Concert Review: Nightly Are Pop Ambition At Baby’s All Right
If you read me, often, you know I am fascinated by how pop stars become pop stars. I live for music documentaries and am genuinely shocked at how touring amplifies an artist’s confidence and presence in their own music. Nightly was always good, and my interview with them shows they have always been determined. Yet, their Baby’s All Right show WAS NEXT LEVEL!
I remember in their interview the drive of the group, particularly of Jonathan Capeci, and realized drive is a performance energy. No, I am not an idiot or oblivious to the obvious, but when you are trying to make a performance into a career, your energy becomes different. When I perform its out of love, but making that love your life path adds an urgency that Capeci transfers into electricity. He hovers over and caresses the mic as if it had the last drops of water on earth and he is THIRSTY. The made tracks like, “Twenty Something” and “The Movies,” feel like more than just pop; they were his PASSION!
nightly – this time last year
ENTERTAIN ME! I am all for the melodrama: the tussling curls, putting the mic stand to the side so you can really wail a note, and thanking/ encouraging the crowd like we are your equals and we can all just perfectly pitch a lyric like you. CAPECI DOES IT ALL! And it made me feel really happy to have seen them from the beginning, especially because the crowd they earned, that night, was buzzing about them.
Nightly – XO
I had seen them as openers, but they were the headline, which meant everyone was their for them because they believed Nightly is THE NEXT BEST THING! Yet, the most exciting part of their show was that they believe it, as well, and their pop tracks provide the lovelorn magnetism and fan devoutness that fellow artists such as, LANY and Conan Gray muster. Something about dancing to broken-hearted men’s feelings and soft vocals really does get the ladies to follow and, from their Baby’s show, more are following. For More Information On Nightly Click Here.
