\u2018Who Says\u2019 singer doesn\u2019t disappoint fans with simple, yet fun concert<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> You\u2019d expect a concert at a state fair to be simple, no\nextravagant stage, not a lot of flashy lights. Selena Gomez\u2019s concert at the\nPuyallup Fairgrounds on September 12, was just that\u2014but it was the no frills\nproduction that really allowed the 18-year-old singer to shine. It was all\nabout her and her band (the Scene), her songs, her voice and her fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike most other concert these days, this particular tour date had no opening act. As the scheduled start of her show approached, her fans in the grandstands\u2014mostly tween girls dressed in Selena T-shirts\u2014started screaming, holding up their homemade posters\u2014started to stomp their feet, sending an echoing thundering noise throughout the entire venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then the lights dimmed, and Selena ran onto the stage accompanied\nonly by her drummer, guitar player and two backup singers. The screams would\nonly get louder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dressed in sparkly black pants, T-shirt and black boots,\nand holding a magenta-sequined mic with her name on it, Gomez opened with \u201cA\nYear Without Rain\u201d followed by \u201cHit the Lights,\u201d a song off her third album \u201cWhen\nthe Sun Goes Down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What really stood out was the fact there was no choreographed\nnumbers, no back up dancers. There wasn\u2019t anything to distract from the singing\u2014and\nthe girl can sing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Gomez\u2019s fan base tends to lean mostly to the\nyounger audience, parents who had brought their kids to the show to see their\nfavorite Disney star seemed to enjoy the show too. One mom said she was\nthankful that out of all the acts out there, that her kids liked the G-rated Gomez\nbest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selena paid tribute to Nicki Minaj by covering her hit\nsong \u201cSuper Bass,\u201d and also pointed out before singing \u201cWhiplash\u201d that her\nchildhood hero, Britney Spears, had written the song especially for her. Unlike\nother performances on the other dates during the tour, Gomez didn\u2019t sing her Britney\ntribute medley at this show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After singing and bopping around both ends of the stage\nfor almost two hours, the lights went off, prompting Selena fans to start\nchanting and screaming loudly again for her to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They weren\u2019t disappointed when a familiar guitar riff for\nher hit song \u201cWho Says\u201d started playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selena didn\u2019t spend too much time talking during her show, but before she sang her last encore song \u201cMagic,\u201d she thanked her fans, saying she wouldn\u2019t be on the stage singing without their love and support. She also had a message for the parents of her young fans. \u201cThank you for putting up with me and my songs,\u201d she said. Fact is, it doesn\u2019t take a lot of effort to like her music, even if you aren\u2019t a tween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Who Says\u2019 singer doesn\u2019t disappoint fans with simple, yet fun concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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