But this show was legit - she is legitimately a real deal bad ass star. I was blown away by this show. My sixteen-year-old looked over at me about three songs in and was like "you are so cheeky right now," and I asked her what that meant. She said "you are smiling so big that your cheeks are so big." So totally true.
Rogers said a few times during this show that this was her first arena show ever. You never would have known. The concert started with some sort of recorded, spoken intro thing while you could see the band members taking their places, and then as the opening riffs of "That's Where I Am" started bleeping and blooping their way into the air, she rose out of the smoke at the front of the catwalk like a disco-ball clad goddess. From then on, she was all over the place, dancing and jumping and running and singing the absolute hell out of her songs. I knew she had a strong voice, but it was a lot in person. She also rolled up to a piano, by herself, at the end of the catwalk later for some banter and a few acoustic songs that were really neat. As she sat down at the piano, she struggled to get a stick of incense lit, and was like "dammit, I really want this smoke to blow across my face for the camera, hold on." Very endearing and real. "I Still Do" was beautiful on that piano.
She did a nice mix of the old and new, and it really made me appreciate her new songs even more. But definitely some of the major classic hits sounded amazing.
Oh, and the price was even more worth it because the venue ended up closing off the top rows of the venue so that it would feel more full, and so they gave us four seats in the Dell club area. Swanky! Fantastic show, even after having seen her twice before that.
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