Miguel & Alicia Keys

O.M.G. 5 days later and I am still on SUCH a natural high from the amazingness that was her show. I've been to my share of concerts and I can honestly say this was hands down the best concert I've ever been to.

I bought the tickets as a birthday present for my friend Monique's birthday since we both LOVE Alicia and I knew she'd thoroughly enjoy it.

I was anxious alllll day and couldn't wait for the show to start :] My smile was pretty much ear to ear all day. I know I've posted this picture last week, but I'm gonna post it again :]

We stopped and grabbed some dinner at Miguel's Cocina before the show, the fajitas were SO yummy! Unfortunately I didn't have an alcoholic beverage because Monique is on a huge health kick and I didn't want to tempt her with a margarita. Between our order and getting a meal we had a mini photoshoot but the sun was kind of being a jerk and only gave us one picture to work with...

We cruised over to the sports arena and got there about 40 minutes early and kept talking about needing to go potty...the minute we decided to get up, the opening act has started. It was an amazingly talneted singer named Miguel so we decided we could hold it and not miss him!

My camera and phone pictures were kind of really sucky, but here are some of the videos I took!

Miguel. Adorn.

Miguel. Do You Like Drugs.

His performance was really great. Loved his dancing! I also loved his shirtlessness :] Bummer I couldn't get a good picture of it :[

Intermission. Pee time. Except for the fact that there were 50 girls in line. Whomp. Not waiting in that. Hahahaha. 

There was an announcement during intermission to tweet Alicia Keys for a chance to have her dedicate a song to you. I jumped on that ASAP. 

Intermission photo shoot :]

The main event finally started and it was the best 2 hours of my life. She opened with Empire State of Mind and did a meledy of old an new songs. I am so in love with her amazing piano skills, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be able to witness it in person. 

About 3/4 of the way through her show she played on of my favorite songs on her new CD, Not Even The King. I immediately started recording and before I knew it, she announced that she was dedicating this song to a chick named Ashley...who was 4 rows infront of me. Super sad face it wasn't me, but this girl had 3 generations of her family there so that was pretty cool! Here's the video :]

Alicia Keys. Not Even The King.

I went down to her seats when the show was almost over and told her I got it all on video and her whole family was super stoked. I offered to e-mail it to them in a couple of days. 

Now...kind of a venting moment because this is my blog and I can do whatever I want. At the end of the show, Monique and I wanted a photo with the stage in the background. We stopped somebody in this chick Ashley's family, an older woman (mom or grandma?), and I asked her if she could take a photo. She straight up looked me in the eye, didn't say a word, and turned around and kept walking. Who the hell does that?!! Without saying a word? After I did your family the favor of a lifetime and told you I had a video of the best moment of your life? Ugh. If your family is leaving behind at least say "I'm sorry, I can't...I'm being left." Don't just freaking leave after looking me in the face!

Anyways...back to good times. I was pretty excited when Alicia Keys played my favorite song of hers, If I Ain't Got You. Definitely shed a tear on that one!

Alicia Keys. If I Ain't Got You.

Over all, the concert was amazing. Besides the bathroom and photo nonsense. It was kind of fulfilling a dream since she's one of my favorite artist's of all time! Monique and I kind of joked around that if her leg wasn't broken we'd make the trip to Vegas a couple of days later for the concert out there! haha.