THE 'NO IDOL LEFT BEHIND' TOUR REVIEW
Otherwise known as American Idols Holiday Tour with Gina Glocksen, David Hernandez, Alexis Grace, and our very own Mayor of Whoville, Michael Sarver!
Tonight was the opening date of the tour, and surprisingly enough, is my stop. Here is my review. So far, it's text-based for now. My camera battery died not long after I got a picture with Sarver (which was thankfully my last picture), so I'm waiting for the battery to charge before I upload my stuff and get some of what I didn't record from this really nice Gina stan I met tonight. (If you go here, say hi!) Videos, providing my camera didn't pull a fast one on me, should be up in the next couple of days.
The concert is good times. I had a LOT of fun tonight by myself and I dare say, had more fun than I did on the summer tour. It was a bit cheesy, but it's definitely a cute Christmas show to take the whole family to and Christmas shows need a little cheese. I don't quite remember things in order, and I've probably forgotten some of it, but here's the best I can remember until the videos come in.
The first half of the concert is Christmas music - there's quite a few medleys of random songs with all the idols (I think there was 5 or 6 for the whole night) and they all got solos. My setlist is by no means complete, but here's some of the songs from the first half (aka, what I remember was really good) -
Michael - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Alexis - Santa Baby
Gina - My Grown Up Christmas List
David - Mary Did You Know?/O Holy Night
Group Medley - 12 Days of Christmas (featuring audience participation. it was absolutely hilarious.)
Then there's intermission, and the second half is mostly stuff from their CDs. idk if we knew this (I never saw it here), but Alexis made a Christmas CD! (Not sure if she actually has a deal or if it was produced independently, and I'm kind of too tired and lazy to look it up right now.) Michael sang 'You Are,' which he says he wrote in the time off he had between getting voted off and the start of summer tour. Honestly, it doesn't sound terrible. He sounds good singing it, the melody is okay, but from what I heard/understood of the lyrics, you could have slipped it into a *insert favorite boy band of the 1990s/2000s* CD and I'm not sure anyone would even notice. The lyrics are pretty cliche, but it's not a bad song. I could see myself listening to it. I'm kind of hoping Cinderella Girl is a better song though, lyrically. Gina and Alexis sang some original stuff, and Alexis and David sang stuff from their idol days (I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) and Papa Was a Rolling Stone, respectively). There were a couple duets, including a country-ish version of Pat-A-Pan from Michael and David that surprisingly works very well (even if Michael was kinda shaky in the beginning) and a gorgeous duet from Gina and Alexis, but I didn't recognize the song. More fun and cheesy Christmas medleys. Show over. The show runs about 2 hours total, but it didn't feel even remotely that long. They did have a merch table, including pictures, CDs for Michael, Alexis and David (Gina's response to not having one? 'My producer is a poo-head.' Both Alexis and David's CDs are Christmas, Sarver's is just the 2 singles You Are and Cinderella Girl) and Alexis had some women's shirts in yellow and pink.
Random bits that don't really fit anywhere:
Alexis is TINY. She's probably only about 5'2, maybe 5'3 with heels on and is really skinny (not overly so, she just has a very slender body frame). I kinda saw this when I saw the pic of her and Kris from the summer tour, but she's smaller than I expected her to be. Also, seeing her tonight actually kind of made me mad she didn't get a spot in the Idol tour, because she definitely deserved it. Girl was so much better than she was on the show. I would have traded her for Gokey, probably Lil and maybe even Megan.
David is probably the best performer, stage presence-wise of the four (idk if this is news to everyone but it was news to me since I never watched s7). He really draws you into it and I just wanted to watch him the whole time. He was behind most of the hilarity and shennanigans in 12 Days of Christmas and made the Christmas song everybody hates to sing because it's so damn long (don't even pretend you like it) quite entertaining. He also twirls around a lot on stage and his dancing is so cute. I hope he remembers to take off his watch though in the future. I was blinded by him like 15 times in the second half of the show.
Michael is vocally, quite good and quite honestly reminded me how he got as far as he did (I'll Be Home for Christmas was absolutely gorgeous), but actually kind of needs to work on how he actually sings on stage. I didn't notice this at the summer tour because I was too far back to see, but if you don't give him a person he can make eye contact with, he tends to look a little lost or completely bored out of his mind on stage (ngl though, it's kind of cute).
Gina, I honestly had no idea existed until I bought the tickets, but UNF. (Yes, this is short. Because it's better than saying girl can saaaaaang, because, well, she's from american idol. of course she can sing.)
I SHIP DAVID/ALEXIS. THEIR LITTLE INTERACTIONS WERE SO CUTE.
AS WAS MICHAEL'S LITTLE FINGER WAVE THING THAT HE'S APPARENTLY DEVELOPED.
I ALSO SHIP DAVID/GUITARIST (WHO WAS ALSO UNF). THIS MAY OR MAY NOT STEM FROM MY APPARENT LOVE OF GUITARISTS. IDC.
tl;dr? CUTE CHRISTMAS SHOW IS CUTE AND FUNNY. AND PEOPLE CAN SANG. IF YOU HAVE SOME SPARE CHANGE AND THE NIGHT OFF, GO SEE IT. IT'S WORTH IT.
OKAY THAT TOOK ME LIKE 2 HOURS TO WRITE, THIS WAS EXHAUSTING.
Tonight was the opening date of the tour, and surprisingly enough, is my stop. Here is my review. So far, it's text-based for now. My camera battery died not long after I got a picture with Sarver (which was thankfully my last picture), so I'm waiting for the battery to charge before I upload my stuff and get some of what I didn't record from this really nice Gina stan I met tonight. (If you go here, say hi!) Videos, providing my camera didn't pull a fast one on me, should be up in the next couple of days.
The concert is good times. I had a LOT of fun tonight by myself and I dare say, had more fun than I did on the summer tour. It was a bit cheesy, but it's definitely a cute Christmas show to take the whole family to and Christmas shows need a little cheese. I don't quite remember things in order, and I've probably forgotten some of it, but here's the best I can remember until the videos come in.
The first half of the concert is Christmas music - there's quite a few medleys of random songs with all the idols (I think there was 5 or 6 for the whole night) and they all got solos. My setlist is by no means complete, but here's some of the songs from the first half (aka, what I remember was really good) -
Michael - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Alexis - Santa Baby
Gina - My Grown Up Christmas List
David - Mary Did You Know?/O Holy Night
Group Medley - 12 Days of Christmas (featuring audience participation. it was absolutely hilarious.)
Then there's intermission, and the second half is mostly stuff from their CDs. idk if we knew this (I never saw it here), but Alexis made a Christmas CD! (Not sure if she actually has a deal or if it was produced independently, and I'm kind of too tired and lazy to look it up right now.) Michael sang 'You Are,' which he says he wrote in the time off he had between getting voted off and the start of summer tour. Honestly, it doesn't sound terrible. He sounds good singing it, the melody is okay, but from what I heard/understood of the lyrics, you could have slipped it into a *insert favorite boy band of the 1990s/2000s* CD and I'm not sure anyone would even notice. The lyrics are pretty cliche, but it's not a bad song. I could see myself listening to it. I'm kind of hoping Cinderella Girl is a better song though, lyrically. Gina and Alexis sang some original stuff, and Alexis and David sang stuff from their idol days (I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) and Papa Was a Rolling Stone, respectively). There were a couple duets, including a country-ish version of Pat-A-Pan from Michael and David that surprisingly works very well (even if Michael was kinda shaky in the beginning) and a gorgeous duet from Gina and Alexis, but I didn't recognize the song. More fun and cheesy Christmas medleys. Show over. The show runs about 2 hours total, but it didn't feel even remotely that long. They did have a merch table, including pictures, CDs for Michael, Alexis and David (Gina's response to not having one? 'My producer is a poo-head.' Both Alexis and David's CDs are Christmas, Sarver's is just the 2 singles You Are and Cinderella Girl) and Alexis had some women's shirts in yellow and pink.
Random bits that don't really fit anywhere:
Alexis is TINY. She's probably only about 5'2, maybe 5'3 with heels on and is really skinny (not overly so, she just has a very slender body frame). I kinda saw this when I saw the pic of her and Kris from the summer tour, but she's smaller than I expected her to be. Also, seeing her tonight actually kind of made me mad she didn't get a spot in the Idol tour, because she definitely deserved it. Girl was so much better than she was on the show. I would have traded her for Gokey, probably Lil and maybe even Megan.
David is probably the best performer, stage presence-wise of the four (idk if this is news to everyone but it was news to me since I never watched s7). He really draws you into it and I just wanted to watch him the whole time. He was behind most of the hilarity and shennanigans in 12 Days of Christmas and made the Christmas song everybody hates to sing because it's so damn long (don't even pretend you like it) quite entertaining. He also twirls around a lot on stage and his dancing is so cute. I hope he remembers to take off his watch though in the future. I was blinded by him like 15 times in the second half of the show.
Michael is vocally, quite good and quite honestly reminded me how he got as far as he did (I'll Be Home for Christmas was absolutely gorgeous), but actually kind of needs to work on how he actually sings on stage. I didn't notice this at the summer tour because I was too far back to see, but if you don't give him a person he can make eye contact with, he tends to look a little lost or completely bored out of his mind on stage (ngl though, it's kind of cute).
Gina, I honestly had no idea existed until I bought the tickets, but UNF. (Yes, this is short. Because it's better than saying girl can saaaaaang, because, well, she's from american idol. of course she can sing.)
I SHIP DAVID/ALEXIS. THEIR LITTLE INTERACTIONS WERE SO CUTE.
AS WAS MICHAEL'S LITTLE FINGER WAVE THING THAT HE'S APPARENTLY DEVELOPED.
I ALSO SHIP DAVID/GUITARIST (WHO WAS ALSO UNF). THIS MAY OR MAY NOT STEM FROM MY APPARENT LOVE OF GUITARISTS. IDC.
tl;dr? CUTE CHRISTMAS SHOW IS CUTE AND FUNNY. AND PEOPLE CAN SANG. IF YOU HAVE SOME SPARE CHANGE AND THE NIGHT OFF, GO SEE IT. IT'S WORTH IT.
OKAY THAT TOOK ME LIKE 2 HOURS TO WRITE, THIS WAS EXHAUSTING.