2003-07-22
6:28 a.m.

BEVR: Deb/Detroit

Here is my BEVR. More a rumination than anything else.

Ruben is a Singer, but Clay is a Performer. I must have intoned this sentence over 100 times today answering questions about the Detroit concert. And it's true. Ruben has a wonderful voice, but he doesn't really connect with the audience. Clay has a wonderful voice, and no one else on that stage connects with an audience as he does. You feel as if he's reaching out vocally, physically, emotionally. His eyes swept that stadium constantly like a Cyborg and regularly landed on the eyes of individuals in the audience making them (as he made me) feel as if he were looking right at and into them.

Clay is an audience-tease. My second sentence of the day. Clay knows how adorable he is. He played with us. He used self-depracating humor to call even greater attention to himself. We watched him dance more because he told us he was dancing so poorly last night (which he really was). There was also the knee bend and knuckle knock on the floor during TITN - OMG, OMG, OMG - and the chest crush taught to him by the choreographer of the video. I didn't get a good glimpse of the clutches because they were on the other side of the stage from me. There were a couple of well-place giggles (can he be ANY cuter?!!) He played us like a violin!

Clay is a mensch. I saw what Julie saw: Clay directing Ruben out to the stage, alone. He stopped to watch him go and quietly slipped through to backstage. My heart almost burst with admiration and with pride.

49 is better than 14. My final statement. At first I couldn't decide if I was happier that I felt like a 14 year old girl, or knowing that I'm a woman. I choose being a BROAD!!!!! It was fantastic to squeal and holler and dance like a girl, BUT I'm so glad I know what I was screaming for! Every time that man touched a woman we broads know what it feels like, His hands around Julia and his kiss on her cheek - YES! His hips moving - That stance - OOOOhhhhhhh brother. As a kid I LOVED Tom Jones and I didn't know what those feelings were about - I KNOW why I love Clay and like every Broad in the Joe I wished I could have shown him my appreciation. I didn't have a Clay moment in person, but in the car on the drive home - top down, Clay singing to me, lost in my own thoughts he showed me why it's great to be a broad.

Deb

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