Yes, for lack of a better post title, I went with the completely unimaginative one. ;)
I just (ok, it was a couple hours ago, shush) came home from Laura Pausini's concert. (I'd bought tickets for this almost three months ago, they were one of my Christmas presents.)
Not the first time I go to a concert of hers, either - the first time was in 2002, at the same location - and like last time, this time kicked ass, too.
Highlights of the evening:
- We had reserved seats, right next to the stage. This was a Good Thing for two reasons... one, being right next to the stage was great in terms of seeing Laura Pausini up close (we were less than three meters from her at times), two, when we got there the place was already packed, and we got there rather early. If we hadn't reserved seats, we would've had to stand for the whole concert, and while I could've dealt with that, I doubt my parents or my brother would've been pleased.
- She opened with "Gente", one of her older songs and one which I still love. And above all, it was a song I needed to hear this evening. That she opened with it, well, I'm not going to explain the reasons (yet) but it was like the universe wanted to give me a big kick in the ass. It got me and made me cry, too, but it was a good thing.
- She interacted a lot with the crowd. Some singers just get onstage, sing, and go away, but she spoke with the crowd, she told stories, she encouraged the crowd to sing along, even letting us sing some bits of the songs ourselves, she joked around ("I see you're singing one of my songs... well I hope you're singing one of my songs, if you're singing Giorgia [another well-known and popular Italian singer] I'll have to come there and kill you")... at one point during a song, she crouched, poked a security guy, and had him get a little girl (she couldn't have been more than 5 or 6) that was in the first row of people standing in front of the stage. And brought her up on the stage and crouched down to her level and had her sing the ending to the song. And was generally nice to her ("I've been looking at her and seeing she knows all the words to my songs, I have three screens in front of me to tell me the words but it's easier to just look at her, she knows them all"). That rocked so much.
And! I managed to get a decent photo. (All the others were either blurry or too dark - but to my defense, it's not particularly easy to take a good photo when you're bouncing and singing at the top of your lungs, and the subject of your photo is singing and moving around too.)
