celine concert - review and picspam
Oh my god.
As you know, I was busting at the seams before we left. And we finally left. And parked. And that is so not important. We got in and there was a long-ass line. We were friendly with the people around us. The guy behind us said she gave off kind of a bitchy aura and us women all just looked at each other and said, "No. No." Because we so know better than that. And he probably hasn't seen her holding all of those disabled kids and doing her charity work and just having the most beautiful heart on this earth in general.
Allie texted me and told me there was an opening act. I did not know about it. I was pissed. It was already agony enough to sit and wait for her all day. We finally got in and looked at the merchandise and I wanted to COMMIT MURDER because they didn't have the shirt I wanted. I so so badly wanted the white tank top that said "Let's Talk About Love". Fuckers. I instead got a white shirt that says Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore in bright pink letters. And the GLORIOUS TOURBOOK, the tourbook of all tourbooks, and it was only $25. I expected it to be double that. I also got a Taking Chances poster for my room.
We found our seats, we were in section 130, row F, and there were papers taped to the floor with the row letters. We found ours and sat down, some guy helped us. THEN, THEN, the guy's girlfriend comes and says, "No honey we're down here!" TURNS OUT, we WEREN'T going by the papers on the floor, we were going by the row letters on the actual seats so we got to move like 15 rows CLOSER. It was the best fucking surprise of my life. And everyone sitting around us was a HUGE fan. They all saw her in Vegas. And the girl behind us was a dancer - she was supposed go to the Kansas show but Celine canceled it so her and her boyfriend drove all the way up here from Kansas to see this. And her boyfriend had to miss school. For Celine Dion. "I never thought I'd miss school for Celine Dion. I can kick that off the bucket list." lmao.
Her opening act came on and I LOST. MY. SHIT. Because okay, his whole bit is that he parodies famous songs whilst doing impressions of the actual singer who sings them. HE FUCKING DID SWEET CHILD OF MINE. I. WAS. LOSING IT. LSK;DJFLKJASD. He was pretty funny, I enjoyed him. I got up to go to the bathroom and I came back and it was like 10 minutes before 9. I felt the fangirl glow seeping out of my face, that heat that only comes from something so epically fandom that you quite literally overheat. I felt so nervous, too. People came to get in our row and I had to stand up to let them in and I felt like my legs were going to give out. I had to fall back onto the edge of the chair, they were such rubber.
And then the lights went down. The screen in the center of the stage started playing footage of her tour, but not like, her performing. Her holding baby lions in Africa and being with people and laughing, it was this gorgeous montage and it made me cry because even though this was a concert, she's not just a singer to me.
And Celine came. And I felt unconscious. She was so beautiful and my god, my god I was screaming and I don't even remember. She opened with I Drove All Night and she was fantastic and the energy was so... alive and bright and contagious. But what really struck me was when she sang Taking Chances. I just felt so... This is going to sound so stupid, but I swear to god I felt like I was in the presence of an angel. I just started bawling because it was so real. A literal angel. I've never felt anything like that before. And then I was looking up at the monitors, and she was looking right into the camera, and she winked. I lost. it.
And we were SO. CLOSE. you guys. Yes I took that up there. That is my picture. Of Celine Dion. Because I saw her in real life. And she was glorious, and so so close. And god she was adorable, she apologized profusely for postponing our show and she was so gracious and humble and it physically hurts that I can't hug her. And seeing her here, I saw so many tiny things I've never noticed. Like the way she plays with the strings on her shirt, the way she joins her fingers when she sings. She was dynamic and beautiful and she moved in snapshots and I felt her passion not only for singing and music, but for people.
She talked about her mother and RC and how they're all traveling with her. She talked about how she was the youngest of 14 kids and she was the "accident" and I screamed "NO!" A lot of people did. It broke my heart. I loved when she talked though, she was so animated and funny and at ease and god I'm so not even doing this justice. And now I'm just going to spew random thoughts without any semblance of order.
I hated the "set" or whatever for "Alone". There were fucking screens in front of her face and I couldn't see her. OH OH, HER DANCERS. LOVE THEM. AND HEY, NONE OF YOU GUYS (*COUGH* KRYS AND ALLIE *COUGH*) TOLD ME THAT MIA MICHAELS IS IN THE TOURBOOK! It is so much win! She got through "My Love" without crying. I was so proud of her. But my god it was beautiful. And her sitting on the piano. This whole time, I've purposely made sure to not watch any tour footage because I wanted to be surprised.
She was so bouncy and fun, GOD she had a good time, I got some really fucking amazing stuff on tape, too.
She left and came back to do River Deep Mountain High. She left again and came back AGAIN to do My Heart Will Go On. And I bawled all over the place, again, because she said, "You are safe in my heart" and I so completely believed her because I know I would be, and I never thought of it that way in all the times I've heard her sing it. "And my heart will go on and on", and it will, because she's made so much history and she's timeless and her heart is so beautiful anyway - hearts like that just don't stop, even when the person's gone.
♥
And now I bring you a shit ton of photos. I struggled with the lighting in the venue sometimes, but there's a "Candle" setting on my camera that seemed to work. You guys I cannot even believe that these are mine, that I saw her in real life and was close enough for me to capture her in some of the ways that I did. And the show was so beautiful, the dancers and her rhinestoned clothes, her gorgeous movement and energy. And these pictures just mean the fucking world to me and they turned out and it was perfect and god I am so grateful. For the whole thing. It all was such magic.
And I ask that you look at each of these individually, because I feel like by posting them in a group that I'm cheapening them or something. It's weird to explain, I don't know. Just look at each one for what it is and pretend it's the only one there.
*please don't use these for anything or post them anywhere*
if you really really want to, talk to me first and we'll figure it out.
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this is blurry but the leg, THE LEG.
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f;lksakljsd this dance was so fucking cool.
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she is such a little sass!
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this is one of my favorites.
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it's all skewed because this was on the monitor above my head but oh my god she is such an adorable dork.
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favorite.
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this was so fucking cool also. i wonder if Mia did this one, it had her name all over it.
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LOOK AT HIM.
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that dancer in the bottom front right of this, i loved her.
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you guys, what the fuck, like I TOOK this! ♥!
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the people behind her. kjsldfhsa
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favorite. all I see when i look at this is dance.
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her. fingers.
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I can't even believe this.
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see what i mean. do you see how i was ready for these things. LOOK AT HER, SHE IS SO BUSTED. sdlkjfha
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can't even. her shoe and hair and how her mic stand is parallel to her leg and god.
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celine is in ur state, deepening ur riverz n heightening ur mountainz.
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favorite.
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what killed me about this is how she was facing one way and her toes were facing another.
I felt so with her the entire time. Not that she knew that I existed or that we were having some sort of private conversation/moment, but I just felt so in-tune to her and I was so completely ready for her, always. I can't even explain, it was such a strange feeling. It's like I was always a step ahead of her yet I still managed to be surprised by her. I didn't know what she was going to do, but I knew when she was going to do it. It was such a busy balance but I so completely thrived on it. I felt so on top of things - there was not one thing that I saw, wanted to capture and didn't. I don't know if I've ever been so completely aware. I know I probably did, but I really don't feel like I missed a thing.
I need to hug her. NEED.
As you know, I was busting at the seams before we left. And we finally left. And parked. And that is so not important. We got in and there was a long-ass line. We were friendly with the people around us. The guy behind us said she gave off kind of a bitchy aura and us women all just looked at each other and said, "No. No." Because we so know better than that. And he probably hasn't seen her holding all of those disabled kids and doing her charity work and just having the most beautiful heart on this earth in general.
Allie texted me and told me there was an opening act. I did not know about it. I was pissed. It was already agony enough to sit and wait for her all day. We finally got in and looked at the merchandise and I wanted to COMMIT MURDER because they didn't have the shirt I wanted. I so so badly wanted the white tank top that said "Let's Talk About Love". Fuckers. I instead got a white shirt that says Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore in bright pink letters. And the GLORIOUS TOURBOOK, the tourbook of all tourbooks, and it was only $25. I expected it to be double that. I also got a Taking Chances poster for my room.
We found our seats, we were in section 130, row F, and there were papers taped to the floor with the row letters. We found ours and sat down, some guy helped us. THEN, THEN, the guy's girlfriend comes and says, "No honey we're down here!" TURNS OUT, we WEREN'T going by the papers on the floor, we were going by the row letters on the actual seats so we got to move like 15 rows CLOSER. It was the best fucking surprise of my life. And everyone sitting around us was a HUGE fan. They all saw her in Vegas. And the girl behind us was a dancer - she was supposed go to the Kansas show but Celine canceled it so her and her boyfriend drove all the way up here from Kansas to see this. And her boyfriend had to miss school. For Celine Dion. "I never thought I'd miss school for Celine Dion. I can kick that off the bucket list." lmao.
Her opening act came on and I LOST. MY. SHIT. Because okay, his whole bit is that he parodies famous songs whilst doing impressions of the actual singer who sings them. HE FUCKING DID SWEET CHILD OF MINE. I. WAS. LOSING IT. LSK;DJFLKJASD. He was pretty funny, I enjoyed him. I got up to go to the bathroom and I came back and it was like 10 minutes before 9. I felt the fangirl glow seeping out of my face, that heat that only comes from something so epically fandom that you quite literally overheat. I felt so nervous, too. People came to get in our row and I had to stand up to let them in and I felt like my legs were going to give out. I had to fall back onto the edge of the chair, they were such rubber.
And then the lights went down. The screen in the center of the stage started playing footage of her tour, but not like, her performing. Her holding baby lions in Africa and being with people and laughing, it was this gorgeous montage and it made me cry because even though this was a concert, she's not just a singer to me.
And Celine came. And I felt unconscious. She was so beautiful and my god, my god I was screaming and I don't even remember. She opened with I Drove All Night and she was fantastic and the energy was so... alive and bright and contagious. But what really struck me was when she sang Taking Chances. I just felt so... This is going to sound so stupid, but I swear to god I felt like I was in the presence of an angel. I just started bawling because it was so real. A literal angel. I've never felt anything like that before. And then I was looking up at the monitors, and she was looking right into the camera, and she winked. I lost. it.
And we were SO. CLOSE. you guys. Yes I took that up there. That is my picture. Of Celine Dion. Because I saw her in real life. And she was glorious, and so so close. And god she was adorable, she apologized profusely for postponing our show and she was so gracious and humble and it physically hurts that I can't hug her. And seeing her here, I saw so many tiny things I've never noticed. Like the way she plays with the strings on her shirt, the way she joins her fingers when she sings. She was dynamic and beautiful and she moved in snapshots and I felt her passion not only for singing and music, but for people.
She talked about her mother and RC and how they're all traveling with her. She talked about how she was the youngest of 14 kids and she was the "accident" and I screamed "NO!" A lot of people did. It broke my heart. I loved when she talked though, she was so animated and funny and at ease and god I'm so not even doing this justice. And now I'm just going to spew random thoughts without any semblance of order.
I hated the "set" or whatever for "Alone". There were fucking screens in front of her face and I couldn't see her. OH OH, HER DANCERS. LOVE THEM. AND HEY, NONE OF YOU GUYS (*COUGH* KRYS AND ALLIE *COUGH*) TOLD ME THAT MIA MICHAELS IS IN THE TOURBOOK! It is so much win! She got through "My Love" without crying. I was so proud of her. But my god it was beautiful. And her sitting on the piano. This whole time, I've purposely made sure to not watch any tour footage because I wanted to be surprised.
She was so bouncy and fun, GOD she had a good time, I got some really fucking amazing stuff on tape, too.
She left and came back to do River Deep Mountain High. She left again and came back AGAIN to do My Heart Will Go On. And I bawled all over the place, again, because she said, "You are safe in my heart" and I so completely believed her because I know I would be, and I never thought of it that way in all the times I've heard her sing it. "And my heart will go on and on", and it will, because she's made so much history and she's timeless and her heart is so beautiful anyway - hearts like that just don't stop, even when the person's gone.
♥
And now I bring you a shit ton of photos. I struggled with the lighting in the venue sometimes, but there's a "Candle" setting on my camera that seemed to work. You guys I cannot even believe that these are mine, that I saw her in real life and was close enough for me to capture her in some of the ways that I did. And the show was so beautiful, the dancers and her rhinestoned clothes, her gorgeous movement and energy. And these pictures just mean the fucking world to me and they turned out and it was perfect and god I am so grateful. For the whole thing. It all was such magic.
And I ask that you look at each of these individually, because I feel like by posting them in a group that I'm cheapening them or something. It's weird to explain, I don't know. Just look at each one for what it is and pretend it's the only one there.
*please don't use these for anything or post them anywhere*
if you really really want to, talk to me first and we'll figure it out.
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this is blurry but the leg, THE LEG.
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f;lksakljsd this dance was so fucking cool.
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she is such a little sass!
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this is one of my favorites.
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it's all skewed because this was on the monitor above my head but oh my god she is such an adorable dork.
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favorite.
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this was so fucking cool also. i wonder if Mia did this one, it had her name all over it.
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LOOK AT HIM.
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that dancer in the bottom front right of this, i loved her.
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you guys, what the fuck, like I TOOK this! ♥!
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the people behind her. kjsldfhsa
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favorite. all I see when i look at this is dance.
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her. fingers.
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I can't even believe this.
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see what i mean. do you see how i was ready for these things. LOOK AT HER, SHE IS SO BUSTED. sdlkjfha
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can't even. her shoe and hair and how her mic stand is parallel to her leg and god.
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celine is in ur state, deepening ur riverz n heightening ur mountainz.
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favorite.
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what killed me about this is how she was facing one way and her toes were facing another.
I felt so with her the entire time. Not that she knew that I existed or that we were having some sort of private conversation/moment, but I just felt so in-tune to her and I was so completely ready for her, always. I can't even explain, it was such a strange feeling. It's like I was always a step ahead of her yet I still managed to be surprised by her. I didn't know what she was going to do, but I knew when she was going to do it. It was such a busy balance but I so completely thrived on it. I felt so on top of things - there was not one thing that I saw, wanted to capture and didn't. I don't know if I've ever been so completely aware. I know I probably did, but I really don't feel like I missed a thing.
I need to hug her. NEED.