Travis Scott's Mind-Bending Fortnite Concert Was A Joyride Through Space
At
Travis Scott’s new “Astronomical” concert, I met skyscraper-sized clones of the rapper made out of fire, got granted special underwater breathing access to watch jellyfish backup dancers, and came face-to-face with a giant, carnivalesque planet with a pulsating speaker for a core.
This virtual experience happened by means of the the online video game
Fortnite and was
announced on April 20 by Epic Games, surprising each person used to Instagram Live concerts and livestreams in the midst of this global pandemic. Aside from just providing these otherworldly surprise moments for his fans, Scott also unveiled a new teamwork with
Kid Cudi that looks to be piece of a bigger moment regarding the two artists: a formation of an audience named The Scotts.
Shortly before the opening of five shows kicked off on Thursday night (April 23), Scott
appeared on
Big Gentlemen Neighborhood to tease what was to come. "To be sincere, it's just a full experience ... A different experience," he mentioned. "Just giving people — without attempting to mention also much — give them just, like, a full experience of what I feel sometimes. It's so much fire shit.”
As it turns out, he meant “fire shit” literally. Because the psychedelic intro started, after the living Astroworld planet zooming through space and time to bring Scott to his specially built virtual stage, I realized that Scott was about to take viewers on a trip unlike anything that we’d experienced before. Ten minutes and five songs later, I was breathless. And correct.
First, a planetary invasion set to “Sicko Mode”
Astroworld, the massive planet that Scott calls house, arrived to bring Fortnite’s virtual conqueror to his new kingdom. Once it arrived, the rapper, the size of Optimus Prime, jumped from its surface and landed on the ground. The force of the impact sent me flying back hundreds of feet. I was then treated to a trampoline-filled efficiency of the song as giant Scott stomped around and alien astronaut holograms sensually danced around him. Like a ninja, Scott moved stealthily and continuously disappeared and reappeared clouds of enormous smoke.
Some stars were a little bit too close in “Stargazing”
The sky darkened to a bloody orange and showers of stars started to pelt me like golf ball-sized hail bullets. Scott eased into a cosmic rendition of “Stargazing” and danced in the midst of this wicked weather. With Astroworld beyond him appearing as an alien tangerine, Scott became so excited by the moment that he started to generate gigantic vines of lightning through his skin. It rapidly turned into a nightmare whenever his epidermis started to melt down to the bone, revealing a mechanical skeleton for one nightmare-inducing minute. The lightning came alive in the form of backup dancers who flashed around the map as well as towering fire clones who matched Scott’s movements.
There was a surprise eye catching appearance for “Goosebumps”
Scott became a living rainbow because colors raced by way of the sky on their own roller coaster loops. In the event you ever wondered what a kaleidoscope would look like if it were detangled and had each of its colors placed indoor in the washing machine at the same time, look no further. The hues eventually took over my skin and made me one of the rainbow’s children.
“Highest in the Room” recommended a look at the sea floor
It’s ironic that for “Highest in the Room,” Scott went exceedingly low in terms of elevation. The rapper fell into the water, with the impact of the massive rapper’s collision with the ground sending me hurtling beneath the ocean’s surface. He turned into a massive deep sea diver and performed with giant jellyfish Once I was gifted with the ability to breathe underwater. Giant, watery clones of the rapper invaded the water as well as meteor showers of debris.
From indoors of a black hole, a planet’s retreat looks nice for “The Scotts”
Immediately after a brief interlude set to Drake’s “Sicko Mode” verse, where Scott’s deep sea diver turned into a dancing astronaut, Scott premiered his heavily anticipated new song, “The Scotts,” a teamwork with Kid Cudi, who says that it’s also the name of their new order. Scott sent me flying into the atmosphere If I zoomed by means of a person's eye of a rapidly moving tornado. From the left, Scott suddenly floated by while sitting on top of Astroworld, presumably heading back residence to plan his takeover of this world. He briefly disappeared, and then Cudi’s verse began while Scott walked around his planet in slow motion.
The show ended with me thrusted toward the center of a black hole, everything a blur except a gravitational singularity of pure white. The outline of a butterfly manifested itself, and before I might would be sure of what I saw, the one-of-a-kind event was over. Just as I can gather what I saw, I’m eliminated out of a Fortnite battle royale. Things are back to common, at least up until Scott comes back. The next virtual show you could catch (following this morning’s one at 10 a.M. ET), will be on April 25 at 12 a.M. ET.
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