4:30 - Giselle

A classic black piano is on the stage, the stage is full of fog. Giselle wearing a beautiful red gown walks to the stage, and sits on the piano. She sighs, and plays the opening notes to “Mona Lisa” as she plays the piano portion, and guitar is heard being played, and three ballerinas with torn tutus come on the stage and passionately dance to the sound of the music played. A voice is heard, it sounds a bit creepy a circus like, he says

“Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boys and girls step right up,
I have a story to tell
About a girl who hid behind her smile
Her name was Mona Lisa.”

The three dancers go to the back, and a woman with blonde locks, who resembles Marilyn Monroe, comes on stage, she looks glamorous and happy. Giselle sings the first lines to ‘Mona Lisa”

“Mona Lisa was a sad girl
Who hid behind a sad mask
Painted with smile and sunshine
But behind this mask was tears
And fears for the world
She thought she knew,
a world she thought she could trust”
As Giselle sings the song, the piano is played a bit faster and more aggressively, the actress walks around stage, with tears, her mascara running, she sits in front of a vanity and hate what she sees. She breaks the mirrors, drinks alchohal, and takes some pain medication.
That Mona Lisa is beautiful (she’s)
Unforgettable (she’s)
So incredible
But she’s sad, sad, so sad
Mo-mo-mo Mona Lisa (2x)

The actress still isn’t happy, she begins to break glasses, and sits down in a corner and cries more.

Mona Lisa was perfect on the outside
But was suffering in the inside
She lived the glitz, the glamour,
Had the money and the fame
But behind the beauty was a life of emptiness
She cried herself to sleep at night
Wishing that she might, find life’s true meaning
Wishing that someone could heal the pain
So that she may one day be free
Don’t cry Mona Lisa (it’ll all be okay)
[Chorus]
That Mona Lisa is beautiful (she’s)
Unforgettable (she’s)
So incredible
But she’s sad, sad, so sad
Mo-mo-mo Mona Lisa (2x)

As Giselle continues to play the piano, a violin is added to the mix. The guitarist plays in a faster tempo as the song reaches the climax.

All she wanted was someone to love her
All she wanted was someone to feel her pain
To feel her happiness
To wipe her tears away
To share her virtue

The actress continues to drink alcohol, and takes more drugs, sad with her life she lays down, closes her eyes and dies. The music stops, and only the violin is heard.



The violinist continues to plays as the dancers return and dance, soon a few paramedics come on stage and take the actress away. Giselle walks away from the piano, and two men come and remove her gown to reveal a sequined backless leotard, with shimmery flesh toned stockings and high heeled shoes. The piano is whisked away, and Giselle walks to the center of the stage and looks at the crowd. Everyone is cheering she smiles and says.

“I told you I’ll be back, how you guys doing!?
Well, I’ll be playing a few songs from my new album, and a bit of the old ones
But I have a special treat, I wanna get the party started.
Speaking of getting party started how bout I do a little Salt n’ Pepper
Hit It!”

The instrumental to “Push It” is heard, three guys come on stage, one with a boom box, he turns ups the music puts it down and the three begin to break dance. Giselle and two female dancers come on stage behind her. The two groups begin to have a dance off, and Giselle sings a mash up of “Celebrate (Dance Floor Anthem” and “Celebration” by Madonna.



Giselle then begins to sing the first lines of the song. And confetti is thrown towards the crowd. The crowd begins to dance to the beat of the song.

“Feel my temperature rising
There’s too much heat I’m gonna lose control
Do you want to go higher,
Get closer to the fire,
I don’t know what you’re waiting for
Come join the party, yeah
Coz’ everybody just won’t do
Let’s get this started, yeah
Coz everybody wants to party with you
I want to celebrate with you,
turn the dance floor into an inferno
Celebration, this is the dance floor anthem
Whenever I’m with you”

Giselle continues to sing and dance. She walks to a canon, sits on it and it begins to shoot more confetti to the crowd. She sings the chorus.

Giselle screams
“Throw your hands up, this is a celebration!”
“Boy you’ve got it
Coz anybody just won’t do
Let’s get it started, no more hesitation
Coz everybody wants to party with you
Come join the party, it’s a celebration
Anybody just won’t do
Let’s get this started, no more hesitation
Coz everybody wants to party with you
Celebration, forget about the worries in life
Burn the dance floor, cause it’s the celebration”

Giselle continues to dance with the backup dancers, and occasionally goes to the crowd and sings to them. As the crowd sings along, she puts the microphone to them, and invited a guy from the crowd to dance with her.



The beat is played and it sounds a bit more disco than the before. A disco ball is shown on the Jumbo Tron, and Giselle sings the first verse.

Your love was ultraviolet baby,
It set me on flames and tore me apart,
You’re gone from my life and I will never miss you
I’m so over you, your yesterday’s news
Stop calling me ‘cause I won’t pick up the phone
I won’t catch the voicemail, I’ll be pressing that 7
You once were my rock, but now you’re just a pebble

Giselle continues to walk around the stage, and a male dancer walks with Giselle to woo her back, but she continues to ignore him.

“You love was ultraviolet baby
it set me on flames and tore me apart
Your love was ultraviolet baby
Never wanna see you again
Your love was ultraviolet baby
No need for a man to tell me what to do
Goodbye, it’s for me to move along
Goodbye, it’s time for me to get along”

Giselle and a few female dancers come on stage, and they unit kicking the men (male dancers) to the curb. Giselle sings the last verse

“You used me, and emotionally abused me
I was so foolish to believe that you would change
That ultraviolet love sent me on fire
And turned me into ashes
Now it’s my time to do the burning
You’ll be yearning for a another like me
But trust me, no one will love you like I did
Now it’s too late, the damage is done
And you’re gone from my life
I’m starting anew, so all can say to you is bye, bye baby
And never dare come back
Oh!

Giselle then does a quick costume change, her outfit is a ripped fishnet stockings, a black top, and ripped short jeans. Giselle is backed by a whole band, an electric guitarist, a drummer, bassist, and a synthesized keyboard player.

“I’m going to give you guys a nice little encore. You may have heard three versions of this song”
“One was the dance pop version, and the other was a Middle Eastern version, this one is gonna be a rock version”
[Giselle whispers]
I did not mean to hurt you,
But, sometimes, you have to do
What you gotta do . . . to survive

[Distorted guitar riff]
.
.
.
I’ll grab your heart and tear you apart
I will use you and abuse you, to get what I want
I don’t need your love
But I want your soul, and I will do what I can to please
And when I’m done with you
You will never see the light of day
Bye, bye boy
I see your just another fool,
Who fell in my web of dead men
There she goes looking like danger
She’s a stranger looking for prey
She will betray you, and slay you
Better watch out cause she’s dangerous
Dangerous (she’s)
Dangerous


Like a black cat I travel in the night,
Seeking my next victim, whom will I pray on tonight?
I’m dangerous, a girl who will lure a man to his death
Like a siren, I seduce men with my beauty and voice
I’m dangerous, I’m giving you a warning
I’ll build you up, just to shatter you in pieces
The million kisses were like venom to your skin
All men want a taste of this,
But when I’m done with them
They’d wish they never met
But it’s too late, their already dead

Didn’t mean to hurt you, but it’s the way I’m built
Didn’t want to kill
But I had to fill my thirst, my desire for blood
I'm a maneater,
I'll chew you up and spit you out

There she goes looking like danger
She’s a stranger looking for prey
She will betray you, and slay you
Better watch out cause she’s dangerous
Dangerous (she’s)
Dangerous

The band continues to play and Giselle screams

“You guys are awesome!”

She jumps into the crowd and surfs.

After Pilot's performance, the audience knows who is coming next. The headliner of the day, Ryan Ross Hernandez. Tonight there is absolutely no delay, and the second the clock hits ten o'clock, the lights on the stage dim. With three hundred thousand people on deck, and anxiously awaiting Ryan, screams and cheers are heard as they're all on their feet for him. Aside from the multiple camera flashes coming from all ends of the stadium. Lights rise, now showing the crowd a red curtain that is in front of the stage, the lights shining behind the curtain with fans being able to see shadows walking and shuffling behind it getting ready for the performance.

The prominent sound of a Roland TR-808 drum machine can be heard slowly building up through the PA system. All the other shadows disappear and only one is seen. The audience cheers, presuming that the figure left behind the curtain is one of Mister Ryan Ross Hernandez. The lights that were shining behind it are gone as the curtain opens at both ends. Smoke starts to overtake the stage at the area where a limelight is shining on stage. Through the smoke, Ryan Ross Hernandez's figure appears, rising from underneath the stage. Dressed in a black leather jacket with a long-sleeve buttoned white shirt underneath, and black baggy pants. The ends of the shirt can be seen coming from underneath the jacket. The first couple of buttons from the shirt are buttoned down, giving the women in the crowd a good show of his chest. He has a Fender Shoreline Gold Stratocaster guitar hanging around his back. While it is overtaken by the immense amount of cheers and applause from the crowd, all the while the drum beat is still going through the PA. Ryan stands in front of the microphone stand for a moment, looking out at the massive audience in front of him with a smirk on the corners of his lips. The drum beat starts to get higher and more consistent. He leans his head against the microphone stand as the audience settles down just slightly. He gives a thumbs up to the side of the stage, giving a sign for the sound techs to raise the drum machine beat. Ryan begins to sing a short cover of Marvin Gaye's landmark song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".



The cover is received with a positive response from the crowd. The words echoed behind him from some. The drum machine heard through the PA shifts to a harder and more prominent beat. Ryan twists his guitar from his back. He begins to beatbox into the mic over the drum beat. While odd, he is seemingly trying to prove more musical talents he has, safe to say it didn't work very well but the fans still love him. He backs off the mic and laughs, shaking his head. While the beat continues, he starts to play a gritty guitar riff. He plays it for about a minute before leaning towards the mic and singing in a matching deep, gritty voice.



He laughs into the mic as he continues to play a fast-paced riff, swiftly moving his fingers over the guitar chords, putting the words to Jay-Z's "99 Problems," over it.



The drum machine suddenly stops once the lights finally come on completely across the stage, finally showing the full supporting band behind him. He turns his back to the audience for a few seconds as he transitions his guitar playing to a more funky sounding riff. Ryan taps on a pedal with his sneaker as he turns around back to front the audience. The instruments come into place one by one following Ryan, with the bass coming, followed by the drums, then finally the backing guitars and keys. Ryan begins scatting few notes, keeping in line with the funky music behind him. He then begins to sing in a high falsetto voice with his two female backing singers echoing behind him.



After such into the band shifts into the more familiar territory for any RRH fan as they start to play fan favorite, "City Made of Vultures," which the fans at hand welcome with open arms. He sings the verses in his usual voice tone, while moving to the lady-loved falsetto voice register for the chorus. For the breakdown of the song, Ryan backs away from the mic playing a jazz-influenced guitar solo as his saxophone player Bob Reynolds steps into the band. He walks over to one of his backing guitarists as they have a friendly dual-off of trading guitar solos, seeing who's can get more funky. All the other instrumentation ends. Ryan ends the song, fading out his own guitar solo. "Thank you," he tells the three hundred thousand in front of him, "Thanks for sticking around too. That's pretty awesome of you all."

Ryan's personal guitar Rene is seen rushing onto the stage, handing over RRH's signature acoustic guitar while taking the gold Fender.

"They say that festival crowds are the toughest to win over. I can already tell you that, that is a bunch of shit. They also say that summer is over. Can you believe this? They say summer is over. Summer is still very much alive here in Spain at the Festival De Música." He backs away from the mic as the audience gives him a huge positive response in return. "It's hot, it's sticky, it's muddy. You know what it smells like here? It smells like cheap beer and sweat. I just love it."

And with a confident smile, not another second is wasted before the crashing sounds of cymbals and a loud, steady drum beat is played by Aaron Andrews. The audience cheers as he continues the set with the opener off of Let a Man Be Lost, the perfect song for a summer night, "You Don't Know Who I Think I Am When I'm Not Myself." They quickly join in and start clapping along to the song, as Ryan starts to play the opening riff, with the trumpet and saxophone joining in. At the end of singing every verse, he adds a string of 'woah's', that make the females at hand go wild. During the breakdown of the song, Ryan's fast finger picking on the acoustic guitar, is helped by the booming horn section. Ryan starts to improvise scat singing. By the end of the song, the audience is clapping along to his improvised solo, singing every line along with Ryan, and the few couple of ladies seen dancing in the middle of a crowd.

Ryan continues with his acoustic guitar for the next song. He doesn't waste much time in-between the last song and the one that follows, only letting a couple of seconds pass by from when the previous song finished before jumping into the next one. He starts to play a riff acoustically that most of the audience isn't able to identify as being from Ryan's discography. As soon as he starts to sing in a soulful voice with his eyes closed, as the bass drum kicks in.



Ryan is probably the live performer who thoroughly enjoys covering songs to lead into his own and such thing. This time he gives the audience a small cover of Otis Redding's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," to lead into his own song, "Driving Away From My Hometown," off of his debut album. The crowd changes when he makes the change, enjoying the fact that he is still playing crowd-pleaser off of his debut album, despite his dislike of most of his debut album. The cameras move around and over the crowd showing them singing along with Ryan. To such a point that near the bridge of the song he just tells the audience, "You sing it for me Barcelona," as he backs away from the audience letting the fans hear themselves sing the song in their own voices. The band finishes the song in-sync with the crowd's singing. "You all sound lovely, thank you so much." The lights dim again, handing off his acoustic guitar and being given his custom made white fender with the heartbreak decal on the top left hand corner.

"Some of you here tonight, have may the decision recently leave somebody you love, somebody that loved you, you still love them, they still love you. If you've done it three days ago, you're still on the straight and narrow. Congratulations. Now, if you've done it three weeks ago, it's getting tough to hold on because those dreams are coming back. Things happened that you wanna tell the other person about. You know what I'm talking about? A lot of people out here are trying to stick to their guns. Telling yourself, 'he ain't the one,' 'she ain't the one.' Now it's getting harder and harder not to write back when they send you that text past nine o'clock at night. This happened to me recently so I can tell you I'm not bullshiting you. When you resist, they incite. Let your Uncle Ryan tell you that you are not crazy. You're just lonely. [crowd cheers knowing which song this banter is leading into] Loneliness is a hell of a drug. Loneliness is a part of heartbreak, of the heartbreak cycle. Do not call them. Do not answer their calls. Good love is on the way, don't go back to someone just because they're your safety net. That is not love. That is fear. Fear of ending up lonely. If my words aren't singing in, then ladies and gentleman I would like to introduce to you all a friend of mine. His name is, Perfect Loneliness, and he is going to sing you a lullaby to remind you that it is okay to be lonely."

He begins to play opening riff to the upbeat song loud. Whether his fans enjoy his long-winded banters or not, he also gives them their money's worth when it comes to playing tunes they love to hear. The entire band joins him soon after, the backing vocalists again joining in the chorus of the song, the drumming kept to a steady bluesy beat through out the entire song. At the bridge of the song, Ryan's vocals are loud and powerful, not pitch perfect but he doesn't seem to care nor does the crowd singing right along with him. The backing vocalists continue to sing behind him, as he goes towards another one of his guitarists, this time Robbie McIntosh as they show off some ridiculous dance moves while playing their respective guitar solos' that get a good laugh out of the crowd. The whole band ends with the drummer finishing off the song as he travels the entire round of the drum kit and ending it with a bang.

"I might not have the theatrics the beautiful and talented ladies of GirlSpice had last night. And I might not have motherfuckers starting a moshpit in the middle of the crowd like Mind will have tomorrow night. But this is what I do have; the most beautiful women coming out to watch my set. [crowd cheers] That's all I need! Keep the sexy ladies coming to my shows, and I will repay each and everyone of you by playing great music for you all. And if you are not a fan of my music or my art. [crowd starts to boo] No, no, no. They're out there and it's fine. I promise you every artist and band to play on this stage this weekend have haters in the crowd. But ugh, if you don't enjoy my music, my watch tells me that I'm the final artist to play tonight. So if you don't like me, please do us all a favor and go the fuck home."

He says in a calm voice, nodding his head as his fans agree with him by the amount of cheers and applauds his comment receives. He is once again given his acoustic guitar. The lights dim behind Ryan, and a single spotlight shines on him, as it did at the start of the show. As soon as he starts to play the next chords, the entire audience cheers knowing exactly which song it is. He leans against the mic while continuing to play the same melody, as he begins to sing "(I Know) The World Is Black & White." It is one of his many songs that while never being singles, have become very popular with his fans. As he mentioned in a recent interview, the song has stand the test of time and is always just as personal to him as when he first wrote it every time he sings it. For such reason he sings the song in a personal and gentle voice, never forcing his vocals to go higher or lower to the melody. Before reaching the bridge of the song, he begins to whistle along his guitar picking.

"Actually, I think I know how you can stop life for a minute. You want to know how? The closest thing I can come up with, because I used to get really wasted and think about time travels. I have a lot of theories on that, but it's a little late and I should wait for some other day when it's just you and me and not 299,999 other people with us. Here’s how you stop that train. You love everybody as vocally and as truly as you possibly can. And if you love somebody as much as you possibly can and as loud as you possibly can. Then one day, even if you do have to go to their funeral, which for many people you will. Everyone else is going to be sobbing, and you're going to be crying, but you're not going to be sobbing, because you will know that that person knew that they had all your love and that you loved them more than anything in the world. And that's the only way I can figure that you can actually stop life for a minute or two, is that you tell everybody that you love them. So that they're squared up with how you feel about them. You can stop time if you tell someone you love them, because that shit is forever."

His eyes can be seen getting teary-eyed during the middle of his banter, all the while still playing the same chords over it. He takes a moment, before diving right into the bridge of the song, finally singing in a louder vocal register, before singing in full on pitch falsetto tone and holding the note to finish off the song. "Thank you," he tells the crowd with a simple nod.

The lights rise again, Ryan taking a moment to change the toning of his acoustic guitar just slightly before the next song, as the band returns to their place. The lights shining don't last very much as they quickly dim again to give a more personal feel to the stage. This time a spotlight shines on Ryan's pianist who starts to play a gentle piano note. Another spotlight shines on the side of the stage as a single ballerina dressed in full on white attire skips onto the stage and starts dancing a dramatic piece to the melody the piano is creating for her. The stage starting to be filled with smoke. It is shortly followed by a female violinist stepping out from the shadows and playing along with the piano. The ballerina continues her piece as another one appears on stage elegantly, performing her on piece alongside the other ballerina. The violin creates a sound that sounds similar to a song in Ryan's discography but the audience isn't quite sure what song exactly will it be leading into. A third ballerina comes to stage, dressed in the matching outfits the other two have on. The music stops for a quick second, the audience cheering. Before it picks up once again with a slightly different melody, as all the ballerinas begin a dance that is in-sync with each other. While Ryan said just moments earlier that he didn't have any theatrics in his concerts, this certainly looks like something theatrical.

The violinist and pianist stop, once a steady guitar riff is heard being played on an acoustic guitar. Another spotlight shines on the mic stand with Ryan stepping into it, showing the fans that he is the one playing the melody. They cheer not only for him, but also because they know the song he is about to perform off of Let a Man Be Lost. It's "May Our Love Last for Tonight," a song that he hasn't played live yet until tonight at the Festival De Musica. The smoke is still appearing around his feet, the area behind him where the ballerinas were dancing is now dark. "This song is for the girl from Tennessee," he says quickly. Boy, if he doesn't want rumors going around about him, he sure shouldn't say open-ended comments like that, such that could be interpreted and twisted anyway possible. Ryan is slowly building up the song as he begins to sing softly into the mic, with the audience singing with him, creating a beautiful sea of sound.



He sings the next verse in similar fashion before the audience is just hit across the face as the entire band joins in with their respective instruments once the chorus kicks in and the lights rise. A full-on explosion of sound, well as explosive as a Ryan Ross Hernandez song can get, which is no where near the level of metal pros Jason Smith and Mind. As the album version, this live version reminds the listener of the heydays that Ryan had with his former band PANIC!. After the first chorus, the ballerinas are once again seen on the stage dancing behind Ryan to the song. He sings the chorus loud and full of passion. The song goes down as being one of the best from his set.

Ryan turns his back to the crowd and places the guitar appropriately in front of him, he nods at the rest of the band, giving them the cue to start their performance. He turns back around to his microphone and starts to play a soft guitar riff with each time being played, he pulls the wah-wah pedal, customarily placed on his guitar. From the first riff, the audience cheers and applauds knowing that Hernandez will be starting them off with his hit single and best single winner at the 20th International Music Awards, "A Never-Ending Trip to Heartbreak". The band slowly follow up behind him. The groove drums speed it up a bit, which feels like a slow train carrying the song on top of it. Soon after Ryan starts to sing his famous falsetto voice range that sends the women in the crowd in a swoon, most of which sing-along with him. By the chorus a chugging bass line joins in the laid back rock performance. Since the lyrical meaning of the track deals with how explosive relationships can be, it is only appropriate that the background screen is decorated with war battlefield imagery being displayed. Now can one relate a relationship to be as bad as World War III? Apparently, Hernandez can. But that really doesn't seem to bother the audience in hand. Ryan plays a guitar solo towards the end of the song, it was a controlled solo since it was quick and heavily layered by the other instruments. The end of the song is closely resembled to the intro with the wah-wah pedal echoing guitar coming into play again.

The lights dim down to achieve a more personal setting, with the orchestra coming into play for the second time in the night, bringing a haunting sound from just the string section. It's followed by the drums, bass, and guitars respectively. The light rise up again once Ryan starts to play the opening guitar solo, letting everyone know that it's "The Story of a Misunderstood Man". He showed off a swirling guitar work repertoire, with the huge instrumentation behind him to create booming sound. His vocals sound as crisp as ever, really saving the best for last. While he sings, he continues to play a circular guitar riff. At any rate, Hernandez always returns to his defining vocal gesture - the line that slides down like a contented sigh or up like a raised eyebrow, giving his beloved hits their air of easy intimacy, it's tempered by a plaintive, sweet melancholy that carries plenty of emotion and meaning.



At this point a sea of arms are seen from the immense crowd at hand, each one echoing behind Ryan's every vocal, to such extent that the crowd vocals nearly overpower the audibility of Ryan's own voice through the PA system. A pedal steel is now added to the mix, adding even a greater amount of mournfulness to the already slow burning kiss off of a ballad. All the instrumentation quickly starts to build up and become more powerful towards at the bridge of the song.



Ryan held onto the final note, but as soon as he finishes, the audience is caught by surprise because of the fireworks that fly from above the stage. Giving meaning to the shining reference in the song. Ryan dives into an emotionally charged guitar solo, not even singing the final chorus or for that matter getting so invested in the solo that he forgot about it. "You sing it," he tell the audience who don't need to be told twice as they sing in union the final chorus, as Ryan finishes off the night with a soft guitar whisper, before the song comes to a complete halt.



Ryan plays a swift cover of the Coldplay song, "The Scientist," over a gentle piano keys. He rises his guitar and starts to play riff his backing player was just playing before, in a more prominent form. A quick rise of cheers is heard as the riff signals for Hernandez's closing off the night with "The Other Side of Desire," a fan-favorite off of Let a Man Be Lost. In a melodic tone he uses the wah-wah pedal before diving into singing. A red light illuminates the stage along with the limelight that was already in place. The basslines progress to a much cleaner tone while the drums don't change much from the start, only with the occasional cymbals added here and there. Ryan sings in a more registered deep voice rather than his regular falsetto vocal register. By the bridge, the performance turns into a all-out emotional rock jam. As Hernandez sings the chorus, the look on his face is almost as he is physically in pain. For the breakdown of the song, he dives into the most impressive guitar solo we've heard from him in the entire set. For well over a minute, the audience just presents pure guitar excellence as his eyes are even seen rolling to the back of his head as he plays the solo. He sings the final chorus, following the guitar solo, in such an emotional tone, while not hitting most of the high notes, the audience does not mind at all as the emotion in his voice seems to make up for it. He finishes it off with a simple 'oooh,' before calling it a set. "Thank you for having me Barcelona. Enjoy the rest of your weekend."

And with that he gives the crowd a quick round of applause, as they completely shower him in applause and cheers, before the stage goes dark again as Ryan Ross Hernandez and his band head off stage.



OOC: Sorry about the delay :S Was definitely worth it though huh? lol