The Misadventures of Me: The Black Eyed Peas Concert

The Black Eyed Peas concert, E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) was pretty awesome! Looking at the seat placement ahead of time, I figured that the seats weren’t going to be all that great. It was sort of the side view of the stage. But hey, beggars can’t be choosers! Plus, they were a lot better than the seats I’d had approximately 10 years ago for the Billy Joel/Elton John concert in the same arena. That time, I was behind the stage and way up in the nosebleed section. This was a whole level lower and from the side. Score!

LMFAO and Ludacris started the show off. LMFAO wasn’t all that great. They apparently started off on MTV’s The Real World, deejaying their parties and such. They were mildly entertaining. Ludacris came on and the crowd went wild. I’m not all that familiar with Ludacris’ music but it was crazy hilarious to watch all these white people trying to dance to his music like they were crunk or something. The funniest group was a group of three girls that later turned into five girls. The first three girls dressed like they were going to the club. And while I’m not a good judge of age, I figured that they were college students but not old enough to drink just yet. One girl was very pretty but seemed really shy. She was standing but not really dancing like her cohorts. The second was pretty as well but did not know how to wear a dress to a concert. It was strapless so every time she sat down it would pull down, exposing her bra. The third was dancing as if she were at a bar and trying to attract the guys. To give further proof that she thought she was at a bar, she was sporting a tight tank top and her belly was pooching out suggesting that she’d had a steady diet of beer. I’m not one to talk. I’ve certainly enjoyed a beer here and there. But I do not let my “pooch” hang out in public! To add to this, she seemed like she was drunk, probably drinking at home before the show. She fell asleep halfway through the Black Eyed Peas portion of the concert. I cannot fathom falling asleep amidst all that noise. Guess she was pretty wasted. Then the other two girls showed up. One was pretty uninteresting but the other, was wearing a baseball cap backwards and when she would lean forward you could see she was sportin’ a serious whale tale. And this particular girl kept tentatively trying to touch the other girl. At one point she put her hand up into her hair and rubbed her neck, which the other girl shrugged off.

At this point, we decide that we’ll have a better vantage point and more room if we move over to the section that hadn’t been sold for the concert. We could stretch out, put our feet up, and not have to view the concert through the sorority girls’ butt shakes. The concert was amazing. The four members have so much talent! Listening to will.i.am rap as fast as a locomotive was impressive. But their songs are just genius, too. Fergie’s outfits are interesting to say the least.

The whole set had a futuristic feel. This made me realize…that futuristic stuff scares the crap out of me. Robots, talking green faces on a monitor announcing what’s going to happen next, and dancers in unitards that cover their faces in a geometric pattern scare me silly. I bought the CD and cannot look at the cover. I have no idea why. I saw a robot at the State Fair this past fall that would sing songs and dance around. My first reaction was “oh cool! Look at that thing!” But when I got up close to it my reaction quickly changed to “oh my God, get that thing away from before it crushes the life out of me!!” I’m sure that if anything close to iRobot happened, I’d totally be on Will Smith’s side of things. Ain’t no way I’d be able to trust a robot living in my home, waiting on me hand and foot, knowing all my secrets. It would freak me out.