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Well, Mike Rizzo does a lot of Utada remixes (one of which is on the Dirty Desire remixes album), and he's also the opening act, so let's not stick up our noses at him.

Her outfit was great - black (sequin?) shirt, leopard print skirt, black tights, black boots with silver chains, and star earrings. Her hair was long enough that when she did head-banging (like during YMMWTBAM) it looked really cool. She looked great.

She didn't seem VERY happy but she appeared to be in a good mood - I think she was just really taken aback by how much we loved her, she remarked that we were very loud.

Funny moments - a couple: this one guy in the front kept complimenting her and the band, like incessantly, and finally Utada just goes "Stop talking!" And everyone applauded. He wasn't being rude, he was just really excited to see her (having waited in line for like 15 hours)

The three Exodus songs sounded EXACTLY like they did at UU06 (except during YMMWTBAM she started banging on the drums which was awesome), and she did a really great job with them.

Standing-out wise, I was surprised with how good Poppin' sounded (I don't really like that song, but live it sounded awesome). Same with Me Muero, which I wasn't expecting to like at all. I actually didn't like the instrument backup for Simple and Clean, I can't quite articulate it but it didn't seem right to me. Stay Gold may have been my favorite number of the night - I usually don't like that song but wow, I can't explain how good it sounded live (and she was playing piano for it, too, which made it even better). The lighting was AMAZING.