The crowd’s clothes were like a box of Crayola crayons when the second annual five-hour True Colors Tour stopped on June 11 at DTE Energy Music Theatre – but vibrancy wasn’t just colored on a T-shirt. Host Carson Kressley was “smitten with the mitten.” And we were smitten with a certain Cyndi Lauper lover, the B-52s still-random moves, and 10 other bright affairs.
THE WHITE TIE AFFAIR
They’re still no-namers (even a security guard stopped cute lead singer Chris Wallace after his energetic opening gig as he walked through the pavilion), but we’re betting, if people forgive Wallace for wearing a magenta tie over a white one, this Fall Out Boy/Panic at the Disco hybrid’s pop punk will turn into quite an affair. And, heck, even old security guards might one day know who they are.
LAUPER LOVER
“I didn’t think anybody would give a shit about this,” said Haslett, Mich. resident Shan Maggard, showing his overzealous Lauper love with an uber-big banner featuring decade-spanning magazine covers with the pop icon. Several folks stopped him for a picture. Looks like people do give a shit.
‘SAME, SAME, SAME’
With biting humor about her stint on “The View,” which she compared to a “women’s prison film,” and beating Ann Coulter in Parade magazine’s Most Annoying Celebrity poll, Rosie O’Donnell added humor to poignant recollections of her mom and her battle with depression. Nothing, though, was as touching as when she linked her son’s “same, same, same” saying (he likened other chubby people to O’Donnell at a store) to uniting all races, sexes, orientations because, well, we’re all the “same, same, same.”
CYNDI LAUPER
She bopped (and bounced and beat the stage), and, even in-between classics like “Time After Time,” newbies like way-gay “Into the Nightlight,” and brief lighting outages, the girl who just wants to have fun spread the queer cheer. The tour’s ringleader also proved as comedy-deft as Rosie O’ Donnell, who – no joke! – played drums for Cyndi, when she introduced pro-masturbation “She Bop”: “You can sing along – but nothing else.”
THE ‘STRAIGHT’ MEN
If their expressions could talk, they’d be saying, “No one said this would be like Pride. I just came for The B-52s,” as they sunk into their chairs during the peppy show – where practically everyone else thought they were at a queer club. Not necessarily cool for the non-gay guys, but for us? Oh yeah.
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2 comments:
Ahhh! And what a day it was!
It turned out to be beautiful; it was beautiful in more ways than one, for sure. The weather was not only gorgeous - so was Cyndi, as were the people who came. Not only were some of them gorgeous (physically), but they had amazing spirits! Everyone was so receptive to this very gay event, including the outnumbered heterosexual men. Or were they just too afraid THEY would get bashed this time? LOL. Kindding. ;)
No, but honestly it was a great experience. It was simply awesome to be able to be so open and hold the one you care about with no nervous or "awkwarrrrrd" feelings.
Let's not forget all of the performances - the basis of attending such an event. I was pleasantly surprised of how much I liked the artists, even those I didn't know! Well, except The Cliks; they made my head hurt...
Anyway, all-in-all it was a great time!
CYNDI LAUPER ROCKS!
I had a GREAT time; Cyndi Lauper is a real performer, she has a voice bigger than she is! I was mentioned in this article (Shan, with the huge poster) and I'm not just a biased Cyndi fan.
To my understanding the lack of empty seats Cyndi arranged to be filled- really belonged to people walking around trying to avoid the Cliks loud banging. When the pop icon Lauper said come on down people were flooding the gates to grab a seat (I know I was lost in the mob of people) once people were in place the crowd was pretty massive, with people still on the lawn.
The guest count was high for a tour that Sony, Cyndi Lauper's record label did not promote what so ever. The True Colors tour could have sold out completely in that case, unfortunately The HRC and Cyndi's manager had to do ALL the work! (Sony sucks)
Cyndi had everyone standing through her entire performance as if it were 1984 the year she won "Best New Artist" over Madonna! she performed huge top 10 hits like: Change Of Heart
She Bop
I drove all Night
Money Changes everything
Time after Time
Girls'
and True Colors While introducing
new--soon to be club hits "Rocking Chair" and "Into The Nightlife".
I would have loved to hear "The Goonies R Good Enough" one of Cyndi's biggest hits and "All Through The Night" but once you've had that many hits you gotta pick and choose what you have time for I guess.
Cyndi's hit "Same Old Fucking Story" is at #1 this week on Billboard magazines dance club play!! from the new album "Bring Ya To The Brink" go and get a copy, I cannot stop listening to it!
...and Chris I wanna hug you again Thanks for the mention and a wonderful much deserved cover story :)
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