Review: B.o.B. mixes new songs with top hits

Thursday night was the big event—the Homecoming concert. I don’t know about everyone else at Georgia College but I had been looking forward to this event all week. I missed Stokeswood warming up the crowd, but from what I hear they did a really great job. Playboy Tre started out and had a few good hits, nothing that I really knew but they were very uplifting songs to get the crowd going. After his performance, it took for what seemed like forever for B.o.B to take the stage. Looking at my phone, I kept noticing that time was passing and that the crowd was getting anxious. All I could think about was, “Is this another Sean Kingston?” Finally, Bobby Ray took the stage and the crowd was really pumped.

One guy was so excited that he decided to crowd surf to the first song that B.o.B. preformed, shortly after meeting the floor with his face.  Which brings me to my next point, the concert was a great concert, and in the past three years, they have been a lot of fun, but the one thing has plagued the concerts each year—and I expect will in the future—is that the crowd is very unresponsive to anything. Most of the time it’s people just standing there bobbing their heads up and down. It’s almost as if everyone in the audience thinks that they are too cool to move around. I mean come on, you are in a sea full of people. Is anyone going to really care if you bounce up and down? And I bet many people have had this thought, “Oh man! This is so awesome, B.o.B is preforming live right now! I’m going to pull out my camera phone, snap a few pics, take a short video and uploaded it to YouTube later and it will be AWESOME!!” But to all of you out there that did that, what did you find out after you saw those stunning pictures, and watched those riveting videos? They weren’t everything you thought they were, were they?

To prove my point, during B.o.B’s performance of his song “Magic,” Bobby Ray jumps into the crowd in hopes to crowd surf around the stage really engaging the audience, however that didn’t happen. While he did stay in the air for a little bit, he ended up falling in the end. The crowd just couldn’t support him and he was lost in the sea of people. Apparently someone else was taken down with him and the first part of the song was spent on trying to recover her, and after the song, she was pulled up on stage and just in a state of shock from her experience. I guess the magic of B.o.B just couldn’t revive her. Great concert because B.o.B. did all his hit songs and a few new ones. To everyone out there, if you attend a concert next year, don’t be afraid to move around and remember those amazing glamour shot pictures aren’t going to be what you think they are. Do yourself a favor and just enjoy the concert for what it is, a concert.