Having the audience shout its collective head off just before he shifted from the exuberantly rocking “Ain’t Going Down” to the gentle “Prayers” made what could have been an abrupt shift in mood and tempo feel smooth, if not polished.įor the record, polished is not a quality to which Brooks, 53, aspires. When this two-minute interlude of instrument-free conducting concluded, a grinning Brooks told the deafeningly enthusiastic audience: “I love being stupid!”īrooks’ next song, the lilting ballad “Unanswered Prayers,” was performed as a solo acoustic number. “You have to wait until I give you the finger,” he quipped. At one point, though, he did gently scold fans for cheering before he gave them their wordless cue. Not once did be bellow “I can’t hear you!” or some other standard line to pump up the volume of the crowd. He expertly cued fans on both sides of the venue, and then in the middle, creating cascading swells of shouts, screams and whistles that surged and receded with near-pinpoint-precision. But Brooks, who earned his MBA in 2010 from Oklahoma State University, doesn’t do much in a routine manner. Of course, such “audience cheering competition” routines are business as usual at many arena and stadium concerts.
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