The Nelly Concert Experience Essay Sample

Last year I have the chance to watch Nelly’s concert Northeastern Spring fest 2012 held at Mathews Arena in Boston. Nelly’s concert featured a local artist Jack’s Mannequin in a one hour and a half concert experience, which I was happy to share with a couple of my friends who happens to be avid Nelly fans. Cornell Iral Haynes J.r popularly known by his stage name Nelly is a mainstream international Hip-Hop artist who started his career in 2002 with his massive hit single “Hot in Here” that sold 500,000 copes in the United States alone. Going back to the concert experience. Nelly performed his popular songs in his previous albums Nellyville, Sweat, Country Grammar, Suit and his 2010 album 5.0.
Among the songs he performed my favorite is definitely Hot in Here because of its upbeat nature that insinuates the party mood in the concert. It was my first time to watch a live concert and it so happen that my Nelly is an artist that belongs in my preferred rap and pop genre. Rap songs encompasses a particular style similar to telling a poem because the words in rap songs are arranged to create a rhyme in between the lines of the lyrics. In addition, its often-upbeat tone lights up the mood of the listeners, which insinuates are party feel to the music. Since it was my first live concert, there is so much excitement on my part. I had a lot of expectations such as the choice of the songs that Nelly will be performing because I am hoping to hear my favorites. I am very much carried by the excitement in the crowd especially when Nelly came out on stage to after a very intense opening, but it was a surreal experience overall.
The good thing about the live concert experience is that the artist itself creates a more engaging atmosphere to his audience, which do not exist when listening to a recorded media. There are several differences between listening to a live and recorded music. For example, the acoustics to live concert music is much more pronounced as compared to recorded music. There is much more feeling of appreciation to the music in a live setting because the audience can feel the intensity of the passion and feelings incorporated to the music. Live music provides a better resonance because of the higher modality it has as compared to canned music. Recoded music encompasses more polished tunes, but the flaws in the music can easily be observed in a live performance.
In terms of the venue, Mathews Arena in Boston Massachusetts is the perfect location for the concert because of its capability to hold as much as 6,300 audiences. From the look of the crowd during the concert, it can be estimated that there are more or less 5,000 people at the venue at the moment, which is just enough to still leave room to breath particularly in a very intense concert such as that of Nelly’s. There were not much of specular special effects used in the concert as compared to more elaborate and bigger concert events shown on TV. However, the concert settings features the use of top of the line lighting techniques that are well synchronized to the music performed on stage. Enormous LED screens light up the stage with random graphics and video clips flashing on the screens to set the mood of the music being performed. Overall, it was a great experience and very much looking forward to the next one.