The reasons are many, and most stem from key distinctions in how the album format functions in the dance space, where music is created, consumed, and presented live differently - and often independently of an album - than it is in other genres. In the dance/electronic genre, though, hearing an artist play an album from front to back is a rare phenomenon. In 2019, John Mayer took a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden sequentially through his 2006 Grammy Award-winning album, Continuum, for no reason, other than it being something he’d “wanted to do for a few years.” Weezer similarly played Weezer (The Blue Album 1994 ) and Pinkerton (1996) in their entirety during their 2010-2011 Memories tour. Nine Inch Nails played their 1994 album, The Downward Spiral, from start to finish on select stops of their 2009 Wave Goodbye world tour. In just about any other genre, this wouldn’t be remarkable in rock, for instance, it’s become trendy enough to be expected not only on seminal album anniversaries, but even on a whim. On Friday, Zedd did something unusual in the context of dance/electronic music programming: he played an album front to back. “People were asking me in interviews what my goal was, and 10 years ago, I said, ‘My goal for my album is for me to be able to look back and be just as proud of it today as I was 10 years ago.’ And I think it’s safe to say that I am just as much if not more proud of it.”Ĭanvassing the sold-out shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles, here are six highlights that capture the heart of the anniversary weekend events.
I didn’t know if anybody would care or not - it was my first album, and I think it set a precedent,” Zedd said to the audience during the orchestral concert on Sunday evening. There was nobody to disappoint, and that was kind of a nice thing, because I just made the music I wanted to make. “When I was working on my debut album, I didn’t really have a following.
Of them, the pièces de resistance were a special-edition, one-time-only set at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on October 7, where Zedd played Clarity (Deluxe) front to back, and an orchestral performance of the LP, live from L.A.’s Dolby Theatre and livestreamed worldwide on October 9. 7 – 9, the producer played four events during Clarity’s anniversary weekend. David Guetta, Bebe Rexha & More Set to Perform at 2022 MTV EMAs
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