Glam Nation
Yesterday I was in Munich at my first and only Glam Nation show and OMG. Oh my fucking god.
I've seen a million of youtube videos from the GNT shows and I was a bit apprehensive when I decided to make the trip to Munich because I feared disappointment. What can be really so great when I saw that particular set a dozen times, heard how Adam interprets the song, sometimes so unbelievably well that it couldn't be topped.
But, goddamn. That was... I don't have words. I don't know if he was "on fire" that night or it was simply because I heard him live for the first time but the impression was fuckingg incredible.
The opening band seemed to have some fans of their own in the crowd and they did a decent job of getting the people rocked up. The long wait for Adam afterwards cooled the atmosphere a bit though: the friend of mine who is a casual fan started to look distinctly bored and displeased (not fan of pop music in general) even when I and and my other friend danced a bit. The apprehension was still heavy, actually getting heavier the longer we waited.
Then Adam came out. Let me tell you, I've never ever in my life heard so much deafening screaming. And I work at school. Voodoo came on and everybody was singing. By the time For Your Entertainment finished, my bored friend was jumping up and down and pumping her hands. For Your Entertainment was pretty different from the album version and I was surprised how good Adam's voice sounded on it.
Apprehension? What apprehension? It was totally gone three lines into Voodoo and I was totally enchanted and couldn't take my eyes off of the stage. On the Ring of Fire there was some writhing that he really seemed to get into, maybe because he didn't use the stairs for the song this time and was really close to the crowd, but the wailing was exquisite. When it was over, my more fannish friend was like: "how's that even real?" and I remember being too busy picking my jaw from the floor to answer.
I was fairly close to the stage (the stage was seriously small, I couldn't believe they managed to fit those raisers on it, and it was very low so no background images) and I could see Adam's face clearly most of the time but a lot of choreography was obstructed by hands with cameras. It did annoy me, to be honest because the choreography on Fever was something I really wanted to see. Oh well. A perfect experience is probably something I'll get if I'm a good girl and die and go to heaven.
Anyway. Fever. So cool, despite the fact that beside me was the shrillest, craziest fangirl I've seen so far. Seriously, she could give Adam a run for his money in the high notes department. She kept screaming insanely that Adam's hot and that she loves him so much every three minutes and sounded like she would slit her wrists to prove her love. Well, she did give the color to the whole experience.
Sleepwalker. Oh dear God. Sleepwalker. My hands were alternating between clutching at my heart and pumping in the air on the chorus. And there were goosebumps and shivers and I couldn't believe how good it was. He kills that song live, the intensity makes the air thicken. The dancer interlude was so cool live and I wish I could see the dancers better. It was impressive.
The acoustic part managed to get me a bit out of my stupor and the screaming fangirl calmed down slightly when I begged her with my eyes to take it down a notch because she was overscreaming Adam on Whataya Want From Me. Everybody seemed to sing along to the point that the audience were leading the song. I think Adam wanted to improvise a bit, like he does, but the audience singing just didn't make it possible. He finally sort of grinned and seemed to go "ah, whatever, I'll do it your way". I managed to sway a bit. Soaked was unbelievable, so strong and clear and awesome and again I spent the entire song with a hand over my heart. The pause on Soaked was exceedingly long because the people just wouldn't stop cheering and shut up. I wonder what Broken Open would have been like. Aftermath went by way too fast but Monte kissing Adam on the forehead and Adam cuddling up to him was the sweetest thing ever.
The beat on the band interlude was wicked and really created a mysterious mood. Tommy's silhouette (the part I could see) looked otherwordly in the blue light, especially when it shone through his silver-looking powdery hair. Awesome.
The next part is a bit of a blur because I was mostly drunk on the insane energy and probably tired from jumping and dancing and I was entering an alternate state of consciousness because of the loudness of the speakers and the response of the crowd. The high notes on Sure Fire Winners went somewhere through the roof, and I think the sound system didn't manage to convey them properly. Or maybe I was standing too close to hear them properly. Monte and Tommy standing right with Adam, Adam's hand hooked around Monte, Tommy looking like he was about to have an orgasm while leaning on Adam, that was so goddamn rock-and-roll. I lost it again on Strut, which has always been one of my favorites, and God how I wish I could have seen everything better because the vocal was again insane. It's such a stomping song with that awesome bridge and a glory note in the middle and he killed the glory note. The pimp-cane action had me grinning and jumping. My feet and arms were dead by that point so I think I rested a bit on Music Again and was brought back, painfully, by the crowd screaming their heads off at the start of If I Had You. It's my least favorite song on the album but you'd never know it from the way I jumped and sang, it was that infectiously happy.
Everybody around me obediently and patiently screamed themselves hoarse demanding and encore and we got Twentieth Century Boy with vocals somewhere in the fucking stratosphere that the sound system didn't manage to catch, complete with some floor-mopping which I couldn't see.
When the show ended I felt barely alive from exhaustion, grinning from ear to ear and thinking that goddammit, he's going to be HUGE because wow. That boy seriously needs and arena to let his huge awesome voice spread around. It was worth every cent I spent for the trip, every minute of the ten-hour car drive, the headache that invited itself in after the show and the price of the leather trousers I'm probably never going to wear again.
I've seen a million of youtube videos from the GNT shows and I was a bit apprehensive when I decided to make the trip to Munich because I feared disappointment. What can be really so great when I saw that particular set a dozen times, heard how Adam interprets the song, sometimes so unbelievably well that it couldn't be topped.
But, goddamn. That was... I don't have words. I don't know if he was "on fire" that night or it was simply because I heard him live for the first time but the impression was fuckingg incredible.
The opening band seemed to have some fans of their own in the crowd and they did a decent job of getting the people rocked up. The long wait for Adam afterwards cooled the atmosphere a bit though: the friend of mine who is a casual fan started to look distinctly bored and displeased (not fan of pop music in general) even when I and and my other friend danced a bit. The apprehension was still heavy, actually getting heavier the longer we waited.
Then Adam came out. Let me tell you, I've never ever in my life heard so much deafening screaming. And I work at school. Voodoo came on and everybody was singing. By the time For Your Entertainment finished, my bored friend was jumping up and down and pumping her hands. For Your Entertainment was pretty different from the album version and I was surprised how good Adam's voice sounded on it.
Apprehension? What apprehension? It was totally gone three lines into Voodoo and I was totally enchanted and couldn't take my eyes off of the stage. On the Ring of Fire there was some writhing that he really seemed to get into, maybe because he didn't use the stairs for the song this time and was really close to the crowd, but the wailing was exquisite. When it was over, my more fannish friend was like: "how's that even real?" and I remember being too busy picking my jaw from the floor to answer.
I was fairly close to the stage (the stage was seriously small, I couldn't believe they managed to fit those raisers on it, and it was very low so no background images) and I could see Adam's face clearly most of the time but a lot of choreography was obstructed by hands with cameras. It did annoy me, to be honest because the choreography on Fever was something I really wanted to see. Oh well. A perfect experience is probably something I'll get if I'm a good girl and die and go to heaven.
Anyway. Fever. So cool, despite the fact that beside me was the shrillest, craziest fangirl I've seen so far. Seriously, she could give Adam a run for his money in the high notes department. She kept screaming insanely that Adam's hot and that she loves him so much every three minutes and sounded like she would slit her wrists to prove her love. Well, she did give the color to the whole experience.
Sleepwalker. Oh dear God. Sleepwalker. My hands were alternating between clutching at my heart and pumping in the air on the chorus. And there were goosebumps and shivers and I couldn't believe how good it was. He kills that song live, the intensity makes the air thicken. The dancer interlude was so cool live and I wish I could see the dancers better. It was impressive.
The acoustic part managed to get me a bit out of my stupor and the screaming fangirl calmed down slightly when I begged her with my eyes to take it down a notch because she was overscreaming Adam on Whataya Want From Me. Everybody seemed to sing along to the point that the audience were leading the song. I think Adam wanted to improvise a bit, like he does, but the audience singing just didn't make it possible. He finally sort of grinned and seemed to go "ah, whatever, I'll do it your way". I managed to sway a bit. Soaked was unbelievable, so strong and clear and awesome and again I spent the entire song with a hand over my heart. The pause on Soaked was exceedingly long because the people just wouldn't stop cheering and shut up. I wonder what Broken Open would have been like. Aftermath went by way too fast but Monte kissing Adam on the forehead and Adam cuddling up to him was the sweetest thing ever.
The beat on the band interlude was wicked and really created a mysterious mood. Tommy's silhouette (the part I could see) looked otherwordly in the blue light, especially when it shone through his silver-looking powdery hair. Awesome.
The next part is a bit of a blur because I was mostly drunk on the insane energy and probably tired from jumping and dancing and I was entering an alternate state of consciousness because of the loudness of the speakers and the response of the crowd. The high notes on Sure Fire Winners went somewhere through the roof, and I think the sound system didn't manage to convey them properly. Or maybe I was standing too close to hear them properly. Monte and Tommy standing right with Adam, Adam's hand hooked around Monte, Tommy looking like he was about to have an orgasm while leaning on Adam, that was so goddamn rock-and-roll. I lost it again on Strut, which has always been one of my favorites, and God how I wish I could have seen everything better because the vocal was again insane. It's such a stomping song with that awesome bridge and a glory note in the middle and he killed the glory note. The pimp-cane action had me grinning and jumping. My feet and arms were dead by that point so I think I rested a bit on Music Again and was brought back, painfully, by the crowd screaming their heads off at the start of If I Had You. It's my least favorite song on the album but you'd never know it from the way I jumped and sang, it was that infectiously happy.
Everybody around me obediently and patiently screamed themselves hoarse demanding and encore and we got Twentieth Century Boy with vocals somewhere in the fucking stratosphere that the sound system didn't manage to catch, complete with some floor-mopping which I couldn't see.
When the show ended I felt barely alive from exhaustion, grinning from ear to ear and thinking that goddammit, he's going to be HUGE because wow. That boy seriously needs and arena to let his huge awesome voice spread around. It was worth every cent I spent for the trip, every minute of the ten-hour car drive, the headache that invited itself in after the show and the price of the leather trousers I'm probably never going to wear again.