Review: Kanye West delivers curious space odyssey in San Jose |
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at 04/21/2008 06:24 PM
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On their way into the HP Pavilion in San Jose on Saturday night, crowd members were handed booklets full of catchy slogans and bits of advice. These 52-page freebees, which translated to the hip-hop equivalent of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," came courtesy of the headliner, Kanye West. One of the pearls of wisdom from the book reads, "You can learn more from a critique than a compliment." If that's true, then the book's co-author, Mr. West, stands to learn much from this review. Although there were many positive aspects about the local stop of West's Glow in the Dark Tour — such as the hugely ambitious nature of the stage production — the bottom line is that it could have been better.Let's start, however, by applauding the 30-year-old Chicago rapper for taking hip-hop into a whole new realm on the live stage. The genre has never delivered anything else quite like Glow in the Dark, a production that's so daringly conceptual and highly theatrical that proper comparisons can only be found in the classic rock world. Following short sets by the three fine opening acts — Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna — the lights dimmed and the headliner flipped the switch on what would be an 80-minute musical play set in space. The storyline, one that was about as believable as "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," unfolded aboard a spaceship named Jane, which spoke like a female HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Complete article here |
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