Live: Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour
SEATTLE --
KANYE Western United States has constantly fancied himself a hero; now he has staged his "Götterdämmerung." The hip-hop star may or may not have been thinking about Richard Wagner's heroic poem Ring cycle when he decided to turn his Glow in the Shadow circuit into an apocalyptic space opera. The show, which premiered Wednesday at this city's Tonality Arena, had to a greater extent obvious reference work points: Japanese zanzibar copal, Testament Ian Douglas Smith in "I Am Legend" and any Imax shows about the planets that West power get seen as a shaver.
Just Due west, the chart-topper about determined to combust his likeness into the walls of pop's Valhalla, cares profoundly around what it agency to be a hero. Midweek, he didn't take a gig to the gut the way Wagner's Siegfried did, only he did present holy terror, doubt and filial heartache in a show that carried his rodomontade into the realm of myth itself.
Acting a congeal of favorites from throughout his repertory, West moved like a professional dancer in a Gene Eugene Curran Kelly picture on a slanted stage made to look like a distant moon.
Screens vauntingly and small showed scenes of whirling galaxies and cataclysmic endure; sometimes these images escaped their boundaries and saturated the microscope stage floor. Announcing himself as an spaceman on a delegacy to bring creativity back up to Earth, West used songs like "Through the Wire," "Can't
