Last night I had the sheer pleasure of going to my nearby hockey arena in Nashville known as Bridgestone Arena to see Demi Lovato with my parents who were here on vacation! 😀
I’ve been a Demi Lovato fan my whole life since I first saw her opposite Joe Jonas in Camp Rock, a cheesy Disney Channel Original movie. I love cheesy movies so I’m not at all hating on Camp Rock.
I’ve seen Demi open for the Jonas Brothers, I met her that night after the show, and saw her 2 other times in concert during her double headlining tour with David Archuleta and her appearance on a Jingle Ball Christmas concert sponsored by my then local radio station in the Tampa Bay area, 933FLZ.
Demi has always struck me as an amazing singer as well as a female artist with an incredible message to share! 😀
Last night on her stop in Nashville, there were no disappointments and my image of Demi has possibly even been upped a few notches!
This was a Simon Cowell showdown y’all! Let me tell you why…
All seven of his girls were on this tour! The 5 girls of girl group Fifth Harmony, pop diva in training Cher Lloyd, and of course his fellow X Factor judge Demi Lovato.
Fifth Harmony opened the show and I thought it was pretty neat that they were all in designer boxes and the front of them blew off as a special effect. It was kind of reminiscent to 5 Barbie dolls in boxes…so if they were going for that look: I got the message loud and clear!
They were all very kind to the audience and spoke to us a lot. My only real complaint I will insert here is that their dancing was a little too “adult” for me. It just didn’t seem to be sending such a great message to the youngest of young girls in the audience. I will say that they were all great singers though and they did a great job.
Next up was Cher Lloyd, one of my favorite up-and-comers to the pop music scene over the past couple of years, and I was so excited to see her since I never had before!
I really had no freaking idea that Cher Lloyd was going to blow my socks off! She was absolutely exquisite and her band was so rock and roll! I couldn’t believe how full of a band she had as a pop solo artist, but it made the music equally as rocking as her vocals!
My mom kept asking me “Where are her pants?” LOL #NoIdea
Cher WOWED the crowd with her “very first love song”, the new radio hit Sirens and I even made this little Instagram video…and if you listen carefully you can hear me singing really loud! http://instagram.com/p/mJg-WISZMb/
And before I forget there was this guy between every act doing magic tricks with members of the audience! His name is Collins Key and he was doing tricks that made no sense! HAHA I wanted to be able to guess how he did it, but there just was NOOO WAYYYY! (His tagline) He is from America’s Got Talent come to find out from a friend of mine…just another TV show that Music Row Girl has no time to watch! 😦
Collins was there to warm up the crowd and he did a great job of it!
Next up was the one and only, Miss Demi Lovato!!!
The first thing that caught my eye about Demi’s tour was her stage! Talk about a thing of sheer beauty!!!
Demi came out of a square shaped riser in the center of the cat walk, there were circles of different heights for the band members to be displayed on, there were many lights, and there was a wonderful, oval-shaped screen in the center.
Here is the setlist according to http://www.setlist.fm/:
I will go ahead and vouch to say that setlist is 100% accurate! 😀
The neat part that I saw in the beginning of Demi’s show is that every song flowed right into the next seamlessly without any hiccups! Cher Lloyd came out to do her famous rap on Really Don’t Care which was fabulous and my fellow Demi Lovato superfan, Brianna, who sat next to me at the show said that she really hoped that Cher would do the song with her so we screamed when it really happened! HAHAHAHA 😀
So the first 5 songs were seamless and very upbeat! The show had such an incredible momentum unlike any show I’ve ever seen before!
Then there was a wonderful acoustic version of every Lovatic’s favorite Lovato ballad entitled: Catch Me, and the coolest ever version of an old throwback Demi song called Here We Go Again.
Right before Catch Me, Demi gave us this amazing quote:
“I’m in basically the music capital of the world” – @ddlovato #Nashville #NEONLIGHTSTOUR #MusicCity
— Music Row Girl (@musicrowgirl) March 30, 2014
I had to tweet it because it shows how much people are respecting Nashville!
Then Demi did a riveting performance of her ballad Nightingale and I truly forgot how amazing her song Two Pieces was, but during her performance I remembered just how well written that song really is! 😀
Then Demi sat at the piano and things got real. She said to the crowd that she wanted to take the time to tell us what she stands for.
She told us that she has been through a lot in the past couple of years. “Most people get tired of hearing me tell my story, but I figure if I tell it again…at least one person will hear it for the first time, and they may be inspired to give recovery a chance.”
Demi went on to say that she used to be very depressed and troubled…”I’m pretty f***ing happy now.” She said she was sorry for cursing and that her mom was in the audience and hates to hear her curse. Demi has openly stated her love for cussing like a sailor and it’s so widespread in the music industry so I don’t mind it.
She said the following and I quote: “If you open your mind to the possibility of surrendering to happiness and health, you won’t believe how beautiful your life can be.”
If this little pep talk from a former self-harmer, substance abuser, and altogether pain stuffer wasn’t enough to inspire everyone in the audience…I really don’t know what is!
Demi makes recovery not only her path in life, but her message for everyone she meets! She’s truly an inspiration!
I decided to stand during the encore when Demi broke into Skyscraper because I thought that she stands for so much, and I want to take a stand for her and her ongoing recovery.
I’m so grateful to have seen Demi again and I look forward to more years of music and inspiration! 😀
Music Row Girl 