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Rave review for the concert in Houston last night!
Concert of the Year? Pink gets a gold star for dazzling show: She sings, she soars, she sparkles!
"... One mark of a good concert is that you may not know every song in the program when you enter, but you walk out wondering how fast you can get home and start downloading. Pink delivered that and more.... I have always said that Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay is the hardest working entertainer around, but I’m reconsidering, and now I’m giving Pink the nod....With Madonna’s last concert tour playing to mixed reviews and Lady Gaga cancelling her 2013 tour, Pink may prove to be the concert of the year. Based on the reactions of fans at the Toyota Center Thursday night, Pink gets a gold star."
FULL REVIEW: http://houston.culturemap.com/newsde...-she-sparkles/
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Pink thrills Tampa Bay Forum crowd with daring in the air, swagger on the stage
"TAMPA — After Pink's high-flying sold-out gig at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Wednesday, substantial swaths of which she spent spinning and/or upside-down, there are no longer any — annnyyy — viable excuses for a performer to ever lip-synch again.
If this 33-year-old mommy could soulfully belt out opening hit Raise Your Glass while boing-boing-ing rafter-high via bungee ropes, the Britneys and Beyonces of the Top 40 realm can't claim dance moves or chilly climes as decent reasons to switch off the mike.
Wow, what an evolution of a talent. In the beginning P!nk was Ke$ha with cooler hair, just another sass-talking bad girl with a snarly upper lip, a couple of catchy songs and a punctuated moniker. Maybe she'd be around tomorrow; maybe she'd be grand-opening cheesesteak shops in her Philly homeland.
A decade-plus later, Alecia Moore is an enduring star, a bankable singer-songwriter so confident that she's been doing recent shows without arguably her biggest hit, Get the Party Started, on her setlist. That's not a belligerent move, mind you; that's someone who thinks she can entertain you better without it...."
FULL REVIEW: Pink thrills Tampa Bay Forum crowd with daring in the air, swagger on the stage
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Pink – “The truth about love” tour
The mainstream music world is a cut-throat ordeal, where the more talented are not always the ones reaping the most reward. Pop-starlet, Pink, is a prime example of a talented vocalist that always seems to teeter-totter on the verge of super stardom but never seems to fall on the right side of the fence. She was signed to her first record contract while still a minor, as part of Pop-trio who’s only recorded works never saw the light of day. She was given the ultimatum of being dropped from the label or going solo – electing to take the lonely route.
One such deserving of her international fame, is England’s sensational Adele, who credits Pink as an influence and inspiration; during a concert at the iconic Brixton Academy, a young Adele sat in wonder as she bore witness to what she describes as one of the most defining moments of her life. “It was the Missundaztood record, so I was about 13 or 14. I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live. I remember sort of feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was incredible.”
“I wanted to do it my way with my career,” Pink said, “and I had this arrogant notion that people weren’t just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That’s something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard ‘Holiday’”.
It was with her sophomore album, “Missundaztood”, that Pink found her own way and broke free of the monotony of Pop music and re-established herself with a unique style all of her own. Pink discovered Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes phone number while browsing through her make-up artists little black book and reached out to Perry, or more accurately to her answer machine, exclaiming her desire to work with her. The newfound partnership bore fruit instantly, and resulted in Perry penning Pink’s biggest hit, “Get The Party Started”. Initially, her record label, , were displeased with the album and with her new style, but the album ultimately had the final saw, becoming one of the years best-selling records. The album entered the #8 spot on the billboard top 100 and peeked at sixth spot.
Pink’s dream was to be an Olympic gymnast. Her eight years of gymnastic training didn’t lead her to the Games, but have served her well regardless, becoming an integral aspect of her live performance. The result of which is visually stunning, defiantly awe-inspiring yet ultimately dangerous; Pink fell during one of her aerial tricks during a concert in Nurnberg, Germany in 2001. As she soared out over the crowd, she had a harness mishap and was sent careening back to earth. She was rushed away to a nearby hospital but luckily evaded serious injury. She defiantly continues to use aerial stunts and will be doing so when her current tour, dubbed “The Truth About Love”, comes to Montreal’s Bell Centre on March 12th, 2013. Reviews from past gigs along the way have stated that she enters the arena with three male aerialists for some dazzling circus tricks, all the while belting out her trademark hits.
Pink – “The truth about love” tour
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Concert review: Pink’s bungee cord and abs of steel get attention during sold-out American Airlines Center concert
"Behind the curtain three muscular men hung upside down on an ornate contraption suspended in mid-air. Pink, sustained by a bungee cord, seemingly sprung out of nowhere to sing “Raise Your Glass” as she swung up and down like a sling shot without a ball. The image was eye-popping. The crowd’s approval was deafening.
Alecia Beth Moore, better known as Pink, performed for about two hours before a sold-out audience Friday night at American Airlines Center. Opening the show were Sweden’s garage rockers the Hives who put on an energetic 40-minute set brimming with personality. Pink’s “The Truth About Love Tour” stop mixed spectacle with intimacy, naughtiness with kiss-off humor and sophisticated acrobatics with seductive dancing. It was a superstar concert with all the trappings while underscoring the deserved appeal of a performer with raw talent and an everyday approachability.
It’s easy to like Pink. Her rock-charged brand of pop-dance is radio ready, but it’s anchored in wit and grit. She’s got a pliable voice with lung power and melodic grace. She’s unbelievably taut with abs of steel and an adventurous streak. She’s got attitude, and no qualms about tossing a few expletives...."
FULL REVIEW
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I can't believe all these awesome reviews. She must feel so proud.
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I can't believe all these awesome reviews. She must feel so proud.
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ikr....Tour of the year!
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Rave reviews. Finally being recognized as the greatest entertainer alive.
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This almost made me cry.
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AMEN @ the review! Thanks for sharing.
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This is my attempt to write a review for the tour Pictures and videos included!
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The Truth about P!nk: From Underdog to the World’s Most Electrifying Performer
At her last arena tour, the 2009 Funhouse Tour, P!nk leaped off a bungee platform, wrapped herself in silks as water trickled down her naked, ripped body —now known as the famed ‘Glitter in the Air’ performance that captivated audiences all around the world— and even had the moxie to belt out Bohemian Rhapsody in its glorious entirety. So only one question remains: can she outdo herself at The Truth About Love Tour?
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WOW!!! That was so good! I've really enjoyed reading.
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Yeah, WOW!
Are you a writer?
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Theatrics are often devices employed by lesser performers to compensate for their lack of vocal talents. But P!nk is no slouch when it comes to singing. Whether she is soaring high up in the air or simply has her feet planted squarely on the ground, her voice has never once faltered.
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Excellent writer!
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Pink comes full circle at Philips
A few songs into her lavish production Friday night, Pink addressed the sold-out crowd with a simple comment.
“I’ve come full circle,” she said, adding that when she opened her hotel curtains that morning she was facing “that shiny building where it all began 18 years ago.”
Her reference to LaFace Records, the Atlanta-based L.A. Reid-Babyface-fronted powerhouse label of the ‘90s and ‘00s which launched her career, seemed to go over the heads of many in the delirious crowd, but Pink hasn’t forgotten her roots.
“It only took 18 years to get here. Fan…tastic,” she said with a hint of Pink-ish sarcasm.
Late in the two-hour show, she paid homage to her early music with a medley of the R&B/hip-hop-pop of “Most Girls,” “There You Go” and “You Make Me Sick,” reminding fans of just how much her formative years followed that post-TLC, Atlanta-centric sound.
But the Pink of today – 33, a mom, alternately elegant and spunky – is in a different stratosphere from the attitudinal hopeful of nearly two decades ago. She’s paid her dues, opening for Lenny Kravitz and Justin Timberlake over the years, and is rightfully celebrating the spoils of her first No. 1 album, last fall’s melodically rich “The Truth About Love.”
Her two-hour hits parade at Philips Arena on Friday was stocked with fizzy fun, from the opening blast of pyro and bungee cord stunts during “Raise Your Glass” to the boot-stomping “Trouble” to her fearless acrobatics in a spinning medieval egg for “Sober.”
You can only imagine the agita this woman gives insurance companies.
But what Pink has managed on this tour, which launched two weeks ago and travels the world through September, is a lot of perfect combinations.
Her show is both choreographed and spontaneous, polished, but with enough of her charming rough edges to showcase her ragamuffin sexiness.
She also looked amazing – a taut, muscular frame that sported glittery leotards, snazzy athletic pants and gauzy dresses with equal appeal – and, most importantly, sounded hearty on both ballads and uptempo numbers (though, admittedly, her fine pair of backup singers provided plenty of assistance during many songs).
As she skipped around the ginormous stage, which featured a heart-shaped video screen as its centerpiece and plenty of room for her crackerjack five-piece band to wander, Pink looked happy as a schoolgirl but was often accompanied by enough tough-girl dancers to reinforce the point that they could all kick your butt.
“I’m a terrible dancer,” Pink said, in what didn’t sound like false modesty but also couldn’t be further from the truth as she busted plenty of moves during “Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely),” demonstrated her rhythmic prowess by whacking a mini drum kit to open the new “Are We All We Are” and gracefully weaved through the arms of a cadre of shirtless men during a sultry cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.”
She also re-created her emotional dance-gymnastics routine from the “Try” video with the uber-hunky Colt Prattes, an Atlanta native, who flung her around wildly as she sang the heart-wrenching ballad.
The only misstep in this dazzling spectacle is the inclusion of an annoying “narrator,” whose shtick begins before the show as he roams the aisles engaging in such hilarity as sitting on people’s heads (then again, with an unnecessary wait of an hour between mismatched openers The Hives and Pink, at least he was a mild diversion).
But Pink has enough in her cauldron, both musically and visually, to handle this without any weak Cirque-wannabe sideshows. Whether belting “Who Knew” with only guitarist Justin Derrico providing an acoustic backdrop or handing fans the one-two punch of rowdy fun known as “**** Like You” and “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” with her dancing crew, Pink was firmly in control.
You could even say she’s come full circle.
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P!nk's Truth About Love tour takes spectacle to new heights
"There is no doubt that P!nk's "Truth About Love" tour is the arena spectacle of the year. Friday night in Atlanta she played Philips Arena and proved that the spectacle wasn't about her music; it wasn't about her voice; it wasn't about her on-stage entourage; it wasn’t about P!nk's stage presence nor was it about her stage set. It was about the combination of all those things; but it became truly spectacular when she left the stage.
It wasn't about her music although the two-hour set included most of her current hits from the "Truth About Love" album and some of her older ones. The crowd were on their feet the entire evening. “Try” and her duet with Nate Reuss (Fun.'s lead singer was on video), “Just Give Me a Reason” were only bettered by “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” for pure entertainment value while "Are We All We Are" and "How Come You're Not Here" were much better live than on the album. P!nk even covered Chris Isaak's “Wicked Game.”
It wasn’t about her incredible voice whose range and emotion were showcased perfectly with a couple of slower songs, an acoustic version of "Who Knew" and then “Family Portrait” a poignant recollection of her own childhood spent in a divorcing household. On a more upbeat basis "F**kin Perfect" pretty much was!
It wasn’t about her on-stage entourage including a five piece band highlighted by Jason Chapman on piano and Jason Derrico on guitar; nor was it about the back-up singers, the dancers or the emcee.
It wasn’t about her stage presence despite the fact that her outfits, dancing, strutting, facial expressions and interaction with the crowd demanded everyone’s attention all the time.
It wasn’t the high-tech light or video screen backdrop that showed a variety of videos, photos, cartoons and even a neon pole dancer during “**** Like You.”
The whole was greater than the sum of the parts and if that had been the extent of the show everyone would have had a great time but P!nk has become known for her on-stage and above stage gymnastics and theatrics and this show had those and then some. The evening played to those strengths with a variety of winches, pulleys, trapezes, and cages that elevated her above the stage and all while she was sing and not missing a note...."
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P!nk's Truth About Love tour takes spectacle to new heights
"There is no doubt that P!nk's "Truth About Love" tour is the arena spectacle of the year. Friday night in Atlanta she played Philips Arena and proved that the spectacle wasn't about her music; it wasn't about her voice; it wasn't about her on-stage entourage; it wasn’t about P!nk's stage presence nor was it about her stage set. It was about the combination of all those things; but it became truly spectacular when she left the stage.
It wasn't about her music although the two-hour set included most of her current hits from the "Truth About Love" album and some of her older ones. The crowd were on their feet the entire evening. “Try” and her duet with Nate Reuss (Fun.'s lead singer was on video), “Just Give Me a Reason” were only bettered by “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” for pure entertainment value while "Are We All We Are" and "How Come You're Not Here" were much better live than on the album. P!nk even covered Chris Isaak's “Wicked Game.”
It wasn’t about her incredible voice whose range and emotion were showcased perfectly with a couple of slower songs, an acoustic version of "Who Knew" and then “Family Portrait” a poignant recollection of her own childhood spent in a divorcing household. On a more upbeat basis "F**kin Perfect" pretty much was!
It wasn’t about her on-stage entourage including a five piece band highlighted by Jason Chapman on piano and Jason Derrico on guitar; nor was it about the back-up singers, the dancers or the emcee.
It wasn’t about her stage presence despite the fact that her outfits, dancing, strutting, facial expressions and interaction with the crowd demanded everyone’s attention all the time.
It wasn’t the high-tech light or video screen backdrop that showed a variety of videos, photos, cartoons and even a neon pole dancer during “**** Like You.”
The whole was greater than the sum of the parts and if that had been the extent of the show everyone would have had a great time but P!nk has become known for her on-stage and above stage gymnastics and theatrics and this show had those and then some. The evening played to those strengths with a variety of winches, pulleys, trapezes, and cages that elevated her above the stage and all while she was sing and not missing a note...."
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AMEN.
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I knew the critics + fans would rave about this tour but the reviews have honestly exceeded my expectations.
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I knew the critics + fans would rave about this tour but the reviews have honestly exceeded my expectations.
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Me too. She's finally getting recogniton she truly deserves in the US.
But, I'm more excited that her next tour and album will have huge boost from this.
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Me too. She's finally getting recogniton she truly deserves in the US.
But, I'm more excited that her next tour and album will have huge boost from this.
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Next tour? Or do you mean the next leg of TTAL Tour?
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