Paint the city P!NK

Review by: Shelby Tyce

Photos by: Shelby Tyce and Jason Nelson

Even though Pittsburgh is known for their love of black and gold, there was one color that stood out just a bit more this past Saturday night, as “The Bucket” (PPG PAINTS ARENA) turned a rockin shade of P!NK. Even though the color itself was included in several aspects of the show, I’m more specifically talking about Alecia Moore, better known by her stage name: P!NK.

Opening the show with “Get This Party Started” P!NK definitely starts the show off with a bang, as she enters the stage swinging on a huge chandelier, with her talented dance team performing a routine below her, to which she eventually joins herself. This was one of the several times aerial routines throughout the show, others including parts of her dance team dangling above her as they hung from umbrellas, or as P!NK decided to give everyone a front row view as she flew around the entirety of the arena as she performed one of her other major hits “So What”.

Now I know what your thinking, these songs aren’t from her latest album Beautiful Trauma, which the entire tour is titled after, but fear not, there was a fair amount of songs from both her latest album as well as older albums such as The Truth About Love, or Funhouse, and she also even made sure to include a cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. So yes, there was a fair amount coverage for all fans, whether new, those who have been in for the long haul, or those who were just there to have a good time no matter the music selection.

Let’s talk sets for a few minutes. No I’m not talking about music sets, or drum sets, but physically the sets that make up the actual stage. As I mentioned before, there was a bright pink and silver chandelier, along with equally bright pink lamp posts. In between set piece changes, there was a digital screen behind everything, allowing bright, vibrant projections to take over as the back set for several songs, as the next physical set was set up, a mythical type forest scene. The transition was nothing more than what I can describe as calm and tranquil, playing cricket sounds as the tree branches appeared, along with the dance team, who had transformed into woodland type characters. It was used for several songs, including another hit song, “Try.”
If I were to try to cover everything else that went on during this action packed evening, I would be here forever, so lets focus on one more aspect on the show and call it a night. Now it’s fairly well known that P!NK is known for having a strong love for building women up and encouraging them to express their own unique selves, and that was not different Saturday night, as a slideshow of different moments in history where women overpowered different obstacles played behind her while she spoke about the subject. She also took time between two different songs, to introduce each member of her team on stage, the musicians and dance team each individually, with digital slides to go along with each one. What about the rest of the people involved with the tour you ask? They were all included in a movie credit like ending at the very end of the show, as the party came to a close.

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