I
have this fear of being too early for a call time so I tend to wait and kill some
time to the point where I always end up being late. This Changing Lives concert
is no different. I was feeling so excited that I was thinking if I go to the
venue ahead of time, I will be teased and accused of being overly excited which
is very true. It’s just that I don’t want my friends to notice. I know there is
nothing wrong with that but I feel like I am showing too much emotions on
everything. So I was just trying to… Okay, enough of the babble. There wasn’t
enough time and the traffic was bad and I was late.
We
meet at the always-meeting-place McDonald’s and we went by the bay to have some
dinner. I can’t remember the name of the restaurant because I was looking at
the concert venue the whole time. Okay maybe not the whole time but I’m still
not sure of the diner, Classic Savory I think. Alright, it doesn’t matter. We
made our way to the concert grounds where people are already filling up.
I
was with a friend and two of my officemates. We were on the Silver section, a
step up for me because I always watch from there, at the back. And by the way,
my ticket was a birthday gift from my officemates last March 9.
We
were already standing there at 8-ish and by 9-ish we’re already wondering why
there was still no sign of them. Then we just assume that they probably let the
Earth Hour finish first before they started. SM Mall of Asia was promoting it
after all. The show started at 10pm, an hour later after the said event.
Going
to the venue, I was thinking how Timbaland is supposed to do a show when he is
all about auto-tune? And how am I supposed to enjoy a performance from a person
I am not a fan of? I was just there for Justin Timberlake who, at that point in
time, is not even certain to be doing a live performance. It turned out I didn’t
have to think after all. You don’t have to be a fan to enjoy his music. I loved his $#!* beats! If every club mix sounds like
that, I doubt if I would ever want to take a second to catch my breath.
He made the audience chant some
words like “I love you, Timbaland” and we (my friends and I) will scream, “I
love you, Timberlake!” It was so funny that we were laughing so hard and we
didn’t realize that were being too loud. But we just don’t care. Timbo can’t
hear us anyway. We get to sing along to some of his songs like If We Ever Meet
Again (with Katy Perry on the big screen). The lighting was crazy. Very nice! The Jojo came and performed the song Lose
Control with him. She then took over the stage and sang Too Little, Too Late. I
was a bit disappointed at her but it didn’t matter. I was there for JT.
There was a 10-minute
body-bumpin and body-gridin’ mixes from Timbo’s DJ. I guess that was to prepare
us for some Timbo-and-JT performance. They fired up with Carry Out and the
crowd went wild and gaga even when JT’s voice can be heard over but no sign of
him on the stage. Everybody was screaming (even the boys) so loud but he has
yet to show himself up. But everybody knows it was him. Timbo was kind enough
to lend him the stage and kid JT about owing him a lot of money before doing
so.
JT was wearing a fisherman’s
hat, a ckeckered open polo, a green shirt and a cargo pants and I don’t know
what else under it. Ooops! Me and my dirty mind! Lol. It was a treat for
everyone who watched the concert. I was just expecting for three or four songs
since it was Timbo’s concert and he was just a guest. But he gave us more than
what we expected. He did Summer Love, Until the End of Time (piano), Cry Me A
River, My Love, What Goes Around Comes Around (piano) and his last song, Sexy Back
with Timbo of course. He was dancing sexy the whole time. Uhm, maybe that was
just me. And then there was the fireworks display.
It was time to wake up but I was
still hang over Timbo’s beatboxin’ ♪♫♪ Manila, Manila, Manila, Manila ♪♫♪ -C
