Thursday 26 January 2012

My California Dreams Tour Experience: January 22, 2012


The long wait is finally over!

After two years, one best selling album, five number one hits on the Billboard Chart, 124 cities toured, 14 million followers on Twitter, 38 million likes on Facebook, a handful of awards/nominations and one failed marriage, Katy Perry, one of the biggest pop stars of today closed her California Dreams Tour at the SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds on the eve of Chinese New Year.

Silver tix baby...


My friend Xmond and I were both at the venue around 4PM (concert scheduled at 8PM) yeah we're early birds like that. MOA ito plus silver tix ang hawak namin so malamang mala Hunger Games ang drama namin, matira matibay, mauna winner.


So this was taken while waiting outside the venue. In all fairness it was a typical sunny, windy, happy, promising January in Manille... love it!


Yeah, McDonald's...  My friend and I ordered cheeseburger and Coke for snack. It was a little past six, just minutes after we were ushered to the open grounds.



The California Dreams Tour stage 


While waiting for Katy, SM, a Chinese-Filipino owned conglomerate had a mini fireworks display. Sobrang mini. Mga five minutes lang ata ito. Medyo fail!

Okay so the concert's supposed to be at eight. Guess what happened?

Katy Perry started at 10 PM!

She tweeted of a certain security issue (fine!!!) but how can she explain the other day's three hour late during her perfume launch?

Yeah it was very annoying. Silver at SM Concert Grounds is ABSOLUTELY NOT THE BEST PLACE ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SET FOR SOME WAITING GAME. It's the place where you get fifty fifty chances of a good view and a not so good view. Of course you will pick the good view right? Who would not.

The struggle to save our spot (this is free standing okay), the inefficiency of the bouncers to at least remind the people from the Gold section not to use the chairs (to stand), the loooong wait and the "stand up game", the evaporated urine (hehehe), the sweat, the breath of different people (most of them already hungry I reckon, I can smell hello!)... Needless to say, my friend and I were both stressed out!

Katy worked the crowd pretty well but I know may ibubuga pa ang crowd had she started earlier (and she brought this autistic na DJ na parang siya lang nasisiyahan sa spins niya HELLER naman).

From my 'calculation' she dropped four songs (one of which was a fave, Thinking of You) because it's too late already. It was a fun concert really. I just hope it'd be better by starting earlier (kahit one hour late lang two hours in that setting is waaaayyy too much).

Whoooo! Rant tong post na 'to! Bare with me guys! XOXO

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