Even our vocabulary for people watching is tinged with negativity: gawk, stare, gape. Perhaps that’s why I love New York so much, a city where everyone wears a veil of anonymity to protect them from the cultural unacceptance of people watching. Nothing better than just taking in people as art in motion, each with their own agenda framed by their unique thoughts, perspectives, and world view. Are babies therefore smarter than fully grown humans? He seemed to suggest so, in a way, in no uncertain terms, and would later urge the crowd to “grow down” and use their “baby brains.” A thinking show as much as pure entertainment, a Broadway musical as much as a concert, American Utopia was divine, its delightful soundtrack featuring the eponymous 2018 studio album as well as drawing from both Talking Heads and Bryne’s solo catalogs.īyrne also spoke at various points during the show about human’s desire to look at things, televisions, phones, art, buildings, but the best of them all, the most interesting eye candy in the world…people. From a perch high above the stage, dead center first row of the balcony, we had the perfect viewpoint to take in the entirety of Byrne’s artistic intentions.Īs he held up a model of a human brain, you know, the kind you’d see in science class, Byrne began the show speaking of the millions upon millions of neural connections present at birth, many of which are destroyed over the course of a lifetime, never to return. A story of hope and good will and personal connection, shared, almost poetically, with the most important people in my life.
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All that aside, this was mostly a show about people, untethered, literally and figuratively, as no wires could be seen anywhere on stage, incredible considering a total of 11 musicians plus David Byrne. Darkness and shadows and, impossibly at times, light without shadows. Clean lines and motion and color and light.
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