930 Club

This week I got to the 930 club in Washington DC to see Alice Merton.  Shout out to my friend who gave me a ticket! Probably just because Thanksgiving is around the corner; however, I am so thankful for her.

Her open was a band called Raffaella.  She had a song called NASA's Fake.  I thought the lyrics were hilarious and clever. 
For a three person crew - vocals by Raffaela,  keys by Jeff and Drums by Charlie.

I took a few pictures.  It was a great venue. 

Alice did not disappoint.  The lights during her show were fanastic. She played several of her well know songs.  I thought that her PCH song did a great job of capturing what it is like to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway. 

What she claims is her only love song. 

Her song Lasso and Easy are fairly well known. I highly recommend checking her out! Thank you for the great show. 

Just A Fan

Today I realized that I am mostly just a fan.

There is some statistic: 20% of people make everything the rest (80%) of the population enjoys. It is funny how as fans we are all entitled to our opinions but when it comes down to it 

we just watch/listen/observe. 

We never create.

I would argue it is so much easier to judge than to get judged. I was recently given the opportunity to tell and artist about their latest music. Thinking about that experience, I could barely tell them in the right terms why I liked one song better than another. This is just one example but it is rather ironic that most of us have very little musical knowledge/background but here we are with all the power to choose what song gets played on the radio. Which songs top the charts and which songs are left off.  It almost seems like the creators who are more crazy/wild to watch are really the ones who have figured out how to captivate our attention and make the money. 

I am just curious what would happen if we evaluate anything on it's actual talent/merit or if all of what we watch is based on shock/awe/wild factor.

Bottom line for the most part I am just another fan.