Katy Perry wins the hearts of Pinoy-rockin' crowd!
Katy's talent, candor and generosity charmed the huge crowd at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds last November 14.
Uploaded: December 01, 2009
The minute she emerged, the people went crazy, and started jumping and dancing.
She opened the main event with "Fingerprints."
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The idea of performing for a charitable cause appealed to Dave Elkins, vocalist of American rock band M.A.E. (Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience), so he agreed to rock for relief.
His first song was "Embers and Envelopes."
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Here's the group's guitarist, Zach Gehring.
M.A.E. also performed "A Melody, The Memory" and "Summertime" from the Destination: Beautiful album, and "Just Let Go" from Singularity.
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Enjoying the drums was Jacob Marshall who sometimes plays the piano.
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Balladeer Jed Madela admitted that his powerful pieces felt out of place. But he said he didn't mind joining rock bands for the typhoon victims.
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The third performer was Journey's frontman Arnel Pineda who gave a splendid set.
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Arnel sang Journey's "Someday Love Will Find You," "Don't Stop Believin," "Any Way You Want It," "Separate Ways," and Led Zepellin's "Rock and Roll."
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He shared the stage once more with The Zoo, his former bandmates.
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Neal Schon, the man who discovered Arnel in YouTube, left the concert spectators gaping in awe. He's a "guitar god."
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The mood turned "naughty and nice" when Katy entered the stage.
Heart-shaped lights, pink flamingos, and her signature fruit-shaped accents added colorful zing to the concert.
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Most of the pieces in her repertoire had the audience singing along with her. She rendered "Hot N Cold," "Waking Up In Vegas," "Ur So Gay," "Mannequin," and "One of The Boys."
Her songs are downright honest, playful, and empowering.
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"Manila, make some noise..." And Pinoys gave her a roar!
The 25-year-old American songwriter-singer used most of the tracks in her One of the Boys album, which inluded "Use Your Love," "Self-Inflicted," and "If You Can Afford Me."
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Katy did only a few brief spiels in between her songs, but she definitely left a mark on Pinoys. One of her quotable lines, "You've been through a lot, but we're still standing. Damn it!"
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Before shifting from fast to slow, she warned the crowd that she was gonna pour out her heartbreak.
Katy dropped her naughty mode and turned melancholy with "Thinking Of You" and "I'm still Breathing."
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Campus students and yuppies make up most of her captive market. That night, about 18,000 of them showed up.
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For her encore, she did "Don't Stop Me Now" of Queen, one of her
musical influences, and her first hit single, "I Kissed A Girl."
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She's been "on the road for two years." Manila was her "last stop," and she's glad that she "saved the best for last."
Thank you, Katy. You rock!
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