"There was a massive video screen that broadcast images of her doing standard music-video things, from swimming underwater to getting snowed on, from being surrounded by flames to lying on the hood of a muscle car.
If there’s a template for a big-budget pop-music concert, the former Disney Channel star/former “X Factor” judge found it, studied it, followed it to a T."
"For starters,
Lovato did not appear to lip-synch, something that sadly happens frequently when it comes to pop shows at this arena (her friend Selena Gomez, for instance, mimed several songs when she was here in October)."
"And yet Lovato manages to be just interesting enough to concertgoers who fall outside her core demographic of 12- to 17-year-old girls."
"The entire show was family-friendly. There wasn’t a single curse word, there was no innuendo, her midriff was never exposed.
And good for her. Those are cliches we as parents can live without."
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