Thighs Wide Shut

Tidal X 2017
Barclays Center
October 17th

Tidal X 2017 was the show to end all shows!!  It’s true, cause it went on for SIX HOURS hours, and if you were at all 6 hours, you probably couldn’t sit through another show ever again!  We only lasted 4 out of those 6 hours, but what we saw was mammoth, and well worth the hourage!

OK, so we missed out big time on seeing Stevie, and Jay and Jenny, but forgive us, and I had to forgive myself – it was a school night!

Not sure how everything ran on so long  (besides having 12389129391293 performers) – the show was well-oiled, going quickly from act to act, but it somehow was grander than the Tidal X show we caught last year that ran a measly 4 hours.  But what we DID learn from last year’s show was that you had to be there right from the start – as the event always starts with a bang(er).  Last year was Robin Thicke, and this year jumped off with Luis Fonsi of ‘Despacito’ fame.  Sadly for him, the arena was maybe a 1/6th full, and sadly for those who weren’t there, as they missed the song of the summer live.  And sadly for those of us who were there, as he somehow didn’t sing the hit with his collaborator Daddy Yankee, who appeared later on in the evening.  Personally, I think they should have saved Fonsi and the song for later in the show, and had they done it then and with Daddy Y and a full crowd – the place would have explotó!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Besides the big names who showed flash & a$$ (4/5th of Fifth Harmony, Iggy Azalea, Fat Joe + Remy Ma, and Chris Brown, a solid dancer, but still a giant a$$hole who the world should never forgive for what he did to Rihanna), the show excelled on the backs of the little people – the lesser known artists thrust onto a giant stage that they may have never been on before.  Stand out performances included Victory, Chloe X Halle, Mr Eazi, Kranium and Jessie Reyez, who methinks made the mostest of her time in the spotlight over anyone elses!

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shine on all you newbies and oldbies!  and on with Tidal X 2018!  just please, if you want to go 6 hours, make it on a Saturday, and start at 4pm.  thanks.  signed, old man in the see

Tidal X 10/15
Barclays Center
October 15th

I know nothing of modern music.  I was born too late to be a teen rocking out to the music of the 60s that I truly love and live for.  But here I am, in the twenty first würst century and I want to know what the kids are into.  I’ve tried to tune into the MTV Video Music Awards year after year, but I quickly tune out after realizing that this is not my cup of tea’s nutz.  Well, Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service held a 2nd annual Tidal night of musicness, and I said, well, my wife and I like that one DNCE song, and I’ve never seen Beyoncé live, so why the hell not!

We didn’t arrive on time, so we missed probably the one and only time we’d hear Robin Thicke play live (unless he ever decides to tour with his divorced parents), and we left early, cause 4 hours may work for Bruce Springsteen, but it doesn’t work for me, so we missed out on Alicia Keys (who I had sorta heard live once before), but what we got was A LOT!!!!  Look at all these names!!!!

Who are 1/2 of the people?  I think that’s the point, and I did really enjoy all the ones who actually played an instrument – cause you could actually hear what they were playing.  Stand outs in my mind were Kevin Garrett and Emeli Sandé.  The other acts were mainly rappers, and were too loud and distorted to understand, or enjoy

As for DNCE?  WAY NICE!!!!  They were rocking!  Did I ever think I’d say that about a Jonas brother?  Well, I didn’t ever think about a lot of things, but sometimes life hands you lemons and Jonas brother bands that are actually way rocking!!

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and while it was nice to see Lauryn Hill, alive, performing, and showing up in general, the showstopping showstopper of the evening was whatever Beyoncé was doing with those holograms.  Sh!t was TIGHT, and confusing, and led me to believe that maybe seeing holograms in concert, in the future, isn’t necessarily the würstest thing

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