Kanyeeeee

So yesterday Kamilah and I tried to buy tickets to the Kanye West Glow in the Dark tour. We tried to get the tickets as soon as they went on sale. We were massively unsuccessful. Because of all the presales by the time we got on the Ticketmaster site the best seats we could find were on the other side of the arena from the stage and it would've cost us about $95. I think that's a lot to pay for seats that aren't even that good. Factor into that the fact that I pretty much have no money right now, and I just don't think it would've worked out. The other tickets were still expensive, but they were at the very top of the arena.

I made myself okay with the fact that I wouldn't be able to go to the concert. I told myself that I'd be alright since I've already seen Kanye in concert 3 times. The first time was the summer after freshman year when he came as part of 103.5 The Beat's Beatdown concert. Elizabeth, Yves, and I paid about $50 and we were pretty close to the stage. The second time was when he came to UF in October 2005. The seats were pretty high, but we only paid $36. The third and last time I saw him was in France in 2006. This was pretty incredible...

Lauren and I bought tickets to see him at the Nice Jazz Festival. We had flown back from Paris to Nice the day of the concert and navigated our way from the airport to the concert grounds. There were about two or three stages at the festival, so we found the one where Kanye was going to be. When we got the the festival Joe Jackson was performing on the stage where Kanye was going to be. Neither Lauren nor I had ever heard of Joe Jackson. I mean, the only Joe Jackson I ever knew about was Michael's dad. Anyhoo, most of the people watching him were in their late 30s and up, so I figured that when he was done most of them would leave. Luckily, I was right. As soon as the Joe Jackon fans started leaving Lauren and I started pushing our way toward the front. We were right up against the fence that separated us from the stage. I was insanely excited. When Kanye finally came out I almost couldn't contain myself. There were certain points where I was singing along with him and he was looking right at me; I just about died. The picture below shows how close I was.

Part of the way through the show Kanye announced that this was the last show on the European tour, so he would just do a bunch of songs and he wanted to take requests. Everyone started yelling "Gold Digger", "Jesus Walks", "Touch the Sky", etc. While the rest of the crowd was yelling the names of those songs I yelled "Celebration!" Kanye said, "Okay," and actually performed it! I couldn't believe he really heard me. After he was done with that he asked for another request and the crowd started yelling the names of the same songs again. I decided to yell, "We Major!" Kanye said, "Yeah, we can do that one," and he did it! Excited can't even describe how I was feeling. Thinking back on the great experience that this was made me think that I should be okay with not going to this concert. But then I started thinking of what a great performer he is and started getting disappointed again. We'll see what happens.