Blog Post 5: My Favorite Performance Artists

My favorite performance artists are actually from very different genres of music.

Luke Combs, a country singer is by far my favorite performer and singer. I really enjoy his music and can relate to the things he talks about. I have been lucky enough to see him in concert a few times which is always a crazy experience. Most country singers like to keep it as modest as possible when performing so they minimize their use of a lot of lighting or special effects. All the concerts I have been to ,involving him, there has been a few lights on the performers, his band, and him playing the guitar. But, technology is used by making the sound that he produces louder so that even the people in the back of the amphitheater can hear him sing and play the guitar and enjoy his concerts as equally as the people in the front row.

The second favorite artist is Post Malone. He is a young performer that I have not been lucky enough to see in concert, but I do listen to about two or three of his songs a day. He emerged into the Hip Hop world but now he blurs the lines between all genres and you have no choice but to just appreciate his singing and rapping and try not to put a label on it. From what I have seen on the internet, for some of his more upbeat songs he likes the affects and big lights and DJ mixing but for his other slower more meaningful songs he likes a more intimate setting for instance, for his song "I Fall Apart. He likes it to be just him and microphone while his fans sing with him in a very emotional and powerful song.

My third favorite artist has to go to the group Migos. Whether you are a fan of rap or not I am almost positive that you have heard one of their songs. Migos came on the scene a few years ago and have turned the genre of Rap upside down. Some of the old timers call it "mumble rap" but despite what you want to call it, the sound these three men have all together and how they can make each other sound twice as good is undeniable. I mainly listen to this group when I am working out or doing something strenuous in order to get excited and forget about what I am doing. Migos always has a flair for the expensive things in life and their performances show that. They always have thousands and thousands of people there and a lot of lights and effects. Out of my favorite artists this group definitely uses technology the most.

All these artists have one thing in common, they try to get their message across and make life a little better for their listeners, one song at a time.