![]() ![]() Nav performed songs like “A$AP Ferg,” “Call Me,” “Minute,” and “Beibs in the Trap.” He was not physically high energy, probably since he was an opener broader scale, I don’t think pop music now is as high energy as decades past. Nav’s commercial career just turned two years old: he recently cracked the Billboard Hot 100 chart and saw Kylie Jenner lip-syncing his song on Snapchat (the app which I, the social media editor pushing 30, have downloaded but haven’t set up). Up next was Nav (Navraj Goraya), The Weeknd’s XO label mate and a Punjabi-Canadian rapper only a handful of months younger than me. Then again, in an environment where any technical flub will be captured, replayed and analyzed to death, technical proficiency is par for the course. drummer/music producer did it in front of thousands of people, which, from my anxiety-based perspective, is stunning. I think I’ve seen one person drum and mix music at the same time, but the U.K. ![]() I started these thoughts during DJ PNDA’s opening set. Statistically speaking though, gun violence and accidents didn’t stop on that Sunday we don’t need more post-tragedy censorship like we saw in the wake of 9/11. Sure, all the use of gunshot audio leading up to The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye)’s set is disconcerting during the first week after the to-date deadliest mass shooting of the 21st century on American soil. (Not sure if this is at all related, but I have now seen denim bondage pants on a human! Anachronistic 2000s nostalgia is in full bloom!)Īll the performers were flawlessly proficient, which makes finding weak points in the performances pointless. But it’s not until I heard someone say “Blazers” and looked over to men my height or taller with their girlfriends half our height in heels that this aspect of the audience became apparent. It should have been pretty obvious: arena show, thousands of people, somebody there was bound to be into anyone from the Timbers to the Portland State Vikings. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize how many people in the audience were sports fans. Nav opens for The Weeknd at the MODA Center on Friday, Oct. This is also a venue where you can buy pickle peanut butter bacon burgers, so awareness is subjective. The reasons I like Sports the Concept are how they ground players and participants in the present reality-likely why exercise alleviates, if not cures, depression and anxiety symptoms-and how they can heighten bodily awareness. Most of my friends aren’t avid sports fans, but some are, and they’re cool too, and they have their reasons. I’m done being condescending and dismissive of sports. It’s a space that hosted Def Leppard and Poison a few months back. It had been a few months since my last amphitheater show and at least 15 years since I’d seen a concert at the venue that forever in my heart is called the Rose Garden ( email or tweet me to find out who I saw). I was outside my art bubble next to the VIP section on the MODA Center’s floor and later moved to a section that gave me a great view without my camera obstructing anyone else’s. The two main themes I noticed were masculinity (duh) and the exploration of the veil between the Star’s fractal digital/print image and the totality of their natural reality. 6th show, Starboy: Legend of the Fall, at the MODA Center was a saturated, full-body experience designed to visually read differently between the present reality and the digital near past. Here’s to more transformations ahead.The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, Nav and DJ PNDA’s Oct. Whatever the impetus, it’s clear that men are getting in on the beauty chameleon game this season. ![]() It’s a phenomenon also experienced by playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, who recently shed his hallmark Hamilton shoulder-length haircut for a short crop and shaved face on the cover of the October issue of GQ in an effort to denote a new creative turn. Set against a red backdrop, it’s almost difficult to recognize Tesfaye, and perhaps that’s exactly the point-visually communicating that you can forget what you thought you knew about the artist, because his new work will speak for itself. ![]() While the rest of the world answers the season’s siren call to button up and grow out their hair for the impending winter’s chill, The Weeknd explained “I come alive in the fall,” debuting an abbreviated, crisp graphic crop to replace his signature abstract twist of dreadlocks. The weeknd Photo: Courtesy of would have guessed that September’s most talked-about beauty transformation would be The Weeknd’s new haircut? But that’s exactly what happened when Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, the Canadian singer and songwriter announced his new album, Starboy, today on Twitter complete with a photograph of his reimagined look. ![]()
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