Concert Review: Bishop Briggs Sings To The Shame of Toxic Love
As Bishop Briggs introduced new music to a packed crowd of fans, I think I speak for everyone that remembered 2 or 3 exes they would not mind hearing were living in the Nightmare on Elm Street. Honestly, if I look up some of the relationships I have had, The Conjuring feels like a rom-com. Bishop put it perfectly in recounting how life with her ex was like a toxic version of “Ross And Rachel;” instead of wondering when they would, finally, get together, most were asking themselves when they would finally stay apart. Reliving such a love is not easy, but in her performance at Angel Oresanz it became incredibly powerful.
Introducing new songs such as, “Can You Hear Me Now?” Bishop is planning for her new record to be released this fall, and it is 100% about the shame and strength you find when you finally leave someone that should have been left a long time ago. As a person that is occasionally guilty of looking back on past relationships like a Dateline marathon running through my mind, I felt Bishop’s songs and performance. It is as if she needed to figure out either A) what killed the love or B) if the whole time it was dead. The red flags were there, the cruel “back and forths” were not rare, and the building insecurity of realizing to love this person means not to love yourself was constant. So …..why did you/she stay?
Literally, everyone in that audience felt Briggs’ songs not simply because they were fans but because, at least once, you will love somebody that will not love you right. They will convince you pain is apart of “love’s package” because it is true that in love there is loss, but it is not the loss of yourself. Hence, Bishop was particularly vulnerable on the stage, and I was LIVING for it. She had shaved her head as a physical cleansing to her already spiritual one, which I, and every woman I know, could relate to. For some reason, when a break-up happens, we ladies, immediately, go for a change of look, particularly with our hair.
Bishop Briggs – Tattooed On My Heart
Whether it is cutting or coloring it, our hair, especially if it is long, is a symbol of femininity. Yet, when you are heartbroken, you don’t feel like a woman or even a person. You might as well be a million pieces on the floor that your lover’s memory steps on as he exits the house of “love” you built. Thus, every time she shut her eyes. as if her pain was a flashlight shining in them, or every instant she jumped and punched the air, as if invisible shame had challenged her to a boxing match, or EVERY SINGLE MOMENT she roared into the mic, Bishop Briggs was all of us. There is no denying that she is talented but her new music makes her feel iconic. For More Information On Bishop Briggs Click Here.
