And why not? This generation had a chunk of its teenage years robbed by a pandemic. This, it seemed, was the song that most moved them. During “Boredom,” the crowd huddled as close to the stage as it could. Tyler’s set featured a handful of emotional peaks that provide a sense of what he’s been able to offer young people these past few years. You just need to be in the presence of the parents of teenagers letting out their frustrations to a song whose music video features Tyler in a make-believe dollhouse. Tyler’s credo, of making space for the misfits and outlaws, resonated more deeply than one might immediately think. When he performed “IFHY,” from 2013’s Wolf, the crowd erupted in a cathartic kind of ecstasy. During his performance of the Goblin throwback “She,” the crowd made easy work of Frank Ocean’s entire verse. The set was a reminder just how long he’s been in the business, and just how much he’s touched in that time. No matter how engrossing the sets were, though, it would have been hard to upstage Tyler himself last night.
Like a room decorated with just enough frills, Tyler’s set design brought you into the universe of the performance without distracting from it. Still, there was something elegant about how low-fidelity the set work looked. Pyrotechnics popped at the opening and closing of Tyler’s set, and he traversed the audience, from the main stage to a secondary stage styled to look like a meadow, on a giant prop yacht. The commitment to a more elevated simplicity shined through in the show’s set design. The loud pastels of the early OF era have made way for subtle, tastefully selected hues. So, when he emerged onstage - seated in that baby blue Rolls-Royce slowly rising from a platform beneath the stage - you got the sense that, for a moment, everyone in the sold-out arena got to channel their inner children.Ĭall Me If You Get Lost is also something of a shift for Tyler, as he leans into a more sophisticated aesthetic. He’s one of few living artists today that can say they’ve created adolescent anthems for kids in high school right now, as well as adults who were in high school a decade ago. Tyler’s catalog now features more than 10 years’ worth of music. That felt like a theme throughout the evening.
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