Hoards of teenagers and a fair amount of what looked like tweens crowded the on Friday evening decked out in their finest highlighter-neon and sequin-bedazzled garb for local celebrities, .
As set ended and the preparations for 3OH!3 began on the stage, the anticipation was palpable as a mob of minors (most of whom seemed unaware of the concert-going faux pas they were committing by wearing 3OH!3 T-shirts) packed the Fillmore’s floor level, trying to be as close as possible to the storm about to take place on the stage.
On each side of the stage, life-sized, fuzzy wolf statues with green laser beam eyes shot their stare out over the crowd as the stage’s backdrop, 3OH!3’s rendition of the American flag complete with an image of their very own hand sign, rallied the underage army. The lights dimmed, the youth howled and Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte burst on to the stage dancing and belting out their battle cry, “Starstrukk.”
While performing their fans’ most-beloved songs, such as “Richman” and “Colorado Sunrise,” Foreman commanded that the crowd jump, an order they gladly obliged as the floor became a raving, waving sea of hormones, braces and sweat. Starry-eyed as they gazed upon the two dance party deities, the crowd launched their arms into the air an innumerable amount of times with their hands formed into the 3OH!3 emblem throughout the show. Sharing singles off their album to be released later this summer, “Streets of Gold,” the dedicated 3OH!3 army screamed along every lyric of “My First Kiss” and “House Party.”
They ended after a three-song encore that closed with their overplayed radio mainstay, “Don’t Trust Me,” but the most impressive part of 3OH!3’s show was the inspiration these two rapping white boys instilled in Colorado’s youth.
At times the concert looked eerily similar to a political rally, complete with a modified nation’s flag and an elevated salute symbolizing comradely and unity. It truly made me wonder what kind of social, cultural or ideological uprising 3OH!3 could instigate if their music focused on something other than partying and girls. However, 3OH!3 and their fans appeared more than content enjoying the frivolity of a type of music than can only be described as the retarded bastard offspring of a coupling between Shiny Toy Guns and Limp Bizkit.
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