Katy Perry is Good Live! Show Review by Sara Grossman

What’s better than seeing one of your favorite pop artists live?  Seeing them for free, this is what I did last night.  At the last minute, AT&T announced that Katy Perry was performing that night at the Roseland Ballroom as part of the launch party for the new Windows Phone, and I happened to have won tickets via the Some Kind of Awesome blog.

First: let me put the biggest question to rest.  She is good live.  I repeat: she is good live!  I have seen her twice now and it sounds absolutely nothing like her performance on last night’s EMA awards (or any other television performance where she sounded terrible.)  I have no idea how her performing live on television doesn’t translate the same as live in person, but it just doesn’t.  Not only was her voice great, she was incredibly charismatic and fun to watch.  She interacted with the audience and was really entertaining.

The lollipops and assorted candy props on stage, coupled with the cotton candy-dressed dancers set the mood for the evening. She opened with “Hot n’ Cold,” which got the audience going.  From there, she went into a jazzed down version of “I Kissed a Girl” and sang a few new songs, as well.  In the middle of the performance, she grabbed an acoustic guitar and introduced “UR So Gay” by saying how her most powerful weapon is writing: “You wanna break my heart?  You wanna step on a kitten?  I’ll fuck you up in a song!”

After adorning a neon-lit peacock tail before performing “Peacock” and announcing that she “isn’t afraid” to perform “California Girls” in NYC anymore because she’s paying taxes here, the crowd went wild.

All in all, it was a fantastic show and those who hate on her vocals need to experience them up close.