i friggin can't believe the click five opened for them and that i missed part of their set. i'm so jaded by my previous s'pore concert experiences that i assumed no one would open the show, i assumed the concert would be subpar and mostly blamed by the lame-0 audience dragging down the upbeat performance. Let's face it, singaporeans generally don't like hip hop. they club to house, they like billboard pop-rock on the radio, and karaoke to jay chou and friends. hip hop is left for the wild niche crowd that the country has so cleverly holed into "hip hop rooms" and "butter factory". (u might blame inherent stereotypical chinese disdain/fear/bias of black people). However, these 2 bands on foreign soil, rocked so hard and with so much energy, in succession, that it brought up the generally lackluster fan appreciation during the show....it was one rocking rock band followed by one big parrtttaaayyy....WOOOOOOOOT WOOOOOOOOOT!!
i did the lackadaisical fashionably-late, looking-for-beer entrance only to be stunned by 'click five' posters at the front gate and after hearing a slight rift of "flipside" i did a flipside semi-screaming at the 'bladder handicapped' farida and jlee89 to hurry their tooshies into the show!! to be honest, i've been pretty out of the visual aspect of music the past few years, holed up in the mp3 generation, downloading 'what's hot' and not being able to put a face to the band, not being able to tandem gossip news with billboard charts, (but i guess this in essence gives me a purer judgment of music). and I've been loving the click five!!! blasting it in the office day after day....
the click five brought back the quintessential cbgb underground rock band...anorexic skeleton frame wrapped in tight jeans and a fitted top. purple velour outfit for the lead singer, black on black vest/tie ensemble for the lead guitarist. both with long hair, both holding their guitars lower than necessary, knees buckled inward and arms flailing in circles (imagine air guitar but WITH THE GUITAR). OMG, i haven't seen anyone rock that hard in quite some time and made me so completely envious of rockstardom! (maybe the last time i felt this way was @ prince concert - but he's a friggin legend). When live performances rival record recordings it always makes me wonder whether these "rockstars" were once choir/glee club members in high school. their set was a no frills show, one simple stage set, crisp vocals, loud guitar, well rehearsed harmony, evident cohesion and enough energy to power a small town. i was stoked! jlee89 was sweating! and farida's booty was on autopilot.
look at that outfit....don't you think it's missing something?? yep...toilet paper stuck on the pumps...
u never really realize how many hits a band has until their concert set list is a medley of hits reviving nostalgia of the past few years of your party life to mind...i've known about the peas when they were playing gigs at our fraternity parties (of course i didn't really pay much attention to them, probably too busy chugging beer and chasing sorority girls around the room) but from their roots of playing at parties to hitting the billboard charts with party hits, they've stayed true to their bread and butter of "what their mama gave them" which is seat rising, bass thumping, head bopping, "lady humpin" jams. they brought the fury to singapore indoor stadium and i left with smiles from ear to ear.
their songs all sound like similar booty shakin' beats to me, which is probably why i can't remember nor does it matter which song they opened with. what i did notice was their ingenious usage of classic samples for intro's, rifts, bridges, chorus', with spanish guitar, trumpet, orchestral interludes stunning the audience with motion picture grandeur....building suspense, building momentum, and intuitively progressing into a poppy redundant chorus captivating and capturing the audience on all fronts....they did some timely covers/samples as well....fergie sang sweet child o mine, will.i.am. rapped jack johnson's - gone gone gone, they sampled 7 nation army, taboo covered kriss kross' - JUMP. their concert also allowed for individual members to promote solo hits....
taboo is a pretty good emcee introducing his mates' solo acts, getting the audience riled up.....first getting the south east asian crowd riled up for apl.de.ap aka king of phillipines tagalog jam. will.i.am did "what your mama gave you" and fergie did her own 3-4 song set....with none of the members stealing any thunder from the overall flare of the band. from our post concert conversation, farida informed me that fergie's wax face is due to her previous meth addiction, which was wretchedly evident over the 4 big screens zoomed in on her...i personally had a hard time negating the butter-face even with her smokin hot body. regardless, she embodies the word tomboy, the antithesis of what chinese girls are taught to be, and she absolutely ROCKS IT. she's a bit nasally, comes off a bit overly tacky, tightropes trashy, but embraces herself, and again, ROCKS IT. she belts her songs loud, clean and vibrant, shakes her booty like she owns the place, shows off her body cuz she derserves to after all that workin out....
farida either had epilipsy from the waist down or kept bumpin booty with me standing behind......and when lady lumps came on....i had to get on someone....jenn seemed to be a great candidate.....
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no wonder there hasn't been much news about the BEP in the US recently-- cause they're on tour! picking up chicks, not wingwoman. There have been lesbians hitting on me...it's a phase.
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