Concert Review: Tkay Maidza Shows Kindness Is Bad Ass
In a world, where women wear “toxica” shirts with pride and ask for “Bad Bitch” to be handwritten on their birthday cakes, it can be easy to presume being a badass is about being able to scorch earth if a man crosses you. Now, while I live by the code of Jennifer Lopez in “Enough,” self-defense is not murder, I am a really kind person like, feeds stray puppies, buys Dunkin for homeless people, and weeps through Dateline episodes. I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thus, the attraction I, and TKay Maidza’s fans, had to her at Baby’s All Right was that she made being sweet a serious sign of strength.
In between new tracks that sung to sensuality, sex, and sensitivity, she was as sweet as pie. Seriously! She emanated a charming warmth that had her crowd eating up her Aaliyah vibes/ early 90s aesthetic. From sound to style, she felt like a modernization of the past; a lyrical call for tenderness that you do not hear often. Add on her kind smile, and it was fun to see the nice girl “win;’ whether it be by kicking that “bad boy” to the curve or letting herself be vulnerable and open to the world. Both perspectives, she interchanged between tracks such as, “Cashmere” and “Syrup.”
As the crowd packed in closer to feel her “High Beams” and overall good vibes, she mentioned the elephant in the room, Covid, and laughed at how it is the thing that people most want to talk about and not talk about, all at once. Our last few years are the most intriguing, exhaustive thing I have experienced, and Tkay’s music felt like a fresh-retro reminder that some parts off life never change. Boys will be boys! Girls will learn to grow, despite them! And our days can be filled with as many tears, laughs, and twerks as we want them to be! This lesson may seem old, but Tkay felt eternally youthful because she was FUN! We need that! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
