Did Huge Time Rush’s live performance ship anybody else again to their tween years?
Followers of their early to mid-20s who grew up watching Huge Time Rush on Nickelodeon simply had one in all their childhood desires come true: seeing Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, and Logan Henderson carry out reside.
On October 17, 2024, Huge Time Rush held their very first live performance in Manila on the New Frontier Theater, and Rushers positively didn’t miss the prospect to sing and dance to their favourite BTR classics on this evening.
And man, had been Rushers given the prospect to be blessed by the early 2010s boy band magic.
Beginning off the live performance robust with “Huge Evening,” Kendall, James, Carlos, and Logan confirmed up trying extra mature than once we all first met them, however nonetheless had the appeal that made us all fall in love with them again in 2009.
Persevering with on the present with 3 extra of their songs from 2010 to 2013—“Home windows Down,” “Elevate,” and “Track For You,” Huge Time Rush modified it up with their most up-to-date tracks and sound, beginning with “Waves,” adopted by “Name It Like I See It,” and “Weekends,” which had been all from their fourth studio album, “One other Life” launched in 2023.
A quick interlude noticed the BTR members speaking about how they’d been eager to do a present in Manila for years (actually 15), and now that they had been lastly ready to take action, they had been loving each single second of it.
The live performance continued with Huge Time Rush’s latest launch, “Solely One,” earlier than in the end switching again to their classics, which was led by an brisk singing of “Nothing Even Issues” with the group, then by “No Concept,” which they completely like to carry out on stage in accordance with previous interviews.
Then it was time for his or her acoustic set, and everybody that’s been following Huge Time Rush’s tour is aware of what’s arising subsequent.
The quartet launched their guitarist to the group, Cody Perrin, after which began their acoustic rendition of their 2010 music “Caught,” which was adopted by “Cowl Lady,” with Kendall commenting that he noticed it on a fan’s signal and the group then doing a “cheer take a look at” for which music they’d wish to hear reside—“Cowl Lady” or “I Know You Know.”
James additionally commented on how the Filipino crowd “sounded good,” saying that “a number of the finest singers on this planet are from the Philippines.”
Then it was time for Huge Time Rush to sing each lengthy distance relationship’s theme music—“Worldwide.”
4 fortunate followers from the group had been hand-picked by every of the Huge Time Rush members to be their “Worldwide women,” and identical to that scene montage from “Huge Time Rush” episode “Huge Time Break-Up,” all of us felt like we had been those being serenaded to.
The power began choosing up as soon as extra after the acoustic set with the quartet singing “The Metropolis Is Ours,” “Love Me Love Me,” and “Any Sort of Man.” By the point they had been performing their pop-rock impressed observe “Paralyzed,” Huge Time Rush headed down into the group and followers had been in a position to see them up shut and private for the primary time.
Huge Time Rush’s final music earlier than their much-awaited encore was “If I Dominated the World,” a dance pop observe that overestimated the group for what’s subsequent—their hottest songs.
The encore a part of the live performance is at all times one of the best a part of the present, with artists exhibiting and performing the songs that catapulted them into success. For Huge Time Rush, these songs had been from the album that began all of it—“BTR.”
First was “Until I Overlook About You,” the group’s debut single, then adopted by “Huge Time Rush,” which was the Nickelodeon present’s opening theme.
The live performance ended with “the music that everybody is aware of the phrases to,” which everybody sang alongside loudly to, and is their most profitable music to this point—“Boyfriend.”
It might have taken 15 years for Huge Time Rush to do a present within the Philippines, however their first one was positively well worth the wait. To lastly be an grownup and with the ability to afford the live performance of an artist you’ve watched whereas rising up is satisfying, and listening to all of their songs reside for the very first time is one thing that Rushers received’t ever overlook.
Watching the Huge Time Rush live performance as a 20-something grownup positively introduced again our childhood, even when it simply lasted nearly 2 hours.
The occasion was made potential by Reside Nation Philippines.