In her songs, Katy Perry has championed the unpopular ones - the misfits, the outsiders, the freaks, the unglamorous ones - so it was just fitting last night that the person she picked from the audience was a guy who came to the concert, in what looked to me as a 'gown' costume. Nag-effort talaga lola mo!
The guy looked really dazed in the first few seconds he was onstage, but who wouldn't? One minute, you're just an audience member, next time you know, Katy Perry is calling you to join her onstage! How cool is that!
They had this short repartee on teaching Katy some Tagalog words (my seatmate said, "Mali, Filipino"!) Gusto ko sabihin, Dear, to the rest of us who speak Tagalog as a second language, Filipino is Tagalog and don't you kid us.
Anyway, funny thing is when Katy asked him "How do you say hello in Tagalog?" he says, "Hello!" to which Katy remarks "So I flew a few thousand miles here to learn Tagalog and hello is hello?!" O nga naman, how else do you say hello in Tagalog?
Then she asks him, "How do you say thank you?" and the boy says "Salamat!" which Katy quickly associates with salami, so that she won't forget. Yun lang, she fumbles on it twice, I forget what she said exactly, but as she finished her song for this segment of the show, I think someone cued her properly and she said Salamat perfectly!
The lucky guy, whose name was Marty (or was it Martin?), was amply rewarded with hugs and selfies - much to the envy of everyone else!
Technology has really made today's live shows more interesting and spontaneous!
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