Concert Review: The Allan Rayman Show Hits Warsaw
Beneath a good, rhythmic beat, lies the versed details of self-destruction and the feelings that if “the one” leaves you, in a way, you will leave yourself. As Allan Rayman pretended to down a bottle of alcohol, acting out the self-loathing that occurs when your partner doesn’t text you back after a major fight, all the crowd said was,” Get it Allan! Drink up!” Now, of course, you could judge the Warsaw audience, but Allan’s concert is a theater piece, making you cheer and jeer at how well he embodies hating yourself for not loving your lover right.
From The Weeknd to Amy Winehouse, public consumption of artists’ perceived pain can be addicting. They become successful symbols for relationship failures, of which Allan might as well be an emblemed phoenix. He physically combusts with sporadic, sintered movements; as if his body is on fire from how his mind MUST relive his partner leaving him. We have all been there! The looping memory of a “relationship-changing” fight that left you struggling to see both what you could have done better and what you actually did wrong. Thus, from how he twiddled his fingers to how he tossed his body around the stage like a rag doll, the audience was enamored. He was living art for devastating heartbreak.
Lee Strasbourg would have been proud of Allan’ Rayman’s acting chops, and, at the very least, I was praying for them. There is always something distressing when hearing another repeatedly sing to their self-hatred. Moreover, Allan calls his concert “The Allan Rayman Show;” giving it a very Truman Show dynamic. We were all watching the live-action choices and aftermath of the bourbon voiced singer. The way Allan steamed his notes, all you needed was a glass and some ice, and he feels like a drinkable spirit. His voice not only hits like whiskey but flows with the many influences of pain. Thus, his addition of sound effects, skits, and an overarching theme of bad breakups turned his concert into a lovelorn cinemascope. For More Information On Allan Rayman Click Here.
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