Gig review: Jason Derulo at First Direct Arena, Leeds
They do say better late than never. Having originally been scheduled to hit up Yorkshire in mid-March, Jason Derulo's arrival at Leeds's First Direct Arena instead comes on a wintery autumn's evening, the first chills of the post-Indian summer sweeping the North.
On stage however, the temperature is firmly set to hot – and then some. If his hype-man’s boisterous proclamation heralding him as “the new King of Pop” seems rather forthright, then the 29-year-old certainly expands the energy in living up to the edict.
Over a 90-minute blitzkrieg of R&B-tinged dancefloor jams, he delivers a bombastically proportioned big-league spectacular, the musical equivalent of a Fast & Furious movie; as subtle to a jackhammer and all the more deliriously daft for it.
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