Coming from Chicago, I am pretty knowledgeable when it comes to the local scene here, and I only know about certain regions across the US because my friends always send the hottest street anthems through, and I am forever grateful. If you’re not living in certain parts of the country, it can be difficult to stay tapped in with the underground artists coming from those cities, so the only real way to stay up to date is by having homies who won’t let you miss out on amazing music. The 15 songs on this project run just over 40 minutes long, so … Although they’ve already dropped an EP earlier this year that was awesome, they decided to head into the end of 2022 with a strong push, releasing their debut album PULLBACK as a continuation to their string of wins. I feel like they’re the antiheroes of hyperpop because while their music contains telltale elements that other artists feature, they take the chaos, energy, and strangeness of the musical style and entirely exploit the vitality that these things bring to the table. I say this with the exception of WHOKILLEDXIX, a Connecticut-raised, Los Angeles-based duo that took this already innovative genre and flipped it on its head entirely. Obviously, I love glaive, ericdoa, Brakence, aldn, and that whole group of artists, but if you’re not traditionally mentioned in the same sentence as them, I just don’t often tune in as much as I would like.
Hyperpop has always been a subgenre that I have been obsessed with since tapping in with these artists probably a year and a half ago or so, and that admiration has really become focused on a select handful of musicians as time went on. I know that it’s just more new music which is awesome, but I love when I can sit with a project and really dive into all the ins and outs of it before letting it breathe and moving on before returning to it with new life brought by the deluxe version to fall in love with the collection of tracks all over again. Considering these same emcees also include 10 or more songs on the updated version, it’s like listeners don’t have a chance to sit with the original and appreciate it in all of its glory for nearly as long as they should, and the new wave of songs can overshadow some of the other tracks that these musicians worked long and hard on. I just feel like over the past couple of years, an artist will drop a highly anticipated album and then drop a deluxe version a week or two later. I have mixed emotions when it comes to deluxe versions of albums because it feels like every artist has such a different interpretation of what this means, and the execution can be way off at times from my point of view. About a week and a half out from the show, DC had messaged me saying that I had to be there if I could, and while I was thinking the … I’m talking about DC the Don, the Milwaukee-raised, Los Angeles-based emcee who has been amassing a loyal fanbase that has turned out to be one of the most loyal followings I’ve ever experienced in my years as a music journalist. So, when I found out that one of my all-time favorite rising superstars was kicking off his tour in Chicago, I knew I had to be there. I guess what I’m trying to say is as much as I say I’m a go-with-the-flow kind of person, I need some structure otherwise my anxiety and my overthinking mannerisms begin to overtake my mind.
If that’s interesting to you, great! If not, you should still read it anyways… As much as I hate planning things myself, I love having a schedule or an idea of things that are coming up so that way I can be prepared and anticipate what to expect.
LYRICAL LEMONADE DRINK FULL
To preface this article, I’m writing this as a full recollection of my experience on the day of the concert.
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