It was actually a good thing that I forgot to bring the camera because instead of being busy clicking pictures here and there and taking all those videos which I normally don't bother to watch again anymore, I actually had time to just enjoy the concert and let everything sink in! Thanks to Youtube, there are many other people who load their own stuff there and I'll just get what they have uploaded!
First of all, I really thought Cyndi would do most of her new material from that blues album, since most of the setlists I saw featured a lot of new songs. Surprisingly though, she only did three songs from that album, and she did all three back-to-back-to-back! And it really sounded much better live than on Youtube (but of course!) She especially featured the sog 'Down Don't Bother Me' and talked about how that song has touched her life - that even if people suffer through trials they find it in themselves to get up - and she expressed her admiration for all these blues singers who as she says, sing about pain!
What really surprised me tonight was that she went all out with her hits! She opened the show with She Bop and When You Were Mine was her third song - that was actually the song I was waiting for, hoping she would sing it, and she did! She also did I Drove All Night, All Through the Night, What's Going On, Change of Heart, and of course, her three biggest hits - Girls Just Want to Have Fun, True Colors, and Time After Time. It was quite strange that I choked a bit when she sang those two ballads. She sang it exactly the way it was originally arranged and she sang it so well, it was not hard to let all those wonderful high school memories to come back.
Cyndi loved going into the audience last night and she went as far as clinging on the Lower Box section, and of course, everyone loved that she went down! Everyone was just snapping pictures of her! She also sounded fantastic still! The vintage Cyndi you hear on CD is still that Cyndi you hear live! Her encore songs were Girls and True Colors, but her keyboardist and her decided to add one more song - maybe because she really appreciated the audience's love for her. She ended the night by doing what seemed to be an unrehearsed yet raw and beautiful performance of THAT famous song with a French title - La Vie En Rose - and she knew how to pronounce everything correctly, as if she were French!
I think I'm one of the few non-Japanese fans of hers who followed her career after I Drove All Night. I actually remember buying her Hat Full of Stars CD, Sisters of Avalon, Shine, At Last and her latest Memphis Blues. So to her marginal fans, it seemed like she did the 80s and skipped to the 2000s but the reality is - she has been releasing new material every few years. However, she only performed Lyfe from Shine, La Vie En Rose from At Last and I think, no songs from Sisters and Hat.
She had none of the colored hair tonight but she still wore this weird looking leather ensemble - and she was outspoken like most native New Yorkers. The thing that touched me last night was when she said, "The missionaries here came and took everything from you, but they could not take your rhythm" - well, join the queue of Filipino admirers Cyndi, many foreign artists have often been amazed at how great we sing - especially that we SING BACK to the singer and most of them really appreciate it - kasi nga, in tune tayo! Di sintunado!
Well, I am looking forward to her album of new material! It's an excuse for her to tour again and it would be great to see her again!
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