On Friday, thousands of revelers — most of them young, many of them male, bare-chested and backpacked — convened for Day One of Summer Smash at SeatGeek Stadium in southwest suburban Bridgeview.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.A fan captures Kid Cudi on a cellphone video during Summer Smash at Seat Geek Stadium in Bridgeview on Friday.
There was enough razzmatazz to satiate this reporter’s inner child. The festival grounds were strewed with funhouse-style concave/convex mirrors , giant replica Minions and even a basketball court scaled down to backyard dimensions. And Summer Smash was no slouch culinarily. Vendors ranged from Harold’s Chicken to Arami, the West Town sushi joint. Also present was Trill Burgers, the fast-casual fiefdom headed by Houston rap legend Bun B.Monster energy drinks sold for $12 a pop.
The response to festival closer Kid Cudi was mixed. Some, including a female couple with matching hair dyed shamrock green, were loosey-goosey, gyrating in step with the languid music. But others seemed to rue their investment in Cudi; they came for the epochal oldies, not his more recent material. One overserved heckler literally screamed, “Play some old !” Cudi didn’t help matters with his pitchy, stumbling vocals and oblivious banter between songs.
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