Recap Neon Indian and Kreayshawn at The Sett

Mismatched profanities like “I’m a real bitch” and “Hoes on my dick” don’t typically fly through the air at a UW-sponsored concert, but when the WUD music committee booked odd couple Kreayshawn and Neon Indian to play The Sett at Union South Friday, fans had to expect a night of contradictions.

Oakland rapper Kreayshawn brought a blast of Cali swag when she appeared supporting chillwave maestro Neon Indian at the free concert Friday night. Audience members freestyling, spitting lyrics to Lil B’s “Wonton Soup,” and yelling “Occupy basedworld!” set the stage for members of the “White Girl Mob”—Kreayshawn, V-Nasty, and a hypeman. Kreayshawn’s past work directing music videos for Lil B might explain the “based” references.

It wasn’t long before fans, who had packed The Sett to capacity, started “swobbin’, swaggin’, and mobbin’,” as V-Nasty and Kreayshawn knocked out a set featuring “Rich Whores,” “Bumpin Bumpin,” “Hoes On My Dick,” and the viral sensation “Gucci Gucci.”

Kreayshawn commanded the crowd’s attention with her antics, sliding across the stage in her socks, sporting a gold, bedazzled crown, and shouting, “Helllloooooo Wisconsin!” several times, in what’s now become an endemic reference to That ’70s Show. The crowd responded by clamoring onto the stage for a dance party, clawing for T-shirts hurled by the artists, and yelling the lyrics “I’m a real bitch” in time to the beat.

After all that, audience members mostly limited their expressions of appreciation for Neon Indian’s set with more nodding and less swobbin’, though some played air guitar right along with the band. Fans erupted in a frenzied applause when a wall of reverb announced frontman Alan Palomo’s arrival on the stage, as well as when they recognized the bouncy intro for “Polish Girl,” off the band’s September release, Era Extraña.

Neon Indian’s set flowed together in swells of synth, providing the perfect effervescent punch of electronica to end the show. At one point, Palomo commented on the audience’s good fortune: “I feel like I’ve never been to a union center with a bar. I feel like I would still be in college if that were the case.” Fans who attended the show could also count themselves lucky for being able to witness two disparate artists performing together.