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Post by corpus on Jul 13, 2015 11:14:42 GMT -5
BEYOND EXCITED!!
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Post by MiniMusic on Jul 13, 2015 11:49:55 GMT -5
Is your show tonight??? So happy for you!
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Post by corpus on Jul 13, 2015 14:10:23 GMT -5
Thursday night at Radio City in NYC :)
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Post by MiniMusic on Jul 13, 2015 14:16:51 GMT -5
Thursday night at Radio City in NYC :) Damn that's my night too! Guess I didn't win lol... *takes back my congratulations to you* haha just kidding have fun!!!! That's gonna be so crazy omg
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Post by corpus on Jul 13, 2015 14:19:31 GMT -5
I actually signed up for the Friday show and I signed up my co-worker for the Thursday show and she won! Unreal
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Post by Revelry on Jul 13, 2015 14:55:27 GMT -5
Thursday night at Radio City in NYC :) Damn that's my night too! Guess I didn't win lol... *takes back my congratulations to you* haha just kidding have fun!!!! That's gonna be so crazy omg I'll be there Thursday too! Pulse represent :)
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Post by MiniMusic on Jul 13, 2015 14:59:25 GMT -5
Aye NY for life!
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Post by Focus on Jul 13, 2015 17:37:39 GMT -5
Amazing video of Bang Bang from the first show. Kelly's back ground singers are so good and when Kelly comes out at the end she just blows the roof off the joint. She's such a powerhouse, amazing. This youtube user has a lot of really good videos from Hershey: www.youtube.com/user/KCfan02/videos
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Post by karatekid on Jul 14, 2015 7:40:55 GMT -5
Would any fans know the order of the opening acts? I'm sure I could look it up but it felt easier to ask you guys. I'm going to the show Thursday at Radio City but I work til 6 and the earliest I'd get there is like 7:30 maybe and I really wanna see Pentatonix (mostly for Scomiche (Superfruit)) haha. Thanks in advance, I definitely lurk more than I ever post but you guys are great!
EDIT: just watched that Bang Bang video... Why Kelly why? VELVET PANTS! the whole outfit... Might just skip the concert now after seeing that get up.
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Post by Revelry on Jul 14, 2015 8:21:24 GMT -5
I seriously hope she burns all these outfits by Thursday night. She should be wearing something like that nice, white summery dress from the iheartradio pool party.
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Post by mikeyj7 on Jul 14, 2015 9:03:08 GMT -5
Seeing her in Holmdel tonight! So pumped. Bummed not to go to one of the Radio City shows, as her show there in 2012 remains one of my all-time highlights of seeing ANY artist live. She just killed that night. But I'm going to be out of town Thurs/Fri, so this was the closest stop to me this time.
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Post by Unhinged on Jul 14, 2015 10:47:09 GMT -5
I agree with the outfit comments. They are atrocious!. Ick. I know you don't go to a Kelly concert to see what she's wearing, but come on Kelly. I guess she wanted some bright colors and well, she got 'em!
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Post by bigb0882 on Jul 14, 2015 12:26:59 GMT -5
The outfit from the Bang Bang video is the worst thing I've ever seen Kelly wear and that really says something. Poor girl. She must have really odd tastes and just doesn't care. I guess that's all good but doesn't she know that she could surely find something more comfortable?!
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Post by BDGeek on Jul 14, 2015 12:59:42 GMT -5
We knew what we were getting into...
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Post by Jack on Jul 14, 2015 14:50:04 GMT -5
Piece By Piece Tour Impressions... I'm not surprised that the crowds are impressive. There were many doomsday sayers, but I pointed out the promoters and vendors have a lot better of idea of what is and will sell than we do, and if the tour was going ahead as full steam as it clearly was, there were few actual worries. Her lowest selling album with some of her biggest venues did seem a little worrying I suppose, but I think that with the greatest hits and Christmas album she may have transitioned herself into much more of a touring/legacy act. There are many people that won't shell out for a new album of chart baiting songs, but will happily take their girlfriends/Mum etc. out to see Kelly Clarkson sing Since U Been Gone etc. Which is why I think there are too many songs from Piece By Piece on the setlist. I am actually a big fan of catering to one's current album, and offering fans and attendees a glimpse of your most recent work (and not belaboring on a gluttony of worn out material). That said from night one, eight new songs is too much...especially considering some of them offered muddling, fairly average numbers (Nostalgic/Dance For Me/War Paint). Given how she's performed Tightrope for example, I can see why she does it...she wrote it, she offers something different from the album, and her voice soars. I can't see that same argument for those aforementioned parenthetical PXP songs. I don't think the setlist is far off, and the second night was an improvement. Dark Side has no place on the setlist for instance. I appreciate the need for medleys at this point in her career, but I think she is doing it with the wrong songs. Shoe-horning two of her biggest hits that have nothing to do with each other thematically or lyrically, along with her lone country smash, is clumsy to me. She should have stripped down Walk Away/Behind These Hazel Eyes/Never Again into a medley of woman scorned/kiss of tracks. Serving the same purpose and breathing new life into old songs, in my opinion. As for the covers. I'm disappointed. This is the girl who would pepper her earlier tours with Annie Lennox, Patty Griffin and Marc Broussard covers. I get she's a Mom now and her kids probably have an impact on what she's listening to, but am I really expected to believe she couldn't have come up with anything more inspired than Uptown Funk and Bang Bang? The benefit of getting to the point Kelly has gotten to, is you have a massive catalogue of songs, the staples of which can act as the fist in the air, danceable ones that everybody knows (which is surely the thinking behind including UF and BB) and you can then be cooler/more alternative with your covers and album track choices. Given what I've read reaction-wise of what people like, don't and what else people want, below is what I think would be an upgraded version of the setlist (without having retweeked it too much). 1. Take You High 2. My Life Would Suck Without You 3. Catch My Breath 4. Mr Know It All 5. Don’t You Wanna Stay? 6. Already Gone 7. [Fan Request+Opening Mic] 8. Because Of You 9. Piece By Piece 10. Invincible 11. Breakaway 12. [Revolving Piece By Piece Song] 13. Never Again/BTHE/Walk Away (Piano Versions Medley) 14. Miss Independent 15. Since U Been Gone 16. Good Goes The Bye Encore: 17. Sober 18. Stronger 19. Heartbeat Song The above list features six Piece By Piece songs, pays service to her biggest hits, while keeping the features that people like about her shows these last few years. A revolving Piece By Piece song would mean each show gets an additional something special about it, and she could cover the width and breadth of her new record. As for the clothes...they are horrifying. Having said that, I do prefer them to the AIEW gets ups, but only because there is a least an effort behind them. However, they do not look flattering, stylish or comfortable. Age is surely going to make someone a different performer, but a lot of the videos I've seen she really does...plod around, saying "come on!" a lot. Age, weight, outfits will have varying effects, but the outfits really are the easiest to change there. Jazmine Sullivan, who is maybe a little thinner than her, dresses exactly as she should in my opinion. See below. Definitely going to try and catch the show, and vocally it's a good start. Looking forward to see how she gets on from here, since it's usually up from the start.
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Post by Krim on Jul 14, 2015 15:27:36 GMT -5
After years of complaining there were never enough album tracks from the album she was supposed to promote, this setlist is gold. I remember back at my Stronger/AIEW tour dates how it was all just basically her hits plus the singles from the current album and it felt repetitive. Both of those tour dates blended together for me because it sounded the same imo. If I wanted to hear her hits, I would gladly buy those concert tickets, but this is the PxP tour, and I expect to hear PxP songs. If that mock setlist was her actual setlist I wouldn't have bought my ticket. This tour just feels like an album promo party, which is great! Her setlists have felt like a rehash of the same songs since 2008, and we've had what, three albums since then? Her covers are fine. They modernize the show. The "better" covers are reserved for the fan requests, which usually sound great. This tour is finally great, and it feels like they're finally pandering to the fans instead of doing the same thing over and over.
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Post by Revelry on Jul 14, 2015 15:33:13 GMT -5
^That's a pretty perfect setlist and more along the lines of what I thought we would get.
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Post by Peterawr on Jul 14, 2015 16:45:07 GMT -5
I wish she would end the regular set with "Take You High" and rise up off the stage like the true angel she is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 16:53:52 GMT -5
I actually enjoyed the Stronger tour setlist though I was fortunate to be at one of the shows where she did Let Me Down. That was killer! The only songs I'm bummed that she isn't touching are Already Gone, Catch My Breath, Someone and maybe Never Again. I am pleasantly surprised that she is doing Dark Side still.
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Post by Jack on Jul 14, 2015 17:24:09 GMT -5
After years of complaining there were never enough album tracks from the album she was supposed to promote, this setlist is gold. I remember back at my Stronger/AIEW tour dates how it was all just basically her hits plus the singles from the current album and it felt repetitive. Both of those tour dates blended together for me because it sounded the same imo. If I wanted to hear her hits, I would gladly buy those concert tickets, but this is the PxP tour, and I expect to hear PxP songs. If that mock setlist was her actual setlist I wouldn't have bought my ticket. This tour just feels like an album promo party, which is great! Her setlists have felt like a rehash of the same songs since 2008, and we've had what, three albums since then? Her covers are fine. They modernize the show. The "better" covers are reserved for the fan requests, which usually sound great. This tour is finally great, and it feels like they're finally pandering to the fans instead of doing the same thing over and over. Hold up, so because she in theory would perform two less songs from Piece By Piece, you would no longer buy a ticket for the show, even though you're a fan? If it were to feature that setlist, you would hear songs from Piece By Piece as a third of the setlist would be songs from it. If it were to feature that setlist, it would have three of her 'classic' songs present in a medley but not in a way many or anybody has ever heard them before. If it were to feature that setlist, it would hardly be a rehash of her 2008 setlist since it would feature six songs released in 2015 as well as Catch My Breath and Don't You Wanna Stay. If it were to feature that setlist, the show wouldn't include two covers you described as around about serviceable, that practically every successful recording artist in the world has taken a stab at. You do make a point, the "better" slot for covers of less known or cooler people have so far gone to Imagine Dragons and Tori Kelly. Edgy stuff. If it were to feature that setlist it wouldn't shoehorn her biggest worldwide hit, about a dysfunctional family, next to a song about wanting a lover to stay, next to a song about broadening your horizons and freeing your young self. If they're "finally" pandering to the fans, then where are the songs from the "fan" favorite My December? Sober must be her most critically acclaimed and most fan referenced song in her catalogue. But you're telling me this is the end of pitching to the mass consumer and "finally making her tour" great because she's singing such career defining songs as War Paint? Give me a break. I don't see how it can be both an "album promo party" (soon more people will have seen this show than have bought the album domestically, so maybe they ARE just trying to shift albums which sounds cynical not artistic to me) and a fan serving exercise. If Piece By Piece the tour were "just the hits and the singles" she would be performing two songs from it. I suggested she perform three times that, so let's stop reaching. She isn't even performing two of the songs her and the label tried to get everyone to buy the album with in the first place, but I should be doing back flips because she's performing filler from the second half of the record? She should have had album promo parties. In the form of well organized album promo, where she performed tracks from it online and on television. As it was, she barely performed more than a song from it till four months into the album cycle. No sessions, no acoustic versions, nada. Artists need hits to draw huge crowds, and go on tours long into their careers. Now Kelly has finally got back to an impressive touring level were she gets ten thousand plus crowds, it's the time to scrap the reasons she got there, play scores of material a great deal of the crowds have never heard, and see if she can make sure they don't come back the next time? The tour as it stands includes filler, and marginalizes massive hits. It's not a bad setlist, it could just use some tweaking (Which it already has one show in, so it can't have finally been as great to their team as you seem to think it was).And you pretending that I radicalized it by swapping around a few things is just irritating.
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Post by getonthebus on Jul 14, 2015 18:03:09 GMT -5
Fan request tonight is {Spoiler}Love Me Like You Do . Perched for that big belt that's coming.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 19:22:49 GMT -5
I know it's early yet, but if the fan requests we've gotten so far are any indication it looks like she is strongly veering toward choosing the 'current' requests rather than lesser known songs. Makes sense, I would expect most people to want to hear her take on familiar songs. But because of that, I also wish she had chosen something more unique than Bang Bang or UF as her every-night covers; I'm sure both of those songs would have been requested at some point. And the UF/WA mashup just doesn't flow well for me; they make sense because of the horn arrangement but lyrically those two songs don't match at all. I think that's the only part of the concert (from what I've seen) that I just don't like, but even then I at least appreciate the effort to be creative about it by mashing the song up with one of her own songs. Just wish it was a better mashup.
With that said, Kelly is never going to be able to please everyone with her sets from here on out; it will be too much of one thing or not enough of another. Trust me, when you are actually at a KC concert you don't notice what you think you dislike and these things end up not mattering. MLWSWY is my least favorite single of hers ever and I dislike IFY just as much, but when I saw her I found myself sucked in and singing along with her and the rest of the audience on both songs. I also don't like fun., but Kelly made Tonight Is Young feel like a totally different song altogether. Simply put, when it comes to being in the presence of everyone's favorite national treasure, resistance is futile.
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Post by Jack on Jul 14, 2015 19:36:45 GMT -5
I know it's early yet, but if the fan requests we've gotten so far are any indication it looks like she is strongly veering toward choosing the 'current' requests rather than lesser known songs. Makes sense, I would expect most people to want to hear her take on familiar songs. But because of that, I also wish she had chosen something more unique than Bang Bang or UF as her every-night covers; I'm sure both of those songs would have been requested at some point. And the UF/WA mashup just doesn't flow well for me; they make sense because of the horn arrangement but lyrically those two songs don't match at all. I think that's the only part of the concert (from what I've seen) that I just don't like, but even then I at least appreciate the effort to be creative about it by mashing the song up with one of her own songs. Just wish it was a better mashup. Definitely this. Fan request is looking like "Ryan Seacrest's Kiss playlist" so far.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 19:47:02 GMT -5
So, I decided to go to her concert this thursday at Radio City Music Hall even though I don't love the latest album. What is the set list?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 20:22:58 GMT -5
So, I decided to go to her concert this thursday at Radio City Music Hall even though I don't love the latest album. What is the set list? Dance With Me My Life Would Suck Without You Mr Know it All Dark Side Nostalgic [open Mic][fan request]Invincible Because of You/Don't You Wanna Stay/Breakaway (medley) Tightrope Piece By Piece Take You High Behind These Hazel Eyes War Paint Stronger Heartbeat Song (with Pentatonix singing background) Walk Away/Uptown Funk (medley) Encore: Bang Bang SUBG MI...I think? they were running short on time night 1 b/c the show started 30 minutes late, so shedidn't gt to do it. But I think it is supposed to be the closer.
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Post by Illusions on Jul 14, 2015 20:35:47 GMT -5
The first two shows had different setlists. She was supposed to perform Second Wind at the last show, but it was cut due to time or something.
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Post by nightshade on Jul 14, 2015 21:27:03 GMT -5
After years of complaining there were never enough album tracks from the album she was supposed to promote, this setlist is gold. I remember back at my Stronger/AIEW tour dates how it was all just basically her hits plus the singles from the current album and it felt repetitive. Both of those tour dates blended together for me because it sounded the same imo. If I wanted to hear her hits, I would gladly buy those concert tickets, but this is the PxP tour, and I expect to hear PxP songs. If that mock setlist was her actual setlist I wouldn't have bought my ticket. This tour just feels like an album promo party, which is great! Her setlists have felt like a rehash of the same songs since 2008, and we've had what, three albums since then? Her covers are fine. They modernize the show. The "better" covers are reserved for the fan requests, which usually sound great. This tour is finally great, and it feels like they're finally pandering to the fans instead of doing the same thing over and over. THIS. It is the Piece By Piece tour. end of.
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Post by Illusions on Jul 14, 2015 21:29:24 GMT -5
Tonight's setlist:
Dance With Me My Life Would Suck Without You Dark Side Second Wind Mr. Know It All Nostalgic Open Mic Night (Up - Olly Murs) Fan Request (Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding) Invincible Medley (Because of You - Don't You Wanna Stay - Breakaway) Tightrope Piece by Piece Take You High (When Doves Cry) Behind These Hazel Eyes War Paint Stronger Heartbeat Song Walk Away/Uptown Funk Bang Bang Miss Independent Since U Been Gone
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Post by mikeyj7 on Jul 14, 2015 22:26:47 GMT -5
On the parkway headed back to Brooklyn. My goodness. She was in extraordinary voice tonight. Everything was exceptional. Huge crowd. Second best show I've seen from her.
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Post by Mike on Jul 15, 2015 0:00:24 GMT -5
I need video of her singing "Second Wind" ASAP. Pleeeeeease let that be on the setlist for Friday!
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