Concert Review: BØRNS Is FAME At Radio City Music Hall
Watching BØRNS at Radio City Music Hall, FAME, as an energy, leapt from the stage. With silver pants, red, floral shoes, and a sheer, blue top, he floated through his set like an ethereal nypmh analyzing and singing to the blurred lines between divinity and excess.Yes, nymphs are associated as a feminine energy, but BØRNS uses androgyny, from voice to aesthetic, to appeal to the love/lust nature within humanity.
“Faded Heart,” “Overnight Sensation,” “American Money,”and “Dopamine” all sing to the emotional numbing of materiality. When you have access to so many people, places, and things, you need to work double to recall that you are a “Man” and not a “Fool.” In a world where every individual has, at least once, prayed for money, fame, and unconditional love and attention, BØRNS music draws people into the fantasies of such things with undertones of their darker realities. Sonically, his music feels like twilight over an emotional jungle. Yet, this juxtapositions appealed to the packed crowd that, literally, raised their hands to sing along to both his blazing hits like, “Past Lives” and “Electric Love,” to tracks that you NEED to own the album to know such as, “Sweet Dreams” or “Seeing Stars.”
BØRNS – We Don’t Care
BØRNS writes the “Supernatural” hymns for the soul’s material tethers, which gives his show an enamoring, dramatic flare. Blessed with a Falsetto that could wake up The Morning, itself, with its higher range, BØRNS sang covers like “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie and a “Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road/ Bennie And The Jets” Elton John mashup. His selection of artists to cover was perfect because it set up that he is following the theatricality of some of music’s most legendary names. These men celebrated the cosmic nature of humanity, and how we all are, technically, aliens to in this universe and to normalcy. Hence, his plays of androgyny and avant-garde befit a sound that has attracted many but can never be properly placed in a “genre.” Yet, what artist wants to be a “genre”?
BØRNS – Faded Heart
We are all stardust, and with a stage and piano that shines with a rainbow gloss and a laced sage/palm wall behind him, BØRNS swigs and swivels his hips like he is the Mick Jagger of Venus. He pumps up being eccentric as the key to being glamorous, which spoke to his fans and thus explained their love for him. For More Information On BØRNS Click Here.
BØRNS – Electric Love
