But Byrne assures his audience he has her blessing, as a white man, to sing the song she has composed. Monáe managed to end the live performance in 2018 by listing the names of Black lives who have tragically lost under systemic racism. The weight of the message conveyed at the 2018 Jazz Fest by Janelle Monáe’s spotlight-stealing performance is heavy in the Lee-directed special. Perhaps one enhancement to the Spike Lee televised program is the addition of Byrne’s message about the importance of voting-he struts and frets barefoot upon the stage with the effervescent theme of American politics quite literally underfoot.
It should also be noted that Byrne performed his avant garde musical hodge-podge right here in the Crescent City during Jazz Fest 2018. And we can’t even touch on his melodica skills in this piece. Giarmo holds his own in a polyester grey suit with thick eye shadow adapting to the Byrne dress code. Giarmo has all the stylings of Tony Award-winning Alan Cummings in his 1998 Cabaret performance directed by Sam Mendes but sans BDSM gear. Louisianans will peer closer to their television sets at Chris Giarmo, a New Orleans inhabitant who has lent his performance talents to the sold out Hudson Theater stage of NYC. Both songs from his 2018 album produced with Brian Eno received the performance art treatment. As an added bonus, Spike Lee lends his directorial eye to Byrne’s utopian masterpiece that not only revisits Talking Heads hits of yore, but also debuts new tracks like “I Dance Like This” that are part Nine Inch Nails industrial nightmare and “Bullet,” a soliloquy to a stray gunshot.
David byrne road to nowhere acoustic full#
When we are all (hopefully) still shuttered in our domiciles binging on copious works of art, the Talking Heads frontman’s ballistic Broadway debut comes straight to our living rooms full of conspicuous contemplative discourse about…well…humanity in the days we are living in.
“David Byrne’s American Utopia” (yes, that David Byrne of Talking Heads fame who would allegedly come find and kill us if we typed THE Talking heads) comes at the perfect time and conjunction to HBO.
0 kommentar(er)
