For The Love of Posner

Tomorrow night Jenny and I will be heading to Wicker Park to see one of my favorite new acts for a second time, Mike Posner. He was featured in my very first post, and it was actually after seeing him perform at a hideously gross club in Chicago that I decided that I needed to actually start this blog. I had toyed with the idea before, but after loving his concert in the most vial place I've ever seen a show I knew that I had to get my ramblings out somewhere. Let me just say that I am not going to name the place, but post concert this club brought out go go dancers, and as Jenny has reminded me, you could see one of the girl's birth control patch on her butt cheek. The grossest part were the guys standing below her. Vomit. In. My. Mouth.

Posner will be back again tomorrow night, and is once again playing a club. We've already made a pack that once the set is done, we will get out of there quickly. It should speak volumes to how good of an artist this guy is that I am willing to possibly be in this situation again. The truth is that Mike Posner is going to be huge, and when he gets there I'll be able to say that I saw him when he was playing skanky clubs in the Midwest. He's already signed up for the Warp Tour this year, and it's just going to get bigger from there.

The night of the first concert, Jenny and I had recently been to a Robin Thicke concert. She had asked me, if Robin this is D'Angelo's and Justin Timberlake's love child, who are Mike Posner's parents? I couldn't come up with an answer. That was in January or February and I still can't come up with an answer. He's definitely got some JT in there, maybe some Snoop for the pot references, and maybe some MGMT with the electronic feel, but not quite. See? still nothing, I can't even whole heartily put him in one genre. The boy is an original. Better yet, the boy manages to be an original while pulling and sampling from the likes of Beyonce, The Fray, John Mayer, and Electric Light Orchestra, and have Kid Cudi, Big Sean and 3OH!3 in the mix.

To further highlight this, this morning I was listening to "Evil Woman" one of his many re-works of other songs. I hit the genius button on my iPod and I get the message, "Try Again, This song does not have enough related songs to create a Genius Playlist." Not even Steve Jobs' software can classify him (probably a hint that I should stop trying).

So the main reason I adore Mike Posner is that he is distinctive. Plus he looks like he's having the time of his life on stage.