for christmas, i bought my nieces and nephew tickets to the winterjam festival here in baltimore--bow wow, omarion, marques houston,ciara, chris brown and trey songz--unfortunately, i can't stand any of these people (the kids are all under 10 years old, so i HAVE to stay, of course)...i'm a prince/old school r&b/80's music kinda fella, so this is going to be one wretched evening for me.

pray for my soul

UPDATE:

1. Four Hour Concert 7-11 pm
2. 20,000 screaming kids--ONE FUCKING ENTRANCE
3. NO BAND (surprise, surprise)
4. Da Brat was the host (looking very butch again )
5. Marques Houston and Omarion are TOO OLD to be on this tour--their sets were definitely geared more toward 21 and up (MH stripped down to "Naked" and O saying he was a grown ass man and needed somebody 18 or older, plus some racy profanity by both of them
6. Ciara's Captain Winky did not come out (which would have made my night), but she can actually carry a tune
7. Bow Wow can actually carry a show--i'm not the biggest rap fan, but it was impressive--kinda like an early ll cool j show
8. the energy in the building was unbelievable!!--not even at a Prince concert have i felt the whole building shake with 19,999 people (i was sitting ) singing in unison, pumping their little fists and stomping.
9. will never ever go to that kind of concert again unless they improve on getting people into the building and situated
10. i bought a bootleg t-shirt off the corner
[Edited 12/29/05 5:09am]

Have fun!!!


I took my daughter to the Scream tour some years ago (B2K, IMX and Bow Wow) and it was actually enjoyable from a parental standpoint. It was a clean show and to see the little girls scream and cry was so funny.....lawd. It was cute.

oh yeah....

there was no one instrument on stage

i guess there could be worse shows to go to
my dad gave each of them $20 for xmas, so i'm waiting to see if they will be willing to part with all their cash for a $25 concert t-shirt (i'll chip in the xtra $5 )

Rhondab said:

An instrument.....wat's dat?

Rhondab said:

i can only hope for a milli vanilli or ashlee simpson moment

Will there be bumpin' & grindin' @ this show that you'll have to explain?

Who am I kidding... I guess kids see that shit all the time now, huh?

CalhounSq said:

well if marques houston does that song "naked", i'm guessing there'll be some pg-13 moments. just as long as ciara's alleged Captain Winky doesn't make a surprise appearance, i guess we'll be okay

meltwithu said:

my soul needs praying for everyday! my 14yr old daughter is into all that shit and yes its very painful listening to them all the time.
the gig cant be that long cuz they cant have more than about 10 tunes between them. yeah have fun!

catpark said:

There is always the possibility that they might start covering some Joan Jett or Sonny & Cher bullshit Hell, Britney did it.

catpark said:

my biggest fears:

1. each of those 10 songs becomes the 20 minute extended remix/dance off rendition

2. these "singers" decide they want to actually play with a live band and sing

CalhounSq said:

well...you know at the b2k show...the shirts came off.

It was a safe show for the most part.


but I think Chris brown might be a little entertaining.....a little

meltwithu said:

No1 will probably happen cuz they need to fill up the time, but as for No2 live band?

catpark said:

well you know a lot of hip-hop has gone to live bands to seem more authentic

meltwithu said:

true. but like artist like jayz etc can pull it off. bow wow and his little crew?

Rhondab said:

Wanna know how disconnected I am? I have no idea who Chris Brown is

meltwithu said:

That's some COLD SHIT!!

I ask b/c I was watching Apollo one night & some group (don't know who, young looking boys though) came on & were singing about how many different ways they wanted to do it, how many times, blah blah blah - similac breath & all. And the young girls in the audience (I'm talking 9 year olds looked like to me!! ) were going NUTS while these boys pumped the stage, pumped the air, pumped whatever. I dunno, I guess Bobby fucking Brown used to do it & I feel like I was fairly young... but not friggin' 9

I ain't havin' no kids man

oh yeah..dem franchize boys were there too--never heard of them, but theyu shook the whole building with their song " i think they like me" orwhatever it was

CalhounSq said:

similac breff

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

stolen proudly from Robin Harris