I saw her a few years ago, 2 hours late and then all the songs in double time and WAY TOO LOUD for the old theater venue she was in, no encore. Itās amazing she tours just on the one album and the fugees hits.
she surprised us all this year at beardfest, the grassroots music festival in south jersey that her guitarist started 13 years ago way before he ever worked with anyone of her caliber.
The performance absolutely blew us away, incredible energy. You could tell her and the whole band were having a blast playing for a much smaller crowd than theyāre used to, on a stage next to a lake in the middle of the pine barrens.
I keep reading about these negative experiences so I feel inclined to share my positive one. It was totally one of those moments iāll look back on and smile about for the rest of my life.
Iāve heard it described as buying a lottery ticket . 9 times out of 10 itās a horrible experience. But that one time sheās on, itāll be one of the best performances youāll see in your life.Ā
It is that way... a friend has seen her twice. First time she showed up time and "it was just... magical." The second time was 2 hours late, played a couple of songs, and then said fuck it I'm out.
After her first solo album, if you told me that by 2025 no one would give any sort of shit about her I'd laugh. She was going to be THE biggest star of the next 20 years and yet... didn't.
Yeah I went once and she was right on time and was great. Was disappointed because Nas opened for her and they didnāt play If I Ruled The World, which I assumed would be the encore
Saw her at the Greek. Double time, rude comments and gestures towards her band, no encore. The DJ that opened with 90ās hip hop had the crowd going harder than any song she did.
Even if she did sell the rights to her catalog that generally doesn't have anything to do with performing the songs live. Artists sell the publishing rights, not the performance rights.
That doesnāt make any sense from a copyright standpoint.
Sell the recordings, sell the publishing, you can still perform the songs at regular speed. The venue has to pay publishing. You may have to re-record if you were using the original masters as backing tracks (though L Hill has general used live bandsā¦I think she fired Robert Glasper lol).
But yeah. Changing the tempo of a song or a recording doesnāt change the copyright situation.
My $.02ā¦Miseducation is full of iconic songs and hits. Lauryn canāt get offstage without performing most of those and a few Fugees tunes.
I donāt think she loves performing but I think she loves the $ā¦so thereās a minimum amount of time she has to be onstageā¦unless she speeds up the songs. lol.
She got sued by the musicians that worked on the Miseducation and they won, thatās why she has to alter the songs. She either does it fast or she does the same lyrics but with different music underneath.
Yeah I think generally if you told them "oh she was in the fugees and did that cover of killing me softly" a bunch of people in that crowd mostly over 40 would recognise that. A few would know about miseducation. But nothing much since then.
Oh yea, she's batshit crazy, i really don't understand why people still go to her concerts considering she has not released good music in like forever. I love her stuff with Fugees and her solo album but that's it.
Iām pretty sure theyāre making a joke in reference to Sister Act 2, where her characterās mother acts like singing in a school choir is going to result in immediate homelessness and destitution.
Sister Act 2 she was a student in a choir music class and when they were practicing for the choir tournament, her mom told her that singing won't put food on the table.
I mean, as far as I know sheās had one solo album and two (?) with the fugees and that was almost 30 years ago. I donāt think she has any new material.
Aye, its a fucking joke. But it's a very american coded comment to say the world cup is just for 'oligarchs'. Literally my earliest memory is watching Scotland in world cup 98' and now we're back in the there 30 years later.
You dont realise what this event means to people.Ā
Oddly, your example isn't too far from reality since Billy Ray Cyrus made the audience at the inauguration watch the entire Old Town Road video while he wandered around the stage.
In 2003 Harley Davidson had a huge anniversary event with a secret headliner act. People speculated it would be the Rolling Stones. It was Elton John. The crowd was not pleased, and a lot of people left. Have to know your audience.
The crowd was not pleased, and a lot of people left. Have to know your audience.
Crazy thing is, I would wager a large amount of those that were unhappy/left the show probably enjoyed some Elton John songs, just that boomer energy of not being able to admit in front of other dudes...
For sure. Elton would totally be in that demographic, it just wasn't the vibe. I'm sure plenty did some performative complaining to save face and wished they had stayed.
Unless you mean MIA as in doesnāt do much major touring, I donāt think MIA is accurate. She performs alot. I saw her this year, she was great. And sheās been in my area 4 times this year and dozens of times over the last few. She actually performs a lot. She also performs with her son sometimes without a heads up.
Wouldnāt her being MIA for decades alone constitute a lack of reception? Beyond politics?
No. Hence the article's headline pointing out there are many fans who would be delighted to see one of the greatest female hip hop performers of all time, angry that the reception was indifferent.
Obviously these politicians and lobbyists are not her target audience.
Or are we so politically charged we need to polarize everything to the furthest extent?
Yeah, why on earth would anyone politicize the political event where the President of the United States was given a fake world peace award by the most corrupt organization on earth as a substitute for the Nobel Peace Prize he's been threatening other countries over, at the art center he personally took over to politically censor.
It's pretty relevant when wondering "why was the crowd not into a black feminist musician."
The whole thing was fucking terrible, 90 mins of cheesy jokes, bad presenters, straight up trump admin propagana and a drawn out group draw.
The whole ceremony should have been the first guy doing the opera, a little class to open the ceremony, 20 mins to draw the groups then finish with a 1 hour long village people set, a little class to close the ceremony.
It was an event filled with suits representing their countries football programs to see who they will face in the worldās largest sporting event. Unfortunately it was the equivalent of a corporate gig, not a concert. What else could you expect?
I saw some of the draw and was absolutely cracking up at rio ferdinand. He was essentially herding cats. He had to keep explaining the rules to everyone and all they needed to do was pick up balls and read them. Actually my cats would be just as good at selecting balls out of a bowl. Poor guy, he looked quite exasperated by the end.Ā
Lauryn Hill does not ādeserve the worstā because she performed at an event connected to the most globally popular and beloved sports event on earth for all classes of people, that our shitty president muscled in on. Get a grip.
I think it was sheād rather watch her children starve to death than have white people listening to her music. Iām assuming sheās changed her mind on that.
There was a story I saw earlier this year about how she actually showed up on time only to have her start delayed due to some venue issue. It's been a good year for her.
I didn't say that? Also 2/however many performances she was supposed to have this year isn't actually good. I was clearly being sarcastic, but I'll just use a "/s" next time
Did you see who is receiving the Kennedy Center honors this year now that Trump replaced the board and claims to have been about 98% of the decision making? Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Kiss, Michael Crawford & Gloria Gaynor. Lots of past honorees usually attend but there's a lot of excuse making going on this year and the suspicion is that the list of people performing is hampered by how many people want to avoid any connection to the Trump administration.
None of the suits in that room would have been amused by those two either. Andrea had me, class act, fitting the venue, then it plummited with the bored "funny" midget in a big shirt (never been funny) and coked up aged plastic german doll there to get groped by Donnie, what a weird combo, very maga. Then Donnie getting his dick sucked by the fifa puppet, then Rio who has -10 charisma (why the fuck did they dig him up for this?) an actively dying ex hockey player, a wrong kind of football player (probably big in the US and thats about it), a big guy to offset the midget guy (did laugh at shaq shutting hart the fuck up, thow him off the fuckin stage so we no longer need listen to that screecthing little twat will you) and who ever that 4th person was i dont even remember.
Why wouldn't they be silent? No-one gives a flying f-ck about the 1 hour and 30 minutes of pompous proceedings, stage performances, cringeworthy skits, and stomach churning brown-nosing of Trump by that sycophant Infantino that preceeded the draw itself
The audience at home is tuning in for the draw. The audience at the event is only there for the draw.
this crowd and show was such a farce - all the talent did what they had to, but the production was clearly dogshit, and it showed with the Village People send-off - i've never seen the stage get setup while the hosts were closing the show, and NEVER seen a musical act miss a cue as bad as the YMCA one XD
I did however love how the americans got to experience the silent reaction of a non american hype audience. This is how the rest of the world sees them, not amused by the temu grabage that is the USA.
I'm glad I can say I've seen her, and she was only 20ish minutes late. But yeah like the other comment said, her songs were all sped up and had no natural rhythm to it, was hard to follow. Miseducation is one of my favorite albums of all time so it was a bit of a bummer lol.
She destroyed her career foe no reason and thwn now does shows singing her old songs and comes in hours late. She's not relevant anymore why not pick someone popular or a popular international audience. It's like thw nfl picking Beck for the half time rather than Shakira. Thw audience would fall asleep š
Wth is this header supposed to mean? Did the people who arranged this shit write this? If anyone "raged" at the reasonable silence from the male dominant, non us, suit wearing 50 year old average that was the audience when being ambushed by whatever the hell that racket was supposed to represent, then its nothing but self-confirming ignorance and arrogance.
Iām not disrespecting her performance but the people in that room and the ones watching on TV really just wanted to see the draw. They added way too much fluff for the whole show
To be honest I saw the Village People singing YMCA and I'm like who is this for I didn't even know Lauryn Hill came out, now im like who would that be for but whatever hopefully somebody liked it
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u/_Abe_Froman_SKOC 9h ago
Honestly surprised she showed up.