anyone go to Ms.Lauryn Hill in NYC?
pcmr
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Copped tickets for my wife's Bday
the times review has me shook
setlist okay
rearrangements:not feeling it
3 jeyboardinst 3guitarists on stage=scurred
please to reassure me?
is it acceptable in her own way (my wife is diehard) or random rants and a scratched up voice (more likely)
the times review has me shook
setlist okay
rearrangements:not feeling it
3 jeyboardinst 3guitarists on stage=scurred
please to reassure me?
is it acceptable in her own way (my wife is diehard) or random rants and a scratched up voice (more likely)
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plus the canada border thing (but T.O might suffer more from that)
also the clown clthes are in full effect
she is 35 now and it seems she spent the last decade chasing a muse that led her nowhere
she has one new song since that unplugged2.0 debacle
What RTB did you go to? also what drugs were you on at said RTB?
"Prince was there and left"
you know you are a piece of struggle if you 'out-diva' Prince.
I hope Lauren kills it when you see her, she is certainly capable of doing better.
learn how to read loser. NYC! you wern't there so shut up. your friends were the ones on drugs if they didn't enjoy such a great show. i HEARD she was not that great in L.A. but i wasn't there so i don't know but she was great in nyc. oh yeah, just say no.
learn how to read loser. NYC! you wern't there so shut up. your friends were the ones on drugs if they didn't enjoy such a great show. i HEARD she was not that great in L.A. but i wasn't there so i don't know but she was great in nyc. oh yeah, just say no.
YouTube baby pa. And she sucked. She sounded out of breath and hoarse. Best part of her set was when Jay Z came out and waved. You were suffering from heat exhaustion and couldn't think clearly. And your JNCOs were too tight.
i saw her at rock the bells in nyc last summer as well. worst performance on the bill by far. i feel a good chunk of ppl were there to exclusively see her, so expectations were set high. boy were they let down. i saw people rush towards the stage to catch her perform only later to see them turn around, screw-faced up, and walk away from that hot mess of a show. for me, seeing her was a bonus - rounding out a pretty strong rap bill, so don't take my review as an attack on being disappointed.
i'll give her that the sound was complete shit, but that still couldn't compensate for how horrible she sounded on her own. ms. hill should have enjoyed a room temperature glass of water with lemon and tried clearing her throat, but no. her voice and her in-between-song rants definitely put her in the lane of "crazy lauryn". in terms of music she did, pretty much each track she did was on some rock revision given she was playing with a full band. the band was definitely more loud and aggressive than her, so to compensate, you have lauryn yelling her lyrics instead of singing them. one of the most grating moments for me was when she did an 8 minute rendition of "how many mics" that ended in some double-time drumming with her scatting "how many mics do we rip on the daily / many money, say me say many, many, many" for a good 3-4 minutes straight. eyeroll.
the biggest crowd reaction her show brought was when she was shouting out the stars who were standing to the side of the stage, not performing: jay-z, beyonc??, mary j, alicia keys, swizzy, LL, etc.
after all is said and done, i would definitely ward people against seeing her for a hefty ticket price. then again, if you consider yourself fan, i probably couldn't convince you otherwise; it's something you'd have to witness for yourself. to her defense, RTB was a huge outdoor venue and the sound was awful, so perhaps seeing her in a more intimate setting would be a much more safer bet.
you know, one of the 50 greatest singers of all time according to npr....
this is what i expect
a bunch of ranting interludes and raspy voice with soso rapping and apparently she has some primal screams
the ticks were 60$ each, my wife likes her despite all the excentricity
i am mostly concerned about myself
diehard base..keep the same sound and put out a bunch of stuff on a reular intervall
or go the old soul star route
classic hits done well and keeping up the voice like a professionnal
she instead has gone in both opposite directions
stayed an oddity that will tire out her aging fans
i am ready to have my mid changed
but her ''new'' song is a bob marley cover
and she has a rock version of how many mics
learn how to read loser. NYC! you wern't there so shut up. your friends were the ones on drugs if they didn't enjoy such a great show. i HEARD she was not that great in L.A. but i wasn't there so i don't know but she was great in nyc. oh yeah, just say no.
YouTube baby pa. And she sucked. She sounded out of breath and hoarse. Best part of her set was when Jay Z came out and waved. You were suffering from heat exhaustion and couldn't think clearly. And your JNCOs were too tight.
that makes total sense! youtube! that's a great way to judge a live show. i learned a lot today. and thank you sir.
btw, i've been to tons of shows that i later watched on youtube. two completely different worlds. they've never looked as good on youtube as they did live.
YouTube baby pa. And she sucked. She sounded out of breath and hoarse. Best part of her set was when Jay Z came out and waved. You were suffering from heat exhaustion and couldn't think clearly. And your JNCOs were too tight.
that makes total sense! youtube! that's a great way to judge a live show. i learned a lot today. and thank you sir.
btw, i've been to tons of shows that i later watched on youtube. two completely different worlds. they've never looked as good on youtube as they did live. ----------------------------
U Australian?
Salty Lauryn Hill fans = comedy!
Not you--I meant the aggro dude.
hahaha... awesome.
i hope you address her as "baby pa" somewhere in said discussion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/music/30lauryn.html?scp=2&sq=lauryn hill&st=cse
She is nuts
Anyone who paid money--or even invested time waiting in line--to see her lost.
You should.
yet i am subjecting myself to this
well at least my expectations won't be high at all
having no iphone i will not be able to liveblogg this for the stut massive
When she first came back solo/ reinvented there was some curiosity to see what had happened.
I had a sister-friend that considered her Wingate Highschool show that was slammed by everyone, brilliant.
Is she "better" in 2010? I dont see it.
my girl adored her solo LP which i found had good songwriting and production
she just recently revisited the unplguged turd and fell in love again
i started by saying i thought the girl had gone coocoo and all that
she made me give it a thourough listen to it and i told her i could do without the endless ranting
the rasp, the confused lyrics and abset minded forgetting of them and that it would be better if she could craft a real album instead of writing a few chords to misguided poetry in the plane for JA to MIA and then NYC
to learn that abolutely nothing has changed is disheartening
however the shit sold out fast
i knew it was the perfect gift for her but you are stuck going to a concert in that situation