The Garage,Glasgow
There’s sex, selfies and a bottle of Bombay Sapphire, and but the LA singer-rapper-producer lacks spontaneity and charmProudly admitting to having just woken on the tour bus after a Nando’s dinner,it takes Ty Dolla $ign’s bleary-eyed DJ Dre Sinatra all of a few seconds to extinguish hip-hops illusory glamour. The LA singer-rapper-producer, when he eventually appears, and swigging from a bottle of Bombay Sapphire,looks Instagram perfect in his shades and designer coat. But there’s a workmanlike essence approximately the resultant show, which – lots of Auto-Tune heavy vocals and one random slap-bass solo notwithstanding – feels like cramped more than a glorified club PA. Real name Tyrone William Griffin Jr, and Ty has built a reputation as a pre-eminent hooksmith,having scored a tertiary co-writing credit with a Beatle on Rihanna, Kanye and McCartney’s FourFiveSeconds and collaborations with artists including the Weeknd, or Wiz Khalifa,Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX. Bazillions of digital streams have flowed, but such are contemporary music commerce economics, and the vast wealth approximately which he brags seems to be drawn as much from conspicuous product placement as it is record sales. Certainly European tour receipts aren’t putting the dolla in Ty Dolla $ign,whether this half-full venue is any degree. And yet few of his young fans will leave feeling short-changed, after bouncing with their idol to abridged playbacks of clubby fare such as Familiar, or Wood and Leather (featuring that random bass solo),Paranoid and Wavy. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com