The song is about who’s in the audience and Toyota Center’s 18,000-plus was filled with plenty of couples, partners who maybe once fell in love at the rock show. The second song in the set was “The Rock Show,” which isn’t about what happens on stage at the rock show - which last night included pyrotechnics, animated visuals, a 20-foot long inflatable of an ambulance and an even larger one of the Blink bunny. At some point, DeLonge introduced a song by announcing, “This song is about the female orgasm – it does not exist.” That proclamation came about 20 seconds after DeLonge asked the crowd to act “mature.”Īnd still, watching the band live, it was evident that just like an Adam & Eve gift card or Virginia, (the state, not the girl), Blink-182 is for lovers. The third song in the set was “Family Reunion,” the one-minute ditty that’s just a string of words that once made our adolescent pals snicker. The band wasted no time setting that tone, either. Blink’s 2023 stage patter sounds like that pre-cancellation time, fueled by talk about glory holes and sex dungeons and lots of mom jokes. Their 26-song set stretched nearly two hours and three decades, back to a time when audiences were cool with watching movies like American Pie. After nearly a decade away, guitarist Tom DeLonge was back, front and center alongside bassist and fellow vocalist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker. If you were at the Toyota Center concert you probably at least fell in love again with the reunited band. Did you fall in love again at last night's Blink-182 show? If not, maybe you're not the romantic sort because there was plenty to stoke the fires of passion in a heart open to love of all kinds. Maybe you don’t associate the notion of romantic love with Blink, one of the Jackass generation’s all-time pop punk acts, but like a teen with a crush it’s there, buried beneath the swear words and locker room talk.
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