Concert Review: VICTOR! Is Victorious At Elsewhere
VICTOR! feels like a social media page. From his music to his presence, it is as if you are watching a Facebook Page come to life; each track is a post you want to share, each of his words are a comment you want to leave, and his overall image feels like the profile of your best buddy. Yet, that might be his “secret weapon;” he embodies Millennialism and bonding in the 2010’s.
Can you believe we are heading to 2019? Soon/ hopefully, we will make it to the 2020’s; another decade in which the quirkiness and varying methods of human connection will be analyzed for history, but, for now, it the 2010’s that are closing their chapter. Victor! (Victor Cervantes) feels like the 2010’s. He is simultaneously colorful and chill; instantly creating an ambiance that makes you feel like you rolled up to your best friend’s house after work on a Tuesday. You come in, watch some Netflix, chat about bosses over some Brooklyn Brew, and leave early in accordance to it being a “work week.” His ability to, in essence, catchphrase daily life is what is gaining him a “cult” following.
Did you ever realize the first part of cultural is “cult”? MIND BLOWN! In seeing VICTOR!, I made that connection because he is building a following by exemplifying the universal spirit of being twenty-something in the 2010’s. His voice drips over synths like syrup over pancakes as his verses are the batter that make is all work. He is succinct, rich, silly, self-aware, and poignant, all at once. Presenting tracks like, “Attention,” “Each Other,” and “Tinder Songs” like lessons on what it feels to be a human being that “kind of” wants other human beings in 2018. The keyword is “kind of.”
Victor! subtly taps on the madness everyone feels at, simultaneously, wanting others and wanting to be alone. One minute we are suffering from severe cases of FOMO, and, the next, we are practicing a hermitic lifestyle. Our inability to be pleased either alone or with others is, in some ways, what fuels social media, and why VICTOR’s music/ show succeeds. He reveals our behaviors with a happen-chance humor and casual swag that, once again, falls back to the deep history of couch conversations every friendship shares. For More Information on Victor! Click Here.
