Ricky Martin Concert
I was born in 1989, I will always be a 80s or 90s kid, mainly a 90s kid since I lived the 90s but I do love some 80s things, I’m a big mix between the two. I have grown up listening to different types of music, my family loved country, but I branched out to start listening to the popular music and still do. Mel did on some level with her New Kids, but she was very passionate about her country music at the time I started branching out. I began to listen to NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Aaron Carter, you name the big name music person during that era and I probably did listen to them at some point. I have been fortunate enough to see NSYNC and Backstreet Boys perform in concert, but my love for some of these bands has continued. I still love Aaron Carter, I support him in whatever he does. I am glad to see Britney Spears has gotten her life back on track and is performing again, I only hope for the best for her. Spice Girls, they are all doing their own thing and they are all awesome in their own way. NSYNC is all doing their own thing right now as well, I still follow JC Chasez, who is my ABSOLUTE favorite and one of my first loves, and I follow Justin Timberlake as well because he was my second favorite. Backstreet Boys recently reformed, and I have been following them since they reformed, I am fortunate enough to see them perform this year on my birthday ALONG with meeting them. This will be the first time I will ever get to meet a member of BSB and/or meet one of my first crushes Nick Carter. I’ve yet to meet anybody from the list above so it shall be interesting.
Anyways, you are all probably wondering why I haven’t discussed Ricky Martin? Here I go, I love Ricky Martin and I own one of his CDs that has a few of my favorite songs, like ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’ and ‘Shake Your Bon-Bon.’ I have his songs on my iPod and never really followed him as much as I did the others in that time nor now, I just knew I loved him and never really actively followed him until recently when he released his book and had came out of the closet. Mel and I found out that Ricky was doing a book signing at the Grove one day and we decided to go. Other things kind of got in the way and we weren’t able to make it in time to get a wrist band so we couldn’t meet him. It ended up being the best night ever though, it was an epic night to where Mel and I could hang out. As we were hanging around the Grove, guess who I got to see? I got to see the one and only JC Chasez, Mr. 1st crush of mine, walking past Mel and I with his date and their double date buddies. I yelled ‘Is that who I fucking think it is?’ When I yelled it, I mean I yelled it loud enough where he can hear it on the other side of the street, he turned to look at me, I had this shocked but yet excited face pointing at him, I was 100% sure it was him but I needed Mel to reconfirm this. Mel grabbed my head shoving it into her shoulder to shut me up, which she then waved to JC and he continued on his way. I started to flip out and we followed him all the way to the parking garage where he waited for his car from valet, we didn’t have the guts to approach him while he was on his date. I always needed to thank Ricky for drawing us to the Grove because if he wasn’t at the Grove signing, we wouldn’t of went and I wouldn’t of saw JC Chasez, it wasn’t only Ricky I needed to thank, there was others involved I need to thank and I’m pretty sure that I’ve thanked this person before and this person probably doesn’t know I’m talking about them nor do I think he’s reading this…..but I want to say thank you to that person.
I recently checked out his biography from the library, I’m still working on it and I’m half way done with it, but still have a while to go and it’s a great book. Mel and I listened to his new songs, well the ones that were in English, and we loved them. We found out he was going on tour, and I wanted to go. Fortunately for my music class I need to attend 5 concerts so that is my excuse of why I went *shifts eyes* yep, that is why I wanted to go…so Mel and I had saved up the money and purchased tickets to the concert for Friday since that day worked the best for us.
Mel and I have been planning other events that are coming up in the future, near and distant future, and we have decided that we wanted to lose weight for real and not give it half ass like we have done before. We have been sticking to the diet the best we could, yes we have splurged here and there but we have had faced the coincidences that had come with it and we have been hitting the gym at least 5 days a week when we could and sometimes more than that. We do cardio as best we could with Mel’s knee the way it is, we even do water aerobics which is easier on her knee and sometimes we swim laps or walk laps in the pool, which is better than nothing. And we do an hour of weights, well however long it takes to get all the weights done, and we go home. As for diet wise, we eat every 4-6 hours, not like big meals but a snack here and there and we may have one or two meal meals here and there and the others are like fruit cups or something, something healthy but yet tasty.
We have had made goals for each event that is coming up, we started April 7th and the concert was May 6th so we had about a month, so we wanted to lose 5 pounds within that month. Guess what? We lost about 10 pounds each, and we are well on our way to the next goal of 15 pounds by July 3rd (my birthday). So going to see this concert was kind of a sister night out, a celebration of losing 10 pounds and to have a good time. It was a Friday, Mel had to be at work by 8 and I had class at 8, so it was going to be an early day. Mel woke up at 4:45 instead of 5:30 and thought she was running late, and she couldn’t go back to sleep, and I got up at 6:30 and went to class. I got out of my first class at 11:45 because he gave us time to do homework which he has yet to unlock, anyways, I went to the learning center printing out my essay. I had a conference with my English teacher to go over my essay at 12:30, but I ate a handful of Capt. Crunch before I went over there at 12:05 to see if the person before me even showed up because sometimes my class mates don’t show up or switch to a later time, fortunately the person before me showed up earlier that day which got me in there early. I got out earlier and was able to make it over to the Metrolink station before 1:30 to catch the train to go to Sylmar.
I got on the train, I sat in a solo seat in the corner next to a couple that got on in Palmdale. I was listening to my iPod trying not to fall asleep from boredom and I eventually got to Sylmar about 2:50ish and waited only a few moments until Mel was able to make it to the station to grab me. We headed to Universal City where we hit Subway for lunch, we went into Carl’s Jr. using their bathroom and re-did our make-up and such in the car in the parking lot before driving around the corner to the Universal Red Line. We parked and walked downstairs to jump onto the Red Line taking it over to 7th street which is like a good 5-10 blocks away from Staples, we were going to take the Blue Line but we didn’t have the money to do so. Anyways, we walked down to Nokia and got there at like 4:30, 5ish so we walked around trying to kill time until the doors opened at 7. We took our 10 pound lost picture for our weight loss scrapbook we are making, we entered a contest to try and win better tickets to the concert along with entering to win Wango Tango tickets, but didn’t win. We used the bathroom, and looked at the merchandise. We then finally went into the arena going up the couple escalators to our level, by this time we had to use the bathroom yet again from the amount of water we drunk and bought a new water bottle because they took ours away from us.
We found our seats, they weren’t bad at all. We were second row in the Mezzanine section so it wasn’t that far away nor high. We were people watching and we found this chick further down breaking it down to the music that was playing over the speakers, let me tell you it was entertainment, I think she was already partly drunk. Mel and I began talking about what would happen if the electric breaker would go out in an arena like that. I was like ‘I will be the dumb ass walking around with my cell phone trying to see and trying to go down the escalator.’ Mel was like ‘You’ll be like why isn’t this working.’ I said ‘I can’t take the stairs, have you tried going down the stairs without any lights? I will trip and fall taking everyone out with me….’ ‘Maybe you will meet someone, and you can be like ‘You want to share an ambulance?’ or something like that?’ which went into this long conversation of what we can share. It got to a point where our whole row was full and they had played this same commercial for Puerto Rico twice, which if that is REALLY what Puerto Rico looks like I need to go sometime, and we were dying to use the bathroom yet again. We got up scooted out of the row and ran to the bathroom, luckily our section was right next to the bathroom so it wasn’t that far. We went and came back like 20 minutes before he even came out.
As we were sitting there, we noticed these mobs forming on the ground below us which was entertaining and yet bad on security’s part. Apparently another Latin music star ‘Christian’ and this other person, we didn’t find out who it was, was there and everyone was swarming them for photos and such. We were laughing at security’s stupidity for not escorting them and not bringing them in first nor giving them a box to sit in. We thought we were going to be the only white chicks there, I don’t mean that in any racist context, but we knew he is and was very popular amongst the Latin culture, luckily we were sitting next to a grandma, a mother and a daughter who were white like us.
Going into the concert, I knew I would enjoy it because it’s Ricky fucking Martin but was worried I wouldn’t know the songs because he was going to sing them in Spanish. After the first song, I didn’t care anymore if the song was in Spanish or English, it was such an entertaining concert you just had fun watching what was going on the stage. Of course he sung my favorite songs, ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca,’ ‘Shake Your Bon-Bon,’ ‘The Cup of Life,’ and ‘She Bangs,’ along with his new ones that I like ‘The Best Thing About Me is You,’ and ‘Mas.’ He did sing some songs I haven’t heard and some were in Spanish, I felt bad for not singing along but I don’t know much Spanish, and I didn’t have Google to translate for me.
The one song, ‘I Am,’ has become my new favorite. I have seen clips of this song performed, well at least the choreography and I didn’t think anything of it until he started doing it. Mel smacked me on the arm and was like ‘Did you see that?’ And I was like ‘See what?’ I was used to it, didn’t think anything of it and was too focused on taking a picture that I didn’t catch what exactly she was talking about. ‘He just went down on that girl…and he slid all the way up…’ Mel said, one he didn’t officially go down on her, she and him had clothes on, but him and the other performers were acting out a fake orgie on the stage. ‘Oh…’ I was okay with that and only wished I was that girl. That was one of the hottest numbers of the show. Gay or not, Ricky had some moves that he did that was very seductive. At one point he propped himself up onto two of the railings of the metal stage thing he had and was thrusting up, amongst other things. He was very hot, it made us girls hot and was begging to God that he would become straight and the gay men were thanking their stars he was gay and was hoping they could sleep with him. Everyone in that room was getting hot….he wasn’t lying when he told Ellen it was going to be sexy, it was sexy!!
Throughout the concert, members of his performers would tell their back stories. The one dancer, when he was younger his dad made him box and didn’t want him to be gay nor dance. As he got older, he started dancing and came out to his dad because that is him and who he wants to be. His guitar player talked about that when he was a kid his mom used to put a lot of white powder on his face to hide the fact he was African American, one day he got pulled over and beaten by the cops because of his color, but music saved his life. These stories really spoke and reached out to those that are different in the world, and help makes those that are different in that same way understand what they went through and could relate on some other level.
At the end of the concert, he came out to do his ‘encore’ which was ‘The Best Part of Me is You.’ If you haven’t heard this song, you must go listen to it now…hell, I will post the link to the video right here so you CAN watch it. In the middle of the song, he spoke and said, ‘All I want in this world is for us to be all equal. Me, you, everyone is the same and equal. No one is different, how nice would that be?’ He said. I really got touched by this because I am different. Ricky wasn’t only talking about homosexuality; he was talking about everything in general. There is so much hate out there against everything, there are homophobics and/or those that hate homosexuality, prejudices against gender, prejudices against weight, height, eye color, hair color, racist, and the list goes on and on….people hate on anything and everything they can and want to. Nothing is better than the other, we are the same person and no one is better than the other person. Like the Randy Orton movie, ‘That’s What I Am’ someone said ‘God doesn’t make mistakes.’ God made us all individually, he spent his time making us all the way he wanted us and only he can judge us. He will and always will love you because you are his kid. If we can stop this hate and be equal for once, maybe we will all have harmony and peace. We have all experienced too much hate in this life, if you haven’t you should be lucky. Life is too short to live your life being afraid who you are, people are becoming more afraid to be themselves and Lord knows I am afraid to be myself sometimes. We all remember the tragic losses of those teenagers/kids that committed suicide because of bullying over them being gay. This has all gotten out of hand and we adults are setting bad examples, we need to be who we are, adults that is, and grow balls and grow up. You are not God, you can not judge or discriminate against someone for any reason. Spread love not hate….be yourself and don’t let others tell you what NOT to be, obviously you are supposed to be who you are for a reason and only God knows why that is.
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