The diva Mariah
Waiting an hour and a half for Mariah Carey's concert to start really had me thinking: "Geez if I were popular would I make everyone wait like she did? Hmmmm, I think I may have her diva-lish ways already!" Watching her in concert was another thing. The ultimate diva MC (as she's fondly called) walked through the crowd for her first song and up onto the stage with tons of bodyguards and all. Perhaps this sets the tone, almost untouchable, totally diva. She had the most amazing glittering outfit and it was tiny I tell you. Perfect for the people in the very back of the Fort Bonifacio open field, (there were about 20,000 of us) of course lets note the huge screens on each side of the stage but suppose it's always better to look at the real thing.
Mariah's intro song was superb and her voice is to be reckoned with, I mean those high notes. Whoa. But the Charmbracelet tour of Carey's sagged a bit. She had about seven or more outfit changes which all looked great and I loved her feathery Roberto Cavalli piece but it also had me feeling like it broke the flow of the show. Carey doesn't really interact with the audience much but in the middle of her concert she does stop mid-song to announce a bug on stage that is freaking her out, a (big healthy roach) and had the audience laughing.
The Philippines was her last stop in Asia, last stop for her world tour, which had her whole group performing for the last seven (yes seven) months. So maybe the oomph and ahhh factor may have been a bit tired. Gigi Gonaway who plays drums for Mariah's concert tells me another side of Mariah, "We just performed in China and it was freezing over there I tell you. We were so cold up there on stage we all had to bundle up, MC was such as trooper as she started (the concert) with her full length coat but after one or two songs she took her coat off and just sang on and wore all those (skimpy LA diva) outfits."
Now knowing about an after-concert party at Red in the Makati Shangri-la had me tittering to Mr. Francis Lumen and the woman behind the awesome scene, sweet Meldy Valdezco for the time of diva MC's real arrival, thanks for all the help. She does arrive about two hours later in a denim pleated mini and another belly-baring number Tim Yap and LA diva RR manage a handshake and a photograph with the LA ultimate Diva MC who half-jokes with her dancer Ramone (whose lap she sits on) that "our photo will be on the tabloids tomorrow and we're the new couple". My honest diva opinion... it's so hard to be a diva but gawd someone's just got to play it to the hilt. Whatever... (INQ7.net - Mariah Hero)
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