Performance Review – Ariana Grande Dangerous Women Tour
The musical performance I choose to attend was an Ariana Grande concert which took place at 7 pm March 5th at the Air Canada Centre. The entire duration of the concert was 3 hours. Her set list included 20 songs from her album Dangerous Women. I arrived by my seat at 7 pm sharp and the concert did not start until 8 pm. The one hour wait consisted of people chatting with each other and obnoxiously loud background music playing on the screen. The sounds of people setting up the main stage were echoing throughout the arena yet was overshowed by the deafening background music. An hour later, the background music stopped and a low drumming noise starts. The whole arena goes silent for 5 seconds and in an instant, the audience starts roaring with screams and shouts. A timer is displayed on screen which counts back from 10. With each number counting down, the anticipation increases and the crowd gets more excited and increasingly loud. The background music of her song “Be Alright” starts blasting while 10 dancers come on stage. Ariana come’s on stage and the crowd erupted with screams and cheers. The girls beside me, and myself included started clapping, jumping and shrieking as if our life depended on it.
The musical genre of her music is contemporary R&B, which is a combination of pop, funk, soul, hip hop, dance and rhythm and blues. (Richard 1999, 130) The genre consists of a “distinctive drum-machine backed rhythms, saxophone laced beat, smooth and lush vocal arrangement and an occasional pop-sounding fusion.” (WayBack Machine, 2010) These descriptions perfectly describe the sound of Ariana. The song I am going to describe is the song “Into You” which was preformed towards the end of the concert and during the encore. Firstly, what I noticed was that this song got the most cheers and scre...
