Michelle sucks. Give me some Kelly.

last year’s was a PERFORMANCE.
This year, the woman just kept hollering “sing it!” “put your hands together!”
the pyro was nice though.

“My horse can count to ten!”

I’m not going to compare her to anyone but herself, though as a Madonna fan, the temptation is great. I love Bey and have seen two of her concerts and watched several of her key performances on YouTube. Considering that this was an opportunity to be seen by millions of potential new fans, this felt totally lazy and dialed in to me. It was a total miss-mash of other performances and compared poorly to most of them. The stage of her profile looking at itself with a fabric weave coming out at the end was tacky, tacky, tacky. She looked hot (except for the crazy eyes) but honestly, she danced and posed much more than sang… that to me was the biggest disappointment. I am sure she was live but her mic wasn’t loud enough, and Kelly and Michelle’s were even lower, which felt shady to me…. why bring them out if you don’t give them a moment to be heard? Plus, the staging was lame… why bring out DC3 and then force them to do a walk of shame off the stage so you can sing Halo… and Halo is an inspriational power ballad… flinging her weave so the audience could touch it felt really… shall I say… reductive… lol. Anyway, there were fun moments (I loved that she did Bootylicious)… but overall I give this performance a “Bey Minus”.

I really wanted her to keep Kelly and Michelle on stage and all 3 of them do Single Ladies, that would have been great and different. It seemed a bit rushed doing all those songs. But Queen Madonna need not worry. Beyonce is referred to as a King now.

Any superstar has the potential to garner new fans no matter how famous they are… maybe people don’t apprecaite someone’s music until they see a live performance, for example. I know lots of people who don’t listen to the radio and/or don’t go to clubs who are contstantly “discovering” artists that are already very well known. Honestly, I am not too up on current music… several big stars I was slow to pick up on. I still don’t know if I have heard a Lana Del Ray or Roisin Murphy song, for example, even though lots of people have told me to listen to them. And I had know idea what the hell Gangham Style was until maybe a month ago.

And hey, to reiterate, I am a Beyoncé fan, but I seriously thought this show was lame. Even a fan can be critical of someone’s work when they feel let down by it. I still think it was an opportunity to show the world what she can do, and she blew it.

Beyoncé was good. That’s all. Just good. She’s not great. She’s not fantastic.

She’s not transcendental. There is a certain ‘Magic’ that true iconic performers have that make time stop when they step on stage. Sorry Dewitt, but she does not have ‘it’!!! Madonna, Janet, Xtina, Tina, Aretha, and yes, even Gaga, they have that ‘it’ that makes them legendary! Beyoncé does not. This performance was just a step over the line of mediocre like much of her catalog.

Dressing like a dominatrix and using pyrotechnics. I think I saw that at a drag show in Palm Springs last month. At least she didn’t lip-sync.