Beyoncé Launches Her ‘I Am . . .’ Tour In The US
Beyoncé, the artist sometimes known as Sasha Fierce, brought her new concert tour I Am … to Madison Square Garden in NYC to kick off the US leg of her tour. B shocked the crowd by bringing her hubby Jay-Z on stage for their duet of her megahit song Crazy In Love and, by pretty much all accounts, brought the house down with their hot performance. Because I am seeing this show here in LA on July 13, I’m desperately trying to stay away from too many tour spoilers but since I doubt that B-Jay will be on stage together for the rest of the tourdates, I think it’s safe to share. Here are a few photos from Beyoncé’s concert last night along with a review of the show (Be Warned: the review offers some show spoilers):
Beyonce has finally sorted out her split personality. Feeding both the flashy hip-hop side and the sensitive balladeer is something she has struggled with since stepping out of Destiny’s Child and out on her own. It came to a head on last year’s “I Am . . . Sasha Fierce” double album, but it wasn’t until her Madison Square Garden show Sunday night, the first on the American leg of her world tour, that she consistently integrated them both successfully. (She plays the Garden again Monday night.) See, Sasha Fierce has the booty roll in “Crazy in Love,” which featured hubby Jay-Z who got a response so loud his verses were lost in the roar. She has the “Freakum Dress” and the trapeze act during “Baby Boy” on her side. Can balladeer Beyonce compete with just her big ol’ voice? Well, she spices things up during the ballads now – assembling a wedding gown onstage for “Ave Maria” and throwing Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” into “If I Were a Boy.” It’s no big surprise – after all, “Irreplaceable,” which infuses a Beyonce ballad with Sasha Fierce-ness, is her biggest success. Another combination was equally impressive – as she proved that hot choreography and strong vocals don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Beyonce is an amazing, unique dance-pop and hip-hop artist, arguably the best around, as “Diva” and “Radio” showed. She’s only a good balladeer, though she continues to improve, as her powerful take on “At Last” proved. Not only is she irreplaceable, but now Beyonce may be unstoppable, too.
OOOOOOOH man … the show sounds so good! As I’ve mentioned before, I have yet to see Beyoncé live in concert so I am very excited for all the fierceness in store. David and I will be seeing the show from the Diva Stage so I’m hoping our vantage point will get us close enough to the fierocity so that we may imbue some of it into our beings. Beyoncé has brought her show the US … I hope all y’all are ready.
[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]
Tags: 'I Am ...' Tour, Beyoncé Knowles, Jay-Z
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June 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
I 100% want to see this show.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
Beyotch stole Kylie Minogue’s look in ‘Can’t get you out of my head”
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:12 am
An Alanis song mixed with a Beyonce song???!! I’d KILL to see that!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Did it sell out?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
Them some juicy thighs…. giggity
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
Going to see her Friday in Philly and can’t wait!!!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
I saw her in Winnipeg, MB on March 28. She was amazing! The covers she did were great. All the outfit changes were worth it too. Was very glad to have seen her live.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 am
DOOOOD! I have my tickets for the July 5th show in Big D! Can’t wait!!!!
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Puke! She rips off every single artist that’s done something performance worthy… it just sucks. I don’t like her or her thunder thighs.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Saw this tour in Dublin in May – AMAZING – would love to go a second night and take it all in! She gives it her all in every song!
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 am
“so I’m hoping our vantage point will get us close enough to the fierocity so that we may imbue some of it into our beings”
haha! you crazy thing. in any case, i’m super excited to see this show too. she’ll be here in Dallas next weekend! can’t wait!!!!
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I saw her at MSG last night and she was amazing! Jay- Z joined her on stage and her opening act sucked. She rocked!