Concert Review: Idman Changes The R In R&B Into Risk
I don´t trust people. I’m lying. If anything, I trust too much. Yet, I feel that first line is the line everybody says to guard their heart, ¨I don’t trust people,¨ as if saying that lie makes it true. Rising in R&B, Idman feels destined to be known. She is beautiful, and has a presence that blanketed the stage of Sultan Room to turn the R in R&B into Risk over Rhythm.
Celebrating one of her newest releases, Risk EP, and her first solo show, you could tell Idman was going through the typical, ¨Well, Damn! My Dreams Might Be Coming True!¨ energy that happens to every artist that lands in NYC. New York will forever live as place that means your dreams are coming true. It is like a wilder, slightly more depressing version of Disney for adults. Yet, Idman has the recipe to make the climb to the top of the charts, especially globally. Beauty, sound, perfectly attuned, yet gentle vocals, and the lyrics that unite women in their sincere belief: MEN are more complicated.
Happy to see her crowd, she sang tracks like, ¨Hate¨ and ¨Good Life,¨ and while it was a brief show, or at least, felt like one, I could totally see her one day performing at Bowery to her own packed room, then opening for SZA at her stadium tours, and then helming her own top billing at the festival circuit… the typical artist run. I say this because I try to observe, even for my own artistry, what makes a star. While most people will say it believing in yourself, I think it is making yourself believable: a dream I can put my faith in. She felt huge, and she sang to being treated quite opposite.
Back to my men are complicated adage… because they are, and it is not because I reviewed the Barbie movie. In being desired, in body and THEN, maybe, heart, you can feel so opened; trying to decipher which guy wants to date you or hunt you, and I am not even talking in an Alien VS. Predator kind of way. In the¿is sense, intentions always feel veiled to a woman, and you have to go on overdrive trying to decipher when kindness is real, all while not knowing how to give it to yourself. There in lies the Risk Idman sings to so succulently and serenely as if her words and voice were like fresh strawberries being dipped in chocolate. It is hard to know when love is real and long-lasting, and to believe in it is a risk, but to believe in her…. That is a sure bet.
