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    Jul 18, 2012#51

    Awesome, so glad you had fun!! :D


    OMG, even if I didn't like him at all, I'd sit through his set just in case they did something together, too. I would feel awful if I left and Jen came on stage or something, lol.

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      theringleader wrote:I JUST GOT BACK. OMG INCREDIBLE SHOW!!

      I'm tired now but not going to post too much till tomorrow but here goes:

      1) Enrique went first, J.Lo second.

      2) With no bias to J.Lo, she should be going second because her show has much MUCH MUCH more production value than Enrique.

      3) Enrique, if anyone cares, was actually good as well, he had a lot of crowd interaction; serenaded a gay couple, and even made out with a girl during Hero. But other than his interactions with the crowd, his show was very plain and boring. Had J.Lo went first, I would've left half way through his set. If anyone wants to know the songs he plays, just message me, but basically, Tonight I'm Fucking You, I Like It, Rhythm Divine, Ring my Bells, Hero etc.

      4) J.LO WAS AMAZING. I WAS IN SECOND ROW!! Honestly, I don't care who tries to bring her down, don't. Her production was amazing, and I've been to many concerts like Gaga, Britney, Spice Girls, etc. Her show was at the level of any of those in her own unique way. She has some struggles when singing, and her vocals are very soft, but I give her props for attempting to sing live to most songs. Her outfit changes, choreography, themes, set list was all amazing. I also loved the video interludes; she filmed them specifically for the show, and I think they are amazing. A very high quality show. I can't wait to go again in Boston!!

      5) Her merchandise - all her t-shirts are shitty, same image with tour dates on back. I didn't like any of them, and it seems like they didn't put any effort into them. Whereas, Enrique had the COOLEST merch from his hoodies, to a blanket etc. J.Lo did have a cool tank top for the girls, and also had panties that my girlfriend bought that say Dance Again on the derriere :lol:. I bought a tour program, which is AMAZING. Probably the best piece of merch.

      OVERALL, amazing show. If anyone has any questions about specifics, message me. I'm writing a review for it tomorrow morning and I'll post it then.


      FOR NOT EVER TOURING, minus perhaps the duration of the concert, its an AMAZING tour that I would reccommend ANY FAN OR NON-FAN to check out :D
      Thanks for the great review...cant wait till the Boston show...I'm in 2nd row also...hope she finishes for that show also

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        Jul 18, 2012#53

        This is the thread where everyone is talking about this show: http://beyond-beautiful.com/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=40680

        :D

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          Jul 18, 2012#54

          Cool review!

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            Jul 18, 2012#55

            Another review

            By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic

            Jennifer Lopez could take some charisma tips from Enrique Iglesias

            RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR


            Jul 18, 2012

            It’s billed as a chummy co-headlining tour by two Latin-pop superstars, but you’ve gotta wonder how long it will take for this Jennifer Lopez/Enrique Iglesias road show to degenerate into a behind-the-scenes battle of egos between Diva and Heartthrob.

            Maybe the degeneration has already begun. A mere three days after the joint J-Lo/E-Ig spectacular’s debut in Montreal this past Saturday, the bill was subjected to an unexpected, last-minute flip for the first of its two Air Canada Centre stops on Tuesday night. Advertised opener Lopez didn’t appear at the appointed hour, eventually replaced by descending video screens displaying the letters “EI” and then, nearly 60 minutes after her scheduled start time, by Enrique Iglesias himself. Dame Lopez didn’t actually make it to the stage until around 10:15 p.m., which isn’t particularly late by pop-music standards but not at all common in a venue that’s typically beholden to a curfew of 11 unless Axl Rose or Prince is passing through town. Did someone have a hissy fit after reading the press from Montreal and demand to close the show? Did someone else then, in turn, have another hissy fit and refuse to go on before such-and-such an hour? I like to think so — and, for the record, all of the above is pure, hopeful speculation — just because that’s the sort of show it was.

            Jennifer Lopez seems like the sort to have hissy fits, anyway. Her tautly choreographed, gratuitously overappointed set on Tuesday was such a monument to unbridled narcissism that one genuinely feared for the lives of whoever was in charge of the single LED-lit step on her midstage catwalk that fell out of illuminated line with the rest for part of the night or the (ahem) gilded throne that rose from its trap door prior to “On the Floor” tilted at a precarious, 75-degree angle towards stage right. Heads must’ve rolled, man.

            Ah, I kid. Maybe. Lopez’s (drag) show was perfect for what it was, a theatrical, multi-costumed advertisement for the Vegas casino spectacle it ultimately revealed itself as aspiring to be when “Let’s Get Loud” and “Papi” were garishly presented towards the end of the night before, yes, a casino backdrop.

            Flanked by a dozen dancers — 10 of them male and ripped in tacit, Kylie-esque acknowledgement of her enormous gay following — Lopez descended from the ceiling in a shower of fireworks for “Get Right” at the dawn of her performance and proceeded to dance her heart out, occasionally singing, in a series of revealing, sequined outfits for 75 businesslike minutes that played up her Hollywood-fired star power while skilfully brushing aside her limited vocal capabilities and even more limited onstage charisma.

            The big singles, from “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” to “Waiting for Tonight” to an unplugged “If You Had My Love,” were represented and appreciatively applauded by the 15,000 mothers, daughters, mother-and-daughter combos and gaggles of giddy fellas in attendance. Really, though, no one was cheering for the tunes — as pleasurable as some of them might be — but for the sight and the presence of the vertically integrated entertainment product acting as a human vessel for their calculated perfection. Right? If it was about the music, after all, no one would be chatting around the water cooler this morning about the boxing match the J-Lo dancers staged in slow motion on the proscenium mid-set to remind us of that movie Enough but about how strong her voice sounded on … umm … well, she did get through “If You Had My Love” without a guide vocal.

            You get what you’re going in for, in any case. You really do. Even the entire “I’m just a simple girl from New York City” charade perpetrated for “I’m Real” and “Jenny from the Block” is excusable in its own, ludicrous context. You want nothing less than the absurd in these situations. Which is why you can stomach the 42-year-old Lopez repeatedly parading her 25-year-old boy-toy/tour choreographer Casper Smart before the crowd, but maybe why you don’t necessarily want a treacly salute to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness as a mother — complete with a montage of her four-year-old twins — like “Until It Beats No More” thrown in on top of all the other, overarching salutes to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness. Keep it unreal. Humanity feels false.

            Enrique Iglesias has a touch of the diva about him, too, but he camouflages it well.

            Tuesday night’s set marked the Spanish-born smoothie’s third Toronto appearance in 18 months and was arguably the reason so many misbehavin’ ladies of a broad range of postpubescent ages came out to the ACC on a school night to carry on like 11-year-olds gifted with front-row tickets to Justin Bieber. He invited the girls in my section to come dance at his feet at one point and I was, quite literally, knocked to the floor by a woman who could have been my mother as she hurtled towards the stage. ‘Nuff said, I think.

            Iglesias’s set hit all the same marks as his last ACC gig: global mega-singles such as “I Like How It Feels,” “I Like It,” “Dirty Dancer,” “Bailamos,” “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” and a salsa-fied “Rhythm Divine”; graciously pulling fans of both homo- and heterosexual dispositions onstage for a personal serenade; and reminiscing about the year he spent recording his first album in Toronto at 18, albeit this time with Little India supplanting Chinatown as the neighbourhood in which he indulged in appropriate ethnic foods, “watched a lot of porn” and lost his virginity.

            You can forgive Iglesias such Vegas-entertainer behaviour, however, because he’s charming enough to sell it, in a self-aware manner that would make Neil Diamond proud. He tries very hard, in his standard ball cap, jeans and t-shirt attire, to present himself as Mr. Everyman while at the same time kinda-but-not-quite making a joke of his beefcake status. Somehow it works. I’ve no idea how, but Lopez would do well to take some notes on charisma while they’re on tour together.

            http://www.toronto.com/article/738015-- ... e-iglesias

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              Jul 18, 2012#56

              Not bad.....

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                Jul 18, 2012#57

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                This user has more videos but they are not very good

                https://www.youtube.com/user/Cybershotzz

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                  Jul 18, 2012#58

                  JenRox wrote:Awesome, so glad you had fun!! :D


                  OMG, even if I didn't like him at all, I'd sit through his set just in case they did something together, too. I would feel awful if I left and Jen came on stage or something, lol.
                  Thanks!!! Haha yeah I feel like they might pull something like that through further shows!

                  His set isn't that bad, he was good, just some points felt draggy.

                  J wrote:Are you going again tonight? :D

                  I wish!! My gf won tickets and we were going to, but some things popped up :(

                  I'm going to the one in Boston though!

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                    Jul 18, 2012#59

                    I want a tourbook :argh

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                      Jul 18, 2012#60

                      I wish there were more videos!

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                        Jul 18, 2012#61

                        caiomarcelo wrote:I want a tourbook :argh
                        There is, from TheRingLeader
                        I bought a tour program, which is AMAZING. Probably the best piece of merch.

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                          Jul 18, 2012#62

                          J wrote:Another review

                          By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic

                          Jennifer Lopez could take some charisma tips from Enrique Iglesias

                          RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR


                          Jul 18, 2012

                          It’s billed as a chummy co-headlining tour by two Latin-pop superstars, but you’ve gotta wonder how long it will take for this Jennifer Lopez/Enrique Iglesias road show to degenerate into a behind-the-scenes battle of egos


                          between Diva and Heartthrob.

                          Maybe the degeneration has already begun. A mere three days after the joint J-Lo/E-Ig spectacular’s debut in Montreal this past Saturday, the bill was subjected to an unexpected, last-minute flip for the first of its two Air Canada Centre stops on Tuesday night. Advertised opener Lopez didn’t appear at the appointed hour, eventually replaced by descending video screens displaying the letters “EI” and then, nearly 60 minutes after her scheduled start time, by Enrique Iglesias himself. Dame Lopez didn’t actually make it to the stage until around 10:15 p.m., which isn’t particularly late by pop-music standards but not at all common in a venue that’s typically beholden to a curfew of 11 unless Axl Rose or Prince is passing through town. Did someone have a hissy fit after reading the press from Montreal and demand to close the show? Did someone else then, in turn, have another hissy fit and refuse to go on before such-and-such an hour? I like to think so — and, for the record, all of the above is pure, hopeful speculation — just because that’s the sort of show it was.

                          Jennifer Lopez seems like the sort to have hissy fits, anyway. Her tautly choreographed, gratuitously overappointed set on Tuesday was such a monument to unbridled narcissism that one genuinely feared for the lives of whoever was in charge of the single LED-lit step on her midstage catwalk that fell out of illuminated line with the rest for part of the night or the (ahem) gilded throne that rose from its trap door prior to “On the Floor” tilted at a precarious, 75-degree angle towards stage right. Heads must’ve rolled, man.

                          Ah, I kid. Maybe. Lopez’s (drag) show was perfect for what it was, a theatrical, multi-costumed advertisement for the Vegas casino spectacle it ultimately revealed itself as aspiring to be when “Let’s Get Loud” and “Papi” were garishly presented towards the end of the night before, yes, a casino backdrop.

                          Flanked by a dozen dancers — 10 of them male and ripped in tacit, Kylie-esque acknowledgement of her enormous gay following — Lopez descended from the ceiling in a shower of fireworks for “Get Right” at the dawn of her performance and proceeded to dance her heart out, occasionally singing, in a series of revealing, sequined outfits for 75 businesslike minutes that played up her Hollywood-fired star power while skilfully brushing aside her limited vocal capabilities and even more limited onstage charisma.

                          The big singles, from “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” to “Waiting for Tonight” to an unplugged “If You Had My Love,” were represented and appreciatively applauded by the 15,000 mothers, daughters, mother-and-daughter combos and gaggles of giddy fellas in attendance. Really, though, no one was cheering for the tunes — as pleasurable as some of them might be — but for the sight and the presence of the vertically integrated entertainment product acting as a human vessel for their calculated perfection. Right? If it was about the music, after all, no one would be chatting around the water cooler this morning about the boxing match the J-Lo dancers staged in slow motion on the proscenium mid-set to remind us of that movie Enough but about how strong her voice sounded on … umm … well, she did get through “If You Had My Love” without a guide vocal.

                          You get what you’re going in for, in any case. You really do. Even the entire “I’m just a simple girl from New York City” charade perpetrated for “I’m Real” and “Jenny from the Block” is excusable in its own, ludicrous context. You want nothing less than the absurd in these situations. Which is why you can stomach the 42-year-old Lopez repeatedly parading her 25-year-old boy-toy/tour choreographer Casper Smart before the crowd, but maybe why you don’t necessarily want a treacly salute to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness as a mother — complete with a montage of her four-year-old twins — like “Until It Beats No More” thrown in on top of all the other, overarching salutes to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness. Keep it unreal. Humanity feels false.

                          Enrique Iglesias has a touch of the diva about him, too, but he camouflages it well.

                          Tuesday night’s set marked the Spanish-born smoothie’s third Toronto appearance in 18 months and was arguably the reason so many misbehavin’ ladies of a broad range of postpubescent ages came out to the ACC on a school night to carry on like 11-year-olds gifted with front-row tickets to Justin Bieber. He invited the girls in my section to come dance at his feet at one point and I was, quite literally, knocked to the floor by a woman who could have been my mother as she hurtled towards the stage. ‘Nuff said, I think.

                          Iglesias’s set hit all the same marks as his last ACC gig: global mega-singles such as “I Like How It Feels,” “I Like It,” “Dirty Dancer,” “Bailamos,” “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” and a salsa-fied “Rhythm Divine”; graciously pulling fans of both homo- and heterosexual dispositions onstage for a personal serenade; and reminiscing about the year he spent recording his first album in Toronto at 18, albeit this time with Little India supplanting Chinatown as the neighbourhood in which he indulged in appropriate ethnic foods, “watched a lot of porn” and lost his virginity.

                          You can forgive Iglesias such Vegas-entertainer behaviour, however, because he’s charming enough to sell it, in a self-aware manner that would make Neil Diamond proud. He tries very hard, in his standard ball cap, jeans and t-shirt attire, to present himself as Mr. Everyman while at the same time kinda-but-not-quite making a joke of his beefcake status. Somehow it works. I’ve no idea how, but Lopez would do well to take some notes on charisma while they’re on tour together.

                          http://www.toronto.com/article/738015-- ... e-iglesias




                          Seems this guy ate something special before he wrote this article. Plenty of hogwash.

                          Thanks for the article.

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                            Jul 18, 2012#63

                            I think JLo should interact more, tho, call someone on stage, or interview a fan, those acoustic moments are great for that.

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                              Jul 18, 2012#64

                              yamaha wrote:
                              caiomarcelo wrote:I want a tourbook :argh
                              There is, from TheRingLeader
                              I bought a tour program, which is AMAZING. Probably the best piece of merch.
                              But i'm not from the US/Canada/Europe :(

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                                  Jul 18, 2012#66

                                  :love2 Awwwww

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                                    Jul 18, 2012#67

                                    so cute!!!

                                    J, thanks for the vids :)

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                                      Jul 18, 2012#68

                                      Jamie_J wrote:



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                                        Jul 18, 2012#69

                                        :love2 Enrique :love:


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                                          Jul 18, 2012#70

                                          she is talikng more than enough

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                                            Jul 18, 2012#71

                                            Oooh, I really like WFT permormans and I am glad she sing the original version of the song :)

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                                              Jul 18, 2012#72

                                              ^I know right. :love2

                                              Here's another video of that performance:

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                                                Jul 18, 2012#73

                                                It's cool that Enrique does that, but Jen interacts in her own way, too. She's been grabbing people's cameras and taking pics of herself.

                                                I, personally, would be scared to bring a random stranger up on stage with me. I'd do like Britney and handcuff them. :lol

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                                                  Jul 18, 2012#74

                                                  Thats true!

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                                                    Jul 18, 2012#75

                                                    anika41 wrote:
                                                    J wrote:Another review

                                                    By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic

                                                    Jennifer Lopez could take some charisma tips from Enrique Iglesias

                                                    RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR


                                                    Jul 18, 2012

                                                    It’s billed as a chummy co-headlining tour by two Latin-pop superstars, but you’ve gotta wonder how long it will take for this Jennifer Lopez/Enrique Iglesias road show to degenerate into a behind-the-scenes battle of egos


                                                    between Diva and Heartthrob.

                                                    Maybe the degeneration has already begun. A mere three days after the joint J-Lo/E-Ig spectacular’s debut in Montreal this past Saturday, the bill was subjected to an unexpected, last-minute flip for the first of its two Air Canada Centre stops on Tuesday night. Advertised opener Lopez didn’t appear at the appointed hour, eventually replaced by descending video screens displaying the letters “EI” and then, nearly 60 minutes after her scheduled start time, by Enrique Iglesias himself. Dame Lopez didn’t actually make it to the stage until around 10:15 p.m., which isn’t particularly late by pop-music standards but not at all common in a venue that’s typically beholden to a curfew of 11 unless Axl Rose or Prince is passing through town. Did someone have a hissy fit after reading the press from Montreal and demand to close the show? Did someone else then, in turn, have another hissy fit and refuse to go on before such-and-such an hour? I like to think so — and, for the record, all of the above is pure, hopeful speculation — just because that’s the sort of show it was.

                                                    Jennifer Lopez seems like the sort to have hissy fits, anyway. Her tautly choreographed, gratuitously overappointed set on Tuesday was such a monument to unbridled narcissism that one genuinely feared for the lives of whoever was in charge of the single LED-lit step on her midstage catwalk that fell out of illuminated line with the rest for part of the night or the (ahem) gilded throne that rose from its trap door prior to “On the Floor” tilted at a precarious, 75-degree angle towards stage right. Heads must’ve rolled, man.

                                                    Ah, I kid. Maybe. Lopez’s (drag) show was perfect for what it was, a theatrical, multi-costumed advertisement for the Vegas casino spectacle it ultimately revealed itself as aspiring to be when “Let’s Get Loud” and “Papi” were garishly presented towards the end of the night before, yes, a casino backdrop.

                                                    Flanked by a dozen dancers — 10 of them male and ripped in tacit, Kylie-esque acknowledgement of her enormous gay following — Lopez descended from the ceiling in a shower of fireworks for “Get Right” at the dawn of her performance and proceeded to dance her heart out, occasionally singing, in a series of revealing, sequined outfits for 75 businesslike minutes that played up her Hollywood-fired star power while skilfully brushing aside her limited vocal capabilities and even more limited onstage charisma.

                                                    The big singles, from “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” to “Waiting for Tonight” to an unplugged “If You Had My Love,” were represented and appreciatively applauded by the 15,000 mothers, daughters, mother-and-daughter combos and gaggles of giddy fellas in attendance. Really, though, no one was cheering for the tunes — as pleasurable as some of them might be — but for the sight and the presence of the vertically integrated entertainment product acting as a human vessel for their calculated perfection. Right? If it was about the music, after all, no one would be chatting around the water cooler this morning about the boxing match the J-Lo dancers staged in slow motion on the proscenium mid-set to remind us of that movie Enough but about how strong her voice sounded on … umm … well, she did get through “If You Had My Love” without a guide vocal.

                                                    You get what you’re going in for, in any case. You really do. Even the entire “I’m just a simple girl from New York City” charade perpetrated for “I’m Real” and “Jenny from the Block” is excusable in its own, ludicrous context. You want nothing less than the absurd in these situations. Which is why you can stomach the 42-year-old Lopez repeatedly parading her 25-year-old boy-toy/tour choreographer Casper Smart before the crowd, but maybe why you don’t necessarily want a treacly salute to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness as a mother — complete with a montage of her four-year-old twins — like “Until It Beats No More” thrown in on top of all the other, overarching salutes to Jennifer Lopez’s greatness. Keep it unreal. Humanity feels false.

                                                    Enrique Iglesias has a touch of the diva about him, too, but he camouflages it well.

                                                    Tuesday night’s set marked the Spanish-born smoothie’s third Toronto appearance in 18 months and was arguably the reason so many misbehavin’ ladies of a broad range of postpubescent ages came out to the ACC on a school night to carry on like 11-year-olds gifted with front-row tickets to Justin Bieber. He invited the girls in my section to come dance at his feet at one point and I was, quite literally, knocked to the floor by a woman who could have been my mother as she hurtled towards the stage. ‘Nuff said, I think.

                                                    Iglesias’s set hit all the same marks as his last ACC gig: global mega-singles such as “I Like How It Feels,” “I Like It,” “Dirty Dancer,” “Bailamos,” “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” and a salsa-fied “Rhythm Divine”; graciously pulling fans of both homo- and heterosexual dispositions onstage for a personal serenade; and reminiscing about the year he spent recording his first album in Toronto at 18, albeit this time with Little India supplanting Chinatown as the neighbourhood in which he indulged in appropriate ethnic foods, “watched a lot of porn” and lost his virginity.

                                                    You can forgive Iglesias such Vegas-entertainer behaviour, however, because he’s charming enough to sell it, in a self-aware manner that would make Neil Diamond proud. He tries very hard, in his standard ball cap, jeans and t-shirt attire, to present himself as Mr. Everyman while at the same time kinda-but-not-quite making a joke of his beefcake status. Somehow it works. I’ve no idea how, but Lopez would do well to take some notes on charisma while they’re on tour together.

                                                    http://www.toronto.com/article/738015-- ... e-iglesias




                                                    Seems this guy ate something special before he wrote this article. Plenty of hogwash.

                                                    Thanks for the article.

                                                    I hated this review. This guy is clearly not a fan, and is not a fan of "diva-like" concerts with costume changes and stuff.

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