Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14th. In the Americas and Europe, it is the traditional day which lovers express their love for each other. If you didn’t have a love one to celebrate Valentine’s Day with, come to 1104 S. Wabash to attend Columbia’s Big Mouth. It’s a great place to listen to live music, bond with fellow students or to meet new people. You never know, you might have found your Valentine that night at Big Mouth.
The Conway Center was packed with Columbia and non Columbia students. The hosts were full of energy and entertaining between acts. The band was amazing, you had no choice but to get up out your seat and start dancing. This being my first Big Mouth experience at Columbia, I was quite satisfied and didn’t realize how much talent there was at Columbia. Of course it had its downfalls but there was only one performance that got a little bit out of hand.
The night was going well, everyone was participating and singing along with the performers until it came down to our second to last performance of the night. There is this guy who attends Columbia, who people say is a pretty good gospel singer as well as performer, but this particular night they had me fooled. By his appearance I wasn’t sure if he was a man or a female because he was sure dressed and danced like a woman. His back of dancers were impressive, full of energy and really involved into the choreography. His first song, it was obvious that he was lip singing and stumbling over the dance steps. The second song, he has a solo, and he is dressed in a jacket singing about how much he is missing his baby, assuming that his baby is a female. Third song, him and his two female back up dancers come out with chairs. Mindful at this point, he is dressed in black tights, tight shirt, and female panties. Grinding in the chair, as well as doing provocative gestures on the floor. For his fourth song, he did a song with one of his male dancers. His dancer was topless with black slacks and a mask. At the end of the song his dancers gets down on his hands and knees, with his pelvis up. He gets down on his knees, in front of his dancer and puts the mic on his dancer private and makes it look as if he is giving him head.
As soon as that happened, the audience starts screaming and people are cursing. Packing up their stuff, putting on their hats and jackets and leave. Everyone was shocked and couldn’t believe that a person would do such a thing, especially when we are at a college related event. Once that was over he had the audacity to sing a gospel song. For many it was their only and last Big Mouth they will ever attend, for others it was entertainment and are interested to see what happens next year.
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Well I think the introduction was good because I thought it was going to be a basic overview of The big Mouth show, but was shocked to hear about what happened later in the acts. I think you should just start right off the bat with that whole disasterous performance. People are drawn more to a critic who have a negative but intelligent thing to say about a performance. There was a few typo errors but nothing to big and maybe find some signiture vocabulary words that really discribe how you felt about that one particular act. Other then that good structure good form overall good review.
My only critique is on this:
"If you didn’t have a love one to celebrate Valentine’s Day with, come to 1104 S. Wabash to attend Columbia’s Big Mouth." You're kindof venturing into time-travel territory in that sentence, asking people to come out to an event that was last week. Haha. I am sure you didn't mean for it to sound like that. It's actually funny, but don't take it as mockery.
Your description of that weird-dude is hysterical. Maybe dwell more on the positives, but in this case the details were necessary.
I LOL'd during this review and I hate when people say LOL but this time it was true.
I agree with Scott that you should lead off with the description of the way things unraveled, then focus the review on the questions an incident like that raises. If the point of the performance was to provoke, then does having the audience get outraged and walk out qualify as success? You've got a really interesting situation to write about here--I'd get that up front.
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