This song has six backup dancers in cowboy duds, doing the choreography like a line dance, and it's a real crowd pleaser, probably one of the most popular of the eight new songs Miley performs tonight.ħ:41 p.m. My two consultants momentarily set aside their critics' hats and do an admirable job of shaking it down low. "Do the ice cream freeze/strike a pose/Then you do the milkshake/shake it, shake it down low." And, lucky us, Miley's choreographer to teach us the moves to "Let's Chill," a song that more or less literally is about ice cream and other frozen delights. Third song, first take, second costume change. The second take, a few minutes later, brings the cameraman on stage for close ups, which include – eventually edited out, we're sure – Miley flubbing the lyrics and apologizing midverse with an embarrassed grin and an "Oopsies!"ħ:04 p.m. This one she introduces as "Every Part Of Me," and it's a slow, countryish ballad, sung next to her guitar player, sitting on stools near the front of the stage. This, a producer or director-type tells us after the repeat, will be the pattern: two tapings of each song, followed by one with the cameras focused on the crowd, to get all the hand-waving, screaming, jumping-up-and-down fans.Ħ:44 p.m."Sorry I took so long, I made the wrong wardrobe choice," Miley tells us as she reappears for the next new song. Miley's back out for her second song, which is the same as her first song. Very quickly the audience realizes how a "concert music video taping" differs from a plain old concert. "Some of these songs we're going to do a couple of times, so by the end, you'll know the words."Ħ:26 p.m. You'll see it everywhere, so be sure to keep your energy up." "You'll see it on Disney Channel, on videos, in the shows. "You'll see this everywhere," she tells them of the show that's being videotaped tonight. Dogs in Turtle Rock cover their ears with their paws as the shriek-o-meter goes off the scale. "How you guys doin'?" Miley asks the crowd at the end of the number. Or rainbow sherbet." And, in fact, it does. "It looks like candy," offers Anna Lily, my 7-year-old Disney Channel consultant, when asked how she'd describe the dress. Miley's got the blonde Hannah hair on, a sparkly purple T shirt and a multi-colored flouncy short party dress. The new song she opens with – let's call it "All Right Here," for lack of a proper introduction – has that classic rock 'n' roll tribal drum beat (bump-bump-BUMP, bump-bump-bu-BUMP-bu-BUMP) with a bit a country twang to the vocals. "Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana!!!" And thousands of ear-piercing shrieks tear through the evening sky. "This" means half-unlaced red high tops, skinny jeans that bunch up over said shoes, a faux-military jacket, and most of all, the shaggy hair that curls up at the bottom and must be constantly head-flipped out of the eyes.Ħ:15 p.m."Ladies and gentlemen," Ernie D shouts to a crowd that probably has an average age near 10. "All the guys at my school want to dress like this!" confides Juliet, my 11-year-old tween adviser. Wonder how he got the lucky gig opening for Miss Miley? He plays Oliver on "Hannah," and is now getting the Disney crossover-makeover Radio Disney DJ Ernie D revs up the crowd for opening act Mitchel Musso. The signs at the entrance to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater delivered all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo the lawyers required: You may be filmed, you won't be paid if your face pops up on Disney Channel in a month or two, and if you don't like the deal, well, don't come in.īut who were they kidding? Who among the thousands of kids who filled the Irvine amphitheater on Friday would have passed up this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Miley Cyrus – the tween superstar of recent years – deliver a concert of all-new Hannah Montana songs?Īnd so the junior brigade march into the venue, fuel up on $7 slices of pizza, dance the never-ending Cha-Cha Slide at the Radio Disney booth, buy Hannah Ts and concert programs, and then settle in for a night they'll not soon forget.ĥ:36 p.m.
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