Christian’s Blog

Question: what makes taking two 16 hour drives “worth it”?

Answer: 4 year old daughter’s face when Miley Cyrus took the stage:

Yes, 16 hours – twice. We drove down to St. Louis earlier this month for the concert, but miley got sick. So we had to drive down again earlier this week for the rescheduled date. Last night, October 28, 2009, I attended the miley Cyrus concert with my daughter in St. Louis, Missouri. I have been to many concerts and club shows in my life, I have never been to a “pop” concert. My daughter is 4, it was her first. I was 13 when I first went to a concert. That was Pink Floyd in November if 1987.

Aubrey picked out a special outfit and has been fired up for this concert for months:

I am in no way a Miley Cyrus “fan”. I will say, however, it was a pretty good show. Metro Station opened up. I actually like Metro Stations debut album. I did not know that another Cyrus is the lead of that band – it was announced last night that Trey Cyrus is the lead singer. I was let down by thier set.

Miley came out about 8:00 p.m. Miley’s age shows. Its pretty clear she wants to be taken as a serious musician and shake off the chains of Hannah Montana. I think that will be difficult with corporate ads plastered all over the stage, however, and choreography which requires Miley to ride a motorcycle through the air suspended by cables. Miley also ran a trailer for her new movie – I’ve never seen that at an indie show . I applaud her getting the tween and toddler market fired up for a coming of age story but geez, give it a break already. I had to continually remind myself this was about “entertainment” not music. Regardless, my daughter had the time of her life. I got her a shirt, program and “flashy stick”.