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Beyonce show is a pop dream
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Madison Square Garden Arena (New York, NY)
Concert Date: August 4th, 2007
Reviewer: admin
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Romance as a Struggle That She Will Win
By JON PARELES
Published: August 6, 2007
Beyoncé walked onstage at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, made a
quick commanding gesture, and sparks rained down. Her band kicked into the
funk beat of “Crazy in Love,” and she started to sing and dance,
alternating stop-motion angular poses and serpentine shimmies, switching
between robot and seductress. Her face was angry and exultant; she belted
the song with bright swoops and vehement rasps. Like many of Beyoncé’s
songs, “Crazy in Love” treats romance as a power struggle, and it’s hard
to imagine her not winning in the end.
She’s the woman with everything: the voice, the moves, the songs, the
ideas and the clothes. Her two-hour set was a brilliant pop extravaganza
that kept the songs at its center.
Beyoncé needs no distractions from her singing, which can be airy or
brassy, tearful or vicious, rapid-fire with staccato syllables or
sustained in curlicued melismas. But she was in constant motion, strutting
in costumes (most of them silvery), from miniskirts to formal dresses,
flesh-toned bodysuit to bikini to negligee.
The wardrobe entices men, but it’s also a means of self-assertion. “Stop,
I ain’t ready yet — wait, let me fix my hair,” she chanted to the beat in
the introduction to “Freakum Dress,” a hard-rock song about every woman’s
most seductive outfit. Desire is her ally, yet also, in some songs, her
undoing; men inexplicably will mess up a good thing. And while Beyoncé can
coo when she wants to, what makes her songs memorable is a streak of rage
that’s perfectly groomed but unmistakable. Her second solo album, “B’Day”
(Columbia), grows downright furious in songs like “Ring the Alarm” and
“Green Light.”
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