point. I should have just taken a quick video. Someone selected "KING" on Dance Dance Revolution [game]. Code:Miao behind them then started doing the actual dance routine to "King." I turned around and someone on Taiko [game] was hitting along to King and going hard while sitting in the song select menu [of the Taiko game]. It was like a completely organic and wholesome moment of everyone in the room jamming simultaneously.
The last bit of the KING choreo is turning around to face the back and it was that moment when I realized just how many people were watching [laughs]. Also it was Boba Fi on DDR!
-Lightning (Code:Miao)
I was there! I took a short video but didn't get the Taiko player in the shot unfortunately.
You can view the video here!