BEST LIVE PERFORMER HOW TO
From Bee Gees and Queen covers to rock star cameos, the Foos know how to throw a party second to none. For the last three decades the Dave Grohl-fronted band has been the most joyous rock and roll party on the planet. That is what every Foo Fighters show starts with. Combine that with her renowned perfectionism and ambition and you have the unquestioned pop star of her generation.įun. She has the kind of generational star power of a Mick Jagger or Prince. As Beyonce showed at her legendary Coachella performance, when she is on stage the whole world is fixated on her. His intensity and ferocity on stage are unmatched, making every show absolutely riveting.īeyonce's defining trait - star power. "Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity/To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment/Would you capture it or just let it slip?" What is amazing about Eminem is that despite being arguably the biggest rock star of the twenty-first century he still approaches every single show as if he is an unproven artist fighting for his first contract. And it can be found in the opening lyrics to the Oscar-winning "Lose Yourself. It was on display at the Super Bowl halftime show. If every great performer has that one trait that separates them from their peers, Eminem's is also easily spotted. At one point during the show Sunday he thanked the crowd, with a heartfelt speech, for allowing him to have his career in music. But the greatest thing about Mayer live besides the superior musicianship is his authenticity.
Who Love John Mayer," which turns out to have meant wives of bald husbands who love John Mayer, and you have a hell of a fun night. You get a performer who delivers an incendiary guitar solo like the one he does in "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room" and can riff hilariously on a sign that reads "W.O.B.H. And when you see him in concert, he puts all of that together just as he did at the Forum last Sunday. Think about it: here is a guy with the ability to write hit pop songs that both top the charts and win awards ("Daughters" won the Grammy for Song Of The Year in 2005), he has matinee idol good looks, he is funny enough to host his own talk show and, oh, by the way, a gifted enough guitarist and passionate enough music fan to have played with the likes of Buddy Guy, B.B.
BEST LIVE PERFORMER MOVIE
If John Mayer was a character in a music movie the script writers would be ridiculed for making a musician so unreal. Thinking last night about how to write about Mayer and what consistently makes his shows so special I had a thought.
0 kommentar(er)
