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Act II
With fresh batteries and a new
memory card in my camera, I was ready for the real action.
The second act is sooooo much better than the first. The guys all come out in their white suits and do "Lady
is a Tramp". Clay in white
is just all kinds of yummy, and I can even hear a little of his singing now and
then. Someone posted that he
doesn't blend well with the others, and this is true - but with a voice like
that, how could he? *cough*solo tour*cough*
The girls were fun dancing in "Bootylicious" but I don't know
the song and couldn't understand the words.
All Clay's "close encounters" with the women were far away from
us. The moments are quite short and
are really just "poses", but he does look all kinds of sexxx-ay.
He's really learned how to use the power of a pose and a serious face!
But unfortunately he always seemed to be on the other side of the stage
for the really fun stuff. I did get
a good picture of the Clarmen, grrrrrr.
Then Clay and Ruben
did their little patter-act about liking the same girl, I couldn't hear most of
it, and then they sang "The Girl is Mine".
It was nice to get home to find the video clip of this, because I can see
it and hear it much better that I could at the show!
I did get some cute pictures of them before they start singing, and I
could get some sense of the high vocals Clay does, but I can hear it better on
the clip than I did at the concert.
Kim Locke did a very
nice "Inseparable", and then they did the BeeGees medley.
Sigh, TLS was (of course) on the other side of the stage. What I could hear of it sounded pretty good over the
screaming.
Folks, don’t ever believe
anyone who says Clay is “hopeless” at dancing.
I don’t remember all the moves or where they fit, but this man has
grace and style and can shake his boo-tay.
He didn’t miss a lick in some fairly interesting choreography, and I
think I spotted the “shoulder move”, which he executed perfectly even though
he was trying to hide in the back row. He
moves like a beautiful animal.
After all the medleys Ruben
did his new “Pretty Toes” song. I
fiddled with my camera and took a nap; the song (using the term loosely) is
really awful.
Now don’t stone me, but I was
really entertained by Carmen’s rendition of “Let’s Hear It For the
Boy.” I can totally understand
why Simon wanted to make her a popstar. She
is pretty and cute, has great energy onstage, and on this night her voice was
just fine, no bleating at all. It
really proves how the brutality, the pressure, and the naked exposure of AI
expose every flaw in a performer instead of showing their strengths.
And it makes Clay look even more remarkable because he never had a
flaw.
FINALLY I got to hear Clay
sing! CYFTLT is a quieter song, the crowd calmed down a bit, the
bass was minimal, and he was on our side of the stage. This was my favorite Clay, just standing and singing
in a pure voice, although I did hate the brown-shirt-and-jeans outfit.
It was over much too soon.
Kim Locke then proceeded
to blow everyone completely off the stage (even Clay) with SOTR.
Vocally that girl sooooo should have won AI. She was the only one I could hear well all night.
Kim C had a tough job
following that act, but I enjoyed her “motorcycle” number.
She really is quite impressive onstage, she has a feline, Amazon quality
about her.
Ricky sang beautifully
in his duet with Julia, who was less impressive.
She has on this unfortunate black cut-out dress, and there is
this….THING…showing in the cutout, we couldn’t figure out what it was.
A roll of fat? An extra rib? A hot dog
for later? I should have pulled out my binoculars. It was so
distracting we kept missing parts of the song.
There were some more songs and
then Clay returns to sing with the group in “I’ve Had the Time of My
Life”. This is really an anthem to the Idols’ experience and I
found it quite moving, they are all singing about how they owe it to the fans
that they are up on that stage. At
the end of the song, they all wave goodbye and leave, the stage goes dark, and
it looks like the show is over. But
we know it’s not.
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