My Saturday night with Anita Baker * front row seat*

Hey,

Here are MY reviews for Anita Baker Concert this past Saturday. I wrote it for the Anita Baker fan club who was waiting for me past 2 am that Sunday morning to get home to post my reviews. I love loyal people!!! So here is my repost.

Wow Wow WOw!
Where do I start? Let me tell yall something before I go into the reviews. Can’t nobody touch Anita. Thats one bad chick!!! I had tears coming down my eyes watching her dance, and pranch around the stage, as if it was 1986. Not only is she so beautiful and have the prettiest skin, but when you watch her, for some reason you can’t take your eyes off her. She opened with Mystery, and to make things better SHE TAPED TONIGHTS SHOW FOR A DVD!!! Yep the camera’s were in the house EVERYWHERE!!! She put on the longest Anita Baker show I have ever seen. She talked to the audience as if we could have our way for the rest of of the night………and we did!! I can’t remember the songs in order. But she sung. Sweet Love, Mystery, Fairy Tales, Just because, Same ole, Love, Angel, Give you the best that I’ve got, I apolize, My funny Valentine, you bring me joy, watch your step, I think 2 more, Ill have to find out. And last but not least Body and Soul. Let me say this. Anita disect that song like a scientist in a lab. The way she sung that song, people shouldn’t ever want to listen to it on the CD. She killed it!!!! I had tears in my eyes. She got a standing ovation. People were going crazy after she was done with that song. I don’t even want to hear the original recording any more. LOL

Let me say this too. Anita don’y play and I love and appriecate that about her. She was having problems with her music, and she made it known too. She knew she was taping for this show, and she kept telling the sound people she couldnt hear the piano, all she could hear was the bass. She made them move faster than a ball roller down the street. LOL She gave a shout out to her Target, Kroger,CVS, her neighbors, her school friends, out radio personality Charles Pugh, and Diana Lewis. When she spotted Diana, who was sitting in about the 8th row up, she signaled her people to GO AND GET HER AND SEAT HER IN A BETTER SEAT. I LOVED HER FOR THAT!!! OMG I LOVE THAT. Diana Lewis * black woman* has been a anchor for Channel 7 News for a long time, and I just admired Anita more to honor her in front of us. People were cheering and everything when Anita did that. Anita people went to get her and set her on stage with her to see the show up close and personal.

Her band was on point. Anita is such a perfectionist, you can’t do anything but appreciate and accept that fact that her name is what it is and in order for it to stay that way, its to open her mouth and make things happen. She was taping and she wanted her stuff right. SEveral songs she had to go over because she wasnt satisfied with it, and yall know it was COOL WITH US!!! LOL Her sons were there. I was sitting front row, and he son came out and sat in the 4 chairs after mines. I knew it was him. I took a photo before she mentioned him, because I know how she is with her kids * just like myself* and I didnt want to be disrespectful to her or her son. He is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo handsome!!! OMG. Anita introduced us to him, and she sung Same ole love, and pointed to him when she said ALL I WANNA DO IS SHARE MY LIFE WITH YOU, I WANT YOUR SAME OLE LOVE. We all kept looking at him, he’s soooooooooo handsome. After a while he got up and went back stage, Anita said I embarrsed my baby so he left. LOL I wonder do they wonder whats all the fuss with his mom and the fans? They just dont know those people tonight was going crazy. I live the older crowd and very very very very mixed.

She was killing those twist and turns in her heels prancing around the stage, she kept on trying to fix her hair talking about * oh my hair is messed up* we were like gurl you are Anita Baker FORGET YOUR HAIR WE LOVE YOU!!! LOL At the end as she promised. Her son had went to the back as her band was playing she was looking for him because it was his turn. He played fairy tales for her, and he threw DOWN!!!!! That little boy is bad, just like his momma! lol People were clapping and yelling for him. I have plenty photos of him. The lighting was very bad as far as taking photos. Im really disappointed about that part tho. I will post the best ones I have. I took goo gobs too. My friend said the same happened for him. he was in the 2nd row and it was dark for him as well.

Look for the DVD. When we duno either? Just look for it soon. LOL This was her best one yet. It was longer, more personable, it was HOME. I cant wait to see next years!!!! Wow wow wow is all I can say.

I will post photos tomorrow. I’s tied and its 3:27 am.

beenwaiting4nita
Cree

Then when I woke up there was more that came to me!!!

Thanks everyone.. But you all know this was fun reporting. This is my kinda stuff…………anythng Anita Baker. As I drove around today running some errands. I couldnt stop thinking about last night. I cant wait for all of us to be together next year. Im telling you all, this will be a concert you wont forget. Please try to make this concert here in Detroit. Im just excited about this whole thing. Anita is one bad sister. Her back up gurls were on point, the music, everything was just perfect for a Anita Baker night.

She even said that people stop her on the streets all the time and say * I have kids just by the sound of your vioice*. HOW AMAZING IS THAT TO HEAR? WOW

Ok, this post may be all over the place because things are coming to me. At one point after she had finished a song, she was like whewwwwwwwwww I’s tied * something like that*, so she went and sat on the piano with her band member. She was making jokes saying * Tito bring me some tissue * like Micheal Jackson once said, And she was waiting on her people to bring her smething to wipe her face with. They didn’t move at all. So a few audience members called her over to the edge of the stage and gave her some. That was cute. She got soooooooooo many flowers. I didnt see her exhusband Walter like I normally do at the concert. To me . Anita seemed to be more free, she seemed to be happy. She’s wayyyyyyyy more giving of herself when she’s on stage. She is defintely a perfectionist, and if you think she will stand for anything less than that. You are dead wrong. Dont even step to her. She know who she is, she know what she has built and continue to be through out the years, and she plans to stay that way. And I just her for it, because she is Anita Baker and will be wayyyyy after she gone. She deserves it!!!

She kept saying, stand up sing, clap your hands, hold hands, this is a family show, this is how we do it!!!! She says as long as its clean. LOL Couples were dancing and just having a l
overs time. The crowd was so mixed. I love that too. All races were there, people were people and it was allllllllllll so friendly.

She was scatting all over the place. I love scatting anyway, and nobody does it like Anita. Her facial expressions and everything just makes it all better. I wish I had a boo with me last night. Who ever I marry he BETTA love him some Anita Baker!!! LOL

It just amazessssssssss me how she can just open up her mouth and this big voice greets you. Amazing. She was hitting notes that if you teamed up 5 of the hottest and greatest new comers TODAY, they wouldnt be able to stand against the voice of Anita Baker. And they know it too. Her pipes are well and working!!!! I just love Anita Baker. I just love her!!!!! Goodness. And to think she lives 7 mintues from me, is even better.

Cree