Concert Review: BETS Brings Future Color To Elsewhere
Jittering form her new album’s release, BETS was excited to introduce Future Color to the Elsewhere crowd; presenting her dream pop tracks like roads to discovering your inner priestess. For BETS, in every woman lies a goddess ready to rule, and one that refuses to let a moment’s magic settle in time; they deserve to be carried.
First, sonically, BETS is everywhere, and I love it. She is The Brunettes and NVDES going to meet Cults at an open bar, and deciding to have a synth-wave competition with Imogen Heap….. yeah! She brings a 1960’s home video quality to her sound and style; making you feel like you are watching Bridget Bardot grow sunflowers from her head. Her ability to match retro with a sense of mysticism makes her appear like the Sabrina of Pop; giving a feeling that somewhere else, in some other time, life’s better days could go on for “Another Night.”
As she swayed across the stage like it was her bedroom, BETS made Elsewhere feel like it was her space to explain her motives. Her songs, such as “Out of View” and “Gold,” became the fantasies she replays in her mind that are both motivating for but also motivated by her reality. Think about it! We dream of love in hopes to gain it, and, once we have it, we dream of it more to prosper it. For BETS life deserves to be eternally dreamt, which she emanates with a voice and presence that feels like every hue of a rainbow is abstracting and reshaping in wonder. Yet, she has reason, more than most, to feel the brightness of life: after seeing its darkness.
While the crowd bopped to Future Color like it was the soundtrack record to the 1960’s Jupiter, the truth is these songs were the diaries of a woman healing her body and soul after a severe, biking accident. After surgeries, physical rehabilitation, and the general isolation that comes with a frustrating, health issue, music took a whole other meaning to BETS. If before it was her love, it became her lifeline. Hence, it is no wonder that, in concert and record, she commands her audience to be unstoppable. Lord knows life can toss at you some greying situations, but it is up to you to see Future Color. For More Information on BETS And To Buy Future Color On October 26 Click Here.
