For Krug it\u2019s worth it. He\u2019s responsible for most of the concerts at Yankee Stadium and says that between baseball and the NYCFC soccer matches the venue hosts, he can only plan one or two per year, usually a big artist like Paul McCartney or Madonna. \u201cSo that’s one of the reasons that we’re a little bit, say, picky or particular about who it is,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause we really want to make sure we have the best possible artist for that small window that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like the Knicks\u2019 win, the World Cup, and maybe even Swift\u2019s wedding, Jay-Z\u2019s anniversary shows indicate an appreciation of IRL events, of the collective experience of watching live music or an NBA team\u2019s ticker-tape parade.<\/p>\n
A recent survey<\/a> by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra found that 78 percent of respondents believed live performance was one aspect of the arts where \u201cAI will not touch human creativity.\u201d Meanwhile, artists like Phoebe Bridgers are also opting for smartphone-free shows<\/a> in order to keep their concerts more intimate.<\/p>\n The mini-residency is also just the latest in a series of local events planned for the anniversaries of Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint. In the leadup to the Yankee Stadium gigs, Jay-Z partnered with Spotify for a takeover of parts of the New York City subway, worked with Brooklyn Public Library on special \u201cJA\u0178-Z30\u201d library cards<\/a>, and set up a pop-up shop in Dumbo in a warehouse that was featured in the video<\/a> for \u201cDead Presidents.\u201d<\/p>\n People are hungering for authenticity, says Isra Ali, a professor of media, culture, and communication at NYU Steinhardt, and in that environment, \u201cthe value of in-person contact goes up.\u201d Jay-Z\u2019s anniversary shows, then, are a chance for one of the biggest, most seemingly untouchable artists in the world to connect with a hometown crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Krug it\u2019s worth it. He\u2019s responsible for most of the concerts at Yankee Stadium and says that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,6547,88,483,216,1999,4196,1803],"class_list":["post-756255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-concerts","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-new-york-city","tag-shows","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}