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Beyonce sizzles on stage at GM Place
By Chantal Eustace, Vancouver SunMarch 31, 2009 10:02 PM
REVIEW: BEYONCÉ
GM Place, Vancouver, Tuesday
Appearing out of a cloud of smoke, her gold leotard glistening under a spotlight, Beyoncé Knowles and her kinetic hips arrived to sizzle the stage at GM Place on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old superstar started things off her signature booty-shaking to the charged up hit song, Crazy In Love, before swishing into the steamy hit, Naughty Girl.
The mostly female audience, a collective of worshippers made up of all ages, shapes and sizes, danced along.
On-stage, her talented all-girl band were joined by female back-up dancers, as well as a handful of bare-chested male dancers. But all eyes were on Beyonce and her sparkling shimmy as she moved into the swishy tune, Get Me Bodied.
“Vancouver,” said the multiple-Grammy winner, touring to promote her latest effort, I Am. . . Sasha Fierce. “I hope you’re enjoying the show so far.”
The album’s title is a reference to Beyoncé’s alter ego who she’s coined Sasha Fierce, sort of like a more outgoing or fierce version of the singer-songwriter/movie star/diva.
During the concert, a stop along her I Am. . . world tour, Beyoncé wove this duality into the show, switching back and forth between personas with costumes and songs.
For instance, performing the ballad, Smash Into You, Beyonce appeared in a white bodysuit and cloak, performing against the crashing waves of the ocean on a giant screen.
This tone continued with her jazzed up version of Ave Maria, when her back-up dancers transform the singer into an angelic bride.
During this song, she added a few beautifully-performed lines from local singer-songwriter, Sarah McLachlin’s Angel, to the screaming appreciation of her audience.
Next, the stage dimmed for the powerful hit, Broken-Hearted Girl, stripped of back-up dancers and gimics — other than the ever-present wind in her long hair — for a very personal effect.
This was followed up by her crowd-pleasing, girl-power anthem, If I Were A Boy — it was dissected with a rockin’ addition of a shortened version of Canadian Alanis Morissette’s You Oughta Know.
Again, this Canuck reference earned the singer big cheers.
With the help of body-baring Thierry Mugler-designed costumes and plenty of dramatic touches — as she left the stage for costume changes dance performances, video screens, lights and audio indicated the persona shifts — the Sasha-Beyonce dynamic added a layer of make-believe to the night.
In her third costume change of the night, Beyonce (er, back to Sasha) sported a futuristic costume with a cheetah-print corset and an illuminated bra.
And while some of it might have caused this reviewer's eyes to roll a little, it was all fun.
To her credit, Beyoncé twisted all the theatrics into her musical performance flawlessly, demonstrating her many talents as an artist.
In addition to her powerful singing pipes — she can hit the high notes and hold them, and easily goes from pop to R&B and soul — the singer is also a solid actress with films like Dreamgirls and the Austin Powers’ flick, Goldmember, under her (cinched) belt.
The former Destiny’s Child singer is also wife to rapper, Jay-Z, and she is head of the clothing line, House of Deréon.
But on Tuesday it was all about the bootylicious singer’s incredible vocals and those swiveling hips.
Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila opened the show, with a short set of poppy songs, including the single, Give Me The Music and the catchy, Fallin’ for You.
“Are you guys excited to see Beyonce?” the pretty singer said, earning screams from the audience. “You guys are in for a fantastic show.”
She wasn’t kidding.
ANOTHER GREAT REVIEW!!!!
Bootyshaker Beyoncé earns style points
But soul singer's new songs could be even more Fierce.
Rating B-
By Stuart Derdeyn, The ProvinceMarch 31, 2009 10:30 PMBe the first to post a comment
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Grand entries are a must for a star. And someone of Beyoncé’s mega-celebrity status was sure to bring it big time. Appearing out of the fog gift-wrapped for all in a gold bodysuit complete with big bow on the back, she welcomed all.
Then the curtains split and the all-female 13-member big band got cooking on “Work It Out.” As the horns blew the hit’s Motown redux hook, five female and four male dancers grooved themselves busy. We’re talking shock-and-awe production values here.
In the middle of it all, shaking her thing and running up and down the octaves, was the star.
A show like this makes it clear that the massive resources at Beyoncé’s disposal are going to the right place after all. The songs don’t really need to be anything but subservient to the extended dance-a-matic beatdowns.
It was impressive, if not exactly Sasha Fierce.
That came with the eve’s first ballad. For “Smash Into You,” the massive screens filled with waves on a beach, a riser literally erected itself on stage and from a hidden door, out came “B” in a resplendent gown. Later it was modified into a wedding frock as she did a verse or two of “Ave Maria” and Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel.” Five songs in, we’re getting medley. Huh?
“Broken-Hearted Girl” was next and it showcased considerable vocal dynamics and all the soul testimonial energy she could bring to it.
However, there were some very odd dramatic inserts that made little sense, although they owned the crowd. Looking for impact during one of the show’s weaker moments? Throw in a few verses of Alanis’ “You Oughta Know” or some animated-leopard action. Hey, those costume changes to turn into cyber-booty beings take time, right?
Considering how merely club level the resulting dance routine was, did it matter? A lot of the night’s choreography looked like U.S. college football game halftime marching. Not that it wasn’t slick.
But what really matters about Beyoncé is the pipes. In amidst all of the bombarding of her image and showpersonship on display, this kind of got missed.
Jay-Z’s better half still needs many more songs that measure up to her former band’s best. Those were instantly memorable and enduring tunes. So, A-level presentation, but the content takes it to a B–.
ANOTHER REVIEW.
Beyoncé makes GM Place a woman’s world
Photographers shooting Beyoncé on Tuesday were only given the show’s first 90 seconds to snap pictures, and had to do so 50 yards from the stage, two restrictions that pretty much guarantee you’ll never see a live shot of the singer looking anything less than perfect.
But here’s the thing: after two thrilling hours, six costume changes, two dozen songs, and countless pelvic thrusts, Beyoncé looked every bit as radiant and graceful as when she first appeared, showing no strain from a performance that was so exhausting even the audience seemed winded by it.
In other words, Mrs. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was every bit as superhuman in person as she’s always appeared in videos and on TV.
The world’s brightest geneticists couldn’t cook up a better pop star than the 27-year-old Houston native, first the lead singer of history’s biggest-selling female R&B group, Destiny’s Child, then a solo artist with three platinum albums to her name, and now a multimedia magnate with a budding film career and profitable interests in fashion, cosmetics, and real estate.
At this rate, the presidency of the United States won’t be long in coming.
If women under 30 were the only voters, Beyoncé could have successfully ran for that post long ago. Her widespread appeal was confirmed Tuesday when her disciples sang sweetly along to “Irreplaceable”, her biggest and most emblematic solo hit to date.
With its familiar acoustic-guitar refrain and gently clicking beat, the track seems tender from a distance, but its defiant lyrics about kicking out a good-for-nothing mate give it a brisk feminist swagger, as if the singer were updating Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” for the MySpace age.
“Irreplaceable” came near the middle of the night, well after her ecstatic entry with “Crazy in Love” and “Naughty Girl”, which she delivered whilst sporting a bikini-cut gold sequined dress with a mega-sized bow tied on her backside. It’s worth noting that nearly all of her outfits—from the leopard-print bustier she wore midshow to the black-and-silver frock at concert’s end—were cut at the top of her thighs, the better to show off the longest, most powerful legs this side of Zeus.
Those gams got a hell of a workout, Beyoncé matching her backing dancers step for step while hitting her vocal cues with remarkable force and clarity.
The quieter the show got, the weaker it was, with the singer trying on various styles—ranging from the Céline Dion–like ballad “Satellites” to her limp reading of “Ave Maria” to a brief cover of Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”—that unfairly made her seem almost generic. This woman’s a belter, not a singer, excelling at the hectic up-tempo numbers when she’s called on to berate her spurned suitors. For an example, see “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”, which elicited throaty cheers and vigorous bootyshaking from her core constituency, as well as from some guys to boot. James Brown used to sing, “It’s a man’s world,” but at GM Place Tuesday, backed by three backing singers, a quintet of dancers, and 10 instrumentalists—all of them female—Beyoncé made it a woman’s world. And the world was better for it.
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