Ariana Grande's "The Honeymoon Tour" just started with its North American leg last week. The singer opened her tour at Independence City, Missouri last Feb. 25, 2015 and her second night was on Feb. 28, 2015 at Milwaukee.
English boy band Rixton and Norwegian DJ Cashmere Cat will be opening for Ariana. "The Honeymoon Tour" is a promotion of her second studio album "My Everything" (2014).
"Grande faced one of the bigger tests of her career. The 21-year-old headlined an arena for only the second time on her first-ever tour. And it showed. The Bradley Center may have been filled to near-capacity with automatically adoring teen and preteen 'Arianators.' But the Milwaukee stop on Grande's 'Honeymoon Tour' didn't signify the birth of the next superstar. Most of the time, it felt like a dress rehearsal," Piet Levy of the Journal Sentinel criticized Ariana Grande.
Levy also mentioned Ariana Grande's performance of "Bang Bang" where the singer reportedly played it safe vocally.
The performance was enhanced with fireworks, a DJ, a rock band, a string orchestra section and 12 back-up dancers but Grande still failed to replicate the track's "massive money notes." Furthermore, Piet Levy commented that Ariana "seemed confused, uncertain about what to say, [and] insecure" where she should have exuded confidence.
The 21-year-old pop star almost died when, during the performance of her single "Love Me Harder," the wooden lift that was meant to raise her up broke.
"You need to know what happened during 'Love Me Harder,' for those of you watching I'm supposed to be going up in this lift for 'Love You Harder' in this wooden thing that raises up. So the wooden thing breaks and I'm about to be crushed by some mechanical, metal [stuff]," Grande exclaimed.
The singer was rescued by the guitar tech named Ruff when Ari was dangling on stage. Ruff heard a crack and thought that the singer dropped her mic. However, when he turned around, Ariana was just hanging there while people are yelling and attempting to stop the lift.