Because I like to go deep into the vault, especially with this next one, it’s ten years old, don’t you worry sweetiepies, I’ve got your back. Katy takes many opportunities to press pause on the antics and break it down on the mic with her fans…“Listen, I don’t know if a lot of you are seeing me for the first time, I know a lot of you came from many different places in New Zealand (delivered with a pretty good kiwi accent), I’ve just got to say if you had any anxiety or you were fearful at all that I wouldn’t play your favourite song, like the hits, you can let that go now. Teenage Dream becomes an 80s candy Max Headroom mash-up with Katy appearing in one of the evening’s five costume changes, this one, looking like a sparkly David Byrne.
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Chained to the Rhythm has a Pink Floyd aesthetic going on with the big TV headed dancers chasing Katy everywhere around the amazing, interactive stage. Perry’s savvy with a screen shows that once the on-stage visuals are viewed through the big video screens at side of stage, you see her antics take on a posterized look, like live anime on display. Crowd favourite Dark Horse was played out to an intricate choreography on rising pillars where Katy and her PVC clad dancers writhe and mix it’s this stage setup along with many other pieces in the Witness tour that transcend above a live performance and become the fun, performance art that Katy Perry is known for delivering a show that’s titillating and incredible to watch right in front of you on stage. Followed by Roulette, as parkouring dancers weave in and out of giant gold dice. During the break the Witness eye lolled and rolled on the big screen surveying us as the band set up and then the fish in the Spark Arena barrel were shown ads on the big screen for Katy’s new fragrance – Indi and also her new Cover Girl Mascara and Matte Lipstick range in a masterstroke of marketing because, why not? Here’s your target market, pliable and suggestible and YES I want to purchase both of these Perry products, take my money! Perry knows her people.Īs a huge star shaped craft bursts through the Witness iris, Katy Perry appears and with no hesitation breaks into Witness as she glides down to stage. Taking his cue Zedd is vibed and despite the “We wanna see Katy” elephant in the room he’s managed to shake us out of our Monday night malaise and kicked us into high gear.
With The Middle, Remedy, Titanium, Time of my Life (with Black Eyed Peas) and Stay (with Alessia Cara) gaining massive responses. I did feel for Zedd, he was well received and the crowd did get into it but clearly this ravenous group wanted to skip to the main course as soon as possible. Bringing along DJ Zedd to warm the crowd thoroughly with canon spurts, lasers, thumping low-end and mesmeric video visuals to accompany his runs through his EDM gems.
Katy joins us in Auckland at Spark Arena on her second to last tour date of her Witness tour. Multiply each band member or backup dancer on stage with all of the stage hands, dressers and staff that you don’t see off-stage and you’re kind of awed by the team that make this behemoth of a pop extravaganza happen every night…for the past year. Well let me tell you, you’re not prepared for the incredible imagination, kawaii sensibilities and a collision of Vegas meets Cirque du Soliel meets Iron Maiden Eddie puppetry of this show – it’s wild and astounding, with a stratospheric level of production values at play.
You’ve heard the rumours, let’s be honest, you’ve probably even looked up snippets of the Witness tour on YouTube and the ‘Gram to get an idea of what you’re in for. Perry’s best parts are that she knows what it is to be human, to be at play and embraces this to fuel her genuine nature and her undeniable prowess as a performer. With one little soundbite, the fearless and fierce Katy Perry summed up life in the public eye, being witnessed by her Katy Kats and the world at large, for every triumph, for every innovation and for those inevitable brain farts. We don’t fart otherwise, but we have brain farts.” – Katy Perry
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