Chance smiles towards the end, like a friend helping you get through a bad time. And like most of Coloring Book (and Stevie Wonder’s discography), the whole thing has a gospel feel, sad but conciliatory. For this performance, I especially love how Chance’s voice mixes and melds with the other singers, his voice disappearing and reappearing naturally when moving from verse to chorus (also shout out to the singers they were amazing). And if “Juke Jam” was all nostalgic youth and “The Other Side” a contemplative meditation on how we grow, this final song sadly but firmly guides us through loss and recovery. It’s so especially sincere and authentic.Īnd that brings us to the last song of the set, a beautiful cover of a beautiful song, Stevie Wonder’s “They Won’t Go When I Go,” which Chance dedicates to a friend who has recently lost someone. At one point, it seems Chance gets choked up but more in happiness than anything else.
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And, like the performances of the songs, it plays as more of a conversation than anything else, talking about what he wanted–success, fame, money–and what there is where he ended up on “the other side,” a place more chaotic but full of love and family and deep emotion. Where “Juke Jam” tells the story of youth, “The Other Side” tells the story of growing up. After a small hiccup which Chance playfully laughs off, he reads his poem, “The Other Side,” a necessary segway into the final track, grounding us and holding our hand through Chance’s overall message of the set. But the NPR performance of the track was nostalgic in a cute way–Chance sort of joked and smiled through the song and along with the lowkey synth and trumpet arrangement, it was if he was telling a story from his childhood, remembering a younger version of himself as a memory that he treasures instead of something embarrassingly disappointing (more the attitude of the original track).įrom here, the set becomes even more nostalgic, emotional, and melancholic. Like love or youth lost that you think about on late Thursday nights, sitting alone in a softly lit room. The original “Juke Jam” has a nostalgic sound and the guitar, strings, and piano give it a sad, soulful ambience. But as the set continued, I realized his energy was introspective and serious to match the theme of the performance. I at first thought Chance was nervous when he started “Juke Jam,” and he may have been.