Concert Review: Whitney Have Changed At Brooklyn Steel
Whitney has CHANGED! I’ve seen this band a few times, and it there is one consistency, it is that they feel like a balance between genuine happiness and the resilience you need in sadness. Their music always felt like a climb upward, of which their most recent songs and performance at Brooklyn Steel felt like the highest they have ever been. To use my notorious parables, if, at first, they were at the bottom of the mountain, now they are going all Sister Act and singing “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
Of course, they were not dressed in nun outfits, but they did have suits on and looked as uniformed for pop success as the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (Note: My references have revealed my age of 980 years old). Yet, there was something classically vivacious about them that I had never seen before. They are always cool guys that appear like a band of brothers ringing with good vibes and inside jokes. This dynamic is part of their performance charisma; a reminder that for all they sing about getting old, they are really young.
Whitney – Valleys (My Love) (Official Video)
Between their crisp, MadMen cut style and their starry lighting, their lyrics on struggling optimism and romantic persistence tapped into their audience of functional, human beings. Sometimes, I think the best we can be is functional. Maybe, I am coming off seeing the Joker movie, but it oss also because, like Whitney, I’m a twenty-something that feels more like a “something” than twenty. Yet, Whitney’s BK Steel show helped me realize that everyone can say the same thing, but how you say it determines how and who it strikes as wisdom.
Whitney are not the first band to say growing up his hard and filled with heartbreaks. From “Follow” to a Dolly Parton cover “Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can),” these guys’ boyish charm transferred into a sincere, amiable look at adulting. We are all trying to figure out what “grown” means to us beyond looking at our old student cards and thinking, “My God! What baby cheeks I used to have!’ For them, becoming the person you are meant to be is not easy but it has its fun. For More Information On Whitney Click Here.
