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Celeb News: Beyoncé's "I Am..." Tour – Recording 2nd DVD
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the la times review beyoncés tour
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Two news items chased Beyoncé into the Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday, when she finally brought her latest world tour to the Southland after four months on the road. One had the singer earning the top spot on Forbes magazine’s “young rich list,” as the highest-earning celebrity under age 30. The other, more gossipy, story involved a rumor that she has banned photographers from shooting her from certain angles during her show, because she sweats too much.
Those tidbits – one about Beyoncé’s unique glamor and the other about a common, earthy foible – better summed up the inner divide she’s been exploring in her work than did the frenzied pizzaz of the concert itself.
That’s not to fault the production: It’s fairly astounding, as both showbiz and an athletic event. For more than two hours, Beyoncé led her large dance troupe and all-female big band (a concept to which she’s remained loyal for two tours now) through many compulsory arena pop routines and several she herself has invented.
The only thing not fully realized was the show’s overarching theme. As in the album this tour supports, “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” Beyoncé meant to represent herself as a split personality, tender and open on the one hand, indomitable and rather scary on the other.
But she has chosen the wrong dichotomy to represent herself. Since she’s such a superb competitor, she might have done better with the one that preoccupies gymnasts: the difference between technical and creative genius, between nailing every element of your craft and turning that craft into an art. Or, to connect it to those news flashes previously mentioned and place it in the theatrical realm, the need to deliver both a great physical performance and one that moves the audience emotionally.
The love of the game is one of Beyoncé’s great motivators. Like Jay Z, the rapper she wed, she loves to battle, and this show constantly referenced and topped the work of other pop heroines.
“Ladies, I’m all about female empowerment,” she announced at one point, sending the crowd into squeals of recognition. Indeed, her production can be seen as a retelling of pop’s history from a feminine viewpoint – and as an argument for Beyoncé as the ultimate realization of the female pop dream.
She took on young does, big sisters and mother figures alike. The reggae interlude in “Baby Boy” reached toward Rihanna, while the crunk dancing and leather wear of “If I Were a Boy” was very Ciara.
-- Ann Powers
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hmmm it seem like her new concerts startin to get bad becuase she was gettin many good review at 1st but now theyre not liking it that much. hope things get better for beyoncé!
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Originally posted by rabbit09
the la times review beyoncés tour
the rest is on this weblink http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...ew-beyonc.html
hmmm it seem like her new concerts startin to get bad becuase she was gettin many good review at 1st but now theyre not liking it that much. hope things get better for beyoncé!
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Ok, like seriously what is up with you? You throw shade at Bey in almost all your posts.
She has been getting AMAZING reviews, and the one you posted was a good review too idiot. It just wasnt excellent. Throughout the whole tour there was only like 3 bad reviews out of like 50(of couse all of them arent going to be 100% positive)
You said "it seem like her new concerts startin to get bad because she was gettin many good reviews" You make no sense. How is that possible? Its the same damn concert, she's hasnt changed anything. You just going off that review which wasnt even a bad review You probably only posted it cuz it mentioned Ciara
I hope things get better for Ciara
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Originally posted by rabbit09
the la times review beyoncés tour
the rest is on this weblink http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...ew-beyonc.html
hmmm it seem like her new concerts startin to get bad becuase she was gettin many good review at 1st but now theyre not liking it that much. hope things get better for beyoncé!
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lol 1 mixed review and things are getting worse lmao
chil you need to worry about cici her career we know how fr is doing ,
b is fine
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You probably only posted it cuz it mentioned Ciara
I hope things get better for Ciara
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That's exactly why it posted the review, Hoes can't even throw shade properly these days
I just have this strange feeling rabbit09 = Fame*****
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You make know sense.
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You confused? Got any questions?
I edited that wayyy before you even quoted me
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Stunning. Jaw-dropping. Mesmerizing. Provocative. Overwhelming. Life-affirming. Soul-wrenching. Arresting. Dynamic. Enigmatic. Spectacular.
There are so many words that could be used to describe Beyonce's show last night at the Target Center, and all of them look superfluous on paper and yet feel meaningless compared to the preposterous magnitude of her actual performance.
Let's try this: When fellow Gimme Noise blogger David and I were walking out of the arena last night, we both simultaneously remarked that it was one of the best shows we had ever seen. We are not wont to make grand statements such as these (well, maybe I am from time to time, but David certainly is not), but there was no denying it; throughout the show, we looked at each other with jaws slacked, slapped each other's arms in disbelief, became overcome with emotion at the same moments, and stood up and danced ridiculously whenever the diva commanded us. Despite the fact that David and I come from very different musical backgrounds, Beyonce's words, songs, and moves affected both of us in a very universal way.
Which is all a diva can ask for, really: to maximize her impact as an entertainer by appealing to just about anybody who will stop to listen. But to compare her to other divas and pop stars seems foolish. Sure, she has Tina Turner's legs, Mariah Carey's range, Christina Aguilara's lungs, Justin Timberlake's moves--but so many more elements of her performance are without peer. Her stage presence was so fierce that when she looked up into our section of the crowd way up in the second tier, it felt like she was looking right at us. A simple booty-shaking strut across the stage was enough to get the whole arena shrieking, nevermind her seemingly effortless dancing and acrobatics. Her backup dancers were a thin layer of icing atop an already decadent cake, and often times their costumes and choreography were overshadowed by what Beyonce herself was doing.
Simply put, it was a far cry from the last arena pop show we had seen -- Beyonce made Britney Spears' poor excuse for showmanship and spectacle look like an off-Broadway rendition of Weekend at Bernies.
Beyonce was backed by a 13-piece all-girl band, a fact that she proudly pointed out midway through the show as she cried, "Give it up for my all female band, y'all!" Her backing band and crew of male and female backup dancers kept the audience busy while Beyonce slipped backstage to change into a variety of stunning outfits: a gold glitter one-piece, a white leotard and flowing robe, a wedding dress, a hybrid gladiator/cop outfit, a ballgown. All told, there were seven costume changes, and she looked radiant in all of them, even the more ridiculous getups.
But for all the spectacle -- at one point Beyonce somersaulted over the audience in a trapeze before being lowered onto a stage in the center of the room -- the real show-stealer was her powerful, commanding voice. She pumped new life into overplayed, tired old songs like Sarah MacLachlan's "Angel" and Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know," and got teardrops falling down more than a few cheeks with a heart-renching aria on "Ave Maria." In fact, tears stung my eyes more than once while watching Beyonce; toward the end of her set, she sang "At Last" while clips of Obama on Inauguration Day flashed across the screen, ending with a video of Barack and Michelle dancing together while Beyonce herself serenaded them for their first inaugural dance.
And now I've made the mistake of finding that clip on YouTube, and here come the waterworks again. For now, I'll leave you with this clip, a link to David's review, and the set list from last night's show.
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenois...nce_at_the.php
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People who get struck by lightning report a curious phenomenon-- just prior to being struck, they describe a moment's ominous apprehension. A tingle, a growing numbness, a cosmic foreshadowing that something major and dangerous is about to occur.
And then whammo. Pants on fire, shoes blown halfway across the golf course. Lying on your back, dazed and smoldering, wondering what in the world just happened.
So it was at Beyonce's show last night at the Target Center. Whatever the capacity crowd at the Target Center thought they would be seeing, the reality of Beyonce proved so much grander, so much more moving, so much more elegant and so much more visceral, that everyone in attendance seemed in a daze of eiphany as they poured onto the street.
Beyonce struck hard and fast. The lights dimmed, the curtain parted, and there she stood, in an Amazon pose of defiance, of near menace, her hip cocked, a pose she kept for nearly a minute before ripping into heavy hitters like "Crazy In Love, "Naughty Girl," and "Get Bodied." For this opener, her stage presence did the heavy lifting-- it was more strut than dance, and she belted the songs while standing at the edge of the stage while her dancers backed her like delirious handmaidens.
That tingle that lightning victims sense before the strike? It came five songs in. Her dancers outfitted her in a blooming whtie bridal gown and headdress. As Beyonce began the first notes of Sarah McLauchlin's "Arms of an Angel," the goosebumps arose. And when she glided into the hymn "Ave Maria," the tears took hold. Before thousands of living ears, Beyonce's voice transformed into a mezzo-soprano so operatic and so deeply impassioned, that the top-40 radio hits that she belted so strongly to begin, and the sexed, empowered pose she struck so confidently, seemed like figments of a distant, waking dream.
The middle movement was lifted by up-tempo hits like "Radio" and "Check On It." Her strut returned. There were high-flying trapeze acts that brought her soaring over the crowd, turning midair somersaults before descedning gently on a sattelite center stage. There were raptly choreographed line dance numbers. There were stunning face to face rejoinders with her audience, in which Beyonce showed a marked fearlessness to be at once remote and achingly present, at once tender and demanding.
But the dimension of her character that she illuminated during her performance of "Ave Maria" is what defined the show, and what made her something more than a pop-icon swapping costumes as quickly as she swapped songs and come-hither glances at the growd. It was a mood she repeated when performing "At Last," the Etta James classic that she sang for the Obamas during their inaugural first dance. Behind her, the video screens were alight with footage from the civil rights movement-- of black protestors marching on Washington, of the million-strong throng that crowded the reflection pond for Obama's inauguration.
It was a mood she repeated once more during "Halo," which she dedicated to Michael Jackson, and which she performed on her knees, the music dimmed to a quiet murmur, while a photograph of Jackson in his enigmatic prime stood behind her.
As a performer of big hit dance numbers, no comparison to any of her peers is appropriate. Beside her, the competition seems inert, dim-witted, and unsophisticated, and she is better compared to Freddie Mercury than to Spears or Aguilera. In party mode, Beyonce tapped into the old-soul allure of Tina Turner, of Aretha Franklin in her prime days.
But as a performer of soul-rending slow songs, Beyonce revealed something much more complex about herself-- that she is deeply aware of the human soul, and of what it regards as lasting and permanent. The thousands in attendance will certainly remember the sass with which she tossed her sweat towels into the crowd, or the dexterity with which she changed costumes, or the empowered thrill she derived from commanding the sell-out crowd in a call in response.
But they'll be secondary sensations. What will last from last night's show is the sudden, alien sensation of being brought to an emotional precipice and being made to dangle there, helpless. Of the persistent sense that we were all, for the two and a half hours that she kept the stage, being held in the palm of her hand. And that her chrome exterior of glitz and glamor is nothing but bait in a beartrap-- the truth of Beyonce is as powerful, as affecting, and as truthful as the best we've ever known. When we say that we have never seen anything like Beyonce Knowles, we mean it in the most literal, awe-struck sense.
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You confused? Got any questions?
I edited that wayyy before you even quoted me
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it take u 20 mins to realize how u butchered that word??
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Cuz I just skimmed over your post fast..big deal. You mispelled the word "because" in your fisrt post on this page You dont see me getting on you about it
At least I have reading comprehension skills.
Did you just really post a good review and claim that it was bad?
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rabbit... stop typing&&posting. You make Cici stans look bad
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this is my cue!
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^^^^You so dumb After all the things I addressed you about in my post, you come for my spelling(of accidently typing the r in front the s) instead of refuting my post because you know you cant.
If you wanna go there and be childish, sis, what is this?
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Originally posted by rabbit09
the la times review beyoncés tour
the rest is on this weblink http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...ew-beyonc.html
hmmm it seem like her new concerts startin to get bad becuase she was gettin many good review at 1st but now theyre not liking it that much. hope things get better for beyoncé!
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You have spelling and grammatical errors.....
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when is her last US date?
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when is her last US date?
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August 2 In Vegas BABY!!!
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August 2 In Vegas BABY!!!
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What about those 3 Hawaii dates that were posted on the previous page with 3 shows in the Aloha Stadium?
That was really giving me excuse to visit my cousin out there in September.
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I thought those are unconfirmed yet
Ooh, the Dereon ads <3333333
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