underwhelmed

Thanks. I’m done.

Carry on and enjoy her tunes!

@Essence wrote:

To respond to underwhelmed…I wasn’t at the show, so it’s not for me to judge, but I just can’t believe the show was as bad as you say.

First of all, she read out of a book at the St. Louis concert too. It’s not like she needed it for the whole show, but mostly for older songs. I didn’t mind it, because she put so much of herself into the performance. SO WHAT if she had to look at the book?! She has a large repertoire of songs. At least at the show I was at, the book thing wasn’t an issue because she also talked to the crowd a lot in between.

To my recollection, the song “Honey Bee” (I’ve only heard it once) is not about being jilted. It’s a cute “I am in love” song and talks about wanting to be “stung.” I don’t think that it’s just another typical break-up song. In fact, a lot of the newer stuff she tried out seemed to me to be about an evolution in her music toward something happier.

If by ‘put so much of herself into the performance’ you meant: she reads the line, briefly looks up to sing/say the line, then looks back at the book, then you’re right (how is that amusing? It’s terrible!). Honestly, it was horrible. There were about 3 songs that she didn’t need the book for (and they were good!), out of what, 13 songs? Not to mention the fact that she quit in the middle of a song, hacked into the microphone several times, and then babbled incoherently like she was wasted (which I’m betting money she was). Be able to handle your alcohol if you’re coming on stage.

After she said she was going to sing Honeybee, I was joking to my friend about what the lyrics were going to be, and I was dead on! It was like she wrote that song in her sleep…heck, I did just sitting there.

Ray, maybe you’re right, and I just don’t ‘get’ Lu. And like I said before, maybe she was good a few years ago or back in the 90’s, but based on this performance, she was horrible (and yes, I’ve been to about 70 concerts) and I wasn’t the only one who thought so. She sung stuff off her new album, and it just droned on and on and on about the same old thing, with the same 2 chord rhyming pattern.

Homosacer…she was booed and hissed about 6 songs through. As for why, it was probably because of the way she read the lyrics (after looking at them) instead of singing them, the way she ended seemingly every line on the same note, the same theme in her lyrics ad nauseum, and because it was like she wasn’t even there. Her band truly carried her the whole way. I loved her band…but she was awful. The fact that people’s conversations were drowning her out says more than the booing, she just bored me. You don’t come to a sold-out Red Rocks concert and bore people and get booed, but somehow she managed to do that. That’s not endearing to me.