Concert date: 10/04/99 Helsinki, Finland

Review of the show:
Well, I read my earlier review and saw I forgotten the details. N´maybe I will provide the only review from Finnland....

1.GET IT BACK

Bobby did no warm up.

Lights went out, intromusic; dancers and musicians entered with flashlights.

GIB starts - and Whitney appears on top of the stairs.

She wore those silverflower pants, black top and the green "Diva live" coat.

Strong voice going up and down her register.

The sound was too crispy - her voice got lost in the music at times.

2.Heartbreak Hotel

still poor sound...she does this great by herself. Actually when she does duets it always feels like she has to hold back, Whitney is a great builder of songs and that works best when she is alone. But I´m sure that Faiths and Kellys back-up voices were on clicktrack.....?!

3. If I told you..... sound a little better. Great voice, took all high notes and added a few extra.

Introtalk: Hello Helsinki. This is my first time here...isn´t it? Then she explained that these first songs were from the new album..did we have it?....did we like it...? You´re kind....

Are you ready to go back...back to the beginning...

4. Saving all my/ Until you come back..

That slow version of Saving - wow.. strong low notes, those beautiful crisp falsettonotes and bam! right into a high strong and long gutvoicenote...One could cry!

4a. I learned from.... Sound was bad again. She did it marvellous though - but she did a high fantastic wail in the keychange that got lost in the music...!!!

5. Step by step - not the best sound again. But good version - still no crowd response...

6. Dresschange - choir sings the Whitney-medley.

7. My love is your love - enters on top of stairs. When "sing mommy" is heard she points in the air and smiles.

She is having a multicolored dress - with peachpink as base - with a tail that she holds in her hand. Beautiful - feels American south in the 30`s. An extended ending lets her play with rythm singing clap clap clap in different beats. Bobby enters doing a short rap, trying to wake up audience, but fails and leaves after kissing his wife. She whispers in his ear and he laughs.

8. IWDWS/HWIK

Partyversions, I get overwhelmed when she´s hitting original highnotes. Now the crowd loosen

up and stand up dancing.

After: So you liked that!..Great! That was way back, back in the beginning.

9. GOSPELSET

She talks about how tiring being on tour can be. How they all miss their family and the band answers with sighs and yes. She says that they all have one thing in common - the love of the Lord. Then she says let´s do It is well with my soul. Fantastic with high and low notes and deep feeling. She commands the back-up singers how to do the choirs the whole song through. It feels very spontaneous - but it could be rehearsed.

Then she says that she has never denied the fact that she loves the Lord. She talks about how much he means to her and what a friend He is. Then she sings I love the lord. After she continues with adlib. about the Lord,singing a lot of times: You can clap - the Lord won´t mind. You can shout Hallelujah - the Lord won`t mind. Of course the response is not the greatest.....

Then she goes into IGTTR where the band plays so qiet in the beginning that you only hear Whitney and the back-up singers. That doesn´t groove....But it comes on stronger and stronger.

10. Moviemedley. She talks about her three films and then about the songs they had and that she wants to give us some of them.....

11. IWALY - she goes right into it from It hurts like hell...The crowd goes wild...

She sings it amazingly...and with such ease. And that long wait with her head down and then straight into the keychange has a shocking effect. No problem with high notes and she does a great longnote ending and the youyouyou as she did in SouthAfrica...Then the royal bow and out.

Xtra - INRBIO - She has the jeans with glittering front and the black seethrough top and a white furry coat and matching hip hop hat....

Great danceversion, and the only time I heard her do all the high parts live...Then she was fast out, taking Bobby´s hand and they left together....

Bobby didn´t stand all the time by the speakers but off and on - being very supportive.

She joked a lot with the band and singers when she introduced them in IGTTR, creating a very strong familyfeeling..

Well, those are the details..... Overall impression? See my other review....