My review.
The Beyoncé Experience!
Finally after waiting for months the time has come, may 18th, I’m going to Beyoncé! This morning I woke up with butterflies in my stomach, I was so excited! Finally I’m going to Beyoncé! Edwin & I ordered our tickets already back in October so we’ve waited enough months. At a quarter to 4 I arrived at the train station in Boxtel, my mom brought me. First I was going by train to Tilburg where I would meet Edwin and together we went by train to Rotterdam. I think we arrived at half past 5, from there on we had to go with the metro to Ahoy. None of us knew exactly how it worked so we asked a nice lady to help us with the ‘entering the metro part’. We arrived at Ahoy round 6pm and there were already so many people! Especially for the standing places, a whole row from beginning all over the square. On one hand I’m glad we had seats but on the other side, it would’ve been incredibly awesome if we could stand there all day and have front row places. Unfortunately we had to get back home by train too and we couldn’t make it if we didn’t have seats. We walked around a bit in hope we could catch some backstage looks and after that we waited till 6:40 PM when the doors finally opened. We waited an hour inside the venue and the first special guest Lemar appeared on the stage. Lemar sang 5 songs and I quiet liked it actually. After a few minutes Sharon came on stage, like Lemar Sharon sang 5 songs and I didn’t enjoyed this performance at all like many other people! We had to wait one hour before Beyoncé came up which was quiet long, actually too long but it’s all worth it!
After yelling, screaming & clapping for a few minutes finally the lights went down and we heard some mysterious music. Lots of smoke came of the stage and a woman in a beautiful dress came up, Beyoncé! Behind her was a curtain of fireworks and all the people screamed and gave her a standing ovation. The show began with probably Beyoncé’s biggest solo hit so far, ‘Crazy In Love’ followed by Freakum Dress. Awesome dresses and I loved the whole stage effect! Freakum Dress & Greenlight were inspired by the videos for the songs cause like almost everything was the same.
Huge applaud when Beyoncé came back in another sexy a la Shakira outfit for the song ‘Baby Boy’ followed by Beautiful Liar, everybody knows the lyrics and it’s our current Nr. 1 song in the charts so everybody sang along. A few songs & outfits later Beyoncé sang the very famous Destiny’s Child songs in a medley and this was the highlight for many people, every song got it’s own look and colour. I’m not sure if the medley was followed by ‘Flaws & All’ or not, I don’t know when she exactly sang this song but it’s was definitely my favourite part of the whole show. They did some sort of stormy effect on the three big screens and I loved it, Beyoncé made funny faces at the beginning, did NOT scrap the word ‘b**ch’ and cried at the end before she was taken away by an angel. Of course she performed the American single ‘Ring The Alarm’ and she did the famous awesome dance, I was really looking forward for that and I absolutely loved it, just awesome. ‘Upgrade U’ & ‘Get Me Bodied’ are two of my favourite songs of the B’day album so I was happy she sang those songs too, very awesome. Beyoncé also sang ‘Check On It’, I love this song and I can fully sing this song along with Beyoncé, she did this song very funny. During ‘Listen’ we had to run to the other side of the venue and when ‘Irreplaceable’ almost finished we unfortunately had to leave to catch our train. This really sucked cause later we heard that we missed ‘Deja Vu’, I was already thinking when this song was coming into the show. Next time I’ll definitely make sure that I can stay at the concert till it’s finished.
Every concert I’ve been to so far was just awesome and this one is now one of my favourites too! Next time Beyoncé is coming, with or without Destiny’s Child that doesn’t matter, I’ll be there!