stop needin' what i want and start wantin' what i need
So I saw Clara C./David Choi tonight, and it was hands down the most fun I've had at a concert probably to date:
It was originally scheduled for Friday but got rescheduled because of all the issues with power and the trains being down and other general fuckery because of Hurricane Sandy. I don't know anything about David Choi, really, except that he's big on YouTube and my only reason for going was because of Clara C.
If you don't know her, youtube her stat. She's one of the most adorable people ever and tonight confirmed that. And her style of music is pretty agreeable - fun semi-poppy singer songwriter fare. She and David Choi have that in common, and their opener (who was like an Asian Andrew Belle and thus great if nothing groundbreaking. He was nervous at the show and kind of adorable; his name is John Quiwa, btw. So. If you're looking for recs, her first album - The Art in My Heart - is cute, but I way prefer her sophomore album - Esc - which is basically a giant album devoted to her quarterlife crisis and dealing with it. It just seems more put together as an album for me. But anyway, the girl plays like 17 instruments and is super talented.
The show: Clara just had so much personality, and she vibed really well with the audience? Like she had her keyboard set up but with no seat, so she just played standing and bopped around and danced. She called out to the audience and told them to dance as well, there was one song where she tried to break the audience down and get us to do four part harmony which didn't work out very well (she was like listen to your neighbors! fix your pitch but not that term) and the banter was just really on. Every time someone told her they loved her, she'd be like i love you more and laugh. It was one of the shows where I just wanted a live DVD or a live CD or something because she just has this whole new vibrant energy to her music and the band was having fun with it and she had all these anecdotes before the songs that it was just always like she was talking to you, you know? She talked about how a Back to the Future marathon during a down quarterlife crisis period was responsible for a track that was basically a letter written to herself, how she was the only Asian girl on her high school step team and how she wanted to bring that to her music (by having her band do steps for percussion, including the drummer!).
It was overall just a really fantastic show. And thanks to someone putting up pretty-great-quality versions of their stop of the tour at Toronto, please see below for what I personally think was the best song of the evening:
It was originally scheduled for Friday but got rescheduled because of all the issues with power and the trains being down and other general fuckery because of Hurricane Sandy. I don't know anything about David Choi, really, except that he's big on YouTube and my only reason for going was because of Clara C.
If you don't know her, youtube her stat. She's one of the most adorable people ever and tonight confirmed that. And her style of music is pretty agreeable - fun semi-poppy singer songwriter fare. She and David Choi have that in common, and their opener (who was like an Asian Andrew Belle and thus great if nothing groundbreaking. He was nervous at the show and kind of adorable; his name is John Quiwa, btw. So. If you're looking for recs, her first album - The Art in My Heart - is cute, but I way prefer her sophomore album - Esc - which is basically a giant album devoted to her quarterlife crisis and dealing with it. It just seems more put together as an album for me. But anyway, the girl plays like 17 instruments and is super talented.
The show: Clara just had so much personality, and she vibed really well with the audience? Like she had her keyboard set up but with no seat, so she just played standing and bopped around and danced. She called out to the audience and told them to dance as well, there was one song where she tried to break the audience down and get us to do four part harmony which didn't work out very well (she was like listen to your neighbors! fix your pitch but not that term) and the banter was just really on. Every time someone told her they loved her, she'd be like i love you more and laugh. It was one of the shows where I just wanted a live DVD or a live CD or something because she just has this whole new vibrant energy to her music and the band was having fun with it and she had all these anecdotes before the songs that it was just always like she was talking to you, you know? She talked about how a Back to the Future marathon during a down quarterlife crisis period was responsible for a track that was basically a letter written to herself, how she was the only Asian girl on her high school step team and how she wanted to bring that to her music (by having her band do steps for percussion, including the drummer!).
It was overall just a really fantastic show. And thanks to someone putting up pretty-great-quality versions of their stop of the tour at Toronto, please see below for what I personally think was the best song of the evening:
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