Maria Mena treats Dutch fans to early Christmas exhibits in Paradiso
It is around 13 years back that Maria Mena had her first global achievement and The Netherlands have constantly had a noteworthy influence in this. The Norwegian artist lyricist absolutely understood this when arranging her little Home For Christmas visit with for the most part only a couple of shows in her nation of origin. She just needed to come to Amsterdam, and Paradiso specifically, once more. As a matter of fact, today around evening time is the tenth time she offers out the incredible pop scene. The show feels like a festival of her great vocation up until now!
Mena makes that big appearance in a dark dress, sponsored by a band of four, comprising of drums, keys, guitar and bass. She opens with ‘Destitute’, a solitary from her 2011 collection Viktoria, demonstrating those mark warm yet delicate vocals. The mind boggling control she has over those splendidly made little promotion libs and how she influences the greater notes to take off, influences you to hear her out in entire wonderment. Her band is particularly on point playing her regularly very stripped back tunes, yet get the chance to celebrate the good life on tracks like the more trial, dim and relatively trancelike ‘My Heart Still Beats’. It beyond any doubt is one of the features of the night.
In the middle of the tunes, Maria Mena visits to her crowd about offering out Paradiso for the tenth time, her achievements in the Netherlands and the stories behind her melodies. Her bubbly identity in front of an audience makes it simple to overlook that she experienced some extreme circumstances herself. The way she truly discusses these periods in her verses, makes an exceptional bond with her fans. Before she sings ‘Blemish’ she clarifies how it is tied in with dietary issue anorexia while the verses to ‘Inner Dialog’ manage misery also. Not a considerable measure of vocalist musicians set out to be so frank about extremely individual issues this way, yet it is a piece of Maria’s specialty and she gets much regard and a great deal of commendation and cheers for it.
As Maria isn’t generally on a legitimate worldwide visit right now, she doesn’t have a collection to advance (most recent record Growing Pains was discharged in 2015). This gives her more opportunity with regards to the setlist. She plays out an all around adjusted blend of tunes from every last bit of her universal collections, yet shocks us with some early Christmas regards also. She sings the piano melody ‘I Can’t Let Him Win’ which was never formally discharged, yet of which a demo is flying around the web. We get the chance to hear her sing in Norwegian and in addition she plays out an enthusiastic version of ‘Glove Lille Land’, which she sang on national TV after the 2011 assaults in Utøya and Oslo. In what Maria alludes to as a ‘courageous’ move, she completes the show with a fresh out of the plastic new melody, very shocking I should include, titled ‘The Silence’. Obviously her genuine Christmas tune ‘Home For Christmas’ is a piece of the setlist also and appears to warm the hearts of everybody in Paradiso.
Obviously she didn’t avoid her greatest hits either. ‘Simply Hold Me’, the ground-breaking ditty that appropriately propelled her global profession, sounds similarly as awful as 10 years prior. She plays ‘Miss You Love’ only for us Dutchies, as we appear to love this one more than the Norwegians. ‘This Time (Pick-Me-Up Song)’ is anyway the snapshot of the night Mena will most likely not overlook for some time. She gets showered with affection by her fans as they, every one of them 1500, sing the chorale back to her. Obviously moved she thanks everybody afresh to come down to see her again and she guarantees to be back one year from now. The relationship between the Netherlands and Maria Mena beyond any doubt is a durable one!
