I was thinking of going to see her on this tour so i was reading some reviews and omg..
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Selena isn't an especially gifted performer. She's at her best when the audience is singing along and the bass is loud enough to mask the lack of high notes.
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There's something painfully real about her — the artifice of the machine around her is obvious, but the woman at the center doesn't quite fit. She seems uncomfortable onstage not because she doesn't know what she's doing, but because she's so clearly one of us.
Selena Gomez’s Austin show less a ‘Revival,’ more a struggle for survival
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“Good For You”? Out of breath instead of breathless. “Love You Like a Love Song”? Tedious like a 99-cent T-Mobile ringtone. “Survivors”? Of the concert, sure. Delightfully weird and sexy single “Hands To Myself”? Bob Fosse’s hell, a troupe of badly bowler-hatted dancers dragging Gomez across the stage in the most wrongheaded production of “Cabaret” ever. She didn’t even sing the line “I mean I could, but why would I want to?” — which in the studio version of the song is a cheeky zinger worthy of karaoke hollers — and instead dropped out to let the audience sing it, which really only works if the energy in the room is above “politely watching a recital.”
Surprisingly modest might be the best way to explain most of her dance moves Wednesday night, which consisted of her jumping up and down while flipping her hair while her backup dancers did backflips behind her.
For a Friday night concert by a star with 86 million Instagram followers, the show was under-attended. At least seven sections in the upper level were curtained off, and there were patchy spots elsewhere in the upper level.
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Gomez is touring behind her latest album “Revival,” her most grown-up effort yet, but her performance chops and stage presence haven’t matured much since her last visit to the Palace in November 2013.
“Revival” is her fifth album – but she still seems like she’s in training for the role of pop star, or that she’s studying for an upcoming acting role.
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