It Has Been An Interesting 24 Hours.

I feel like a majority of my posts have brought up that I'd like to make a full-length post about concerts I've been to. This is still not that post. Don't get me wrong, there is a concert featured here, but it isn't the one I was expecting to write about. Hayley Kiyoko was touring a month or two ago and had a stop in Minnesota that I wanted to get to. I decided to save my money and not go. A few days after this decision my sister texted me to ask if I would be interested in seeing Panic at the Disco. Panic! was definitely an interest of mine in the past, but it was mostly confined to their first album. Now that it is only Brandon Urie, I haven't been very open to the belief that he was still putting his best foot forward. Every time that he releases new music, it's good. In fact, I'd be a fool to not say great, but yet I've spoken out against him. That is something I greatly regret doing for a few reasons. There was nothing to support my arguments since he has been continually breaking ground and gathering a plethora of new fans. Also, Brandon has been a great influence on a lot of people looking to reach out for help and who need to believe in themselves. This last fact is something that I didn't know nearly as much as I do now.

I'm gonna back step a moment here and go to the beginning of the day. My sister met me at my house and we decided to wander around Minneapolis before the show. Besides the heat and humidity, it was a great time and I'm really happy we spent some time together outside of our usual watch tv or go to a movie. When we finally got to the show, I was really excited because the opener for Panic! was Hayley Kiyoko and Arizona. Arizona I don't know quite as much, but had found them from my friend Zac a few months ago. I was mostly excited to see Hayley and wasn't disappointed when she finally came on stage. She put on an incredible performance and told the crowd that it was her first arena show. The way she moved around the stage, with such purpose while moving so freely and comfortably, was inspiring. So inspiring in fact, that I'm tired of hiding myself from people in my life. Honestly, most of my family probably already knows, but I'm finally going to officially come out as bisexual, on Facebook.

Arizona came on afterward and put on a very good show. Sadly, this was my least favorite of the concert, but it was nowhere near a bad show. This was also their first arena show, and Brandon did an amazing job of picking his opening acts. I won't go into much detail of their show except for the fact that their guitarist was the star, for sure. There wasn't a ton of their music that I was familiar with before the show, but I would really like to get more into them, especially if I'm considering trying to get to another show on this tour.

Now, to get back on track, the hype for Panic! was getting intense. There was a guy in the stands getting everyone else super hyped for the show, all throughout the stands, that I almost forgot we were there for a concert. I find it hard to define just how good the Panic at the Disco portion was. Brandon put on more than a concert, it really was a performance. I couldn't have asked for more and that is with them only playing two of their old songs. He started out with the band appearing from the floor and as the opening track started he burst out of the floor in an astonishing fashion. The crowd stood for the entire show and danced and swayed with the songs. After a few tracks a piano slowly came up out of the floor and Nine in the Afternoon was played, and it felt like a refreshing take on it without really changing it up. He just seems so confident and comfortable on stage, that you can't imagine him doing anything else with his career. We got through a few more songs and then he walked through the floor crowd singing Death of a Bachelor. You could see the excitement from him as he flowed through being ushered to the back of the crowd, where a beautiful, white piano was being lowered on a small circular stage that was about the diameter of a small hot tub. https://youtu.be/ZvJxTxLLQxg. The video here is for reference. This was at the Minneapolis show, which was the opener for the tour, and the show I was at. It was one of the greatest moments from the show, and I thought for sure it was going to be the end. Somehow, when he got back to the stage, he continued to play for almost another full set worth of songs and almost every one of them seemed to get better. High Hopes had to be one of my favorite songs he did, and one of the best crowd reactions, but Miss Jackson was on a whole other level, and personally, I think this was the best performance of the night. He played through the song with incredible gusto, showing off his falsetto repeatedly. The song then slowed down and the piano that came from the floor appeared again, and after getting through the slow moment, he stood up, walked to the edge of the raised part of the stage, that he was on, and backflipped off of it. As he landed he belted out the last bits to Miss Jackson and the crowd obviously went crazy. Brandon busted out an amazing cover of Girls Just Want to Have Fun, but I have never been a huge fan of his Bohemian Rhapsody cover and he did pull that one out as well. He ends Bohemian Rhapsody very strongly though. One more after that, they leave the stage and come back for the inevitable encore. They bust into Saturday Night and then he goes into how he has been at this for almost 14 years and it all started with I Write Sins Not Tragedies. Now, I have been vocal about how if he is annoyed with playing I Write Sins Not Tragedies he needs to give the crowd a show that is worthy of skipping that song. By the time he got around to playing the song, I didn't care. I didn't need the song and he had by far exceeded expectations. Once the song started though... I needed that song. Everyone screaming along with him was exhilarating. One more song to get through, but before that he gave a flawless speech about how every one of us there was a miracle and how incredible it is that our parent's sperm and eggs managed to get together. The fact that each of them used up thousands of sperm and eggs in their life and we are alive, was his main point, and it really hit home and somehow ended up being the perfect intro into Victorious.

There really isn't much more I can say about the concert. Every piece of it was amazing, and somehow it was strangely life changing. I left Target Center with more confidence and some things that I felt I needed to accomplish. I am finishing this last portion a few days after the concert and can say that I have really started to improve my life. I've been putting off asking a girl that is incredible, coming out as bisexual, and this one is a little less up to me, but getting a promotion. Within 24 hours, I had asked out the girl (got a yes, but there is some distance giving us issues), did my interview for the promotion, and as of today, three days later, I have also come out. Part of my improvement definitely comes from writing and letting some more of my feelings out, so I'd like to thank anyone reading this.

THANKS, ONCE AGAIN EVERYONE!