Concert Review: Yoshi Flower Blossoms At Webster Hall.
Yoshi Flower is one of MY FAVE artists, especially after our interview, because he is a ripe blend of crazy, intelligent, glamorous, isolated, and eager to share. Talk about a bag of things that might not match, but that is what he is aiming for/ sees as truth. Human beings are walking paradoxes; consistently connecting and embodying ideas that either A) don’t make sense B) never fully realize. For him, this might be the best way to describe American youth.
As the opener, Yoshi Flower had to rely one his own energy to emote his vision. When I saw him headline at Elsewhere, he was like an atomic bomb of energy with a happy-faced American flag that emoted the joyous desolation of the nation’s youth. We have every instagram filter to make us look cute, but can barely afford a spa day. We know how to give a “happy face” and turn up Tuesday till it is the new Friday, and Yoshi Flower, like most of us, has a weird relationship with our “zen-ratchet” capacity.
Yoshi Flower – empty (Official Music Video)
I genuinely cannot say if our ability to “smile though our heart is breaking” is good, bad, or both. The problem is that, when you are heart-broken. everyone watches you, even more than your victimizer, to see how you control your rightful rage, which is what Yoshi taps into for the youth. We are living in an era of striking gun violence, apocalyptic climate change, no health insurance or proper wages/work benefits, and no policy or political resolution in sight but yet WE are known as whiny and vapid. Lyrically, he asks if, maybe, we are all of it; broken people that do not know whether yelling at the wind or taking a selfie as it gusts over us is better at defining our ignored presence.
Maybe – GRiZ (ft. Yoshi Flower) (Official Lyric Video)
MKAY! THAT GOT DEEP! Yet, that was Yoshi Flower, at Webster Hall, under a veil of songs like, his new track “Addicted,” which spoke to a crowd of young, fun people batting the differences between delusions and dreams. He sings through octaves to the plights of change and the quiet resignations we undergo when we feel our Twitter Feed changes more than our life, and he does it all through a sound that spans from Rock to Hip Hop. For More Information On Yoshi Flower Click Here.
