I Went To The Glow In The Dark Tour….Are You????????

In between starting a new job and getting my new place together, I managed to find time to make myself look presentable and go see Lupe, N*E*R*D, Rihanna and Kanye to the at The Glow In The Dark Tour for the second show in LA last week. It left me tired for the rest of the week(on a side note….did you know it is possible to be fully asleep with your eyes opened?) but it was worth it.

For a full run down and accurate review of the show, click here. If you can manage to get your hands on a pair of tickets..please do! If you already have tickets get ready for an experience.

Lupe opened the show that started right on time and performed songs mainly from The Cool but also performed some songs from Food and Liquor. I saw him last summer and noticed an improvement in his stage presence and was happy to see that he kept everyone on their feet for his entire performance.

I can’t tell you what happened when N*E*R*D came out because I was too busy picturing myself and Pharrell running through daisy fields holding hands and riding on unicorns….

but I do remember that they kept the crowd on their feet. Sigh….that Pharrell sure is dreamy.

Then, there was Rihanna. I like Rihanna, but honestly would have liked her better on another tour. I would have preferred to see someone like Common in her place. I feel like the energy in the audience went down by the time she ended her first song. For the first time that night people were sitting in their seats and watching as she literally gyrated through most of her songs.

I think that an artist like Common would have meshed better with the flow of the show. Adding Rihanna to The Glow In The Dark Tour made as much since as adding Cameo to a BeeGees and Abba Reunion Concert.

I love that she is trying to be different with the whole “bad girl” image, but felt like calling her people and telling them having her smoke a cigarette during her song, Rehab, didn’t make her a bad girl, it made her a candidate for a voice box. A cigarette puts her more on the level of in Sandy from Grease or something. Why stop there, if she really wants to be the bad girl she can be the girl that stuffs her bra at the Sadie Hawkins Dance and makes-out under the bleachers.

Anywho, once Kanye came out….I felt like I was in Coming to America and just got done watching Randy Watson because the whole time I was clapping and yelling out “That Boy Is Good, That Boy Is Good”.

Kanye raised the bar for concert performances with what has been called an “apocalyptic space opera”. I loved that the whole night there was no one on stage with Kanye (until Lupe joined him at the end of the night for Touch the Sky) yet he still commanded the audience from the first song until the end of the concert which says a lot in the age of guest appearances, dancers, trapeze acts, stilt walkers and flame tossers that usually make appearances to bring out the theatrics at concerts.

Unfortunately these are not pictures from the concert, I got an ok picture of Rihanna but wasn’t trying to risk getting kicked out because they were on it if the saw even the slightest flash…so word to the wise….keep your flash off lol.