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LA TIMES: PINK SOARS AT STAPLES CENTER
According to the singer Pink, she had in fact played Staples Center once before her Saturday night headline gig there. But she didn't quite remember doing so.
“I’d hurt myself and the doctors said I couldn't do any tricks, but instead I just took a Percocet,” the singer born Alecia Moore told the Staples audience. “So I don’t really remember being there.”
Self-medicating to dull the pain from a wound? Mocking a career setback with an endearing punchline about her knack for blacking out? This was definitely a Pink show.
Moore has saved herself a seat at the bad kids’ table in the pop music school cafeteria, lobbing spitballs and smoking in the bathroom over the course of six albums of rowdy, electrified pop-punk. But she’s also an unusually tender singer and writer, documenting her addictions and screwups with a specificity that most peers on radio wouldn't touch.
At her sold-out Saturday show, her set reminded the crowd that her best asset in performing -- more than her aerialist talents or Joplin-esque power-rasp voice, is her self-awareness.
Last year, Moore released “The Truth About Love,” a record that paired up-tempo electronics and rock guitars -- a formula that peers such as Katy Perry and Kelly Clarkson have used to great success. But Pink is both more fun and more angsty in that setting than either of them, and her live show had a big range of material and moods to cover.
Saturday’s gig was built around a dating-game-show conceit where Pink was a contestant; it was kind of a thin premise for an artist with so many other talents. The first person onstage was a wacky-sinister vaudeville host doing stand-up shtick for 10 minutes, which was 10 more minutes we could have spent watching Pink careen over the stage on bungee cords on her ode to drunk confidence, "Raise Your Glass.”
Though Pink started as a late ’90s R&B singer, Saturday’s set showed how nicely she’s slipped into her contemporary sound, with recent singles such as “Blow Me (One Last Kiss),” “Are We All We Are” and “Walk of Shame” sounding like Def Leppard and Dr. Luke signing a mutually assured-Top-40-destruction pact, with Pink at the helm making everything self-deprecating and uplifting at once.
Young women rebounding from sexual misadventures (we hear there might be a popular HBO show on this topic?) was one of the night’s big themes. Few other singers could make a song called “**** Like You” feel like a badge of honor (though an S&M-gagged stage scene for her song “Try” distracted from that song’s grunge-y howl of rejection).
Pink remains perhaps the most gifted and imaginative physical performer in pop right now. Her aerials make terrestrial-bound dancing feel, if not trivial, than certainly a little too safe. She spent a good half of Saturday’s show lashed to gyroscopes, hanging from ribbons or being tossed by the scruff of her neck into piles of dancers. That gave songs such as “Sober” a physical poetry that most other pop artists assign to their backup dancers.
It’s spectacle, yes, but it felt emotionally convincing -- even more than the stark, serious middle portion of the program. Her song “Family Portrait” is undeniably meaningful for her, but the actual family portraits projected onstage had a foreboding that outdid the song, whose domestic-dysfunction themes have been done better by Eminem and even Rihanna in recent years.
By the night’s end, however, she was back aloft over the Staples center floor for “So What,” perhaps her most defining song to date. The verses are funny and riffy about her habit of drunken brawls, especially on the occasions that her husband, Carey Hart, is out of the picture.
The chorus, however, has an unimpeachably accurate rebuttal (“So what, I’m still a rock star”) that’s also loaded with defensiveness and pain. That’s when Pink seemed most herself -- 50 feet above the arena floor, tied to the ceiling by wires, finally able to sail above and see it all. No Percocet needed.
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ROLLING STONE: PINK DAZZLES STAPLES CENTER CROWD WITH STAGECRAFT & ATTITUDE
Pink isn’t easily contained on a normal concert stage, regardless of its size. She hungers to be airborne, kicking and bouncing and twisting high into the air on bungee cord and cable, or tossed and spun from one dance partner to another, as she was last night at Staples Center in Los Angeles. On the third stop of her 2013 tour, she flew as much as anyone from The Avengers.
The singer’s two-hour performance was as dazzlingly physical as it was musical, beginning with the danceable pop of "True Love" while she was lifted high above the arena floor upside-down by a trio of male dancers. Madonna and her pop pretenders have always delivered dependably energetic shows, sweating out endless dance routines, but this was more Cirque du Soleil than the usual concert choreography. "I haven’t worked this hard since I worked at Pizza Hut," Pink joked after one dance number, but more challenging stunts were still ahead.
"Who is a good dancer in here? Who is a terrible dancer?" the singer asked, raising her hand. She soon had the crowd and her full troupe of male and female dancers in motion to a playful "Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)," with its indecisive romantic refrain of "Go away, come back!"
On Pink's right wrist is a fresh tattoo reading "true love," echoing the theme of her new album, The Truth About Love. The words flashed in big lights above the stage, and the star returned to the message throughout the night, singing with humor, pain, rage and attitude. She began "How Come You’re Not Here" by joking, "My husband loves this one," and was depicted on a big heart-shaped screen as an 8-bit cartoon character from an Eighties videogame, wielding a knife in the kitchen, tumbling down chasms and challenged by various hurdles and villains. More painful was "Family Portrait," sung from a child’s perspective of a troubled home and "growin' up in World War III."
It was a grown-up, sophisticated show, and Pink was relaxed and chatty between songs. She arrived beneath a wedge of platinum blonde hair and wore a series of bare-midriff tops that showed just how fit and ripped she’s become since giving birth to a daughter less than two years ago. At one point in the show, she joked that she had been informed that she’d played Staples Center once before, but had a dislocated shoulder then: "I took a Percocet, so I’m not sure I was here."
At the center of Pink's seven-person band was guitarist Justin Derrico, who cracked open a big rock riff for "Walk of Shame" and a series of fiery solos that allowed the singer to exit for multiple costume changes during the night. Later, he picked out the dreamy melody of Chris Isaak’s "Wicked Game" as Pink stood like a torch singer behind the microphone. Onstage was a carpet of fog as male dancers in glittery bondage gear lifted, tilted and spun her once more.
There was a stripper pole for her dancers, and a silhouette of lap dancing on the big screen, during the new album’s rocking, unapologetically sex-hungry "**** Like You." There was also an occasional appearance by a crazed emcee who was part-ringmaster, part Beetlejuice, as he taunted the crowd with intentionally bad jokes and sexual innuendo. For an acoustic take on the forceful lament "Who Knew" (from 2006’s I’m Not Dead), Pink and Derrico gathered around a pair of stools on the catwalk deeper into the crowd . Pink got schmaltzier on the new album’s love duet "Just Give Me a Reason," with a recorded image of Nate Ruess of Fun. up on the big screen as the crowd swayed and swooned.
By the time Pink was soaring gracefully through the air on cables stretched across the arena to perform "So What," the singer had demonstrated an epic workout of vocals, stagecraft and stunt-work without missing a note. The night’s best special effect was Pink herself.
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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: PINK REVEALS 'THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE' IN SHOW-STOPPING, SPECTACULAR FASHION
Opening with The Hives, Pink launches back to the top of pop with acrobatic stunts and killer vocals.
The Bottom Line: With Lady Gaga sidelined with a bum hip, Pink's acrobatic-heavy Truth About Love tour proves to be pop's biggest spectacle.
She lost the Grammy for best pop vocal album to RCA Records labelmate Kelly Clarkson last week, but if an awards show should ever give out a trophy for best use of acrobatics in a pop concert, Pink surely would come out on top. Or at least so it seemed Saturday night at Staples Center, the third stop on her The Truth About Love tour.
Using acrobatics isn't something new for Pink. She did on her 2009 Funhouse tour, and showcased it on TV with a breathtaking performance of "Glitter in the Air" at the 2010 Grammys. Yet on this trek, Pink has perfected the presentation with a show that was so entertaining, it just might be the biggest spectacle in pop, especially now that Lady Gaga is sidelined with a bum hip.
After an intro from the MC that set the stage with the singer as a contestant on "The Truth About Love" game show, Pink and company emerged with the star suspended high above the stage by three muscular male dancers, while singing "Raise Your Glass" as she was being slingshotted back into the air with a bungee-like contraption. Aside from the acrobatics, there was an elaborate stage with five video screens directly above it (including a massive heart-shaped screen in the middle) plus one more on each side, staircases and light posts, a crew of dancers, a five- piece band, two backup singers, numerous costume changes and a master of ceremony, who wasn't particularly entertaining nor funny but gave Pink a breather between her more strenuous numbers.
On the chance that such high performance would alienate her fans, Pink dedicated "Leave Me Alone" to the terrible dancers in the crowd, while a "dork-o-meter" was displayed on the video screens. To change things up, she began her 2002 hit "Just a Pill" on the floor, showing off her bare midriff and killer abs that rival fellow pop star and recent mom Gwen Stefani. During that song, she was literally tossed around the stage by a male dancer. There was so much action onstage during the first six songs, it was a welcome relief when she broke into a cover of Chris Isaak's '90s hit "Wicked Game" at the mic alone at center stage. But it didn't last long, as she soon was molested by three male dancers throughout the rest of the song.
Such a physically demanding performance is bound to raise questions about Pink singing live, which she appeared to be doing, assisted by her backing vocalists and perhaps some recorded tracks. Whatever the case, she eventually let the theatrics take a backseat to her voice. She sang "Just Give Me Reason," her duet with Nate Ruess, fairly free of distractions, save for the fun. frontman chiming in with his parts through the magic of video. Later she got even more intimate with "Family Portrait," her heart-wrenching tale of growing up in a broken home, accompanied only by pianist Jason Chapman as her family photos flashed on the video screen. She took a similar approach to "Who Knew," swapping out the piano for the accompaniment of Justin Derrico's acoustic guitar. These moments proved that she still is one of pop's most powerful vocalists.
When Pink cranked things up again with her aggressive sexual table-turner "**** Like You" and recent hit "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," it was beginning to seem like just another pop show with song-and-dance routines, but she pulled out all the stops with the encore of "So What." Dressed in a gold bodysuit and strapped into a harness, she flew over the crowd several times, taking brief stops on perches set up on each side of the area. The stunt was so mind-blowing that most of the crowd attempted to capture it on their camera phones, while others watched in amazement. That was a more than adequate showstopper, but Pink opted to end the set with a gentler comedown: "Glitter in the Air." Similar to that famed Grammy performance, Pink again was in the air, but for a calmer and more beautiful performance that had her spinning gracefully as she sang.
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HEARTS TURNING TO PINK
It's been a week for romance and excitement. Roses, kisses, chocolates, and hearts full of love abound.
We should be seeing red, but everywhere you look—there's Pink! The fabulous Pop Icon/Grammy nominee began her “The Truth About Love” tour this past week and Examiner was there last night at the Staples Center in Hollywood to see the Mega-Mama show off all of her tricks to a sold-out crowd.
This show was every bit as exciting and titillating as her last tour (Funhouse, 2009) with lots of surprises popping up throughout the night. Pink continued to thrill everyone with a circus-like act that boasts daredevil antics--hanging from ropes from above and flying through the air on trapeze-like devices while performing her songs! “Rock Star” had her rolling and tumbling with gymnastic-gyrations between the lines of two suspension wires while the spotlight followed her traversing the entire length of the arena's upper stratosphere air-space!!!
But beyond all of this, Pink exhibits some finely-tuned vocal and dance skills this time around. The fact that she's continued to push the envelope in both of these areas first became evident on her latest CD, The Truth About Love, and while watching the video that features the single “Try” from that same album.
The singer/songwriter and over-all entertainer extraordinaire has reached new heights with her voice on this latest CD, and the excitement she creates on the album transfers ten-fold to the tour.
Before, we would recognize her husky alto tones the minute they hit the air waves because Pink's vocals were consistently in that lower range which made her Rock style all the more effective and inimitable. No one ever faulted her for that. The throaty, sexy voice was pure Pink and it worked to define her as a performer.
But the lovely and fabulous fact about this young woman is that she keeps exploring new and uncharted territory with her voice, and on songs like “Just Give Me a Reason,” “Beam Me Up,” and "The Great Escape," Pink achieves an electrifying sound that she's never produced before. Can we still tell it's Pink? Without a doubt. Does it break the bonds and limits but still keep the integrity of her style intact? Absolutely. And that's why it's so satisfying.
During last night's performance, besides the enormously wide-ranging vocals, it was obvious that Pink has decided, this time around, to also build on dance moves. As a youth, she engaged in gymnastics, so Pink shows basic and innate flexibility and strength in her movements. Talent and interest in this area later developed into the training she undertook to incorporate gymnastic and acrobatic moves into her shows. Only lately with her “Try” video (and as evidenced on the 2012 American Music Awards program) has she shown us that she's taken her movement technique to higher and more serious dance ground. Pink now proves that she can perform some extremely difficult but incredibly graceful lyrical dance moves. In a nutshell, she is becoming quite the well-rounded, more “legitimate” entertainer.
Pink may be irreverent, rebellious, outrageous, and naughty (which is a culmination of a somewhat scandalous past, and which also formed the persona and entertainer she is today) but she's enormously talented and oh so hot!Unlike other Pop idols, the Rocker is not just a talented vocalist. The element that makes her so different—the thing that has her standing miles above every other Pop music Diva—is the fact that she is so multifaceted. Now, each of those facets has been honed to a fine and polished level of ability.
Pink doesn't only write, sing, and play her songs, she HANGS and FLYS with them. She doesn't only exhibit a knowledge of all the latest and greatest moves, she studies and masters fundamental dance concepts and techniques. She doesn't just continue to sing each new song in that same undeniable style, she goes on to push herself to new heights with her vocals and go to places she's never gone before. Pink is not only bold; she's brave, and the risks she takes pay off.
In an interview she did with People Magazine, when she commented on the hair-raising, acrobatic performance she gave at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Pink said, "I thought ... I was going to fall on my nude butt, but I worked it out. I would say that no one ever has another excuse to lip sync again."
At Staples Center last night Pink sang her duet with Nate Reuss (from Fun--with Pink on the stage, Nate on the monitor) and danced an interpretive dance with a friend that showed off a newly-acquired knowledge and ability for more traditional dance fundamentals and techniques. Pink now shines as a real dancer as well.
Motherhood seems to agree with her. The big question (over the last year) from her audiences has been—will she be able to top herself now after giving birth to her baby girl Willow? Well, at the ripe old age of 34, Pink"s comment last night in the taped segment was, “I'm no spring chicken you know!” This said with nose wrinkled and grin impish, but somehow, it came across serious as hell.
However, the concern that a more mature age and the effects of child-bearing may deter her in any way were quickly dispelled after just a few minutes of the show elapsed. Pink's energy, stamina, excitement, and talent come across even better than before and L.A. fans left the venue singing her songs with an elated look on their faces and the word “awesome” coming from their mouths.
It's just that kind of rebel enthusiasm and attitude that Pink's always portrayed, to make everyone realize that she'll continue to keep the big stretch and the long reach way out in front. She's the reminder that if life ever throws a curve to to try to push us back, we just "gotta get up and try, try, try!"
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CONERT OF THE YEAR?
Pink, whose Truth About Love Tour kicked off its U.S. leg in Phoenix last week, with 99 total shows planned worldwide, touched down in Houston’s Toyota Center on Thursday for a sold-out performance. Even those not familiar with Pink through her 2009 Funhouse tour will remember her breathtaking, unforgettable acrobatic performance of “Glitter in the Air” at the 2010 Grammys.
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.
The first thing I noticed was the age of the crowd. After going to a Justin Bieber concert last year, where the average age seemed to be about 12, and a Paul McCartney concert that was geared to the baby boomer generation, the Pink fan is harder to peg and includes a slightly older crowd, though clearly not one that had to be coaxed out of their seats. Yep Yanni fans, that would be you.
The Hives, a Swedish garage band, opened for Pink with a short, highly energetic set which, unlike many opening acts, brought enthusiastic applause.
Pink’s concert starts as a TV game show, with a slightly annoying emcee scanning the crowd for someone to compete on "The Truth About Love." Surprise! Pink is selected as the contestant and then makes her entrance by being shot into the air on bungee cords as she opens with “Raise Your Glass.”
It is a dramatic and stunning number, and how Pink can sing while hanging upside down suspended by three male dancers is a mystery.
The 21-song setlist uses vignettes about one night stands, rejection, parties and regret as a way to introduce songs from her sixth Grammy nominated album, Truth About Love.
Pink quickly moved into some of chart topping hits and fan favorites including "Walk of Shame," "Just Like a Pill,” "F***in' Perfect," "So What," “Family Portrait” and her latest singles, “Try” and "Just Give Me A Reason," featuring Nate Ruess.
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. A Pink concert is a little like a Cirque du Soleil performance. There is so much happening on stage—the songs, the dancing and of course the acrobatics—it is a feast for the senses. Sometimes there were so many dancers on the stage that I had trouble finding Pink.
The stage set was an elaborate production with five screens, one of which was in the shape of a heart, along with dramatic staircases, a wildly talented five piece band, two back-up singers and a high octane crew of dancers.
Pink made numerous costume changes, many of which showed off her phenomenally toned body. I was particularly drawn to her footwear choices. For some numbers she performed barefoot, but she also sported boots, high high heels and sneakers.
Pink’s voice sounded strong, especially considering that most of the numbers included strenuous dancing or physically demanding acrobatics. And if she used back-up vocals no one seemed to care.
During one of the few pauses, Pink asked the audience how many people had been to a prior concert of hers. The audience erupted in cheers. Pink acknowledged the fans by reaching out to grasp hands of those near the stage during several numbers and chatted with fans, saying that her daughter was in the audience and appearing to wave to her saying, “She is a better dancer than I.”
Pink saved the best for last. Dressed in a gold bodysuit and strapped into a harness, she flew over the crowd several times, singing “So What,” taking brief stops on perches set up on each side of the arena. She got so close that some in the audience said they could see the detail on her costume.
It was so spectacular and mind-blowing that there was not one person in the crowd who was not trying to capture the moment on their camera. But Pink was not done. Reprising her famed Grammy performance, "Glitter in the Air," she was again in the air for a hauntingly beautiful performance that had her spinning gracefully as she sang.
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.
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P!nk returned to the concert arena stage tonight with a once-in-a-lifetime performance at the opening night of the truth about love world tour at the u.s. Airways center in phoenix, arizona.
she performed for a sold-out crowd full of dancing and singing fans giving them a show fueled by her own brand of high-energy, theatrics and emotion, further securing her place in history as one of the most astounding performers of her generation.
p!nk collaborated with creative partner and show director baz halpin to create a visually impressive stage production full of the performance elements that are uniquely p!nk. Sonically she soared through pyrotechnic fueled vocals to tender vocal moments with action-packed surprises from start to finish.
Pulling from her seven album repertoire her set included some of her biggest chart topping hits and fan favorites including “blowme (one last kiss)," "f***in' perfect," "try," "raise your glass," "so what" and her latest single "just give me a reason" featuring nate ruess.
The tour marks her first full north american tour in three years. Following last night's performance p!nk will take her extraordinary live show to 25 additional cities in the us before heading to europe in april . Join the discussion at #thetruthaboutlovetour.
http://www.marshall-arts.com/news/pn...n-phoenix.html
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PINK: A PARTY GIRL WITH A HEART OF GOLD
Pink never whispers, her voice a hand grenade with pin pulled.
There's a reason she swaps an exclamation point for an "i" when spelling her name.
Nor does she miss many opportunities to punctuate a thought with a juicy curse word or two, her vocabulary as blue as the corpse of gentility left dead in her wake.
And yet, here she was doing both.
The bawdy pop star and semi-new mother (she has a 20-month-old daughter), was attempting to introduce a song, "**** Like You," a raucous, shout-along anthem about using men the way a kid does a playground jungle gym, something to be climbed upon and enjoyed for a bit then it's on to the next distraction.
Her intro required the use of an f-bomb, but Pink only haltingly said it, and did so in a seldom-employed hushed tone.
"I can't even say the word," she giggled afterward. "I'm such a mom."
But then she got back to business, storming across the stage as if she was trying to stomp holes in it.
"Looks like the joke's on you-hoo," she chirped on the song's chorus, addressing her unwitting boy toy. "So go home and cry boo-hoo."
Pink's motherhood hasn't changed her so much as underscored rivaling sensibilities that have always been at the heart of her career: responsibility vs. revelry, self-assertiveness vs. vulnerability, commitment vs. conquest.
These warring impulses exist in most everyone to varying degrees, and Pink's eagerness to give such unabashed voice to them is what has made her so relatable to so many, and thereby capable of packing a venue as sizable as the Mandalay Bay Events Center, which she sold out on Friday.
She possesses none of the cool detachment of many of her pop peers, fellow chart-hogging femme fatales like Rihanna and Britney Spears, who accentuate their elevated status by keeping everyone at arm's length, like royalty.
Pink would no doubt cringe at being likened to either, but there are similarities between them all, from the choreographed dance moves to the wielding of their sexuality like battle-axes.
But there are plenty of differences as well, and this is where Pink has chiseled her niche in the pop monolith.
Perhaps Pink's most refreshing, and distinct, quality is her willingness to make light of herself, to deflate the aura of the pop goddess with the iron abs that she simultaneously works diligently to craft.
On "Walk of Shame," she mocked herself for getting drunk and waking up the following morning next to a scrub; during "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" she engaged in some deliberately dorky dance moves and encouraged the crowd to do the same (then she flubbed the song's opening, momentarily forgetting the lyrics); a comedic intro video showed her enacting a bar scene where she tossed back shots of whiskey and mangled her words.
The message here is clear: Stars can be screw-ups, from time to time, and the reverse can also be true.
In this context, inebriation can serve as inspiration, so who's up for another round of shots with a self-help chaser?
"The whole world's scared, so I swallow the fear," Pink sang during "Perfect," which began with an acoustic lilt before exploding into a seismic rocker. "The only thing I should be drinking is an ice-cold beer."
Pink's enviable physique belies statements like this.
After all, how many brews can one indulge in and still have a midriff that looks as if a cannonball would bounce off it?
But Pink likes to have it both ways, the self-professed party girl who's ultimately a serious, studious performer.
Her ambitions manifested themselves in the production values of this concert, an elaborate presentation with Cirque du Soleil flourishes and a vague narrative revolving around a game show, "The Truth About Love" (which is also the title of Pink's latest album and this tour), complete with cornball host.
At various points during the night, Pink rocketed to the back of the arena on a harness while doing somersaults, dangled spread eagle from a trapeze, performed while gripping the outside of an iron sphere being spun by a trio of shirtless dudes and sang upside down while suspended from the rafters.
"I love when it's all too much," Pink beamed in song during a show-opening "Raise Your Glass," giving voice to the evening's operating principle.
"What part of a party don't you understand?" she asked later in the song. "Wish you'd just freak out."
The next two hours would be spent leading by example.
http://www.lvrj.com/neon/pink-s-self...191544561.html
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P!NK IS PURE GOLD IN SAN JOSE
Pink is the new gold standard.
The 33-year-old vocalist, who had the look of a flash in the pan at the start of her career in the early 2000s, has become the female pop star to beat on the live stage. She's consistently more entertaining in concert than Madonna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and most of her other competitors in the big-budget, high-concept touring game.
The only one who has been as reliable in recent years is R&B queen Beyonce, although Taylor Swift is certainly off to a strong start in her comparatively short touring career.
Pink's last three tours have all been knock-your-socks-off artistic successes, which could be used as blueprints for how to use theatrics, dance routines and other narrative elements, as well as plenty of flash and cash, to entertain thousands of fans. That certainly includes the current the Truth About Love Tour, which touched down for a sold-out show on Monday at HP Pavilion.
The artist is on the road in support of her sixth studio effort, last year's "The Truth About Love," which is her first No. 1 album in the U.S. Thus far, the record has produced three hits, including the worldwide smash "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)."
That overwhelming success on the charts is certainly one reason why Pink's current tour is doing so well at the box office -- with the roughly 13,600 tickets for her San Jose date disappearing in less than 30 minutes. Yet, an even bigger factor may well be Pink's track record as a performer.
You definitely don't walk away from a Pink show shrugging your shoulders and muttering "meh." It's far more likely that fans practically skip out of the building, feeling extremely satisfied with the experience and determined to tell others to "go see Pink next time she's in town."
The concert kicks off like a TV game show, with a colorful emcee taking the stage and scanning the crowd for someone to compete on "The Truth About Love." The fans go wild, in hopes of being picked, but this contest is rigged -- and Pink turns out to be the chosen one.
And, boy, is she ever ready to play.
Thus begins the wild ride through Pink's take on "The Truth About Love," where the chapters unfold like acts in a Cirque du Soleil production. She starts out at the party, soaring high above the stage on bungee cords as she belts out the anthem "Raise Your Glass," and then a video clip makes the transition to the next morning, when Pink wakes up from a one-night stand with a guy she barely knows. (She even gets his name wrong in the clip.) Then she leaves the bed to make the "Walk of Shame," which leads to the remorse and regret of "Just Like a Pill."
The vignettes all worked, providing just enough drama and (usually) humor to keep the audience connected to the storylines, while rarely overshadowing the songs themselves. The pacing was excellent, as Pink managed to tackle wardrobe and set changes without breaking the show's sense of momentum.
The action was fast and furious, with Pink and her fellow dancers/performers challenging themselves with one acrobatic task after another. The stage set was equally busy, a love-themed onslaught on the senses that resembled an oversized version of what I imagine the wedding chapel inside the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas must look like.
Still, Pink didn't get lost in the mix. The singer, who now sports short blonde hair and favors outfits that show off her infomercial-worthy ripped stomach muscles, is absolutely magnetic onstage. Plus, she found time to interact with the crowd, shaking hands, signing autographs and even reacting to one handmade sign, which called out for "Pink for president." "You will never have to worry about that," she said, declining the nomination. "I am way too honest."
Honesty is, as they say, the best policy. And, after watching the Truth About Love Tour, I can honestly say that few, if any, performers deliver better pop spectacles than Pink.
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P!nk is amazing
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She's so amazing.
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Well deserved
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So much praise. The biggest show of 2013
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She really topped the Godhouse Tour
Best performer out there
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it surely is a good show i wish i could go
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I can't wait to go to this concert.....one month from today! She's just so amazing and it's nice that she's finally doing a full blown US tour. It's been a long time coming!
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Hearts turning to Pink
It's been a week for romance and excitement. Roses, kisses, chocolates, and hearts full of love abound.
We should be seeing red, but everywhere you look—there's Pink! The fabulous Pop Icon/Grammy nominee began her “The Truth About Love” tour this past week and Examiner was there last night at the Staples Center in Hollywood to see the Mega-Mama show off all of her tricks to a sold-out crowd.
This show was every bit as exciting and titillating as her last tour (Funhouse, 2009) with lots of surprises popping up throughout the night. Pink continued to thrill everyone with a circus-like act that boasts daredevil antics--hanging from ropes from above and flying through the air on trapeze-like devices while performing her songs! “Rock Star” had her rolling and tumbling with gymnastic-gyrations between the lines of two suspension wires while the spotlight followed her traversing the entire length of the arena's upper stratosphere air-space!!!
But beyond all of this, Pink exhibits some finely-tuned vocal and dance skills this time around. The fact that she's continued to push the envelope in both of these areas first became evident on her latest CD, The Truth About Love, and while watching the video that features the single “Try” from that same album.
The singer/songwriter and over-all entertainer extraordinaire has reached new heights with her voice on this latest CD, and the excitement she creates on the album transfers ten-fold to the tour.
Before, we would recognize her husky alto tones the minute they hit the air waves because Pink's vocals were consistently in that lower range which made her Rock style all the more effective and inimitable. No one ever faulted her for that. The throaty, sexy voice was pure Pink and it worked to define her as a performer.
But the lovely and fabulous fact about this young woman is that she keeps exploring new and uncharted territory with her voice, and on songs like “Just Give Me a Reason,” “Beam Me Up,” and "The Great Escape," Pink achieves an electrifying sound that she's never produced before. Can we still tell it's Pink? Without a doubt. Does it break the bonds and limits but still keep the integrity of her style intact? Absolutely. And that's why it's so satisfying.
During last night's performance, besides the enormously wide-ranging vocals, it was obvious that Pink has decided, this time around, to also build on dance moves. As a youth, she engaged in gymnastics, so Pink shows basic and innate flexibility and strength in her movements. Talent and interest in this area later developed into the training she undertook to incorporate gymnastic and acrobatic moves into her shows. Only lately with her “Try” video (and as evidenced on the 2012 American Music Awards program) has she shown us that she's taken her movement technique to higher and more serious dance ground. Pink now proves that she can perform some extremely difficult but incredibly graceful lyrical dance moves. In a nutshell, she is becoming quite the well-rounded, more “legitimate” entertainer.
Pink may be irreverent, rebellious, outrageous, and naughty (which is a culmination of a somewhat scandalous past, and which also formed the persona and entertainer she is today) but she's enormously talented and oh so hot! Unlike other Pop idols, the Rocker is not just a talented vocalist. The element that makes her so different—the thing that has her standing miles above every other Pop music Diva—is the fact that she is so multifaceted. Now, each of those facets has been honed to a fine and polished level of ability.
Pink doesn't only write, sing, and play her songs, she HANGS and FLYS with them. She doesn't only exhibit a knowledge of all the latest and greatest moves, she studies and masters fundamental dance concepts and techniques. She doesn't just continue to sing each new song in that same undeniable style, she goes on to push herself to new heights with her vocals and go to places she's never gone before. Pink is not only bold; she's brave, and the risks she takes pay off.
In an interview she did with People Magazine, when she commented on the hair-raising, acrobatic performance she gave at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Pink said, "I thought ... I was going to fall on my nude butt, but I worked it out. I would say that no one ever has another excuse to lip sync again."
At Staples Center last night Pink sang her duet with Nate Reuss (from Fun--with Pink on the stage, Nate on the monitor) and danced an interpretive dance with a friend that showed off a newly-acquired knowledge and ability for more traditional dance fundamentals and techniques. Pink now shines as a real dancer as well.
Motherhood seems to agree with her. The big question (over the last year) from her audiences has been—will she be able to top herself now after giving birth to her baby girl Willow? Well, at the ripe old age of 34, Pink"s comment last night in the taped segment was, “I'm no spring chicken you know!” This said with nose wrinkled and grin impish, but somehow, it came across serious as hell.
However, the concern that a more mature age and the effects of child-bearing may deter her in any way were quickly dispelled after just a few minutes of the show elapsed. Pink's energy, stamina, excitement, and talent come across even better than before and L.A. fans left the venue singing her songs with an elated look on their faces and the word “awesome” coming from their mouths.
It's just that kind of rebel enthusiasm and attitude that Pink's always portrayed, to make everyone realize that she'll continue to keep the big stretch and the long reach way out in front. She's the reminder that if life ever throws a curve to to try to push us back, we just "gotta get up and try, try, try!"
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P!NK IS PURE GOLD IN SAN JOSE
Pink is the new gold standard.
The 33-year-old vocalist, who had the look of a flash in the pan at the start of her career in the early 2000s, has become the female pop star to beat on the live stage. She's consistently more entertaining in concert than Madonna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and most of her other competitors in the big-budget, high-concept touring game.
The only one who has been as reliable in recent years is R&B queen Beyonce, although Taylor Swift is certainly off to a strong start in her comparatively short touring career.
Pink's last three tours have all been knock-your-socks-off artistic successes, which could be used as blueprints for how to use theatrics, dance routines and other narrative elements, as well as plenty of flash and cash, to entertain thousands of fans. That certainly includes the current the Truth About Love Tour, which touched down for a sold-out show on Monday at HP Pavilion.
The artist is on the road in support of her sixth studio effort, last year's "The Truth About Love," which is her first No. 1 album in the U.S. Thus far, the record has produced three hits, including the worldwide smash "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)."
That overwhelming success on the charts is certainly one reason why Pink's current tour is doing so well at the box office -- with the roughly 13,600 tickets for her San Jose date disappearing in less than 30 minutes. Yet, an even bigger factor may well be Pink's track record as a performer.
You definitely don't walk away from a Pink show shrugging your shoulders and muttering "meh." It's far more likely that fans practically skip out of the building, feeling extremely satisfied with the experience and determined to tell others to "go see Pink next time she's in town."
The concert kicks off like a TV game show, with a colorful emcee taking the stage and scanning the crowd for someone to compete on "The Truth About Love." The fans go wild, in hopes of being picked, but this contest is rigged -- and Pink turns out to be the chosen one.
And, boy, is she ever ready to play.
Thus begins the wild ride through Pink's take on "The Truth About Love," where the chapters unfold like acts in a Cirque du Soleil production. She starts out at the party, soaring high above the stage on bungee cords as she belts out the anthem "Raise Your Glass," and then a video clip makes the transition to the next morning, when Pink wakes up from a one-night stand with a guy she barely knows. (She even gets his name wrong in the clip.) Then she leaves the bed to make the "Walk of Shame," which leads to the remorse and regret of "Just Like a Pill."
The vignettes all worked, providing just enough drama and (usually) humor to keep the audience connected to the storylines, while rarely overshadowing the songs themselves. The pacing was excellent, as Pink managed to tackle wardrobe and set changes without breaking the show's sense of momentum.
The action was fast and furious, with Pink and her fellow dancers/performers challenging themselves with one acrobatic task after another. The stage set was equally busy, a love-themed onslaught on the senses that resembled an oversized version of what I imagine the wedding chapel inside the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas must look like.
Still, Pink didn't get lost in the mix. The singer, who now sports short blonde hair and favors outfits that show off her infomercial-worthy ripped stomach muscles, is absolutely magnetic onstage. Plus, she found time to interact with the crowd, shaking hands, signing autographs and even reacting to one handmade sign, which called out for "Pink for president."
"You will never have to worry about that," she said, declining the nomination. "I am way too honest."
Honesty is, as they say, the best policy. And, after watching the Truth About Love Tour, I can honestly say that few, if any, performers deliver better pop spectacles than Pink.
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^^^ Wow. What a review!
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AMEN @ the mercurynews review. The show last night was out of this world!
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With an unbelievable demonstration of Olympian-like strength and breath-taking vocal performances, pop/rock star Pink nailed her first show of the Truth About Love Tour at the US Airways Center in Phoenix last week.
If you were somewhat of a fair-weather fan and you were at this show, Pink made you a believer. Her performance was so impressive; there were a few moments that I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.
Some people are considered to be “triple threats” or a jack-of-all trades; Pink showed us there is nothing she cannot do. She sang, danced, flipped, soared, played instruments and displayed uncanny athletic abilities. She stunned the audience by soaring high over the crowd on bungee cords, preforming circus-like acrobatics while still giving a phenomenal vocal performance at the same time!
The set design and light shows were absolutely incredible as well. She interacted with the audience throughout her performances, which revealed her love and appreciation for her fans. She would often take presents from fans in the audience, including roses and hats, personally thanking them and then incorporating the presents into her songs. At one point, she even put on a green frog-shaped beanie given to her by a fan while preforming a ballad in a ballroom gown, which was quite comical.
Might I add - she has one of the best live voices I have ever heard. She really sang her heart out; her voice was authentic and phenomenal. Her “Family Portrait” ballad had me in tears, and I felt as if she was singing it directly to me.
Throughout the show she maintained a certain cool demeanor that really reflected the humor and realness she possesses. But the real jaw-dropper was when she flew over the audience -- suspended by bungee cords -- flying throughout most of the arena, if not all of it.
My seats were more toward the back, and I was recording her bungee/flying performance on my phone, but then realized the camera had lost her. I couldn’t find her up on stage or around the front of the arena because she was literally hanging directly in front of us! She was so close I could see the detail on her dress. I really got an opportunity to see how beautiful she truly is. This created so much excitement for the people sitting up high who never thought they would get to see their favorite artist up close -- and then they did!
This show was really something special. I give it 10 out of 10! It was absolutely amazing! I would definitely recommend going to see this show for yourself, so you also can see the pure talent that Pink has to offer.
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She really pulled out all the stops this time. So proud of her!!!
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