Concert Review: Sasha Sloan Gathers The Sad Girls At Webster Hall
Sasha Sloan is rising as a megastar and she is doing it like Phoebe Bridgers, Jhene Aiko, and Billie Eillish have: by acknowledging women get sad. Whether it is men that break our hearts or our own mistakes and choices, the point is we put on a smile like like older generations. The world is dire, our tears are more, and good music is revealing/ alleviating that truth.
Enter Webster Hall, I saw so many shirts saying “Sad Girl,” which is Sloan’s “catchphrase of sorts,” that it was easy to confuse this concert for a forum on emotional traumas. Women were grabbing beers and their lovers or friends’ hands to say, “Time to get sad!” I always see the buying of merch or the repetition of an artist’s quips and caption to be a sign of power; people wanting to emulate you because either A) they see you as cool or B) they see you as one of them. For Sasha Sloan, it is both, and her fans dripped themselves like diamonds over feelings at her every lyric and speech.
Sasha Sloan – Too Sad To Cry (Lyric Video)
Similar to Charlotte Lawrence, Sasha Sloan appears the most beautiful, fashionable young woman to not love herself, which is oddly fascinating to a crowd of women who, in a way, say, “Is Sasha struggle, we struggle.” It is like finding out that God cries, which makes you feel like if he feels bad then I am DEFINITELY going to feel worse. I don’t say this facetiously as much as cathartically. Sasha Sloan feels like an icon of “sad pop;” a brilliant mesh of radio-friendly melodies and raw, relatable emotions.
Sasha Sloan – Dancing With Your Ghost (Lyric Video)
It is not easy to figure out why you don’t love yourself, why your lover stopped loving you, or why the universe can’t seem to love you, at all. To have someone so artfully and fully embrace that theme and turn it into an aesthetic and even a culture is a testament to their ability to empower. Sasha Sloan did that, and her packed show at Webster Hall was living proof. For More Information On Sasha Sloan Click Here.
