Beyonce bought her Formation Tour to the Rogers Centre this week and I was one of the almost 50,000 that were able to see her.

This wasn’t my first time at seeing Queen Bey,it would be my 3rd but it was her first stand alone show of stadiums.

Now unlike Justin Bieber, whom I had just seen 6 days earlier, I had very high expectations for The Formation Tour.  I had been listening to Lemonade non-stop since it was released earlier in the month and had been reading about the incredible set design of this show.

After reading for days about the incredible staging of this show,it really was more spectacular in person.

The show started a little late at around 9:15, Queen Bey started out with a bang with Formation. I have to admit this is currently one of my favourite songs this year.

Not only did this show well go past my exceptions, it is probably on of the best concerts I have see in the last few year.

Beyonce was on point this night, her singing was great, her dancing was amazing ( I will get back to that) her wind machines were next level and Beyonce has no time for pants on this tour. Pants to her are what a smile is to Justin Bieber, what’s the point.

It was a a two hour spectacle that even included a pool of water at the end on the B stage, where Beyonce and her dancers stomped and danced in bare feet and shin deep water.

Now one of things I have always been a bit critical of Beyonce was her dancing. Not that it is not good,  its fantastic, but it is literally the identical choreography even time she sings certain songs. Crazy in Love, it exactly what she did in the video ten plus years ago, Single Ladies, yes we know what she is going to do. End of Time, yup same choreography as the Super Bowl and the last 3 concerts.  In this show same thing, some of the dancing was right from the the On The Run tour of tour years ago (Bow Down and Ring the Alarm for example). But this time I didn’t care at all, everything else about the show was so fantastic that it didn’t matter.

The other thing about a Beyonce show. Her Wind Machines.  How important are they to the show? They are the 2nd most important part of the whole show.

It goes

1. Beyonce
2. Beyonce Wind Machines
3. the rest of the band/dancers

They don’t let her sweat, they don’t let her hair get her mouth, they make sure the wind is in the exact direction that it needs to be and with what like at lest 100 on the stage, I am surprised Toronto Hydro kept up.

Beyonce and her massive stage @rogerscentre

I can’t  even compare this show to Justin at all. This was on a different level. Beyonce really set herself apart from the rest that night. The more days away from the show, the more I wish I could see it again. Now I just have to hope for a HBO broadcast of The Formation tour. One that HBO Canada would actually air live this time.

The incredible set list from the night
Formation
Sorry
Bow Down
Run the World (Girls)
Superpower
Mine
Baby Boy
Hold Up
Countdown
Me, Myself and I
Runnin’ (Lose It All)
(Naughty Boy cover)
All Night
Don’t Hurt Yourself
Ring the Alarm
Diva
(with samples of ‘U Mad’, ‘Cut It’, & ‘Panda’)
Flawless (remix)
Feeling Myself
Yoncé
Drunk in Love
Rocket
Partition
Hip Hop Star / Freakum Dress
Daddy Lessons
Love on Top
1+1
The Beautiful Ones (Price cover)
Purple Rain(Interlude)
Crazy in Love
(‘2014 Remix’ intro. With samples of ‘Bootylicious’.)
Naughty Girl
Party
Blow
(with samples of ‘Nasty Girl’)
Die with You / Blue
Freedom
Survivor
End of Time
(with samples of ‘Grown Woman’)
Halo

5/5 for the Wind Machines and10/10 for Queen Bey

I know this is late, but better late than never right?
Last week I was giving a chance to see two much talked about concerts in Toronto. The Biebs and Queen Bey .

Both shows were sold out and both left 2 different impressions on me.
This post will talk about the first show I saw, Justin Bieber The Purpose World tour.

I went to not really having too high of expectations, as I am far from being a “Belieber” He has some catchy songs, and from what I was hearing this show was high on production value.

I will admit the show started out strong, with the “Where r u now”. Justin danced, Justin sang (we will get to that later) but want Justin didn’t do, so any sort of emotion at all.

After a few decent songs, the show seemed to lose steam. Although the sound was great, Justin looked like he was hating every single minute on the stage. He didn’t smile once, not even a grin. Nothing. My god he even had a trampoline come down from the ceiling. Nothing. No smile.

With showing zero emotion, he must have been concentrating on remembering all the words to his songs right? Well when during your show you can actually drop the mic and still not miss a note you have other things going on. Let’s give credit to the sound team on this tour, because it was very clear at times that Justin, was just too bored to open is mouth.

The crowd made up of mostly 20 something women seemed to enjoy the show, and based on the insane lines at the merch counters they wanted an overpriced t-shirt from the night as well.

The Biebs finished the night with Sorry as water fell from the roof, (still no sound of any water on the mic) but the audience (minus me) sang right along.

Justin Bieber (not smiling) 

Justin Bieber at the Air Canada Centre 3/5