Sorry it took me a week after the concert to post this life changing (for me) and super exciting concert of Idina Menzel here in Manila. I am also still having a PCD also known as Post Concert Depression and my full fangirl mode for the whole week. I have also been listening to all her singles/albums and musical recordings and even replaying all the concert videos uploaded in youtube (yah ... Truly my full fangirl mode).
Well, I have been a fan of her since 2005 through her movie Rent. I was still in my freshman year in high school and I was also a part of the theatre club, we were asked to create a number with the song Seasons of Love, me being as annoyingly ignorant as I am never knew that song! So I went to the nearest music store, search for any album or CD that could help me with the task and I ended up buying a VCD or Rent, and that is where my full fangirl moment started.
Anyway, it is a dream come true for me and to all her fans here in Manila to see her! Words can't explain the energy we had in her concert. It was truly magical, amazing and all magnificent words we can associate her with (HAHA! I really can't express it without being so much of a fangirl).
It was a 2 hour concert in MOA Arena, She started with Defying gravity and I was not prepared for that and I think that is the reason I was not able to record any of her videos in the concert....
She sang songs from her album I Stand (which I have her whole album on iTunes) and Still I can't be still. My favorite parts were when she sang The Wizard and I;
When she sang No Day but today where the whole audience light up their flashlights in camera and waved it creating a constellation which makes the song more emotional.
I also love the time she sang her rendition of Creep by Radiohead. It was my OMG moment as she can still reach the high notes while she is sprawled on the stage.
My most favorite part of the concert was when she sang For Good in Acapella (pure talent at its finest). It felt so emotional and heartfelt that by the end the audience sang the last part with her like we made a new friend.
She also sang take me or leave me with 3 lucky people who had also have pipes! She even had a selfie with them!
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I also found it amusing that she sang a part of Let it go in Filipino... It's too cute and kind of awkward for me because we never sung it in Filipino and if we ever translate the song it Filipino.. We'll be having a big problem with looking for the perfect translation. You see there is something with the Filipino language that make it hard to be translated into any other language and vice versa without totally rephrasing the whole song. Our words tend to be longer on most english words and longer for shorter english words. Sometimes one english word is a phrase when translated in Filipino.
I love the "Idinafied" last part of Let it go! I love the alternative rock twist with it!
She also had two encores were she sang Child which will be a part of her new album and another is Tomorrow (from Annie).
It was really a dream come true to me having to see her so close (yet so far). I wsih she'll come back to Manila for another concert huhuhuhu !
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