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The Best Concerts of 2024
Variety's top 2024 concerts include Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Dead & Company, Joni Mitchell, Charli XCX, Missy Elliott, Jack White and Laufey.
But creative director John Mayer’s idea that at least some of the visuals should change every night in the residency — while leaving certain spectacular setpieces in place, like the opening and closing journeys from Haight-Asbury to outer space — was in keeping with the collective’s core ethos of reliable unpredictability. At each performance, Elliott played ringmaster to a team of backup dancers as she toured her discography, giving each song its own bit of flair from the massive Mega Man Missy gliding through space during “Sock It 2 Me” to a billowing black suit for “She’s a Bitch.” It’s a wonder that she held off this long to take center stage, but she made it work, and then some. It was one more incremental step on her path back to public performance, but it also felt like one giant leap for Mitchell-kind — a seemingly impossible moment in which the singer was commanding the stage for about three hours (not counting intermission) and delivering just what you might have hoped for from her at any point in her long career.
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