FutureSexLoveShow

Because a friend mentioned to me that I should post a blog about this, I am going to do just that. And after actually seeing this non-stop show I thought, hey, why not? So here are the highlights of the most intense and engaging concert I’ve ever been to (to be fair, I haven’t seen that many).

Last weekend I let my inner girly girl let loose, the girl who loves pop music, and loves to blast it in the car, who itches to dance to it, and who really just genuinely likes it (Don’t tell me that you don’t secretly like the ridiculous lyrics and hypnotic beats, too). I giddily and shamelessly attended The FutureSexLoveShow of the one and only ex-Mouseketeer, Justin Timberlake. I don’t find him particularly attractive in real life, nor do I find him with a lot of interesting things to say (although D*** in a Box is now one of my favorite SNL sketches ever), but damn, put a guy in a pair of slacks, a button-up shirt, a tie, and a vest, and then watch that guy dance all over a stage, popping and locking, and even pulling off a few moonwalks…that’s H-O-T HOT. This was seriously a four-act piece, with Pink opening and pulling off an energetic 45 minute set, JT performing his songs in two halves, then Timbaland doing a DJ intermission show by spinning trippy dance remixes of Since U Been Gone and Over My Head, just to name a few.

But seriously, the place went crazy when Justin came out for the first time. The stage was set in the round so no one had a bad seat (even us in the very last row) and there were big screens that were used so every girl in the arena could see Justin up close and personal. My particular favorite set was for What Goes Around/Comes Around when Timbaland came out for the first time. Then JT held a camera in front of his face and sang right into it (remember the big screens) with this crazy red-filtering and it gave the sense of what a bad sex tape might look like (I think this was a burn to Britney) and then he went and flipped the camera off, just like a badass.

The show lasted more than three hours but it never once got boring. He mostly sang from his new album but stuck in a few good ones from Justified. And like I said earlier, he danced up a storm, and he was certainly not afraid to get frisky with the ladies. The arrangements for Damn Girl were particularly entertaining as the back-up dancers were dressed in burlesque-type costumes and he, how should I say…had his way with them if you know what I’m saying. The audience (read girls) went ballistic.

But perhaps the most unexpected element of the show was that when he wasn’t dancing Justin played a few instruments. He played the piano a few times and even pulled out a guitar. The absolute best part, and I mean the single BEST moment of the night for me was when he whipped out a keytar. Yes, that’s right, Justin Timberlake played a keytar. I thought I’d never see such a pairing up in my life. And it wasn’t just him playing a keytar that made it the best part, it was the moment that he grinded it. Yes, he humped the keytar and it was the funniest, greatest thing I’ve ever seen. My jaw literally dropped. And then the audience (read me) went wild and my life changed forever.