Hey-- i think you ought to read this entire thing, even though it's hella long, I think you will really enjoy it!!!! and when I say hella long, I mean it... but it's sooooo worth reading! BTW, in case you're trying to picture everything, our seats were Section A Row 1 on the floor, seats 37 and 38. They were the best seats eeeeeeeveeeeerrrr!!! and we got them for *free*! I lost $285 though... I bought a 2nd row ticket for $350 and sold it to some dude on the street for $65... oh well! I could honestly care less!! Anyways... reeeaaad on!
I just got back from the phoenix concert tonight-- if one word could describe it, it would be UNBELIEVABLE. the coolest thing about the whole concert/soundcheck experience I had today was that you could see that these guys *reeaaaaaallllllllyyyy* loooove each other. (No, not like that... haha) Out of all of the nsync concerts/tours i've been to, they really connected and showed their chemistry with each other the best tonight. They were always smilin and laughin and singing to each other and stuff-- which made me really really happy to see them so happy with each other! Their brotherly love was so damn cute! Also, out of all of the tours nsync has done (aint no stoppin us now, nsa, pop odyssey...) In my opinion, the celebrity tour is by far the best!! It was sooo amazing-- I dont want to forget *any* of it! It was so laid back, sooo musical-- they reaaallly showed off their vocal talents. They had sweet lighting of course, like they do with all their concerts. And all the pyro was tight too!! This concert made me love them even more than I already do... if thats even possible... everything about this concert was better than the last ones, even down to the programs-- those are the coolest too. Annnnd thats not to say that their other tours arent AAAAAAMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG... I just find it insane that they can get even better than their best... if that makes sense... Each time around they get better. That means that the neeeext tour they do? It's gonna be even better than this one... They're crazy with their skills. And btw, did you know that they dont even tear tickets off anymore when you walk in the door? They just take a scanner and scan a barcode on your ticket... I was amazed.. My beautiful ticket is still in tact! The funniest part about walking in was being searched with a metal detector, never had that happen before...
Alright so these are just random cute things I remember from the concert that I am singling out-- this doesnt go in any specific order, its just how I am remembering them:
Someone was holding up a sign in the pit that said "I love Roy Chasez". They were holding it up the entire concert. Finally when nsync sat down to talk with everyone before they sang the blues version of ‘I want you back' I think it was justin that said ‘you've been holding that sign the entire concert!! You can put it down now!" and then he went on to say that it says "I love roy chasez" and all of nsync was like ‘why do you have a sign that says you love jc's dad?!' and they thought it was the funniest thing ever-- they were really cracking up. Jc was sooo cute about it.
During the blues part justin got really into the song so he kicked the chair that was standing behind him, to give his scatting a "bigger effect". When it was jc's turn to finish the song, chris stopped jc before he went and started making fun of justin by saying ‘oh yeah jc, when you finish the song, if you wanna be cool like justin, you can do what he does and kick the stool back to give your singing a higher effect' (of course he didnt say those exact words, i'm just summin up what he basically said) and IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING EEEEEVVVVVVER! Chris is absolutely no doubt the funniest person in this world right now-- I strongly believe that. *SO FUNNY!* So all of nysnc was laughing at chris' comments on how justin kicks back the stool when he gets into his singing. So then chris was like ‘here, do a practice kick before you finish the song, the stool isnt really gonna be there though-- it's just a practice kick'. So jc did his practice kick and the other guys were all ‘nooo you gotta do it like THIS" and they had to do a couple run throughs. So finally jc tried to sing his part while kicking the chair back, and he couldnt do it cuz he was uncordinated, and kept on laughing, so he tried a couple times and started laughing really hard because he just couldnt do it. So finally jc said ‘how about you guys kick your stools back while I finish the song' so thats what they did, and boooooooy did jc belt it out!!!! I thought some glass was gonna bust or something...
*sidenote* THEY BETTER RELEASE A LIVE CD FROM THIS TOUR!!!! Every single song was so amazing that words cant describe it... the two-step/techno version of ‘Sailing'-- AWESOME. The blues version of ‘I want you back'-- AWESOME. The heavy metal version of ‘Gone'-- soo freaking AWESOME! You get the picture........ they even made up a song that has all of the titles of the songs that they've released, and they incorporate it while they are singing the blues. It was very creative and very cute.. And it went well together! Barely any songs that they performed sounded like anything on their CDs... they changed up almost everything-- and they sounded amazing. The exceptions were GMHSALMTOY, TIPY, and a couple others. For the girl who has everything sounded really nice with the guitar playing in the background. I'm so happy they sang that....
*visual picture I hope I NEVER, EVER, EVER forget for the rest of my life* When justin was singing gone... you know how towards the end of the song he goes all out in singing it? Well at the concert... let me just say that HE WENT ALL OUT!! Waaaaaaaaay more than he did at pop odyssey. He must have dragged out the ending for like 5 minutes... which is a *very* good thing. His face turned BRIGHT RED (no exageration, I can see it so clearly right now)-- veins were popping out of his face and even his arms and everything, I thought he was going to explode-- he put his entire body, mind, heart, and soul into it-- it was the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. And I was about 2 feet away from it... :-P
During sailing (one of my favorite songs they performed tonight) joey was standing up above us on this ramp thing that wraps around the ennntiiiire arena, its sooooo cool. So anyway I was dancing all around to the song and waving up to joey and I looked really weird because I was half crying/half laughing/half screaming.... so it caught joey's attention-- I gave him a huge wave and he smiled the sweetest little smile and waved back to me! *awwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
When they sang ‘I wanna hold your hand' (which i'm glad they sang that particular beatles song- all of the beatles songs they sang were the extra good ones) I was singing the whole first verse aloud and chris was right over us on the cool ramp during that point-- and NO ONE around me was singing or anything, so I caught chris' attention too and I SWEEEEEAR on mother nature that he watched me the entire verse and afterwards he gave the *cutest* look in eternity to me-- he raised his eyebrows up huge like he was really proud that I knew they were gonna sing that song or something... I dont know what it was, but it was hella funny. Man he is so funny, I could go on forever about that. I really love that guy to pieces........... I think I freaked out about him the most during the concert. That and the veins that were popping out of justin's red face.
I've been super close to nsync before, but tonight I really noticed something... both jc and justin have the bluest eyes in the universe... during up against the wall they came over to our side of the ramp/catwalk and the first thing I noticed was jc's eyes, they seriously are the bluest things I've ever seen-- a very light blue, a sort of baby blue I guess... and he had the clearest complexion in the world too. It was sooo weird looking at him, he looked so perfect that it almost seemed like it had to be fake-- like it was a painted picture or something... I dont know, it was weird, I probably sound like i'm talking out of my ass-- but i've never seen him like that before. His eyes... *man*. And when justin came over, I got lost in his eyes too... they are just as blue!!! but a different tint, they are more of a darker blue-- their eyes are seriously gorgeous! I've never noticed this really before... it was intense, otherwise I wouldnt write a whole freaking paragraph on it.
A girl in the pit rose her camera up into the air and justin saw that and took her camera from her and brought it up on stage and he motioned joey over to take a picture, so joey posed with his microphone next to his face-- and justin snapped a shot. Then justin gave the camera to joey and justin posed and joey took a pic... then justin handed the camera back to the girl. I might have gotten that outta order, not that that matters, but joey might have taken the pic first :-P
a girl was holding up a sign that said THANK YOU and jc saw it and smiled and said ‘you're welcome!' very softly.
I'm not sure if a fan tossed a hat to jc or not, I honestly didnt really see, but I think that's what the case was. Anyway, jc put the hat on-- it was a blue baseball cap. Then justin saw jc wearing the hat and he traded his funky leather hat for jcs baseball cap and when they switched it was SO CUTE!!! they did this little dance thing.
They were saying how they've come to phoenix, "like 18 times!" which is almost true, haha, 6 times.
The new dance moves to celebrity are so freaking tight... they changed all the choreography around and danced with microphone poles... and they had this sorta pissed off attitude while they were singing it to go with the song, it was too cute.
When they were singing to the temptations, justin really got into his dancing and he was grooving ALL OVER the place-- it was adorable! I didn't see this, but someone said that he had all of these cute expressions on his face while he was dancing.
The audience sang justins whole verse of tipy, he only sang 2-3 lines I think.
During nsa, lance and chris swung over our heads. The ropes are bad ass man. Whoever's idea it was to have those.... :-P
I think I saw .2 seconds of lance the whole show... which was *right* at the beginning when he came over to our side up close... and during nsa. he didnt really talk too much during the show either. Chris was the big talker tonight... and he was soooooo unbelievably funny, you could hear the entire arena cracking up at him.
I touched chris 2 or 3 times-- he was always bending down for us to touch him :-P I touched joey 1 or 2 times, touched justin once, jc gave me a high-five-- it was like a big SLAP-- it made noise! It was real hard and firm! (That didnt sound too right there...) Justin *gracefully* held my hand for 2 seconds.. It was so cute how he was so gentle about it. Very gentleman-like. :-P I dont even remember if I touched lance or not, I think I was so absorbed with everything that I didnt even notice... I went with my guy friend and justin touched him like 3 times, haha. My friend put up his fist one time and justin pounded him back with his fist :-P
they talked to the audience for a LOOOONG time... there kept on being sooo many interuptions when jc was trying to tell his blues story, the guys just kept on seeing stuff in the crowd and had to mention it. Jc was like ‘anywaay the blues started out... yadda yadda' he tried to tell his story like 3-4 times.
Jc put his hand on top of his head-- and you know that thing where you shake your scalp back and forth and it looks really freaky like the top of your head it moving, well he was doing that for like 10 seconds and then joey was like ‘lance can do it too! Do it lance!' and lance did it right after that. Lance and joey were goofin off with each other, I cant even remember what they were saying though.
Joey took a blue towel and started hitting some girl in the head with it who was in the pit... it was absolutely hilarious... and from where I was standing it looked like it hurt! Even though i'm sure it didnt, haha. But it was hella funny. (I've noticed I keep on using that word to describe things...) I know i'd let joey hit me in the head back and forth with a metal object for god's sake.
To all the people who have shit seats-- you're gonna love nsync even more because they come ALLLLLLL THE WAY TO THE BACK of the arena, and I mean AALLL the way to the back, and do a whole segment of the show there, their backs were faced to everyone else.. Its pretty cool they did that. They do some real cute dance moves when they sing their tribute songs.
During gone, I was really suprised at justin-- he sorta went into the crowd. Usually he's a hardass about letting people touch him... but not tonight! He went over to one side and bent down over into these girls' seats-- he bent do far down that the girls were rubbing his head-- and feeling him up and stuff-- all touching him and everything, and justin looked into their eyes and sang the song heartfeltly (if thats even a word...) to them. He did that A LOT-- it was so cute how he just bent down in different places along the extended ramp where we were sitting and crooned to different girls. He probably made them the happiest people allllliiiiiiive man.
They shoot out mad confetti-- in everyones reviews, everyone always forgets to talk about the confetti! That stuff's the best, man! They shoot it out while they are singing their triubte songs... it was so much fun singing and dancing in it. Haha, maybe i'm a weirdo, but I loved the confetti so much that I scooped a huge pile of it and put it into my purse to take home! :-P my friend was like ‘dude, it's just confetti' and then he started picking some up to take home with him... i'm like ‘whatever hypocrite!!!'
during pop they have MAD fire come up, and I mean insane, deep, dark, orange huuuuge flames come up behind them... actual flames! it was very, very, cool looking, I dont think i've ever seen that before. Or maybe I have and i'm freaking out about nothing, i'm not sure-- my thoughts are all jumbled up right now.
Haha during the funky version of IGBM (the one they sang during their holiday special a long time ago) you know how they sing ‘it's gonna be! It's gonna be, baby! Its gonna be! Its gonna be, baby!' over and over again at the end? Well justin was like ‘you guys say it with us' so he said ‘it's gonna be!' and we were supposed to say ‘it's gonna be, baby' and barely anyone was saying it, or people were, but you just couldnt heear them or something. but justin kept on saying over and over again ‘say it with me!' it looked like he was pissed because he couldnt hear anyone saying it, it was really cute. He is the cutest thing in the world, man! Out of all the times i've seen him, he never looked as beautiful as he did tonight... I know I am sounding like the hugest ass teenybopper right now, but i'm dead serious-- he was **pretty** tonight... like an angel. *sigh*
justin wears a pair of jeans that say WHITE TRASH across the buttox... they are really cute actually (they are dolce and gabanna)! The costumes they wear during For the girl... lance's white shirt was from dolce and gabanna too. I'm guessing all their clothes were, I just know for sure those two things are. Justin was wearing a pair of presto nike shoes at one point and addidas at another point, i'm sure it was the same for all of the guys. The guys I went with were busy staring at nsync's shoes the whole time because they think "athletic shoes are the best!" They reported the shoe stuff back to me...
*sidenote* The lines to the girls bathrooms were hella (there I go using that word again) long, so me and this other girl were like ‘screw it, lets go to the men's bathroom' and we walked right into the exit and said ‘guys I hope you're decent cuz we're comin' in!' This one guy in there said ‘MY SON'S IN HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!' we were like ‘soooooo? wtf?!' so we used their bathroom and then ran past the urinals looking in the other direction when we were finsihed, and when we came out all of the securtiy guards were laughing and they said they almost came in and kicked us out, but decided not to. Then other girls saw that we used the guys' bathroom, so they started using it. It became a trend! Its a good suggestion for you people going to upcoming concerts... saves about 15 minutes... which brings me to a question-- Why the hell do girls always have to take forever in public bathrooms? And why go in groups? And why, why always at concerts? Especially nsync concerts?!
During soundcheck:
we came in late, it was about halfway through. I'm not complaining though, I wasnt even supposed to be there to begin with. We got 4 free passes from this lady.. We sure got the hookups tonight! They were much more talkative at this soundcheck compared to the one we had this summer. They were goofing off and joking around the whole time. Someone asked them what they do in their free time and they said ‘SLEEP!' And then joey said something like ‘my baby's my free time, I have a little one and in my free time its *diapers*. The other guys will go out and i'll be like ‘I cant-- BABY." it was real cute! :-P a guy told justin that he really likes britney and he was wondering what justins status was with her and justin pretended to be reaaaaaallllllyyyyyy freaking pissed off at the guy for trying to get with her or whatever, so justin said something like ‘you should be worried about what your status is gonna be for asking that question.' and he started like yellin at the guy saying ‘where are your seats tonight? No really, where are they?!' like he was gonna come find him and open a can of whoop ass or something. It was hilarious. But then justin said, ‘nah i'm just kidding. but really, we're fine.' but he said it really quietly, it was kinda weird how he said it-- I dont know, maybe it was just me. but those words did come from his mouth-- that him and britney are fine. Chris commented that he golfed in Phoenix on Wednesday and everyone starting cheering. Another person asked them who inspired them to sing and Joey said ‘kid rock'! Obviously he was joking... Uhh I dont think there were any more questions after that, I dont really remember. So lance said, alright then lets sing another song' and they sang the funky version of IGBM. Chris said something like ‘man we cheated the left side out of seeing us because we answered all the questions on the right side, so we gotta come over there and dance now.' at the end someone handed jc something to sign so jc signed it and brought it over to joey I think it was, and had joey sign it too. I thought that was really nice of them to do that. I overheard someone talking after the soundcheck, that during the portion we missed some girl said it was her brithday or something like that, so jc said happy birthday to her and made her come up so she could touch his hand-- thats what I got from her convo, I could be a lil off though. On the elevator ride down to the soundcheck some dumbass guy (about 35-40 maybe?) came into our elevator and thought he was all cool talking to his friends saying "yeaaaah man, nsync's soundcheck sounded a little OUTTA SYNC!" he said that TWICE. Dont worry though, I did my duty as an nsync fan by flipping him off... He wasnt even freaking there during the soundcheck, obviously, because he was in the elevator. And by the way, they sounded perfect!!
Overall.......... best nsync concert yet. I am begging my parents to let me fly down to another city and see it again since its gonna be a long time before they tour again (their stupid "hiatus" is going to kill me... I need them to survive!) I told them it will be an early b-day present, even though my birthday isn't until august... I went with 3 guys (only 1 of them was a fan) and they all thought I was insane... oh well! It's not like I didn't warn them beforehand....and actually I thought I behaved quite well for an ‘nsync concert.
I wanted to make sure that I didnt forget any of the cute stuff that happened so I wrote this as soon as I got home... calculating the hours it took 3 to write I think? But it's worth it, because I can always look back on this and read it when I want to remember the concert! Smart thinking eh? the other people that went to the phoenix concert IM me on aol so we can discuss........ CapNCrunk81. BTW I just drove through taco bell and tried their new club chalupa-- hot dayum its good!! But only get one, because it's too rich to eat 2, trust me. Get a soft taco supreme with it instead...
I think I am going through a post-concert depression right now... I hate it when I get like this after every single nsync concert!! I just need to get used to it because I dont think this fact will ever change...
some people were wondering the Prices of things:
my t-shirt was $35 but some t-shirts were 40 or 45 dollars...
my program was $20
each individual picture was $5
glow sticks were $5 I think....
They were selling NSYNC SWEAT BANDS! You know those things you put around your wrists when you are working out? LMAO... I almost bought some... not that i'd ever use them or anything... but you know when you get that teenybopper urge to buy all of the ‘nsync merchandise? I restrained myself from doing that... :-P
-Stephanie-