Who: Britney Spears with DJ Pauly D
When: August 20, 2011
Where: Nationwide Arena/ Columbus, OH
With: Beth
Of Note: Oh Brit-Brit...
So, when your best girlfriend from college says, "Come visit; we'll go see Britney Spears," you say yes. It is what you do. Particularly if you went to high school during Britney's rise to superstardom and may or may not have appropriated your tennis kilt as a schoolgirl costume for Halloween. Or if thinking of the kind of gross Canadian dance bar thing you frequented (what up Daily Planet!) brings on nothing but fond memories of 'Slave 4 U' (oh Britney) and 'Boys' (sometimes a girl just needs one!). Ahem.
(Someday, I will figure out how to turn one of these into the marvelous story of how none of managed to get roofied or die during those perhaps too frequent trips to Canada. Bonus! My boyfriend the doorway.)
For Britney's 2011 tour, some of the dates had Nikki Minaj as the opener. We got DJ Pauly D. Things I remember about DJ Pauly D include: wondering how on earth a DJ could be considered an opening act, him standing behind his Italian print flag DJ booth (obviously), him spinning a variety of top 40/dance song and fist pumping, him yelling, "SING" at the crowd a lot, and me being the only person in the whole place who was pumped when he played 'Mr. Saxobeat' and Beth making fun of me for it.
For as many concerts as I go to, this was actually my first full-on pop spectacular, with the costumes and the dancers and the video segments and the ...story? It's kind of fuzzy. Essentially, Britney was a secret agent/ super spy/ femme fatale who was, at the beginning of the show, on the run from someone but by the end the hunted became the hunter and she caught him? Or something like that.
Things I remember about seeing Britney Spears:
For some of the numbers in the middle, Britney & co. performed on and around cars and it felt a little like "Britney does Grease" which I found incredibly entertaining. There may have actually been some hand jiving.
Her dancers were ridiculously good.
There were people in iconic Britney costumes in the audience. Universally, the drag queens had better costumes and were prettier than their female counterparts.
Britney gave a lap dance to some guy from the audience, thus making that guy's life.
The not quite mash up, but quick segue of a darkly sexual 'Baby One More Time' and cover of Rhianna's 'S&M' was pretty hot and possibly a little disturbing.
There was a giant will.i.am head on the screen during 'Big Fat Bass'.
I was really pumped and very dance-y for the one-two punch of 'I Wanna Go' and 'Womanizer' towards the end.
I lost my fricking mind for the encore, which began with 'Toxic', a song I love more than most things and have a weird dance thing that goes with it, which I possibly, embarrassingly, did.
The last song was 'Til the World Ends', during which the crowd went crazy and at the end, Britney was lifted to the heavens as the beautiful, sparkly angel that she clearly is, saving us from a potentially world ending inability to dance (or something).
As we walked back to the car with the huge crowd of people, there was an awesomely hilarious group of guys who were doing a little 'Bring it On' style cheer about how Britney was past her prime and they couldn't believe they'd paid that much money to watch her lip sync and move her arms (which was, I thought, probably a little harsher than needed, but very funny).
So, now I can check both "attend a big pop spectacular" and "see a living, breathing comeback story" off my life list.
When: August 20, 2011
Where: Nationwide Arena/ Columbus, OH
With: Beth
Of Note: Oh Brit-Brit...
So, when your best girlfriend from college says, "Come visit; we'll go see Britney Spears," you say yes. It is what you do. Particularly if you went to high school during Britney's rise to superstardom and may or may not have appropriated your tennis kilt as a schoolgirl costume for Halloween. Or if thinking of the kind of gross Canadian dance bar thing you frequented (what up Daily Planet!) brings on nothing but fond memories of 'Slave 4 U' (oh Britney) and 'Boys' (sometimes a girl just needs one!). Ahem.
(Someday, I will figure out how to turn one of these into the marvelous story of how none of managed to get roofied or die during those perhaps too frequent trips to Canada. Bonus! My boyfriend the doorway.)
For Britney's 2011 tour, some of the dates had Nikki Minaj as the opener. We got DJ Pauly D. Things I remember about DJ Pauly D include: wondering how on earth a DJ could be considered an opening act, him standing behind his Italian print flag DJ booth (obviously), him spinning a variety of top 40/dance song and fist pumping, him yelling, "SING" at the crowd a lot, and me being the only person in the whole place who was pumped when he played 'Mr. Saxobeat' and Beth making fun of me for it.
For as many concerts as I go to, this was actually my first full-on pop spectacular, with the costumes and the dancers and the video segments and the ...story? It's kind of fuzzy. Essentially, Britney was a secret agent/ super spy/ femme fatale who was, at the beginning of the show, on the run from someone but by the end the hunted became the hunter and she caught him? Or something like that.
Things I remember about seeing Britney Spears:
For some of the numbers in the middle, Britney & co. performed on and around cars and it felt a little like "Britney does Grease" which I found incredibly entertaining. There may have actually been some hand jiving.
Her dancers were ridiculously good.
There were people in iconic Britney costumes in the audience. Universally, the drag queens had better costumes and were prettier than their female counterparts.
Britney gave a lap dance to some guy from the audience, thus making that guy's life.
The not quite mash up, but quick segue of a darkly sexual 'Baby One More Time' and cover of Rhianna's 'S&M' was pretty hot and possibly a little disturbing.
There was a giant will.i.am head on the screen during 'Big Fat Bass'.
I was really pumped and very dance-y for the one-two punch of 'I Wanna Go' and 'Womanizer' towards the end.
I lost my fricking mind for the encore, which began with 'Toxic', a song I love more than most things and have a weird dance thing that goes with it, which I possibly, embarrassingly, did.
The last song was 'Til the World Ends', during which the crowd went crazy and at the end, Britney was lifted to the heavens as the beautiful, sparkly angel that she clearly is, saving us from a potentially world ending inability to dance (or something).
As we walked back to the car with the huge crowd of people, there was an awesomely hilarious group of guys who were doing a little 'Bring it On' style cheer about how Britney was past her prime and they couldn't believe they'd paid that much money to watch her lip sync and move her arms (which was, I thought, probably a little harsher than needed, but very funny).
So, now I can check both "attend a big pop spectacular" and "see a living, breathing comeback story" off my life list.
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