Bring on a little T-Pain: What happens at Millserville…

With the semester just starting, Millersville is gearing up for a fall full of entertainment for the campus community.

As usual, students will get an e-mail asking which recording artist they would most like to see. After last spring’s T-Pain show, the next performer will have a tough act to follow. T-Pain brought all the elements needed for a good set and multiply that by ten.

“I love T-pain and I’m a fan of his music. They did a lot of cool dancing and T-Pains song selection was awesome,” said Myran Reed. “If there was going to be another artist like T-pain here at Millersville I would defiantly go.”

The show opened with his DJ, who explained to the audience that they were not there for a show; they were there for a party.

He mixed a bunch of hits, but was only moderately good at his job. Unfortunately, he then informed us that he was also the host for the evening.

Sophia Fresh was by far the best of T-Pain’s opening artists.

The group consists of three girls: Skye, Crystal, and Cole Rose, all of which have well trained voices, that meshed nicely with each other.

When T-Pain finally came on, he performed his songs more like a club mix, singing very few full songs.  Instead, he performed snippets from all the hits he is currently featured in.

This might have something to do with the fact that he actually sings very few of his own songs, normally lending his voice to sing the chorus and hooks for other artists.

The show featured, “Buy U a Drank,” “Red Light” and “Got Money”, minus Lil’ Wayne of course. T-Pain, who sings most of his music, proved he was multi-talented by rapping and playing guitar and piano as well.

He mentioned his wife and children, much to the unhappiness of his female fans.

“Every time I get on stage, I like to give praise to the people that I’m on stage for, and that’s my wife and kids,” T-Pain said.

Even so, the show was definitely geared towards all the female audience members.

“I like all the beautiful light skinned women in the building, make some noise for me.” T-Pain’s DJ said.

T-Pain was possibly a little more diplomatic about the whole thing.

“I take a universal. ‘Cause I go all the way from a chocolate girl all the way to a white girl. I ain’t got no problem with neither one,” he said.

“I can meet you half way, you talking about those caramel-brownish kind of girls. I’ll tell you what though, no matter what color she is, no matter what she look like, there ain’t nothing better than a girl who can do this,” he added while starting to dance.

He also attempted to put some rumors to rest regarding the nature of his alleged battle with a golf cart where he had injured himself.

“I did get in a fight with a golf cart, and I lost,” he told the audience, “As you can see it was not a normal golf cart.” He added this while pointing to possibly the only pimped out golf cart on the planet.

He was very candid to the audience about rumors and accusations alike, making a little speech about people accusing him of messing up the industry.

He wanted to let his fans know this was not his intention.

T-Pain also told the audience that he did not care how they got a hold of his music. He told them to buy it, burn it or download it, but just to make sure they listened to it. It was refreshing to see an artist who appeared to simply want people to hear his music rather than make money.

He also chose to save the best for last. Throughout the evening, the crowd continually screamed for him to perform “I’m on a Boat”, By The Lonely Island.
T-Pain saved this for one of his last numbers and gave his fans exactly what they wanted.

“I liked the fact that most of the concert was T-pain himself, but the concert was too short,” said Cat Beck. “The amount of time it took for me to stand in line was the same amount of time that the concert was itself. But, I really had a good time.”