Cali Christmas [Concert Review]

This year Power 106 held their annual Cali Christmas concert at the Forum in Inglewood, California. I was excited to go, since I love some of the performers and I had never been to the Forum and have heard great things about it. I admit it is really nice inside and very elegant.

The show was a completely different experience from when I went to Powerhouse earlier in the year. Unlike Powerhouse, Cali Christmas, was very organized and well thought out and put together. The show went smoothly and the transitions weren't so long and unbearable. 

TInashe' was the first performer and started right at 7:00pm sharp. She only sang three songs and then she was done. Up after her was G-Eazy and he put on a performance. It was great. He had a lot of energy and was trying to get the crowd going. I felt bad though because there still weren't a lot of people there, over half of the audience was missing still when he went up.

After him was Kalin and Myles and they were just a weird couple of kids to watch. They tried to do this cute/"sexy" things and dance moves that just fell flat. The only song that anyone seemed to care about was "Love Robbery", which is their most popular song and the song that is played the most on the radio. 

After them was Kid Ink. I've seen him perform once, at a club, so I wasn't expecting too much, but his performance wasn't that amazing either. In my opinion he performed way too long. He did a bunch of his older songs and then he did around 5 of his newer songs, before he finally left the stage. To his credit he is from LA and was talking about how proud he was to be performing there at the Forum, but still I wasn't really into his performance.

Lil' Jon surprised me! I was expecting something not that great from him, but he came out and got the crowd on their feet and jumping and singing along. It was amazing. He brought out his son as the DJ and I thought that was really sweet and his son did a great job at it. I guess what makes Lil' Jon so great is that he has fun dance music anyways, but hear him perform it live was great. It was a lot of fun.

After him was Big Sean, finally! The person I had been waiting to see. He did an amazing show. He did all of the songs that I wanted to hear. The crowd was standing and still buzzing from Lil' Jon, so it was great to get someone as high energy right after him. Not to mention the fact that he has such great songs and he even brought out E-40 for "IDFWU".

Then was Trey Songz, my sister had been waiting for him forever. We saw him perform at Powerhouse, but this time it was better. He just took off really quick and then Chris Brown came out. It was great to see his dance moves in person. Then the two of them came out and did some songs together. They brought out a couple of surprise guests too, like Tyga, Ty Dolla Sign, Kid Ink. During his show Chris Brown asked if there were any single ladies in the audience. When the crowd went crazy he said "I'm single too. F*ck that bitch!" It was insane that he announced his break up in that way and talked about her like that. 

TI was a strange performance. He was upset about the feedback from his mic and while they were fixing it he went on a little rant. I was looking forward to him, since I do like his music, but it was so hard to understand him with all of the bass that he had going on. 

Overall, it was a great show. I really enjoyed it. This one was worth the money that we spent to go. I couldn't say the same about Powerhouse. Both were great concerts with great people, but this was the best. It was so well put together. I would totally go to Cali Christmas again.

Powerhouse 2014

      This weekend I went with my sister (Kaitlyn), her friend (Jaclyn), and my boyfriend (Fernando) to Power 106's Power House 2014.  The concert was in Anaheim at the Honda Center where the night before the Kings beat the Ducks for a spot in the finals, but that is a different story.  We were all so excited to get to go to Power House this year since it was a line up of people that we actually wanted to see. Kaitlyn is in love with Trey Songz and since we can't really find shows for him she used this as her chance to see him. Fernando and I are obsessed with Childish Gambino and even though we saw him in concert two weeks before for his Deep Web Tour we used this as an opportunity to see him again. Can't see him too many times I say. He is a mastermind. Anyways back to the concert.  We were so excited to see Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez too (even though I was probably more excited about her than anyone else). Still the concert was a fun experience.
      When we got there at 6:30pm the doors still weren't open and the show was supposed to start at 7:00pm. I was fine with the show starting late, but they kept everyone waiting outside their sections for so long it was getting frustrating, because of the crowds.  Overall the show was good. There was a lot of great performances. JLo came out and did her thing, she was amazing. She had great dancing and singing and effects.  Nicki Minaj came out perfectly.  She didn't put on a crazy, extravagant show with dancers. It was just her and her DJ and she did her thing. She brought out Soulja Boy and that was exciting, since he was the only surprise performance that we saw. Trey Songz did great live and he even took off his shirt (eek!!).
     Even though the concert was a lot of fun there were a few drawbacks to the night. For one the waiting. We had to wait forever for everything. To get in (twice) and then in between sets while they set up for the next person. It was getting out of hand. Here you go from being hype and pumped up from one act and then they make you wait 15-20 minutes for the next person. That was disappointing. This is a complaint that I had only because he is my favorite and I love him.  Childish Gambino only came out and sang 3 songs!! That really disappointed me, even though I saw him a couple of weeks earlier I was sad about his short performance.  I felt like everyone got longer sets and did more and they gave him the short end of the stick. And it was annoying to see people not showing him the respect he deserves as an artist. The sound was also a frustrating part of the show.  It was hard to hear the performs over the music.
    We ended up leaving early because we were frustrated with things and because we saw most of the people we wanted to see. We only missed Wiz Khalifa. I don't know if we will go back to Power House again, but it was a fun experience. I guess I would go back if it was a great line up again and if Childish was there again. lol.