SIX60: Till the Lights Go Out

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Lariste L Unfortunately, Six60 are Not Actually That Great. Infact, in the 2010s they were genuinely quite bad at a few appearances. What happened in the island nation's culture in 2020-2023 was that, due to border closures and, you could easily argue, an antipathy toward US culture in the Trump era, the producer pop band Six60 appeared and played some major venues after exposure on the country's two widest reaching networks: More FM and Mai FM. Things about Six60 in particular, and Contemporary Hit Radio in general: it's squeaky clean, it's normcore, it's autotuned, it's made of matching four and eight measure sections copy-pasted on a timeline and manipulated by digital audio editors. A lot. The vocals are autotuned also, so ultimately, what they're offering is a central vocal hook, which just might launch a (non-paying) audio career on Spotify, or in the case of Six60 and their management team - some very large gigs in the country's metropolitan Auckland region. Six60 and their brethren, Drax Project and to a lesser degree Christian vocalist Stan Walker etc all are basically: regular people. What this means is that while their relatable characters translated to major stats on YouTube and Spotify, the band members are neither iconic, quotable or inspiring. Ever. Innovative? Forget it. Instead, they're a selling a version of One Direction with a patina of local iconography. The real problem with the band is that they don't make outstanding songs; they make slick productions. The real problem with Six60 is they don't matter outside of Aotearoa. As a phenomenon with regards to ticket sales at a point in time in the social media age, they are of note, what's also rather curious is how the people in this scene adjusted when their moment had obviously passed. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

SIX60: Till the Lights Go Out

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