Friday Night Whites

Friday night I was privileged to go see Maroon 5 (and Train) in Dallas with my friend Kirsten. I thought we had lawn seats but she tricked me and ended up buying us great seats, 25ish rows from the stage kinda great, as a complete surprise to me! Without going into too much detail, this weekend was long overdue and proved to be an amazing 20 hours or so of fun, relaxation and healing. No words can possibly describe how wonderful that was.

Despite the less than profound lyrics of "Hey Soul Sister", Train was surprisingly pretty cool. Much more fun than I expected and I must admit I rather enjoyed their old school stuff. The dude [Patrick Monahan] had about 6 unnecessary wardrobe changes, not kidding... but he has quite a voice so I'm giving him props for that. Plus he walked down our aisle, twice, and stopped in the middle of a song ("Marry Me") for a marriage proposal to occur 4 feet from us. First of all, how do you get that hookup? Secondly, Train? Really? ...Just my humble opinion. :) However, this is the moment where I apparently got too close to Mr. Pat, which resulted in his security detail physically shoving me out of the way. Oops? They also did a pretty incredible cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On" and while Monahan is no Steven Tyler, I was impressed. You go Glen Coco.

Now to the important stuff! Maroon 5 (Adam Levine to be more specific) is one of my favs and seeing them live is always so much fun. They have amazing energy and you can't help but throw your hands in the air and scream the words to every song. I adore those kinds of concerts and to me, there's nothing better than dancing around like a fool to music you love with a bunch of strangers. Absolute bliss. I also like to fantasize about what it'd be like to sing on a stage that big and hear thousands of people screaming your name and singing your songs. What a rush! The Dallas show last night was the second to last of the tour and Adam explained that it was their last "Friday Night Whites" show... meaning that on every Friday night of the tour the whole band wore all white, all night. I loved this and although it probably has no correlation with my guilty pleasure, Friday Night LIGHTS, I'd like to think it does. Just one more reason why I love me some Adam. They had a great set list, an insane light show and super cool media. I was once again impressed with the show these boys put on and would totally see them again. Overall, it was an amazingly gorgeous, carefree, perfect night in The Big D.