Concert Review: Your Smith Is Our Smith At Webster Hall
Your Smith was amazingly fun as she used her music to sonically build the audience’s confidence. I love watching audiences watch openers for multiple reasons. It is moving to see how the opener turns a dismissive crowd, waiting for their headliner, into their own fans. Moreover, it is funny to know those that ignore the artist now, will, probably, be salivating to see them when they are way more expensive. This will happen to Your Smith, and she showed that at Webster Hall.
Stylistically, she feels like a Katherine Hepburn with a wife-beater; completely showing that women can WEAR THE PANTS! We are as strong and forward as men, but, like them, we can’t figure out love. Her songs are like empowering, sad romances. They make you dance as you recall the love that you could never make right. We all have that “person” who was so close to being “the one” but then summer left, the romance died, and they became another fling from cupid’s fletch. With this in mind, Your Smith, oddly, becomes the perfect artist for a clubbing event.
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Something about a good pop beat makes a heartbreak feel rich when you are at a venue. It is as if sadness was not meant to make you cry as much as sway. “Wild Wild Woman,” “Bad Habit,” and “The Spot” were just a few that made the crowd sway and feel drawn by Your Smith. While watching, I kept on thinking of fellow artists like, Christine And The Queens, in their ability to match strength with vulnerability and turn it into an artful, dance track. Their songs make any person that has used a hairbrush for a microphone and their room for a stage feel like a legit performer. Something about their music feels imbued with magic, self-vaildity, and the absolute acceptance that you have to kiss a few frogs to get the prince.
Your Smith’s saccharine voice, sugary rhythms, and DJ-esque capacity of mixing the two was sweetly charming. She really is our smith! This felt confirmed when she covered Wilson Phillips “Hold On;” a song that embodies Your Smith’s message of staying empowered through love’s misadventures. Here Here! Click Here For More Information On Your Smith.
