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Many concerts are great. But much rarer are the more special – Frank Ocean's 2017 dates, the "Beyon's Lemonade" tour, Kanye West's "Pablo" ride with the "flying scene" – that even those who attend dozens of shows. Shows where an artist is at a peak of his career; where they interpret songs that define or at least illuminate the immediate era and / or culture; where the show is so good that it gives a feeling of common happiness to the crowd that can linger for days, and we end up smiling at the aliens – the collective feeling that is really there 39 ultimate concert experience, describe it, but not when you feel it.
Childish Gambino's concert at Madison Square Garden on Friday night was one of them.
Gambino – aka, of course, singer-rapper-actor Donald Glover – is on an ascending trajectory rarely seen by a musical artist, much less by a polymath-is-ya-nothing-can-do that channels so much of creativity in so many different projects. This year alone, he has abandoned several projects in various disciplines: several new songs – including the very wacky politics and the definition of "This Is America", with his sub-textual video – of a seemingly final final album that few people have. heard; the second season of his HBO series "Atlanta"; a versatile filming of "Saturday Night Live" that showcased his comical and musical abilities; a place of co-star in "Star Wars"; and this tour, apparently also his last, which is in itself a work of art. The day before this concert, he even played an intimate 45-minute concert for nearly 600 people at Rihanna's Diamond Ball in New York, which was equally memorable for a variety of reasons. His "Redbone" title of 2016, for which he won a Grammy in January, still resonates. (For all his creative talents, the biggest draw of this show can be appreciation of his time management abilities.)
It's a bold concert. He plays a lot of new material that many of the audience did not hear – always a risk, but especially for a high-level artist – including the opening of "Algorhythm", and that night he launched a new song ("This is the new shit I've been working on," he said casually). The new material was posted between the favorites of his last two albums, "Awaken, My Love!" And "Because the Internet", as well as a pair of his 2014 "STN MTN / Kauai" mixtape and excerpts from other.
The presentation is visually stunning, with a bright show filled with arenas, lots of dry ice and a pair of video banks 50 feet high that move between the center and sides of the stage; Large video screens were on each side, showing both the scene and often members of the crowd. During the rap songs, the lights would respond and sometimes accentuate the lyrics. On several occasions during the show, the cameramen followed Glover behind the scenes – and once dragged him backstage, then into a series of hallways in the actual arena, passing in front of the bleachers, – "I thought I'd see better," he said as the group was partying – and in the crowd, where thousands of mobile phone cameras were flashing, he was gradually crossing the aisles to return to the stage.
And although he has shone the group of 10 musicians and the four dancers, the show is really all Glover – and it is a testament to his talent and his magnetism that he can not only wear but dazzle throughout a 90-minute concert on a giant. Arena scene, mainly by himself (shirtless, not less). He sings, he raps, he sings in the falsetto and shouts to the soul-man. There is a lot of his trademark, muscular dances, muscular jostling – and he even launched a new semi-moonwalk movement, "Hey, check this out" – but also many moments of silent intensity, and It has the rare capacity to be intimate with 18,000 people. At the beginning of the shoot, he shouted, "If you smell that, say 'Hell yeah! "; thousands did it. He once again stated that it was the "last Childish Gambino tour", and asked the public not to focus on his documentation with his phones and to live "the experience " (in vain). At another time, he sat on stage and said, "I remember coming here to see my favorite rap acts when I was [a student] at NYU "and talked about a few years ago, hip-hop was not the mainstream, as it is now -" it was, for example, a small thing ".
After about an hour and a dozen songs, the four singers broke into the song "Na na na-na" of "This Is America" and the house burst as Glover and the dancers entered their familiar movements. in the enlarged version of the song – and then "Thanks and good night!" After a few minutes, the video screens showed Glover with some associates behind the scenes, visibly assessing whether the crowd was applauding loud enough. After four "eh" reactions, he finally passed the test, and Glover and the band came back on stage for a reminder of four songs: "Sober", "3005", "Sweatpants" and, of course, the single most improbable 2016, the classic Grammy Award-winning 'Redbone' soul groove, which made the crowd pale with Glover pulling out his best Prince loan on falsetto notes before thanking the crowd again and dropping his micro, this time
The lights of the house appeared, leaving the crowd wanting perhaps a little more – but with the echoes of the sumptuous, wah-wah-hook of the inevitable "Redbone" offering a perfect soundtrack for all that Friday night.
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