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Wandering Thoughts on Creativity and AI

Tedd Hawks
6 min readMar 14, 2024
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Introduction: Kim Petras Kills It

My husband and I went to see Kim Petras last fall on her Feed the Beast tour. If you don’t know who Kim is, she’s an LGTBQ singer who makes awesome bops.

I was blown away by the spectacle of the show. The tour set pieces were some of the most ambitious I’d ever seen in the Aragon Theater. There was a three-tiered stage, a video screen, rotating floors, and a drop zone. [I…don’t think that’s the actual name of what it is, but it was a hole in the floor where people (and monsters :D) could pop in and out of.] Kim is a prolific artist, so there were at least four act changes (which included costume and set piece transformations) to match the tone of her different EPs and albums.

Because of the scale of the show in the smaller venue, there were some messy bits. A few times props or set pieces didn’t function as planned. Kim and the dance team were marching up and down the steps, so there were some stumbles. I think it may have been an earlier show in the tour, because, during one choreographed piece, she actually said something to the effect of, “This song is long and a bit boring. We’re coming hard in the next song!”

I don’t say any of that as a read or critique of the show. It was really, really good. And, as we were leaving, I told my husband…

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Tedd Hawks
Tedd Hawks

Written by Tedd Hawks

I'm a Chicago-based writer and book coach who loves to write and help others write better. I always love to connect: bookcoachtedd@gmail.com

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