Since The Blot always aims to please his readers, I thought I could cover the 2008 Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil in Birmingham, AL while talking about my recent trip to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Reliant Park. You see Aly dragged me to the rodeo this year to see Fergie, one of her favorite pop stars, perform. Fergie also happens to be the headliner of a stacked lineup at the 2008 Schaeffer Crawfish Boil, which includes 3 Doors Down, Flo Rida, Seether, Gavin DeGraw, T-Pain and many others.
The Blot’s not the biggest fan of the rodeo, but it is something different to do. Plus, if you’ve never been to a rodeo I recommend going to see the bull riding. It’s so much more impressive than anything you’ve ever seen on TV. But we, like most of the audience, were really only there to see the Dutchess.
Fergie lived up to the hype and was well, pretty ferg-a-licious. Even though the sound at Reliant was horrific, Fergie had the crowd of 72,777 eating out of the palm of her hand. For being pregnant she put on a really good show and even performed multiple one-handed back flips, which really ignited the crowd. The only thing that bothered me was that she ended up singing more covers than her own music. Obviously Fergie only has one album of songs, but that should be enough to fill up a show that only lasts a little over an hour.
Instead, we got two medleys of classic rock songs. While classic rock isn’t necessarily her strong suit, Fergie pulled it off really well and the songs sounded great. I just wish we had heard more songs off The Dutchess and from the Black Eyed Peas catalogue of music instead of “Santeria” by Sublime along with “Live and Let Die” and “Barracuda.” All in all the show was pretty good, but I hope the rodeo gets the audio problems fixed before the start of next year’s event. I’m just glad Fergie performed because otherwise I would have gotten stuck going to listen to some country music, which The Blot really abhors.