“Irish Celebration” more than lived up to that introduction, Macklemore waving an Irish flag and ending the song with a helpful reminder that you “can’t take it with ya.” Then, he introduced the band before whipping the crowd into one final frenzy with the thumping house beat of another multi-platinum single from “The Heist,” “Can’t Hold Us.” Walking on the audience’s outstretched hands like Iggy Pop as streamers rained down on their heads in a triumphant climax to the night, he led 5,000 fans in a joyous singalong of "Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over / So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us.This dissertation is a collection of analytical essays on songs made by Stevie Wonder between 19. And there is no better way to celebrate life than with this gift of music.” We came here to celebrate what we call life. Then he told the crowd this concert was “the perfect way to start the year off, right here in Arizona. Losing the Raven Bowie getup, Macklemore returned to share a new song with a pulsating beat and a haunting guitar riff about how “when s-t gets hard, you learn who your friend is.” But they weren’t finished celebrating yet. That performance would have been the perfect way to end the night. Until then, I’m out of here, bitches.”īest December singles: David Bowie, Katy B, Radiohead Follow me after the show because I am going streaking on the golf courses of Phoenix. Nally is a total kook, which is exactly what the concert needed at that point.Īnd things got even loopier from there as a video about the rapper’s dreadlock-rocking alter ego Raven Bowie set up “And We Danced.” Working the crowd into a frenzy in his shimmering gold cape and dreadlocked wig, the rapper effortlessly lived up to the chorus-ending lyrics “Take my hand / Let’s have a blast / And remember this moment for the rest of our lives.”Īt the end of the song, he announced, “My name is Raven Bowie. The song featured a spirited high-kicking walk-on by Foxy Shazam’s Eric Nally, a force of ridiculous nature. And like clockwork, they reached for a party jam, their latest single, “Downtown,” to lighten the mood. It was one of the heavier moments of the night.
“The next time that I saw him was in the hand of the pallbearer.” “I said ‘peace’ at 5:30,” he rapped in one particularly chilling turn of phrase. That emotional highlight was followed by two cautionary tales about drug use – “Otherside” (on which those drugs will “leave you broke, depressed and emotionally vacant”) and “Kevin,” a powerful new song paying tribute to a friend who overdosed on prescription meds. Although he has three gospel singers on the road with him, they piped in Mary Lambert’s vocal from the record and ended the song with a stunning projection of a stained-glass window bathing the venue in light. The mood grew dark again for “Wing$,” a cautionary tale about the high cost of consumerism on which the three large screens at the back of the stage were bathed in blood-red light as he rapped about a friend’s brother who got murdered for his Nikes.Īfter ending that song with a somber delivery of the line “And now I see it’s just another pair of shoes,” he set up “Same Love,” a gospel-flavored plea for legalizing same-sex marriage, with a heartfelt speech about the kind of world he wants his daughter to grow up in. Then, it was back to the party vibe for the celebratory “White Walls” and “Crew Cuts,” on which they were joined by their opening rapper Xperience. “My old man, he kicked me out,” the song begins, “when I told him that I lived this way.” That song, the soulful “Growing Up (Sloane’s Song)” was followed by a Fences track that Macklemore & Lewis guested on about the kind of dad he clearly wouldn’t want to be. It was a blast, complete with goofy ad-libbed lines about how your grandma’s a freak.Īmong the cooler things about the concert was the way the mood could ricochet from Macklemore rapping “Your grandma’s a freak” to him sharing a heartfelt song he’d written after finding out that he was to become a father, wondering “If I was to give advice to my unborn child, what would I say.”
January concert guide: Macklemore, Ciara, Band PerryĪnd with that, the band kicked into “Thrift Shop,” the 10-times-platinum smash that topped the Billboard Hot 100 on its way to picking up Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at the Grammys, Macklemore rocking a coon-skin cap as streamers rained down from the ceiling. “Because when they give away their s-t, I wear it.” “And I love old people,” he said, with a grin. “I love cacti, which is the plural name for cactus,” he told us, adding that he’d been corrected for calling them cactuses.
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