The Spectrum

Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: A & E

T-Pain rocked the Pitt Center this weekend with his hit songs and introduced his new group of artists for his record label.

After months of waiting, the wait is finally over. The concert of the year that everyone had been anticipating is finally finished.

Last Friday night, Grammy award winning artists T-Pain and Ne-Yo performed at the William H. Pitt Center.

T-Pain gave an up-beat performance. Dancing around with his large red top hat, the crowd enjoyed his opening act. T-Pain also introduced the new family of artists to his brand new record label, Nappy Boy.

Ne-Yo came out with a more mellow performance and his R&B vocals showed off why he is a Grammy award winning artist. As every hit-single came on, a louder cheer came from the crowd, who continued to sing along to songs like "So Sick."

Now the question remains, did the concert live up to the hype?

While the turnout for the concert was high, many students ended up leaving only after the first half of the show.

"T-Pain put on a really good show, I liked his friends who performed with him a lot, they were really good, but I really didn't want to stay after Ne-Yo went on," said sophomore Chris Sorrentino. "It just seemed to drag on a little after Ne-Yo came on stage."

"I thought it was a lot of fun. I liked T-Pain's show, it was okay. I thought he talked too much, but it was still pretty cool," said sophomore Lacey Gilleran. "I thought it was great when Ne-Yo went out, he was amazing. I liked his show better. I thought this concert as a whole was a lot better than some of the past performances."

The concert was presented by Student Life, along with volunteer students, which planned and organized the entire event.

"I thought the concert went pretty well. At certain points you could feel the floor shaking and the energy level was very high," said sophomore Nick DiIesio, student senator and event volunteer. "Both Ne-Yo and T-Pain performed well and I felt that students were pretty pleased with both performers and with the organization and management with the event on the whole."

"From the beginning to the end of planning the concert, everything ran smoothly and I am very pleased with the result. We had a great turnout and all those who attended enjoyed themselves, which is our main goal when organizing a concert and seeing it play through," said Amy Ricci, director of student activities.

"We couldn't have done it without the help of university staff members and student volunteers. Everyone committed to their role that night, which helped make the show so successful. I really appreciate all of the help from those who joined us this year."

With the general success of this concert, some students are wondering what could be in store for next year.

"Next year's concert will be decided by the Student Events Team board. As the current vice president, Kelly Linskey, is graduating at the end of this year, it's up in the air as to how the board will decide," said DiIesio.

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