When I first heard that P!nk was coming to my town last year, I couldn't believe it. It's one thing for her to continue to tour, especially now that she has assumed motherhood and has two adorable children that surely keep her very busy. But if you are unfamiliar with P!nk, she is an extremely talented vocal artist/arielist who incorporates dance, ariel silks, and a variety of acrobatic stunts in her songs. I can only imagine what difficulty and challenge this would present after giving birth twice!! I knew it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I fought back and forth whether I could budget her very expensive tickets.
She has solidly held one of my top 5 idol/role model positions since I was a young teenager. Her lyrics are emotionally deafening; her voice is raw and brings tears to my eyes almost every time. When I was at a very low place, it was one of P!nk's songs, shared with me by a close friend, that provided the first flicker of hope in my depressed mind. Her art helped me cope, understand, and connect to my emotions in a healthy way. Plus, if you STILL haven't taken a moment to look her up...hit Google now...I'll wait...
ISN'T SHE HOT?
If your answer is anything other than a wholehearted YES then please, do me the favor and stop here.
Well, glad you stuck around. You have good taste.
Anyways, P!nk was coming to Oklahoma in God-knows how long, and I just HAD to see her. Problem was, I couldn't convince any of my equally poor friends to attend with me. I kept putting it off, convincing myself I didn't need to make the poor financial decision to drop over a hundred dollars on a concert.
The day before the concert, my girlfriend's brother in law and his sister called me and said, "want to go to the P!nk concert with us?" At that exact moment, I was in the process of buying a single ticket to see her. I shouted YES and we bought nosebleed tickets that same day.
The concert venue was absolutely packed, presumably with people from all over the state, because she was visiting Tulsa and not the capital city OKC. We beat the line by going in through a side door that dumped us right in front of the merch line. After I spent WAY too much money pt.2 on a shirt, they went to buy beau-coup food and we climbed all the way to the top of the arena just as my dream singer was swinging down on a giant chandelier from the ceiling.
I wanted to jump and scream, but the seats drop straight down from up that high without much more than a footpath space to squeeze between the rows, so I had to force myself to sit down and stay alive for the concert.
P!nk is incredible live. And she's a POWERHOUSE. Her set was nearly two hours long, and she completed several costume changes, dance routines, acro (remember the upside-down splits on the back of the dancer in her music video Try? Yeah, she did that live. BadAss.)
I have done light acrobatics and let me express my utter shock that she was capable of doing that, but that was honestly just scraping the surface of the tricks she performed!
Everything was fantastic and mind-blowing. Her back-up singers were glorious sassy black women (or at least from what I could see from a screen, everybody appeared thumb-sized from my vantage point), she had a violinist that KILLED it, there were at least 8 back-up dancers that were SLAYING the scene. And my God, the set. The stage was set up like a heart, with moving sidewalk/conveyer belts in the middle, and we were treated to fireworks-pink, of course, bursts of fire, and moving tree branches, combined with hilarious and heart-wrenching video clips to help with her vocal narrative.
Her finale song revealed P!nk rising from a hole in the stage, where she began singing "So What" as she was strapped into a web of bungee cords and started springing, bouncing, flipping, and flying around through the air above everyone's heads. All while clad in a silver sparkly bodysuit. Me and my friends were LOSING IT.
Just when we thought we had had enough thrill, her encore was a barebones rendition of "Glitter in the Air", where she reappeared in a simple white shirt and jeans and sang the haunting melody gorgeously.
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I was so so so so so SO thankful I had gotten the opportunity to experience my favorite female vocalist live. This night was definitely one of those memories I will treasure forever.