Pink took off in Vienna: if she starts a party, then properly

“Summer Carnival” is the name of the tour, so don’t make a mess. The encore will follow today, Sunday. The singer has divided her current program into four acts. And in the beginning the bombastic sounds – with “Raise Your Glass”, “Who Knew” as well as “Just Like A Pill” it went fast – and the show elements seemed to kill each other. The video sequences flickered ultra-fast across three screens, a huge rainbow flashed in all colors, virtual flamingos and diamond rings trickled down, rockets fired and the woman who writes P!nk jumped exuberantly on a rubber ball while the wind blew in the Prateroval, which was also getting on in years in terms of acoustics, blew the sound around your ears.

But the 43-year-old has been in show business long enough to know that you can’t get away with sensory overload alone and hit the brakes in time. The beautiful “Try” was almost intimate in comparison and offered a lot of space for the voice of the multiple Grammy winner. Pink demonstrated that acrobatics and pop can be combined with a message with “Turbulence”, the first song of the evening from the current album “Trustfall”: “Never forget, no matter how scary it feels, it’s just turbulence”, sang her, hanging upside down from the trapeze.

“There are songs that I would have liked to have written myself,” said Pink, naming John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Rammstein’s “Du hast” in the same breath, only to cover Bob Dylan’s timelessly beautiful ballad “Make You Feel My Love”. Later in the set, another nod followed with “No Ordinary Love” – ​​although the lascivious element is reserved for Sade, Pink mastered these gentle tones just as much as her building bombast pop “F**kin’ Perfect” or the rock cracker “Just Like Fire”, in which the guitar was allowed to roar, pillars of fire shot out of the ground and Bat Benetar was quoted as groovy.

On “Kids in Love” one would have liked to have had the duet partners from First Aid Kit (like on the album) – in case of doubt in exchange for the trampoline artists who jumped around happily on “Trustfall”. “Runaway” visually led us into the aerobic world of the eighties, at some point a dancer rolled up in shopping trolleys and pink kissed lips flanked by legs. At the end, to the snotty hit “So What”, the singer flew several times across the stadium as a highlight. What the heck, it’s “Summer Carnival” – and as a line of text from “Raise You Glass” says: “Why so serious?”

However, Pink was serious about “Irrelevant”, you have to fight, she warned, “because there is no progress without a fight”. The message sung urgently: “Girls just wanna have rights”. Such moments allowed one to overlook some of the too much hustle and bustle in the overall production. There are still tickets left for the second circus event.