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So okay I went to ~MUSIKFEST~ today. For those of you who aren't awesome, Musikfest is an annual music festival (derp) held in the little town of Bethlehem. Like, the entire town. Traffic shuts down, people walk the streets, there are kiosks and street performers and deep fried things everywhere. If there's one thing I'm going to miss about PA it's this.
Now normally, we just go to Musikfest with no goal in mind, and just wander around, maybe shop, maybe see Cast In Bronze (WHO I MISSED THIS YEAR, SOB), watch an unknown band or two, and generally have a great time. But this year, this year I HAD A MISSION. A MISSION OF SPARKLES. BECAUSE GLAMNATION WAS HEADED FOR BETHLEHEM.
Mac, Kelly, and I got there maybe a bit after 4, and wandered around a bit, saw some kiosks, GOT STALKED BY RYAN DAILEY JESUS TINY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS GO AWAY I AM NOT IN YOUR SCHOOL ANY LONGER, and then went to go see ~THE ARROGANT WORMS~.
In case you are a loser, here are The Arrogant Worms.
Except that a) the setup wasn't quite as epic (THREE DUDES, THREE GUITARS, WHEE) and b) I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEM PLAY THIS SONG, SOB.
They did do this one though.
AND ONE ABOUT RIPPY THE GATOR, AND OH MY GOD I WISH THERE WAS A LIVE VIDEO OF THIS BECAUSE THE WHOLE SETUP IS THE MOST HILARIOUS THING IN THE WORLD. They're like, "We wanted to write a children's song! And there are two important elements of a children's song. The first one is a cute animal. But all the other cute animals already had songs about them, so we had to dig deep and finally decided on a man-eating alligator. The second is a singalong chorus with a hand motion for the audience to do, so everyone make jaws and CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP at the chorus." OR SOMETHING. IT WAS HILARIOUS. I LOVE CANADA.
And then halfway through a train passed through and made train noises, and they just totally played it up and talked about how it was shipping Pennsylvania plastic palm trees or something I don't even know.
AND THEY APOLOGIZED FOR JUSTIN BIEBER. And these guys, I can't even.
THE POINT IS after these morons took a break it was time to go to RIVER PLACE or whatever the hell the stage was called, because the doors were opening. Sorry, Canada, sparkles are more important. The line was about a million miles long but there were people in tour t-shirts and other sparkly homemade t-shirts and people with glowsticks and it was kind of great.
So after about A MILLION YEARS of waiting in line we finally got in, set down a blanket (we had lawn seats, meaning WE COULD SEE NOTHING but at least there were screens?) and then waited for a while. I went off to go get a tour t-shirt (I'M WEARING A BIG SPARKLY A ON MY CHEST NOW, WOO) and there were amazing smoothies and some bad 80s music played through the speakers. It was awesome.
Then, suddenly, ALLISON! All I could really see of her was a little red head, because it was still to early for the screens to start working, sigh. But. Allison you are a darling dear and I want to take you home in my pocket. She only had like six songs and I think they were all covers? Or some of them were? But ALLISON YOUR ENERGETIC LITTLE FACE. She is such a rock star, I can't even. And there were duets with Orianthi! WHO WAS UP AFTER ALLISON AND OH MY GOD.
ORIANTHI GUITAR GODDESS I want to take you home too, you darling little Australian thing. No seriously her little accent, it is the cutest thing. And then she goes and SHREDS YOUR FACE OFF, AAAAA ORIANTHI. And lololol in Shut Up And Kiss Me when she gets the audience to tell her to shut up. I died.
But seriously, so much fucking talent right there, with her ten minute guitar solos and her belting and her GUITAR SOLOS I WILL NEVER GET OVER HER GUITAR SOLOS. Should keep an eye on her. And everyone should write her with Allison because seriously, they were such rockstar girlfriends in Don't Waste the Pretty, it's adorable.
Then, teching! So much teching! Jesus Christ Adam! No seriously like, it must've been 45 minutes between Orianthi and Adam, because I GUESS IT JUST TAKES THAT LONG TO PUT ON TWELVE POUNDS OF EYELINER AND RHINESTONES? I couldn't even see the actual techs, which made me so sad you guys, you have no idea.
It got to the point where every time a bad 80s song ended, people would start cheering. And then the next song would play and you'd hear this group "AAAAUGH." It was kind of hilarious. Hilariously frustrating.
BUT FINALLY the lights went all ~WHOOSH~ and the screen in the back of the stage was all ~WOOO ADAM~ and then it played some really awesome remix of For Your Entertainment. I just wish he'd actually SUNG THAT SONG at the concert, but eh, ANYWAY, OUT COMES ADAM.
OUT COMES ADAM IN A LONG COAT AND A PURPLE TOP HAT WITH FEATHERS ON IT. SINGING WHAT I THINK WAS VOODOO?
I just saw an Adam-shaped thing on stage the whole time, which was very depressing, but HE WAS PRETTY EASY TO SEE, WHAT WITH THE FEATHERS.
Aaaand Fever happened *____* FEVER OH MY GOD. THERE WERE MAKEOUTS. Which were less makeouts and less HI MY NAME IS ADAM LAMBERT AND I'M GOING TO SHOVE MY TONGUE IN MY BASSIST'S MOUTH NOW, YAAAAY. But still, oh my god. And then he did this bizarro low note at the end, and hi, my voice kink, it is REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS. Like, I had to stop singing along to fucking gulp during some of these songs, guhhhhh Adam.
...Right, anyway. Fever happened, and then I think Aftermath happened? I cannot remember the actual order for the life of me. What I do remember is that he didn't really yammer between songs, just a few lines every few songs about LOVE and how LOVE IS AWESOME and how RELATIONSHIPS CAN TEAR OUT YOUR HEART AND STOMP ALL OVER IT BUT WITHOUT HEARTBREAK WE WOULDN'T KNOW ~TRUE LOVE~ AND OH MY GOD ADAM, ADAM YOUR DARLING SELF I CAN'T EVEN TAKE YOU.
NO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER FEVER, RING OF FIRE HAPPENED. AND IT WAS GREAT. ADAM MAY I MARRY YOUR VOICE. NO, REALLY. I WILL TAKE CARE OF IT EVEN THROUGH OLD AGE AND SICKNESS.
...Right.
WWFM happened, and it was acoustic, so it was kind of okay! And Kelly and Mac sang the Key of Awesome version along, which kind of killed me dead. IT REALLY IS NOT A GOOD SONG, YOU GUYS, WHY DOES IT GET RADIO PLAY. INSTEAD OF LIKE, STRUT.
holy shit strut *_______________* OKAY SO, WHEN STRUT HAPPENED, ADAM CAME OUT IN A DIFFERENT COSTUME. He changed costumes like every song, it was hilarious, but when Strut happened he came out in like, this pimp coat and a cane, and Adam with a cane should not be as hot as it is but every time he swung it I was just kind of hhgghgnngnghggg. ADAM I'M SUPPOSED TO LIKE YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC OR SOMETHING.
Aaand I think this happened before Strut but whatever because SOAKED. OKAY, I KNOW EGGO TOLD ME SOAKED WAS LAME UNTIL YOU SEE IT LIVE, AND I KIND OF DIDN'T BELIEVE HER, BUT AAAAA SOAKED. PIANO. A CAPELLA VERSE. ADAAAAAAAAM.
And uhhhh he probably talked about love after that AND MUSIC AGAIN HAPPENED? I FORGET I KNOW IT WAS THERE SOMEWHERE. And some other acoustic song, but I can't remember what it was. The fun thing about acoustics though was that he would always sit on these steps in the middle, and look all artsy, and it was kind of darling.
And then there was a speech about love AND THEN THE OPENING RIFF TO IF I HAD YOU STARTED PLAYING, AND EVERYONE STARTED CHEERING, and then Adam introduced his whole band. His awesome key player, his awesome drummer, his awesome bassist ~TOMMY JOE RATLIFF WOOOOO~ and his AWESOME AWESOME GUITARIST, OH MY GOD THE SHREDDING THAT OCCURRED AT THIS CONCERT WAS SO IMMENSE.
Also his outfit that he wore for like, this song and I think a few others that I can't remember, was just HI I'M ADAM LAMBERT AND I'M GOING TO SHOW OFF MY ARMS AND WEAR TIGHT LEATHER and I'm just like OKAY HI ADAM'S ARMS HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS EVENING *___* still want solid proof of nipple piercings though, seriously Adam just stop wearing shirts
AND THEN IF I HAD YOU HAPPENED AND THERE WERE LASERS. No really, the lighting at this show was amazing. I mean, any show that starts out with RAINBOW LASER LIGHTS is going to steal my heart. And all the stage lights only seemed to believe in different shades of purple. And sometimes red. Maybe. But mostly purple.
So then before the last chorus of IIHY he introduced his dancers! Eeee his dancers, his dancers were so great, and they did their own little flaily dance as he introduced each one, and it was darling. And then he had the audience sing a few lines and then the song was over and there was CHEERING and a bunch of people started leaving. BUT NOT US. Because then there was an encore.
...And I have no idea what the encore song was called. But it was great! And then it was all over and he just gave out this little giggle oh my god you guys, you guys musicians having fun is kind of my FAVORITE THING. He was all smiles and happy and glitter and ADAM KEEP DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, WE WILL LOVE YOU FOR IT. ALL THIS LOVE. JUST. SO MUCH OF IT EVERYWHERE.
And then the concert was over, and the line to get out was even more ridiculous than the line to get in, because it was just TINY LITTLE WALKWAY PACKED WITH SPARKLY PEOPLE. Which sounds like a great concept, but, no, I wanted to go home, my feet were hurting. And then we ended up getting stopped by our high school choir director, which was kind of hilarious, especially when she was all "I COULD'VE DONE WITHOUT THE BOYKISSING :|" and I was like "BUT THAT WAS THE BEST PART." (besides, you know, everything) And I also got stopped by some chick asking to borrow my cell phone to find her friend, which was double hilarious.
Aaaaand on the way out we passed by some kind of little tiny mob of people with signs. Well, only two signs, one was big and tl;dr and one was just "HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN." So I'm just like "dude, not cool," and I probably shouldn't have done this since theoretically you're supposed to ignore these morons unless you have a hilarious counter-protest sign? But I shouted "HATE WON'T SAVE YOU" and felt kind of badass. Even after the dudes standing next to us were all "WHOA, HEY, WHOA."
And then we finally made it to the parking garage and high-tailed it out of there.
And.
And oh my god I want to go to every concert ever, but next time get further up, because as much as I love hanging out in the back with bored husbands who can't believe they let their wives drag them to an Adam Lambert concert, being able to jump around with people who are also jumping around is kind of MY FAVORITE THING. Interacting with music, you guys, everyone should do it.
SO THAT WAS MY NIGHT \o/
MORE CONCERTS oh god I am becoming such a junkie.
So okay I went to ~MUSIKFEST~ today. For those of you who aren't awesome, Musikfest is an annual music festival (derp) held in the little town of Bethlehem. Like, the entire town. Traffic shuts down, people walk the streets, there are kiosks and street performers and deep fried things everywhere. If there's one thing I'm going to miss about PA it's this.
Now normally, we just go to Musikfest with no goal in mind, and just wander around, maybe shop, maybe see Cast In Bronze (WHO I MISSED THIS YEAR, SOB), watch an unknown band or two, and generally have a great time. But this year, this year I HAD A MISSION. A MISSION OF SPARKLES. BECAUSE GLAMNATION WAS HEADED FOR BETHLEHEM.
Mac, Kelly, and I got there maybe a bit after 4, and wandered around a bit, saw some kiosks, GOT STALKED BY RYAN DAILEY JESUS TINY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS GO AWAY I AM NOT IN YOUR SCHOOL ANY LONGER, and then went to go see ~THE ARROGANT WORMS~.
In case you are a loser, here are The Arrogant Worms.
Click to viewExcept that a) the setup wasn't quite as epic (THREE DUDES, THREE GUITARS, WHEE) and b) I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEM PLAY THIS SONG, SOB.
They did do this one though.
AND ONE ABOUT RIPPY THE GATOR, AND OH MY GOD I WISH THERE WAS A LIVE VIDEO OF THIS BECAUSE THE WHOLE SETUP IS THE MOST HILARIOUS THING IN THE WORLD. They're like, "We wanted to write a children's song! And there are two important elements of a children's song. The first one is a cute animal. But all the other cute animals already had songs about them, so we had to dig deep and finally decided on a man-eating alligator. The second is a singalong chorus with a hand motion for the audience to do, so everyone make jaws and CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP at the chorus." OR SOMETHING. IT WAS HILARIOUS. I LOVE CANADA.
And then halfway through a train passed through and made train noises, and they just totally played it up and talked about how it was shipping Pennsylvania plastic palm trees or something I don't even know.
AND THEY APOLOGIZED FOR JUSTIN BIEBER. And these guys, I can't even.
THE POINT IS after these morons took a break it was time to go to RIVER PLACE or whatever the hell the stage was called, because the doors were opening. Sorry, Canada, sparkles are more important. The line was about a million miles long but there were people in tour t-shirts and other sparkly homemade t-shirts and people with glowsticks and it was kind of great.
So after about A MILLION YEARS of waiting in line we finally got in, set down a blanket (we had lawn seats, meaning WE COULD SEE NOTHING but at least there were screens?) and then waited for a while. I went off to go get a tour t-shirt (I'M WEARING A BIG SPARKLY A ON MY CHEST NOW, WOO) and there were amazing smoothies and some bad 80s music played through the speakers. It was awesome.
Then, suddenly, ALLISON! All I could really see of her was a little red head, because it was still to early for the screens to start working, sigh. But. Allison you are a darling dear and I want to take you home in my pocket. She only had like six songs and I think they were all covers? Or some of them were? But ALLISON YOUR ENERGETIC LITTLE FACE. She is such a rock star, I can't even. And there were duets with Orianthi! WHO WAS UP AFTER ALLISON AND OH MY GOD.
ORIANTHI GUITAR GODDESS I want to take you home too, you darling little Australian thing. No seriously her little accent, it is the cutest thing. And then she goes and SHREDS YOUR FACE OFF, AAAAA ORIANTHI. And lololol in Shut Up And Kiss Me when she gets the audience to tell her to shut up. I died.
But seriously, so much fucking talent right there, with her ten minute guitar solos and her belting and her GUITAR SOLOS I WILL NEVER GET OVER HER GUITAR SOLOS. Should keep an eye on her. And everyone should write her with Allison because seriously, they were such rockstar girlfriends in Don't Waste the Pretty, it's adorable.
Then, teching! So much teching! Jesus Christ Adam! No seriously like, it must've been 45 minutes between Orianthi and Adam, because I GUESS IT JUST TAKES THAT LONG TO PUT ON TWELVE POUNDS OF EYELINER AND RHINESTONES? I couldn't even see the actual techs, which made me so sad you guys, you have no idea.
It got to the point where every time a bad 80s song ended, people would start cheering. And then the next song would play and you'd hear this group "AAAAUGH." It was kind of hilarious. Hilariously frustrating.
BUT FINALLY the lights went all ~WHOOSH~ and the screen in the back of the stage was all ~WOOO ADAM~ and then it played some really awesome remix of For Your Entertainment. I just wish he'd actually SUNG THAT SONG at the concert, but eh, ANYWAY, OUT COMES ADAM.
OUT COMES ADAM IN A LONG COAT AND A PURPLE TOP HAT WITH FEATHERS ON IT. SINGING WHAT I THINK WAS VOODOO?
I just saw an Adam-shaped thing on stage the whole time, which was very depressing, but HE WAS PRETTY EASY TO SEE, WHAT WITH THE FEATHERS.
Aaaand Fever happened *____* FEVER OH MY GOD. THERE WERE MAKEOUTS. Which were less makeouts and less HI MY NAME IS ADAM LAMBERT AND I'M GOING TO SHOVE MY TONGUE IN MY BASSIST'S MOUTH NOW, YAAAAY. But still, oh my god. And then he did this bizarro low note at the end, and hi, my voice kink, it is REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS. Like, I had to stop singing along to fucking gulp during some of these songs, guhhhhh Adam.
...Right, anyway. Fever happened, and then I think Aftermath happened? I cannot remember the actual order for the life of me. What I do remember is that he didn't really yammer between songs, just a few lines every few songs about LOVE and how LOVE IS AWESOME and how RELATIONSHIPS CAN TEAR OUT YOUR HEART AND STOMP ALL OVER IT BUT WITHOUT HEARTBREAK WE WOULDN'T KNOW ~TRUE LOVE~ AND OH MY GOD ADAM, ADAM YOUR DARLING SELF I CAN'T EVEN TAKE YOU.
NO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER FEVER, RING OF FIRE HAPPENED. AND IT WAS GREAT. ADAM MAY I MARRY YOUR VOICE. NO, REALLY. I WILL TAKE CARE OF IT EVEN THROUGH OLD AGE AND SICKNESS.
...Right.
WWFM happened, and it was acoustic, so it was kind of okay! And Kelly and Mac sang the Key of Awesome version along, which kind of killed me dead. IT REALLY IS NOT A GOOD SONG, YOU GUYS, WHY DOES IT GET RADIO PLAY. INSTEAD OF LIKE, STRUT.
holy shit strut *_______________* OKAY SO, WHEN STRUT HAPPENED, ADAM CAME OUT IN A DIFFERENT COSTUME. He changed costumes like every song, it was hilarious, but when Strut happened he came out in like, this pimp coat and a cane, and Adam with a cane should not be as hot as it is but every time he swung it I was just kind of hhgghgnngnghggg. ADAM I'M SUPPOSED TO LIKE YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC OR SOMETHING.
Aaand I think this happened before Strut but whatever because SOAKED. OKAY, I KNOW EGGO TOLD ME SOAKED WAS LAME UNTIL YOU SEE IT LIVE, AND I KIND OF DIDN'T BELIEVE HER, BUT AAAAA SOAKED. PIANO. A CAPELLA VERSE. ADAAAAAAAAM.
And uhhhh he probably talked about love after that AND MUSIC AGAIN HAPPENED? I FORGET I KNOW IT WAS THERE SOMEWHERE. And some other acoustic song, but I can't remember what it was. The fun thing about acoustics though was that he would always sit on these steps in the middle, and look all artsy, and it was kind of darling.
And then there was a speech about love AND THEN THE OPENING RIFF TO IF I HAD YOU STARTED PLAYING, AND EVERYONE STARTED CHEERING, and then Adam introduced his whole band. His awesome key player, his awesome drummer, his awesome bassist ~TOMMY JOE RATLIFF WOOOOO~ and his AWESOME AWESOME GUITARIST, OH MY GOD THE SHREDDING THAT OCCURRED AT THIS CONCERT WAS SO IMMENSE.
Also his outfit that he wore for like, this song and I think a few others that I can't remember, was just HI I'M ADAM LAMBERT AND I'M GOING TO SHOW OFF MY ARMS AND WEAR TIGHT LEATHER and I'm just like OKAY HI ADAM'S ARMS HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS EVENING *___* still want solid proof of nipple piercings though, seriously Adam just stop wearing shirts
AND THEN IF I HAD YOU HAPPENED AND THERE WERE LASERS. No really, the lighting at this show was amazing. I mean, any show that starts out with RAINBOW LASER LIGHTS is going to steal my heart. And all the stage lights only seemed to believe in different shades of purple. And sometimes red. Maybe. But mostly purple.
So then before the last chorus of IIHY he introduced his dancers! Eeee his dancers, his dancers were so great, and they did their own little flaily dance as he introduced each one, and it was darling. And then he had the audience sing a few lines and then the song was over and there was CHEERING and a bunch of people started leaving. BUT NOT US. Because then there was an encore.
...And I have no idea what the encore song was called. But it was great! And then it was all over and he just gave out this little giggle oh my god you guys, you guys musicians having fun is kind of my FAVORITE THING. He was all smiles and happy and glitter and ADAM KEEP DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, WE WILL LOVE YOU FOR IT. ALL THIS LOVE. JUST. SO MUCH OF IT EVERYWHERE.
And then the concert was over, and the line to get out was even more ridiculous than the line to get in, because it was just TINY LITTLE WALKWAY PACKED WITH SPARKLY PEOPLE. Which sounds like a great concept, but, no, I wanted to go home, my feet were hurting. And then we ended up getting stopped by our high school choir director, which was kind of hilarious, especially when she was all "I COULD'VE DONE WITHOUT THE BOYKISSING :|" and I was like "BUT THAT WAS THE BEST PART." (besides, you know, everything) And I also got stopped by some chick asking to borrow my cell phone to find her friend, which was double hilarious.
Aaaaand on the way out we passed by some kind of little tiny mob of people with signs. Well, only two signs, one was big and tl;dr and one was just "HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN." So I'm just like "dude, not cool," and I probably shouldn't have done this since theoretically you're supposed to ignore these morons unless you have a hilarious counter-protest sign? But I shouted "HATE WON'T SAVE YOU" and felt kind of badass. Even after the dudes standing next to us were all "WHOA, HEY, WHOA."
And then we finally made it to the parking garage and high-tailed it out of there.
And.
And oh my god I want to go to every concert ever, but next time get further up, because as much as I love hanging out in the back with bored husbands who can't believe they let their wives drag them to an Adam Lambert concert, being able to jump around with people who are also jumping around is kind of MY FAVORITE THING. Interacting with music, you guys, everyone should do it.
SO THAT WAS MY NIGHT \o/