“It’s notorious for Snoop Dogg, but a lot of people fail to realize it’s a duality. There’s a big eclectic art scene, and it’s a jazzy city as well, where I get a lot of my melodies.” giveon on his musical influences and growing up in Long Beach.
In July, the Long Beach singer Giveon played to tens of thousands at Lollapalooza in Chicago, the first festival of his short but ambitious R&B career.
Whatever catharsis the crowd went looking for that weekend, they found it in his emotionally ransacked ballads. “I think if you go back to the ’60s and ’70s, that music felt newer, you were hearing stories told for the first time,” he said of the golden eras for chart-topping, consciousness-changing soul. “But fast-forward 50 years and kids are forced to change it or it’ll sound redundant.”At the annual radio conglom’s parade of pop stars, BTS got the most shrieks, while Doja Cat and Lil Nas X proved ready to headline arenas on their own.
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