Concert Review: Yelle Is Pop Fashion At Elsewhere
You better MAKE SURE an artist is good if you tell your broke friends to buy a ticket without ever hearing them. My friends are “puro salseros/ reggaetoneros:” with their ventures into English tracks ranging from Jhene Aiko to The Internet. Thus, imagine their surprise to know there was a French Kween named Yelle that was READY to dominate their life.
At Elsewhere, Yelle enjoyed a sold-out show filled with “Yellers” that came because her concert is a “sure bet” for fun. Yelle makes music for Millennials and turns our daily struggles into Sesame Street episodes. She is so bright, colorful, and fun that you feel like you are “muppeting” through life, which is why people were dancing as if they had just gotten off the bus from Fraggle Rock. Still, Yelle’s ability to turn life as rambunctiously and innocently wild as a Jim Henson show is what has her crowd enamored. For a night, being twenty-something is not terrifying. It is, actually, pretty cool.
YELLE – OMG!!! (Official Video)
Everyone says being young is so marvelous, but humanity is a nostalgic species. We have a “grass is greener” mentality when it comes to the past; forgetting that not many young people feel young when they are or, at least, not often.Yet, Yelle’s performance is blossoming exuberance as she consistently shapes her body like a mannequin for her fashionable songs. You could drape me in “Roméo,””Ici & Maintenant (Here & Now),” “À Cause Des Garçons,” and “OMG!” and I would treat my life like the pages of Vogue; turning and turning in glamor. Honestly, her music is the sonic embodiment of glitter, and her fans are unabashed in their desire to be glued to it.
YELLE – Ici & Maintenant (Here & Now)
Yelle is aware of what her crowd wants, which is why she appeals to the purity of pop. She is the most refreshing artist because she proves the pop formula WORKS! Whether in French or English, the crowd was singing and dancing along to hooks, melodies, and synths as if they were being confetti cannoned over us. Moreover, her backup dancer/ musicians are integral to amping that she is dance queen with a literal court. The whole dynamic proves pop is an “unguilty” pleasure, of which you have to wonder whether its haters are simply fighting its happiness. Yelle is happiness, and my FRIENDS LOVED HER! HA! Good Choices! For More Information On Yelle Click Here.
