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P!NK’s ‘The Truth About Love” tour raises the bar for pop genre artists!
Lady Gaga has been watching from the bench with a bad hip, hoping to get off injured reserve and back in the game. In her absence, Pink has been dominating the pop landscape with sold-out performances since the middle of February. It was no different Tuesday night at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on her The Truth About Love tour.
Nine semi-trailers engulfed large areas of pavement outside the arena, and that meant that the production and theatrics were going to be through the roof. There were four large video screens surrounding a fifth larger heart-shaped video monitor in the center, an octet of dancers, comic book style backgrounds, a full backing band including singers, and a master of ceremonies named Rubix whose game show introduction of the 33-year old singer brought the house to its feet. Pink is no stranger to using acrobatics in her set, as she began her song ‘Raise Your Glass’ by bungee-ing from floor to ceiling into the arms of her three male dancers. She employed the use of similar aerial theatrics on the 2009 Funhouse tour.
The highlight of the aerial display came in the encore during the song “So What,” where Pink had a special surprise for the cheap seats. Donning a gold jumpsuit, her male counterparts connected her by the waist to a metal gyroscope. Pink flew from the heart shaped stage of the VIP section, to the upper deck in Peter Pan like fashion. She was able to twist 360° on two different axes, floating over the crowd majestically. The crowd cheered her on mightily and reached for their cell phones to capture the amazing display.
The most refreshing part of her show was not all of the Cirque-de-Soleil aerobatics, but the fact that she actually sang her songs. Despite all the production on stage the vocals were crisp, yet not over produced. In an age of lip-synching, auto-tune, and click tracks, Pink, breathing heavily, apologized to her fans several times for being tired after the song and dance numbers ended. The audience responded jovially and seemed overwhelmingly satisfied that they were receiving a real pop show...
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Ha praise ha power
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Well done!
More reviews will come next weeks!
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AMAZING~! Pink's wiki write ups are always so short.
You should write for album pages too tbh
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Pink delivers record-setting show at Yum! Center
Pink sold out the KFC Yum! Center Friday night, in the process becoming the highest-grossing female artist to so far play the arena. Take that, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.
Pink earned her pay-day, delivering a show that expertly played up her most enduring image: the tough girl with a heart of gold and really bad luck with guys. She calls it “The Truth About Love Tour,” and the most essential truth seems to be that girls rule, boys drool.
While mostly just an elaborate and exhaustively paced pop show — Pink has to be the hardest-working singer in the business — there were some high-concept elements.
An art-damaged cabaret type acted as emcee, playing the host of a game show called “The Truth About Love.” The conceit never really went anywhere but it was fun enough, and his spoken-word bit about embracing your weirdness without shame underscored one of Pink’s favorite themes.
The show was filled with a playful sexuality. Fetishistic imagery was abundant, from dancers dressed in panties and stockings to a female bass player, and the androgynous Pink got much love from both her male and female entourage. But it wasn’t packaged as a sermon, as it is at Lady Gaga shows. It felt more like just another Friday night at Pink’s house.
Pink touched on every phase of her career in a roughly two-hour performance, mixing punchy anthems such as “Raise Your Glass” and “Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)” with more introspective songs, including “Family Portrait” and “Sober.” Her singing was always impressive, even when she was also doing acrobatics.
Which was often. Too often, really; Pink seems obsessed with aerial gymnastics, to the point where it all turns into schtick. Flying over the crowd, bouncing in a harness made of bungee cord, climbing on an art-deco jungle gym suspended 20 feet above the stage — it got to the point where you just didn’t want to see her go airborne again, ever...
Pink delivers record-setting show at Yum! Center
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Yes!
That almost needs its own thread. Or at least change the title to...
TTAL Tour Reviews: Pink sets record in KY
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Who makes the thread? "Pink outsold Katy and Taylor, set another record"
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Pink delivers record-setting show at Yum! Center
Pink sold out the KFC Yum! Center Friday night, in the process becoming the highest-grossing female artist to so far play the arena. Take that, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.
Pink earned her pay-day, delivering a show that expertly played up her most enduring image: the tough girl with a heart of gold and really bad luck with guys. She calls it “The Truth About Love Tour,” and the most essential truth seems to be that girls rule, boys drool.
While mostly just an elaborate and exhaustively paced pop show — Pink has to be the hardest-working singer in the business — there were some high-concept elements.
An art-damaged cabaret type acted as emcee, playing the host of a game show called “The Truth About Love.” The conceit never really went anywhere but it was fun enough, and his spoken-word bit about embracing your weirdness without shame underscored one of Pink’s favorite themes.
The show was filled with a playful sexuality. Fetishistic imagery was abundant, from dancers dressed in panties and stockings to a female bass player, and the androgynous Pink got much love from both her male and female entourage. But it wasn’t packaged as a sermon, as it is at Lady Gaga shows. It felt more like just another Friday night at Pink’s house.
Pink touched on every phase of her career in a roughly two-hour performance, mixing punchy anthems such as “Raise Your Glass” and “Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)” with more introspective songs, including “Family Portrait” and “Sober.” Her singing was always impressive, even when she was also doing acrobatics.
Which was often. Too often, really; Pink seems obsessed with aerial gymnastics, to the point where it all turns into schtick. Flying over the crowd, bouncing in a harness made of bungee cord, climbing on an art-deco jungle gym suspended 20 feet above the stage — it got to the point where you just didn’t want to see her go airborne again, ever...
Pink delivers record-setting show at Yum! Center
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Queen! This needs a thread ASAP.
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So she finally got a mixed review. hmmm
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Martina McBride @martinamcbride
Incredible. Moving. Inspiring. Fun. Dramatic. Graceful. Feisty. Badass. Just some of the words 2 describe @pink show. 2 more...Best Singer.
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Martina McBride @martinamcbride
Incredible. Moving. Inspiring. Fun. Dramatic. Graceful. Feisty. Badass. Just some of the words 2 describe @pink show. 2 more...Best Singer.
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Wow. Love her
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All this praise is totally deserved
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RAVE REVIEW from Toronto, last night!
Blond dynamo Pink flies high at ACC
Pink rocked the Air Canada Centre Monday night with such mind-boggling stamina that it made you wonder at times whether she was superhuman.
The burning question surrounding Pink’s first appearance at the Air Canada Centre in three-and-a-half years: Could she top the Funhouse tour?
Quite frankly, the last time Alecia Moore played these parts was an unforgettable extravaganza that not only came with all the bells, whistles and smart choreography that embraced and surpassed the literal Funhouse concept, but also featured the Grammy winner impressively singing full-throttled while twirling in the air in a safety-harnessed display of aero gymnastics.
When she hit Toronto last time, she was in the midst of a number of important life changes: she was in the process of reconciling with her hubby, motocross champion Carey Hart — and had accordingly adjusted the set list to reflect less of the heartbreak that inspired her fifth CD Funhouse.
In 2011, she gave birth to her daughter Willow, and last year she bore The Truth About Love, another sexually-charged, rockin’ pop album that revealed Pink had lost none of the salty, controversial attitude of female empowerment on which she has built her reputation.
Turns out she’s lost none of the altitude either: Within moments of opening her 90-minute ACC concert as a mock contestant on “The Truth About Love” game show, the Phillie-born Pink was back in the air, singing “Raise Your Glass” — portions of it upside down, no less — as a trio of beefcakes held her and her bungee cord aloft, letting her fall intermittently as she demonstrated airborne gymnastics that would be the envy of an Olympian.
Followed quickly by the new album’s “Walk Of Shame,” and then “Just Like A Pill,” — in which she forgot the first few words and had to restart the song — Pink didn’t relent with the physicality, rolling and jumping around in a bare midriff ab-displaying costume as she sang with complete control and confidence.
Whether it was “U + Ur Hand” or “Try,” in which she re-enacted the video’s now famous choreography, Pink — added by a smoking seven-piece band that included Toronto guitarist and keyboardist Kat Lucas and another seven dancers — displayed mind-boggling stamina that made you wonder at times if she was superhuman.
That wasn’t the end of the dynamic aerial displays either, as she mounted a wire globe for “Sober” and manoeuvred her way around a battery of bodies, all the while singing as high as 20 metres above the stage.
As she performed on a two-tiered set centred around a heart-shaped screen and a couple of staircases, the blond dynamo didn’t stick to a one-note regimen of impressive physicality. “Family Portrait” was Missundaztood’s reality-grounded gem poignantly sung by Pink to piano accompaniment, and there were several moments where the blazing energy of songs was lightened by the levity of some of the between-song patter or unexpected vignettes starring a bizarre master of ceremonies.
The Truth About Love belies the truth about Pink: Here is a woman so in love with her vocation that she goes to extraordinary lengths to perfect, amuse and impress.
And her audience — particularly the 17,000 or so gathered at the ACC — are the better for it.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...te_review.html
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Great review! If only it weren't that Chicago guy.....All reviews were amazing so far, except that one!
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Great review! If only it weren't that Chicago guy.....All reviews were amazing so far, except that one!
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You can't expect EVERYONE to like it. There's always that... ONE.
Alecia's tweet was priceless though.
P!nk @Pink
Hey you! Chicago reviewer salty guy that thinks I fly 2much +have 2 much fun-come back in 10 to 15 yrs- Ill be on the ground more I imagine.
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Pink comes out swinging at ACC
TORONTO - Think pop-rock star Pink has one of the biggest voices in music today?
Well, think again.
She’s a vocal powerhouse alright but so much more as the 33-year-old singer so fearlessly and fiercely demonstrated on Monday night in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 15,000 fans - many dressed in her signature colour - at the Air Canada Centre.
The occasion was the Toronto stop of Pink’s so-called Truth About Love trek, named after her 2012 abum of the same name.
But despite a heart-shaped video screen and a broken heart-shaped catwalk, the hour-and-55-minute concert was less about emotion and more about big top aerial performance meets modern dance recital as Pink showed off her flexibility and athleticism in a live setting.
She was equal parts gymnast, singer, dancer and even drummer.
Playing on an large stage with eight blinking video screens, and a staircase, it was non-stop action and revealing costume changes from the get-go as Pink - backed by a five piece band, two backup singers, and eight male and female dancers - first appeared coming out of the floor attached to a bungee cord contraption singing Raise A Glass from The Truth About Love.
“I feel like it’s been so long since I’ve been here,” said Pink, initially dressed in a midriff exposing outfit that showed off her impressive abs. “Thank you for coming to play with us.”
The operative word in that sentence was definitely play.
Pink was up for anything and everything as she bounced around on bungee cords, twirled around on hanging cloths, danced like a modern day Isadora Duncan and in the show’s jaw-dropping pentultimate song, So What, flew around the arena attached to four cables that turned her into a rock n’ roll Tinkerbell.
If anyone thought marriage - to cute professional motocross racer Carey Hart in 2006 - and motherhood - she gave birth to their daughter Willow Sage Hart in June 2011 - had mellowed her in anyway they cleary haven’t seen her fly like a maniac over a concert crowd.
Still, when one fan offered up a pink and white baby blanket Pink was ever so grateful after getting lots of “blocks of cheese and stuffed animals," on the tour so far.
Pink also showed off a sense of humor as she intially struggled with the crowd at the front of the stage - “You’re strong. I’ve got to start again,” and was forced to restart her vocals on Like A Pill.
And Leave Me Alone was preceded by this admission: “There’s something about this song that brings out the worst dancing in me.”
Despite all the production numbers, there were some truly emotional moments like the exquisite one-two ballad punch of Try, with Pink performing with a male dance partner, and her cover of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game, along with some hair-raising vocals during acoustic versions of Family Portrait and Who Knew and two other memorable airborne performances of Sober and Glitter In The Air....
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REVIEW :: The Truth about P!nk
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing the cover girl herself, P!nk, live at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.
I had seen P!nk in 2007 when she opened for Justin Timberlake…isn’t that crazy? Since then, P!nk’s been married to Carey Hart, separated from Carey Hart, had a child – Willow – with Carey Hart, and her last tour, The Funhouse Tour, raised almost $200M. Not only is she limber and flexible (remember this epic performance?), but this hard-rocking bitch can dance, too. Although the show was clearly designed around her outrageously strong vocals (not ONE song was lip-synched), P!nk (do I really have to use an exclamation mark every time I spell her name?), had some great choreographed numbers.
Her body is more fit now than during the “Lady Marmalade” days (which, P.S, was 12 years ago – feel old?) and she proves just how hard she works out by simply using other dancers’ bodies to hoist herself from the ground with only her legs. She does acrobatics in scarily fast-moving Cirque du Soleil-esque devices and ends the show with one of my favourite songs, “Glitter In The Air”, while dangling, pretty much nude, on pieces of silk.
The crowd was definitely an eclectic one – a lot of middle-aged women with their children, businesses men in suits, people with bras as headdresses, a ton of gays, and mostly everyone had a beer in-hand (except the children).
P!nk is an extremely talented, yet relatable artist: there’s a real “dorkiness” mixed with her hard-ass attitude. And when she makes mistakes (a few lyrical mishaps happened last night), she acknowledges them with giggles and humility.
The highlight of the show for me was the unexpected cover of one of my favourite Chris Isaak songs, “Wicked Game”, which P!nk made entirely her own. I remember listening to that song over and over again during lunch breaks on my discman in the tenth grade every time a boy I liked didn’t pay me any attention during science class.
This concert reminded me how one song can bring back so many memories. And for some reason (the beers, perhaps), I thought, “what would the tenth-grade-with-his-discman-me think of the 24-year-old me?” Just at that moment, P!nk answered: “Raise your glass.”
To you, P!nk.
Review: The Truth About Love
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