Rainbow kept fidgeting in her seat, impatiently waiting for the next song to begin. She was really excited for this one, as Rarity was a very loud whisperer, and Rainbow had overheard her saying it was her favourite, of course. Not only was it apparently awesome, but for some reason, it was taking a few minutes to start up. After a while, an announcement came on the overhead speaker system,

    "Sorry to keep everypony waiting, there has been some technical difficulties, and the sound should be up in a few minutes. Thanks for waiting!" It always bothered Rainbow how the ponies who just said 'Please wait for a few minutes while we fix the music you paid lots of bits to hear!' always sounded so chipper, like they wanted your night to be ruined by their annoying voices. "Oh, well..." She thought, "Might as well sit here..bored."

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    After a few minutes, Rainbow was getting even more bored, so she did the obvious and logical thing: Bother Twilight! "Hey....TWILIGHT!" She hissed in Twilight's ear, causing her to jump about five feet out of her chair. As she began to sit back down, she responded, very irritated.

    ".......What!?"

   "I just wanted to ask you what the next song is like, you know, what it's about and what sounds like.You know, since you and Rarity somehow got little brochure-thingamajig and I didn't." Rainbow looked at Twilight with a huge, and really creepy smile.

    "Well, Rainbow, I wasn't gonna tell you- -" Twilight was cut off by a ringing as another announcement came on the overhead speaker,

    "Thank you everypony for waiting, we've fixed the sound mixer!" Well, at least fixing the sound is a better reason to act irritability cheerful than breaking it." Rainbow rolled her eyes as the music started in a loud rock beat. She saw Michael trot onstage, wearing a red vest (that was a lot different than the other one.) He started singing , while Rainbow leaned back in her chair.

    "Never mind." She whispered to Twilight, who honestly looked relieved to not have to explain the musical composition to her. Rainbow sat and listened to the epic song, until she heard humming coming from the seat on her left.

    "Cheese? Why are you humming? It's really annoying!" Rainbow growled.

    "Sorry. I just love this song! It's just so cool that this one song made me go from a relatively unknown guy to a famous super duper parody pony who got recognized at the Hayburger!" He explained, which in turn, only confused her.

    "But...I thought Pinkie inspired you to be a party pony..."

   "Well, she did, but after I decided that making ponies happy was how I wanted to make a living, I didn't really know where to start, 'cause, like, I had no money or anything. After a while, however, I started going to the schoolhouse here, and one day, the teacher played that song ABC for the class, and I thought it would be real funny to change the lyrics so it said...um....I think it was....'Eat with Me' or something. I dunno, it was over 40 years ago-"

    "You're over 40 years old?!"

    "I'm 55." He stated, ignoring the crazy looks Dash gave him as he continued, "Anywho....One day it just dawned on me to record parodies of popular songs, and to see if ponies liked them, or better yet, were willing to buy albums from me. It seemed like a good idea at the time........what....why are you giving me that look?!? Basically, it didn't really work out until I met Mr.GoldyPants over there." He gestured to the stage with a hoof, then looking over to Rainbow, who still had a confused look still plastered on her face, and was mouthing 'Mr.GoldyPants...what?'

"When I met him, I was really nervous, but I'm glad I did it because without that song, 'Eat it' never would have happened, and neither would my career as a party pony!"

    "So how did you become a party pony? I thought you were making a living on song parodies." Rainbow asked.

    "Well..., like I said I originally wanted to be a party pony, but before I could, I made the money to afford supplies by recording comedy songs." Cheese explained, trying to hide some annoyance at the fact that he just explained his life story to Dash, and she was making him explain every little implied detail.

    "Wow...Okay, that was an...interesting story." Rainbow's eyes had just left the orange Earth Pony, who was grinning at her creepily, and found their way back up to the stage, when a loud guitar solo started. Near the end, Michael stood on his hind legs and started doing his professional dance moves (That I'm assuming you know, because I can't even describe them.) She found herself bobbing her head,and humming the song as well, "Hhmm..beat it!" She mumbled, enjoying the song even more than any of the others. If fact, Rainbow was starting to enjoy it so much that she didn't even care what any of the others thought! She loved his music! If only this concert could go on all night....

    "I think she's finally come to her senses!" Rarity whispered to Twilight, who replied with,

   "Well, now's a good enough time as any to test that theory." Twi leaned over to Rainbow, who was still rocking out to the beat. She took a deep breath and mumbled, "Here goes nothing!" under her breath.

    "Rainbow....are you enjoying the concert? I'm not mocking you, I just want to know, in case you want to come back for the second part of the show tomorrow." Twilight asked.

   "Wait, second part of the-"

As the music faded away, Michael slowly walked up to the mic in front of the stage any took it down. Holding it in both hooves, he spoke in a soft, almost shy voice, "Hello, everypony, how are you guys doing tonight?" He was met with stomping hooves and the many variations of the phrase 'I LOVE YOU MICHAEL!!!!' "As you all most likely know, this next song will be the last song of the concert 'till tomorrow."

     "What!?" Rainbow yelled, causing ponies from nearby seats to collectively shush her, but, of course she ignored them. "How can you play only four songs at a CONCERT!!?!?"

    "Well....I don't really know why....." Michael trailed off shyly, "My manager told me to just go along with it, and we'd play the rest of the songs tomorrow." Rainbow pouted in her seat for a while as Michael talked about the show the next day and blah, blah, blah turned out to be all she heard.

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