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Philip and I went to see Sugababes tonight for his birthday. It was really, really fun. We were on the 9th row, which meant we could see every little thing (including the Amy Winehouse-inspired eye liner), so the filming on cameras/phones going on around us was incessant. To that end, Phil noticed that people seemed to be rather partisan when it came to capturing the performance, regardless of who was actually performing. For instance, there was a fellow standing in front of us that only recorded Keisha, never mind that she was actually only contributing some 'runs' while her compatriots took most of the leads. I thought that was the case in this video, and that jmbradbury1 was a Heidi partisan, but it turns out he/she just didn't want to move the camera.

Regardless of who's on camera, they covered 'Don't Let Go' by En Vogue, and it was SO GOOD. We're going to see Girls Aloud in May, and, although I can imagine their performance being more of a well-coordinated spectacle, I'm not convinced they could sound better than the 'Babes. But I guess we'll see.

Anyway, an early happy birthday to my best mate.

Comments

[info]kfan wrote:
21st Mar, 2008 02:39 (UTC)
Man that sounds so fun.

Am I right in thinking Amelle is my favorite?
[info]5500 wrote:
21st Mar, 2008 10:27 (UTC)
Well, I don't know. Amelle is a good singer, but there was something strangely anodyne about her. When she wasn't singing, she would put on this weirdly plastic smile that made her look like a lifesize marionette. Heidi is my fave, because she looks like she's have the most fun. At various points, when the other girls were singing, she'd mouth along the words with them so gleefully, almost as if she was a fan like those of us in the audience. It was adorable. But, really, the take-away for me was that all three of them are good singers, and although most of the time the songs were copies of the studio versions, occasionally they mixed things up with interesting harmonies.