#TogetherAtHome Concert Review
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By Sahana Garg
For our second piece together, I bring to you #TogetherAtHome. The idea behind this series is to bring live music to us all when, as we all know, we can’t go out and enjoy it. This was started by Chris Martin, the lead singer for band Coldplay.
Chris Martin is an English singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and philanthropist and a multi-Grammy award winner. Coldplay is one of the world’s best-selling musical artists/groups.
In collaboration with Global Citizen, Martin has brought us a series of Instagram-lead concerts performed by many A-list artists including but not limited to, John Legend, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, Charlie Puth, Niall Horan, Miguel, Bazzi, and more. The goal of this series is to raise awareness about COVID-19 and to donate money to help in the search for a cure. The length of these programs ranges from about twenty minutes to almost two hours.
Immediately, you will see how amazing this series is, and for that reason, I will give it an overall rating of 9/10. Its beautiful purpose shows the power that music really has and how it can influence people to be better and help make the world a safer, healthier place. Due to the phenomenal number of artists that performed, there are many options, but often you will notice that some performances are better than others. Some concerts, including John Legend’s, contain full-length pieces, enough talking to make it interesting, and even some comedy. I would rate his performance a 10/10. Sadly others, such as Chris Martin’s himself, were far too much speaking. There was not enough music and in the entire half-hour, there was only one full song.
I also noticed that the comments took away a lot from the episodes. It made them seem less real as well as distracted both the musicians and the viewers. Reading them also took a lot of time out of the sessions and some were also inappropriate and mildly uncomfortable and unprofessional.
Despite some pitfalls, this series was still an amazing source of entertainment and music during this tough time. If I had to recommend one episode to watch, it would definitely be that of Charlie Puth’s. This may be biased as I really enjoy his music, but he put on a great performance, the background was beautiful, he didn’t get too distracted by the comments but still performed what his fans wanted, and overall the acoustics were amazing and his voice was spectacular.
In conclusion, I think that the concept of #TogetherAtHome is amazing and I hope to see more from this series in the future. Before I finish I would also like to shoutout Global Citizen’s collaboration with our queen, Lady Gaga for the Together At Home Benefit Concert for the World Health Organization. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you soon!
