house lights

The house lights turned on as 2,800 people rose to their feet for endless applause.

With that, the kids scatter to their places, the house lights go down, the stage lights come up and the show begins.

A dozen songs in, the house lights went up, Carti left the stage and the screens told fans to back up, now in an effort to stop the crowd from pushing forward and crushing each other.

Again and again Monday night the house lights would come up at precisely the moment when you might’ve expected Bryan to strike some rock-god pose, drawing your eye instead to the thousands of others watching him watch them.

“House lights up,” the 43-year-old singer said in a video shared to TikTok.