Friday July 4th Justin Timberlake brought his Forget Tomorrow World Tour to Hershey, PA. I wasn’t sure what to expect with traffic since it was a holiday, so I left early and somehow only ran into traffic when I was about an hour out and it was due to an accident. Everyone must have already left before me or the day before, but that worked for me! (In the past the 4 hour trip has taken up to 7 so 4 hours 15 mins is alright with me!)
A storm ended up rolling through just before doors, so we waited it out in the car before joining the absolute masses of people trying to enter the stadium. It was an absolute cluster, which we were kind of expecting. We made it to the ADA area and the DJ was already going. When Justin first took the stage it was still light out which was distracting for me and I was paying more attention to the drone than anything else. It was also incredibly hot and humid and I was trying to figure out how to best ration my water. (I ended up deciding to spend the $5 on another bottle because it was too much for me not to.) Justin kept saying “it’s hot, it’s hot, did I mention it’s hot?” whenever he stopped to talk to the crowd. He had a suit jacket on for a couple of songs but then took it off to have just a t-shirt on, which he changed half way through – can’t say I blamed him, I was trying to track down an event t-shirt for myself since the shirt I was wearing was soaked with sweat. He also had sweat dripping off his arms and must have gone through at least 5 towels throughout the course of the show.
I was hoping he would walk past us on his way to the B Stage, but since the stadium is so large, he didn’t. But we had a decent spot across from the B-Stage – when the women on the floor weren’t standing on their chairs to see better…
He also took time to ask everyone who was standing to sit, commenting “I’ll wait” as people were hesitant. Then he asked for veterans and those in the service to stand so we could cheer for them which I thought was very nice of him to do.
There was some speculation that he might sing “Love and War” since it mentioned the Fourth of July – and he did when he returned to the A Stage. There also was a really cool fireworks display during Mirrors that was probably one of the cooler things I have seen at a concert.
As much as I say I don’t like Justin, I do enjoy seeing him live, but do hope for an *NSYNC reunion tour/show in the future.
Katie 
