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POPODYSSEY TOUR 2001 REVIEWS


Here is our own review of the show. This is what happened at the Cincinnati show. And to let you know, the review comes from the seats rght next to the runway on the field. 9 rows back from the main stage and on the right side(if u stood on the stage and faced the crowd, then the left side)Okay, now we will not spoil the fun for you guys that are still going by telling you song order or even the name of some new songs, but they ARE good. *Nsync has gotten a little bit more upbeat with their songs, but don't worry, they have new slow songs. They even have a song that is slow at first, then a bit fast, then slow again, the verses are slow, but the chorus is a faster tempo, not real fast like pop or bye,bye,bye or tearing up my heart, slower then that. In fact,(and NO WE ARE NOT LYING) on this same song, when *Nsync was kneeling on the ramp, Justin was in front, then caught the eyes of ZeldaNsyncfreak(look at email addresses, we don't use our real names) grinned real big, winked with both eyes, sang and waved to her!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? WE CAN'T!! ZeldaNsyncfreak was doing a little crying, but hid it very well. And to all the people that have runway seats, to let you know they come down the runway A LOT. WE MEAN, PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE SONG!!! AND YES, THEY DO SHAKE(OR HIGH FIVE) THE HANDS OF THE AUDIENCE. Chris got PepsiSalamander7 twice, ZeldaNsyncfreak once, and Justin tried to get us, but we were too short at the time.(they run down the aisle and slap everybody's hands real quick) The skits, especially JC'S when Joey comes on, are funny. They are shown on the screen. Oh yes, And during POP, you know how they take off their jackets in the video? Well, in concert, they rip off their shirt(they have another one on) and throw them into the audience!!!! GOOD LUCK!!! We didn't get anything, but we were next to them all night, so that's good enough. Now we will tell you, there's things Justin does that u would never want your mom to see you watching. We'll say that. And to let you know, the Programs are $20 and are only a bunch of pictures of *Nsync and the credits (names) of all the people that worked on the tour and stuff. Adult size T-SHIRTS start @ $32. Camera's are $15, are disposable kind, and 200 speed. Try to bring your own camera, they will not kick you out. They say no photography cameras so you buy theirs. But you are not allowed video cameras or audio recorders. And they DO NOT let you hold up signs or throw up gifs to them. Just letting you know. Well, we'll shut-up about the concert now. Here are some reviews of other shows in the POPODYSSEY TOUR of 2001. The first one from we think a newspaper and the other from MTV.com
Newspaper article on Cincinnati show

By Susan Vela The Cincinnati Enquirer With one audible croon, 'NSync members threw hundreds of teenyboppers into a frenzy Friday while doing a sound check at Cinergy Field. “I love you, Justin!” screamed Emily Roll, 13, of Greenhills, calling out to Justin Timberlake, her favorite singer in one of the biggest boy bands in the nation. The Fab Five and their PopOdyssey tour hit the stage Friday night, performing before thousands of screaming, crying teen-age girls. The girls were in full-fan mode hours earlier, as they pressed themselves against a fence and listened to the band practice at Cinergy. Many Friday were eager to show their love. They wore 'NSync T-shirts, sported 'NSync bookbags, and purchased programs for the concert. Martha Kilpatrick, 34, of Warsaw, drove a van decorated with 'NSync posters as she and a group of teen-age girls, including her cousin, Amanda Kilpatrick, 18, traveled to Cincinnati on Thursday. They stayed at The Cincinnatian because the girls knew the band had stayed there before. The girls saw Lance Bass, one of the band members, in the lobby and got his autograph. “I just think it's awesome. He was really sweet,” Amanda said. Mothers and grandmothers were prepared for a night of screaming and post-concert chatter. “It is (important) to our granddaughter. She's been an 'NSync fan for a long time,” said Patty Bales, 65, of Dresden. She spent Friday evening in a hotel room but has attended a previous 'NSync concert with her granddaughter, Amy, 18. “I felt out of place, but it was fun,” she said. For its PopOdyssey tour, 'NSync is fielding what some have called the most elaborate stage ever built for a pop concert. A crew of around 150 started construction Sunday on the 60-ton structure, which measures 90 feet deep, 198 feet wide and 90 feet high. It includes a complex network of trapdoors, conveyor belts, 12 elevators, a 60-foot-by-40-foot video screen, numerous pyrotechnic devices and an aircraft wiring system that allows the group to fly from the 90-foot peak of the stage to a second stage 115 feet into the crowd.
Giants Stadium Performance

By ISAAC GUZMAN Daily News Feature Writer 'N Sync's valiant effort to remain the biggest act in pop music, the group has spared no expense in staging the most extravagant concert in history. Like a bloated Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick, the fab fivesome's Sunday night show at Giants Stadium was chock full of explosions, computer-generated special effects and that brand of bad one-liners designed to make very rich, very pampered stars seem human. But just as films such as "Last Action Hero" were all sizzle and no steak, 'N Sync's "Popodyssey" tour is brimming with spectacle but light on anything genuinely touching. On a stage set so large it looked as if someone had parked the upper decks of an ocean liner on the field, the group — Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick — was dwarfed by the size of the production. To a certain extent, that was the point: "Popodyssey" is meant to explore the meaning of "Celebrity," which happens to be the title of the group's next record, slated for release July 24. In 'N Sync's world, celebrity means facing down gold-digging girlfriends and complaining about having to wear sequin-covered chaps while singing "Space Cowboy (Yippie-Yi-Yay)." It also means being open to your fans' admiration by sincerely reading their love letters aloud. Of course, you don't achieve the success 'N Sync has without a few good tunes. Even live, hits like "Bye Bye Bye," "Tearin' Up My Heart" and "It's Gonna Be Me" seemed effortlessly catchy. But in the context of the concert's mechanical bulls, video-game graphics and hyperkinetic dance moves, the songs often got lost. The only time the group focused on the music was when it paused for ballads such as "This I Promise You" and "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You." Of the six new songs that 'N Sync unveiled, the slower tunes stood out. "Gone" explores the syncopation of Maxwell and Missy Elliot, while "Selfish" is a sweetly crooned classic. But the faster "Game Over," "Celebrity" and "Pop" came off as messy and overproduced. With the Backstreet Boys' "Black and Blue" failing to meet expectations, some have predicted that teen-pop has peaked. 'N Sync are trying to prove the doubters wrong, and three sold-out nights at Giants Stadium indicate robust interest. But a hint of what's to come may have been the empty aisles that cropped up halfway through the show. Having spent as much as $300 for four tickets, families were leaving as tots nodded off, unable to stay awake for a 90-minute show that didn't start until 9:30 p.m. "Celebrity" also appears to mean you never have to think about school nights.
Below is *Nsync singing their new song "Gone"


Newspaper article of Jacksonville performance(jacksonville.com)

Prop-heavy show explores celebrity
See High-spirited 'N Sync fans pop into show
By Nick Marino
Times-Union music writer
The prevailing theme of last night's 'N Sync show: celebrity, as in the title of the group's forthcoming album and the adjective that has become a severe understatement for the five song-and-dance superstars. Through short films, audience asides and song lyrics themselves, 'N Sync revealed that there's plenty to love about fame, especially all the little perks that accompany it. Like the power to create the largest musical production in concert history. There's also a less-pleasant side, though, and 'N Sync addressed it with a pretty incredible blend of critiques. Some of it was a little heavy-handed (like a video skit in which JC asks a gold-digging girlfriend, "Do you want me or do you want what I can buy you?"), but the group never seemed whiny or vain, which is an achievement unto itself when you're talking about your own celebrity. It all began with a self-effacing video chronicling the band's rise from Central Florida obscurity to European favorites to international heartthrob. Ripe with early footage of the guys hamming around, it was a decidedly un-subtle way to illustrate their humble boy band beginnings. But they've been bona fide celebrities for a while now, which is why they decided to open the show by emerging from a glowing pod in the middle of the stadium, then strutting down a catwalk leading to their stage. And what a stage it was, replete with video screens, conveyor belts and metallic everything. It would serve as the band's toy chest, a symbol for the huge extent to which they have arrived. Take the song Space Cowboy, for instance. After they boogied for a while in matching chaps, they hopped onto a set of silver mechanical bulls, which had just appeared from the depths of the stage. Earlier, the group slid down a harness leading from the top of the set to the top of the soundboard. And later, they burst onto the stage with a red wagon, a four-wheeler, pogo balls and a giant teddy bear -- the toys of celebrities, which they presumably included to show that they still have the hearts of little kids, even if they have the wallets of oil tycoons. Most of the time they seemed to be enjoying themselves, although member Chris Kirkpatrick sure seemed serious when he ripped off his chaps and decreed, "These are the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life." The show was full of costume changes, which seemed to represent the different faces of celebrity. One minute they're screwball cowboys, the next they're prohibition-era dandies, and the next they're glammed-out superstars. Given the excruciating extent to which boy band fame revolves around image, the costume changes served as a pretty effective way of saying, "Well, folks, we've got to put on a whole lot of faces in this job, and some of them are ridiculous. We know that. But it's part of the deal and we're trying to enjoy it." Maybe they were just putting on a show, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. 'N Sync sang all the hits, ranging from Tearin' Up My Heart to the new single, Pop. The music really hasn't changed much between the band's first and third albums, retaining the constant factors of mindless lyrics and dense dance production. Several new songs got their debuts, and the audience of screaming girls (and politely clapping mothers) seemed to like them just fine. Hey, they sound like the old stuff, so what's not to like, right? You could go on forever decoding just what Justin was doing in a silent-film parody, and whether the stage's green laser beams represented all that celebrity cash flying around, but in the end the 'N Sync world tour opener was just a pop show. A big pop show, an expensive pop show, but a pop show all the same. 'N Sync realizes (thank goodness) that they are famous, in part, for being famous, and they're using that fact as the touchstone for this entire tour. Pretty smart.
MTV.COM NEWS

'NSYNC Tour Opener: Dirty Pop And Matching Chaps
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — 'NSYNC have found themselves in a pickle. The group's forthcoming album, Celebrity, has been shelved until mid summer. The Backstreet Boys' most recent record, a bellwether for Celebrity if ever there was one, wasn't quite the huge success the Boys' previous two were, causing some observers to even decree teen pop dead. And come to think of it, no one in 'NSYNC is even a teen any more. What's a boy band to do? Well, creating the largest musical production in concert history is one solution. The PopOdyssey Tour began Wednesday in Jacksonville's Alltel Stadium with a video montage chronicling the history of 'NSYNC to date: here's how they met, here's how they started, here's how they sued for control of their careers and here's how they became celebrities. After the video, the five song-and-dance superstars emerged from a translucent pod at the center of the stadium. From there they pranced down a catwalk and ascended their stage, a metallic fortress replete with video screens, conveyor belts and elevators. They opened with "Pop," the first single from Celebrity. It's the latest in a long line of 'NSYNC rave-ups, noteworthy for a couple of reasons. Fans call the song "Dirty Pop," in reference to the much-repeated refrain. Thing is, it's no dirtier than many of the old, vaguely suggestive 'NSYNC songs. By keeping the word "dirty" out of the title, the song stays parent-friendly, but by keeping the word "dirty" in the lyrics, it makes the group seem edgier, even if it's not. A nice example of having it both ways. "Pop" also represents Justin Timberlake's unofficial ascension to group leader. In addition to singing all the verses, he remained the focal point for 'NSYNC's high-concept dance choreography throughout the song. Come to think of it, he was center-stage throughout just about every song. He's always been a fan favorite, but it looks like his bandmates are finally giving him a larger share of the spotlight. After "Pop" came a brisk spin through "Tearin' Up My Heart," and soon after that member Lance Bass addressed the crowd. "Tonight is very special for us," he said, "because you're going to get to hear most of our upcoming album, Celebrity, before anyone else in the world." And with that, they dove into ..."God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You," from their 1998 debut album. Later in the show the band actually did reveal some of Celebrity, to the shrill delight of the young female audience. The songs tend to borrow from the accessible end of electronica, co-opting the basic principles of two-step or drum and bass, then sanitizing them and making them a little more pop-friendly.They're certainly catchy — this is 'NSYNC we're talking about — and the audience loved them, a good sign for the folks back at Jive. The show featured a number of costume changes, presumably intended to represent the different faces of celebrity. The band became everything from Prohibition-era dandies to cowboys in matching chaps. During "Space Cowboy (Yippie-Yi-Yay)," the guys rode five silver mechanical bulls, which lovingly bucked them as they waved their arms above their heads. Afterward, it was hard to tell whether member Chris Kirkpatrick was kidding when he ripped off his chaps and said, "These are the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life." Every so often, another video would roll. Once it was a silent film parody, another time it was JC fighting with his gold-digging girlfriend. And at various points fireworks exploded, smoke poured, lasers flashed and 'NSYNC glided across the stadium on a rip cord. Part commentary on fame, part multimedia indulgence, the concert certainly proved 'NSYNC's resolve. They're not ready to quit, and they're determined to turn their third record into a hit. By the time the tour is over, we'll know if they succeeded. — Nick Marino
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The first picture (the one of them on the pedastals that are high in the air) is of the Jacksonville performance and from MTV.COM It is not ours.