If Shaboozey is worried about becoming a one-hit wonder, he sure doesn’t show it on stage.
“Finally Over,” the closing track from his 2024 album “Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going," suggests he is, indeed, concerned: “All my friends have got careers, and mine just might be over, if I don’t sell my soul again for another viral moment.”
But either Shaboozey deserves an Oscar or isn't that averse to swapping his soul: As he kicked off his Great American Roadshow tour at Old National Centre Sept. 22, he was basking in the glow of that viral moment and having the best time doing it.
To call the viral moment in question the elephant in the room is to dwarf it. “Tipsy (A Bar Song)” is a behemoth: 2024’s undisputed song of the summer and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-tying 19