Project Description
P!NK
BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA WORLD TOUR
@ The Adelaide Entertainment Centre
(Live Review)
10/07/18
Reviewer: Chelsea Wood
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The Adelaide leg of P!nk‘s Beautiful Trauma World Tour, kicked off on Tuesday night to an eager crowd who haven’t seen the star on Aussie soil in five years.
P!nk‘s Funhouse Tour (in 2009) brought the circus to us with aerial stunts and acrobatics, while The Truth About Love Tour was a walk through everything within the journey between lust and love. But, the Beautiful Trauma World Tour gives something else completely; just as bold and beautiful as the album itself, and while showcasing P!nk‘s now staple acrobatics, this show uses a blend of P!nk‘s classic hits and a selection of new ones, to highlight the political and personal struggles that resonate with her fans around the world. In addition to her powerhouse vocals and stunts, choreography, visuals, props, and pyrotechnics are used to demonstrate the story of Beautiful Trauma: We must work through difficulty and adversity by embracing love, diversity, strength, and acceptance.
Before the pink curtains reveal the stage, a dancer appears, welcoming the audience to the night with a rendition of 20th Century Fox’s theme song played completely on the recorder; unbeknown to the audience that this is foreshadowing the cinematic elements which appear throughout the show. As the curtains drop, P!nk is seen as you’d expect, already hanging from a pink chandelier suspended high above the stage. Kitted out in a dazzling black sequin jumpsuit, she effortlessly works her way through Get The Party Started, navigating through the chandelier itself. Everything below her on stage (props such as lampposts, and dancers outfits) seem to be covered in a bold explosion of the colour pink with the onstage energy showing there will be no slowing down clearly stating this isn’t just a concert, but an experience too.
Beautiful Trauma then starts with P!nk stepping down from pink boxes back onto the stage, to be met with her gold microphone stand while spotlights light the stage from behind her. Amazingly, within these first two songs along, she manages to cover almost every inch of the stage by travelling on moving props. After a quick costume change, Just Like a Pill begins her physical interaction with fans for the night. Knelt on a conveyor belt that moves her along her walk way into the crowd, P!nk greets her fans with grace and sings to some individually as though they are the only ones in the room.
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While posed at the end of her walkway, the singer dives into the heartbreaking, Who Knew. To then fit with this breakup song, a brief interlude of a clay animation advertising ‘Revenge Land’ leads the way for the collaboration with Eminem, Revenge which sees a giant inflatable version of the rapper appear. A little twist on Funhouse hints at P!nk‘s feminist work, turning the track into Gwen Stefani‘s Just a Girl. It is the rendition of Nirvana‘s Smells Like Teen Spirit, that injects some grit into the night. Although causing hearing problems for the singer, mouthing ‘I can’t hear!’ after having to remove her ear pieces, it was all taken in her stride, continuing not to phase her performance as she continued to work her way around the stage.
Aerial work was brought back by Secrets, with P!nk being suspended mid air with a dancer on only ropes, and at breathtaking moments only being held by her dancer’s feet while spinning above the crowd in a glittering bodysuit. The stage is then transformed into an enchanted woodland, with leaves gently floating onto the crowd with gentle tones gradually introducing Try. The visuals of this section elegantly create a cinematic effect complete with period costumes, with P!nk appearing in a red hooded cape. During the tender Just Give Me a Reason, her vocal ability is shown while she glides above the stage and crowd on a bed frame.
From here on in, we see a more political side of the Beautiful Trauma World Tour. The first half of the show, is completely that: a show. But it is after I’m Not Dead we are introduced to some of the political and social issues that we face, still with the energy as high as ever. Just Like Fire bursts out energy and blazes out fire from the stage,keeping the crowd pumped up.
A montage interlude follows focusing on the social issues that P!nk continues to fight for, with cheers from the crowd when she states, “There shouldn’t be gay marriage. Just happy marriage.” It is this celebration of love, acceptance, and female power that opens the politically driven, What About Us, with P!nk at her glorified best. I Am Here, then creates a warmth throughout the arena with its folk like charm and after declaring her hunger, a fan shares twisties with her while she belts out Perfect. Then, with no gimmicks, and just a blank screen with bold text, we hear the her empowering VMA’s speech that went viral last year, with a simple message that still resonates clearly, creating the perfect segue into the anthem for the underdogs, Raise Your Glass. Re-appearing in a silver sequin jumpsuit and being thrown around over the crowd, spanning each corner of the arena one last time for the feisty So What, seemed like the obvious way to end the night. Yet it was after this P!nk took to the stage one last time in jeans and tshirt, with a the delicate Glitter in the Air. A gentle conclusion to a bold night.
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