. He'd be performing the entire album in order, with special guests. Tickets were priced at $100, went on sale at noon and disappeared within seconds. It's not every day, of course, that you get to see the planet's hottest pop star not named Lady Gaga play a venue no doubt smaller than his bathtub.
So that meant that it wouldn't be easy for anyone — even "Dynamite" singer Taio Cruz — to get in. By midnight, the line outside Manhattan's Bowery Ballroom was stretching down the street and up the nearest avenue — and not budging an inch. Cruz, preceded by a gigantic bodyguard, stood in a clump of people at the front door, his head bowed and hidden within a baneful hoodie, for fear someone outside might recognize him. "I have Taio Cruz here," the "Dynamite" singer's bodyguard told the bouncers. One of them shook his head quasi-apologetically from behind the velvet rope. "Excuse me, I have Ta—." They weren't even listening anymore.
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