The guy who started out the week as K-Fed soon become known as Fed Ex after the announcement of his divorce with Britney Spears. Then, he had to suck it up and go on with a concert last Wednesday night. Kevin Federline is in the middle of a five-show tour to introduce his debut album “Playing with Fire.” The tour already had two shows canceled due to poor ticket sales. As a result, tickets were given away to help boost attendance at Chicago’s House of Blues. Nonetheless, if one had to guess, there were still only 500 people and a large percentage of them were freebies.
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Kevin Federline
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 Entertainment
Art
House of Blues
Chicago, Ill.
November 8, 2006
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The show was supposed to start at 7:30 pm, but local opening act Jameisha Trice didn’t go on until 8:15. She sang for 15 minutes and went off only to have the curtains reopened for her to do yet another song. This might have been more stall antics similar to the recent New York show where patrons waited almost three hours for the man formerly known as Mrs. Britney Spears to arrive.
Federline finally took the stage at around 9:10 p.m. and opened the night with the hidden track “Middle Finger.” The stage was barren with only DJ gear on it. In addition to the DJ, Federline was accompanied by two female dancers and a Hype Man. Like his songs, the show was all about Federline; he never introduced his DJ or Hype Man, but his typical acknowledgement of ladies at least came through eventually with the announcement of the dancers by name.
In fact, the ladies at the show were one of his main focuses. After the second song “Kept on Talkin’” he said: “I see a lot of fine ladies here – you know who’s about to be a free man? You wanna dance with a pimp?” Which was a great segue into the third song that found him asking “Ladies, where you at? Let me hear you scream!” and reaching out to touch girls' hands while rapping into the fourth song, “Playing with Fire.”
Right before “America’s Most Hated,” K-Fed and his Hype Man claimed they needed a drink and sat down at a table that had just been brought out to the right side of the stage complete with a bottle of Jack Daniels. The dancers, now carrying trays, brought them two glasses of whiskey. The crowd was a little subdued at this point and Kevin urged the DJ to “get some hype up in here, before I come back out.” The DJ delivered with some samples of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock’s “It Takes Two.” K-Fed soon reappeared to offer up “Privilege” that ends with a chant “F**k K-Fed” that lead into the last song of the set, “World is Mine.”
Still, the DJ kept things spinning, taunting the crowd “Chicago, you want one more song?” The encore was “Lose Control” and this seemed to be the song that everyone had stuck around to hear and in turn drew the most enthusiasm of the evening.
The eight-song set lasted just over a half an hour, with an offer or a threat to keep the party going at Cabaret and encouraged everyone to come on out. It wasn’t the most extravagant performance like many other shows you might see at the House of Blues, and perhaps I just had low expectations going into it. Still, I felt Federline did a good job, especially with his private life currently in turmoil. Regardless of the naysayers, he did prove one thing tonight: he can rap and knows how to keep the crowd going regardless of size. Good luck K-Fed, Fed Ex and any of your future titles.
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Written by Guest on 2006-11-14 09:27:20
How could a mess like this get 2 stars for anything. |
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