All my life I have always been fascinated with the color green, olive, kelly, mint, sea, I love ‘em all. Some people who know me may even say I’m obsessed with it. My walls are green, half of my clothes are green, I own at least eight green fitted caps, it’s my color. I just like looking at green things. But there is one shade of green that goes way beyond the aesthetic for me and she is Vivian Green.
I know that she’s not number one on the charts all the time and she hasn’t sold a kajillion records (yet) but her two albums “A Love Story” (2002) and “Vivian” (2005) have been lighthouses to guide me through my seas of relationship drama. Heartfelt songs such as “Emotional Rollercoaster”, “What Is Love?”, “No Sittin’ By The Phone”, “Final Hour”, and even more upbeat tracks from the second album such as “Mad”, “Damn”, “Selfish”, “Frustrated”, and “Gotta Go, Gotta Leave” have gotten me through many a rough night. Her songs have resonated so deeply with me that it’s almost as though she has been following me around writing about my life. So when the opportunity came along to see her at BB Kings (a small venue, which I love, I hate big concerts) I jumped on it.
I’m glad we came to BB Kings for the concert and not the food which unlike the concert was not so great. One of the more interesting points of the night was when I arrived with my boyfriend and we sat next to a group of people one of which was a girl who flirted with me the whole night! It’s like yo, two dudes walking in to a Vivian Green show together… we’re obviously gay. LOL I guess that means I still got it. And I guess it also means that with the advent of the whole DL thing exploding everywhere some women still can’t tell. This is why I’m convinced every woman needs a gay friend.
The concert as I had previously mentioned was great. Definitely something you should do before you die. When she performed “No Sittin’ By The Phone” and “Final Hour” you could just feel the pain and emotion from it. Everybody was silent. We all needed to breathe for a minute, it was heavy. I even had a flashback to some of my more painful memories but it was therapy, for me, for Vivian, for all of us. But enough of my yammering, check some of it out for yourself, my boyfriend captured video of Viv doing a church-ified version of “Gotta Go, Gotta Leave”. It’s on YouTube. And you can also watch it below.
