[ATTENDED: March 7, 2024] Blusher
I was pretty excited to see Daði Freyr again. I didn’t pay much attention to the opening act. Last time it wa a local musician whom I hadn’t heard of.
This time it proved to be an up and coming megastar band from Australia called Blusher.
Of course, when they came out, my wife and I thought that they were a local group of teenage girls. They sang well, the song was catchy, but they seemed so young!
Then they introduced themselves (Jade, Lauren, and Miranda) and Jade’s Australian accent was terrific and we agreed that we instantly liked them at least 5% more.
I’ve now looked them up and learned they are not teenagers (or maybe they are, but they’ve been making music for a pretty long time, anyhow). They opened for Aurora last year. Jade Alice (her solo name) has been making music since 2015.
I enjoyed their lyrics, which weren’t profound but were more than standard pop lyrics.
Dead End has a really catchy pause mid-verse that draws you in. I really like Limelight–super catchy chorus
They announced a cover that we might know (I didn’t), and then played their new rocking single “Rave Angel.” It was followed by another new song “About You.”
Then came their first hit “Softly Spoken.” I hadn’t heard of it but it has had a million streams. The worldplay is pretty clever. At the end of the song Miranda sang into a mgeaphone. Unfortunately, it cut out while she was yelling at the end.
“Hurricane Chaser” was a fun song with a cool metaphor. But the new song “Accelerator” had a mad fast dance beat and was super catchy.
They ended with “Backbone,” a catchy song about your friend hating your boyfriend: “You said you’d punch him in the chest if you ever met him.” Super catchy, but an odd place to punch someone…ouch.
For this song they did some basic self-defense move choreography, which was cute. The whole show they did very simple choreography–the kind that teenagers come up with when they’re singing in their bedroom. It made them somehow even more adorable.
And the crowd ate it up. I felt like the crowd might have been a bunch of rubes or a bunch of plants–massive shrieking when all three waved their arms at the same time, and massive screams of pleasure when they all turned around to reveal they were–gasp–all wearing sunglasses. It was a little weird, but it made the band feel great and I think their first show in the States was a huge success for them.
I’ve decided to follow them online to see how big they get, so I can say that I saw their first show in the States.
- Dead End ¿
- Limelight ¿
- Say It Right (Nelly Furtado cover)
- Rave Angel §
- About You §
- Softly Spoken ¿
- Hurricane Chaser ¿
- Accelerator §
- Backbone ¿
§ new songs (2024)
¿ Should We Go Dance? EP (2023)
SOUNDTRACK: hiatus.
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