{"id":677131,"date":"2025-06-25T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dressed-up-and-stripped-back-yeah-yeah-yeahs-celebrate-25-years-together\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:10:18","slug":"dressed-up-and-stripped-back-yeah-yeah-yeahs-celebrate-25-years-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dressed-up-and-stripped-back-yeah-yeah-yeahs-celebrate-25-years-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressed up and stripped back: Yeah Yeah Yeahs celebrate 25 years together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35d25a22390\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_5_rx9our\/yeah-yeah-yeahs-london-hidden-in-pieces-tour-review.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Dressed up and stripped back: Yeah Yeah Yeahs celebrate 25 years together\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Barnaby Clay<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271887\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Standing center stage at London&#8217;s Royal Albert Hall, dressed in a flowing red jumpsuit and gold boots, Karen O is recalling her frustration at an old friend. The fellow musician, she says, used to refuse to play a slow, sad song she loved in his live shows as it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t punk rock.&#8221; That kind of macho posturing is anathema to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a band who, for 25 years now, have mixed high-octane thrills with an open-hearted softness. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more punk rock than being vulnerable,&#8221; she says to huge cheers from the crowd of largely elder millennials, underlining the subtext of the band&#8217;s anniversary tour.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Hidden In Pieces tour, a run of special shows at theaters across Europe and North America, feels like both a celebration and a recalibration for a band whose heart has always beat louder than its amps have rattled. Digging deep into their back catalog, tonight&#8217;s show acts as a kind of black tie gala for a band born a quarter of a decade ago on the grimiest New York City stages. Karen O and guitarist Nick Zinner first met at The Marz Bar, the now-shuttered East Village dive where the jukebox was loaded with Tom Waits and Blondie tunes and patrons were warned &#8220;no free ice &#8211; don&#8217;t even ask.&#8221; Now they\u2019re performing at the Royal Albert Hall, a venue where a 12-seat Grand Tier box <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/dec\/17\/royal-albert-hall-12-seat-private-box-offered-for-sale-at-3m\">costs $4 million<\/a>, a feat that\u2019s less a graduation and more like a feat of metamorphosis.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271902\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271891\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yeah Yeah Yeahs \u2018Maps\u2019 @ Royal Albert Hall, London 19\/06\/25\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlVIlh6oeiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271889\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            The band, O, Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase alongside a fleet of extra members including a four-piece string section, revisit those very early days via a cover of Bjork&#8217;s &#8220;Hyperballad.&#8221; O, then a student at Oberlin, and Zinner performed together under the name Unitard and would cover the song, in the same earnest style of their twee misfit peers in The Moldy Peaches. A heart-swelling electronic pop song about the crazy things people do to stay together, \u201cHyperballad\u201d  in the YYYs\u2019 hands is a more lush affair, the string section making themselves heard early on. &#8220;I go through all this before you wake up, so I can feel h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ier&#8221; O sings as if being gently pulled back to the anti-folk era. It&#8217;s Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not as they are now, but as they were then.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Quite what happened between those very early days and the band&#8217;s debut EP, released in 2001, to transform Unitard into the ripped-fishnets and vodka-spitting Yeah Yeah Yeahs is best saved for the biopic. The band don&#8217;t try to hide their wild side, though, despite the relatively stuffy surroundings. &#8220;There&#8217;s going to be moments when you might want to get up and move your body&#8230; and I just want to say if they seem like the right moments to you, please do that,&#8221; O says prior to &#8220;Mystery Girl,&#8221; a song from the band&#8217;s frenzied early days. Though they stick to acoustic instruments only, guitarists Zinner and Imaad Wasif don&#8217;t let the muscular essence of &#8220;Cheated Hearts&#8221; and &#8220;Gold Lion&#8221; be forgotten, the latter ending with a crushing squall that gets people out of their seats. \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271892\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>Karen O famously cried real tears in the video for 2003 single \u201cMaps\u201d and evokes similar weepiness tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271903\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271890\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            That early sincerity acts as something of an origin story for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a performance that leans heavier on big feelings than volume. <i>It&#8217;s Blitz!<\/i>-era single &#8220;Skeletons,&#8221; alongside &#8220;Despair,&#8221; are among the band&#8217;s most fragile moments and tonight take center stage, the latter underpinned through use of the venue&#8217;s organ which dates back to 1871, long before anyone had even considered the idea of &#8220;indie sleaze.&#8221; Karen O famously cried real tears in the video for 2003 single &#8220;Maps&#8221; and evokes similar weepiness tonight with the sniffly ballad acting as a reminder that Yeah Yeah Yeahs have always been vulnerable punks.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Through &#8220;Maps&#8221; and debut album <i>Fever To Tell<\/i>, Yeah Yeah Yeahs are unmistakable icons of the early-2000s New York indie rock scene. Yet they have never felt like a band tied to a time and place. Perhaps its because all three of them have barely aged a day in a quarter of a decade, or that their songwriting has remained on point (large chunks of the set are made up from 2022&#8217;s excellent <i>Cool It Down<\/i>) but the band have allowed time to move alongside them elegantly. &#8220;Mars,&#8221; one of the <i>Cool It Down<\/i> tracks, is dedicated to Karen O&#8217;s son Django, while Chase&#8217;s kids can be spotted dancing yards away from their dad&#8217;s kit during the encore.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            At their core, these songs are about lifting off the shackles and baring your biggest emotions to the world. Speaking to The FADER in 2003, Karen O had a clear-eyed sense of the role the band played then and has continued to over two decades later. &#8220;[The fans] use me as a vessel to find themselves or express themselves a little more outrageously,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That\u2019s really what I\u2019m trying to do&#8230; to get away with it.&#8221; As she returns to the stage for an encore of &#8220;Zero,&#8221; boots now swapped for sneakers lined with flashing neon lights, there is no sense that time is catching up to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">David Renshaw<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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