{"id":2453743,"date":"2020-01-26T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319884"},"modified":"2020-01-26T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:41:20","slug":"x-games-aspen-bazzi-honors-kobe-bryant-plays-live-debut-of-i-f-l-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/x-games-aspen-bazzi-honors-kobe-bryant-plays-live-debut-of-i-f-l-y\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games Aspen: Bazzi honors Kobe Bryant, plays live debut of \u2018I.F.L.Y.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8402107111501\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-319884-379\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-3-683x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-3-683x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-4-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-4-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-5-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com | Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)<\/strong><br \/>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/XCONCERTS-ATD-012720-5-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Fans enjoy musical artist Bazzi on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u00d5s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-bazzi-honors-kobe-bryant-plays-live-debut-of-i-f-l-y\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-bazzi-honors-kobe-bryant-plays-live-debut-of-i-f-l-y\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taking the X Games music stage hours after news broke of Kobe Bryant\u2019s death in a California helicopter crash, the R&amp;B singer Bazzi honored the NBA legend, calling him \u201cone of my heroes growing up, one of the greatest basketball players and humans of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you all to remember how lucky we all are to be at the X Games in Aspen right now alive and healthy,\u201d he told the Buttermilk Ski Area crowd, drawing a roar of applause and a \u201cKobe\u201d chant.<\/p>\n<p>Bazzi\u2019s sleek 45-minute set also included the singer\u2019s first live performance of his recent streaming hit \u201cI.F.L.Y\u201d (185 million Spotify streams and counting). The song was a high point of the performance, with the young crowd singing along to the earworm-y \u201cI f-ing love you\u201d chorus.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who thinks X Games music can only move at one over-caffeinated speed should take notice, as Bazzi proved otherwise. The set was filled with his sex-positive slow jams, bad-boy confessionals and torch songs \u2013 tales of break-ups and raw emotions and rawer bedroom liasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year old singer and recently minted pop star is making a case for himself as the heir to Prince and D\u2019Angelo. He can turn heartbreak and devotion into perfect pop constructions like the set-opening \u201cParadise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bassi gave X Games a feel-good comedown after a weekend of bombastic EDM and hip-hop sets from Alesso, Illenium and Rae Sremmurd. His was lighter on the pyrotechnics and electronic sounds, drawing a smaller but no less devoted crowd of fans to the Buttermilk venue than his noisier predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Bazzi was backed by a live drummer and guitarist, with an off-stage DJ piping in the electronic production. He also picked up a guitar himself for \u201cAlone\u201d and other songs. But the show was carried by a man and a microphone, with Bazzi singing R&amp;B augmented by some big bass drops \u2013 the cathartic crescendos of \u201cWhy\u201d and \u201cMine\u201d were highlights \u2013 and that booming drum set. It was an organic breath of fresh air. After closing with an extended singalong \u201cMine,\u201d Bazzi returned for an encore. He took fan requests for his farewell song, choosing the sultry \u201cFocus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-bazzi-honors-kobe-bryant-plays-live-debut-of-i-f-l-y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colo. (Liz Copan\/Summit Daily News via AP)Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com Musical artist Bazzi performs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, on Buttermilk\u2019s Geico Music Stage for the last day of X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 18:54:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}