//Tours: Kanye’s Glow In The Dark Tour – Reviews//

One of the Spring’s most anticipated tours finally kicked off. Kanye West landed his spaceship to perform in Seattle, WA to a packed house Wednesday night with tour openers N.E.R.D., Rihanna, and Lupe Fiasco. It has since hit Sacremento, CA–where Ye made a blunder calling the city Seattle, but he manned up and apologized for the error on his blog. It’ll be in San Jose, CA tonight.

 

The reviews are in and they’re overwhelmingly positive for the perfectionist rapper. Since my behind is having very bad luck coming across tickets for a town near me, I can’t provide an original review, so here are some excerpts from newspaper reviews about the tour:

Screens big and small showed scenes of whirling galaxies and cataclysmic weather; sometimes these images escaped their boundaries and saturated the stage floor. Announcing himself as an astronaut on a mission to bring creativity back to Earth, West used songs like “Through the Wire,” “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and “Stronger” to narrate his journey from spaceship crash to alien encounter to self-realization and escape. [Source]

 

There’s virtually no room for spontaneity in this tightly scripted 90-minute concert. You don’t get West saying “Wassup, Sacramento!” between songs or freestyling any rhymes. But once the show blasts off, the energy indeed goes sky high and stays there. And how could it not with “Gold Digger,” “Champion” and “Through the Wire” at bionic volume levels? Arco Arena was definitely off the hook. [Source]

 

Opening Acts:

 

Back on Earth, or make that during show’s opening sets, the “Glow in the Dark” tour got busy with more hip-hop and R&B. Lupe Fiasco kicked the night off with spitfire rapping and turned out the loudest crowd response apart from West. The rap-rocking N• E• R• D, featuring Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo from the hit production team the Neptunes, got arms waving with its mix of heavy guitars and synthesizers. But as good as Williams is in the studio, the brains behind “Hollaback Girl” always sounds iffy as a singer.

 

The R&B star known as Rihanna was a little bit of a letdown. Uptempo songs like “Shut Up and Drive,” “S.O.S. (Rescue Me)” and her monster hit “Umbrella” were on point, but her set slumped a bit with too many ballads.

 

Then again, it’s hard to measure up to a master of the universe like West. [Source]

 

 

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