But then again if I were an official Inspirit, I would've had access to pre-sales.as for the 5th generation, I like how there are practical items (tote and pouch) along with non-practical items (stickers, photocards, postcards), to have items I can use daily and items that I can display. In hindsight, I would've been disappointed with the 4th generation package because I went to Korea the summer of 2014 when the That Summer 2 concert took place, however if I were an official Inspirit at the time, my lightstick wouldn't have come in time. ![]() Overall, I'm happy to have these membership goods in my collection, though it's not nearly the same since I wasn't a part of these generations' memberships. When the band played Florence the other week, they went go-karting afterwards.The backside of the packaging includes instructions in Korean on how to install the griptok. Most pertinently, though, with just a tiny bit of stage fire and a dynamic lighting rig overhead, they keep an arena rapt for two hours. The band’s Eurovision win was marred by accusations of cocaine use, which David swiftly rebutted by taking a drug test. Their offering is louche, but the band are wallflowers in an era-appropriate way, keen to avoid associations with hard drugs. They are rock, but also pop, plastic ( dressed by Gucci, happy to break bread with Max Martin) and organic, having busked regularly after forming at school. They are also, weirdly, regressive: Rush!’s ill-judged album cover sees the band looking up a young girl’s skirt with varying reactions. They’re retro, but progressive (the two straight male band members shared a kiss on stage in Poland in 2021 to protest that country’s rising levels of homophobia). They are also whatever people need them to be. Måneskin – larger-than-life extroverts with fine bone structure – sound familiar and fun and thanks to K-pop and the Spanish-language influence on the US charts, the foreign language barrier is less high than it once might have seemed. The crowd tonight is brimming with expat Italians. When 30 or so fans come on stage for Kool Kids, a devoted crush of girls forms around the bassist. Drummer Ethan Torchio identifies as queer so does De Angelis, who has her own cult following. There’s a lot of love for them among LGBTQ+ fans. Måneskin, then, seem wildly popular with an overlapping set of constituencies. Heavier, sulkier tunes, most often in Italian, effectively channel Rage Against the Machine.Īirborne guitarist Thomas Raggi at the O2. Their soft-rock ballads – such as Time Zone and The Loneliest – sound like an emo take on Aerosmith. They may dress glam, with David’s heels being higher than De Angelis’s, but tonight they prove their command of melody and riff across genre. ![]() Once heard, the proximity of their thumping drums and earwormy guitars to the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army is hard to unhear, even though the parallels are more in spirit than in detail.īut that magpie versatility is key to Måneskin’s consolidation. The US website Pitchfork’s despairing 2/10 review of Rush! noted Måneskin’s penchant for songs that sound like stadium chants. One of the most retro, and Italian, things about them is their willingness to hump microphone stands David, now bare-chested, sings the northern soul staple gutsily the overall tattooed effect faintly suggests Amy Winehouse fronting the Black Keys. Their viral load is hefty, too: Måneskin’s 2017 cover of the Four Seasons’ Beggin’ sparked a rash of more recent TikTok reels it has been streamed more than 1bn times on Spotify. Their third album, Rush!, produced in great part by pop powerhouse Max Martin and released in January, has only cemented their viability with a rash of lurid earworms. Last year, Måneskin played approximately 80 shows internationally they’re on about 72 so far this year and it’s only May. Tonight’s sold-out 20,000-capacity O2 Arena show follows a sold-out European tour, with a world tour to come and more European dates being added. ![]() Few Italian musicians other than a couple of tenors, the late Ennio Morricone and, arguably, Giorgio Moroder have made such a transatlantic splash as this outfit. Few European groups since Abba have parlayed a Eurovision success into an international career. Photograph: Fabio GerminarioĬontrary to most precedents, Måneskin have stayed in renown. When from Rome… Victoria De Angelis of Måneskin crowdsurfs at the O2.
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