the article makes her seem sad and lost (tho she also seems reprehensible).
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
saw her at rock the bells and it was pretty sad
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder if the keyboard player's still in the band.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Um. See? Here's the thing. Having read all of those articles and live reviews, a bunch of my friends and I bought tickets to see her tonight in Montreal anyway. And I don't know what was different about today but it was astounding?
Doors at 9:30, DJ at 11, Lauryn took the stage just after midnight. The first couple songs were the refixes of older stuff - a metalled up version of Ex Factor, and then a smooth post-rock sort of take on it, an extended gospel-y When It Hurts So Bad, rawk take on Lost Ones, reggae version of Final Hour. The vocals were occasionally scratchy but mostly impeccable. To Zion, and then a big note-perfect Fugees flashback, which included a jammy How Many Mics?, Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You" into Zealots, the O.G. Ready or Not and a reggae Fu-Gee-La and Killing Me Softly, and Turn Your Lights Down Low and Doo Wop to close.
She was in a pretty great mood the entire 2 hour set. Lots of crowd banter, lots of jokes with her band and with us. Seemed very thankful that we were there. Appreciative, even? Dancing and grooving and promised to come back soon.
So...maybe this was an anomaly, but if she can be like this more often, basically, Lauryn Hill is BACK so far as I'm concerned.
― Alex in Montreal, Monday, 24 January 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the ny times review was real positive, despite her being so late
― chev rivera (stevie), Monday, 24 January 2011 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
By all accounts her First Avenue show was fantastic--wish I'd been able to go. She hung out with fans and posed for photos afterward.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 24 January 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I think a lot of the complaints have to do with people like her drastically changed/funk-metal versions of her old shit or not. I went to Rock The Bells and was totally :D and everyone around me was o_O
― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i know someone - an old-skool r&b fan unlikely to be into anything like "funk-metal" - who went to her atl show and adored it.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna write a Twilight Zone spec script in which one day all music suddenly sounds like Infectious Grooves, and Whiney, the only happy man left on earth, has a bad ear infection and loses his hearing
― trv kvnt (some dude), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
~makes u think~
― zvookster, Monday, 24 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lol not a rapper being late to go on stage. i am outraged and will write an article about it! never in my life have i seen such disrespect!
― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck that tho
at least be ballpark
so sick of shitty rap shows, could not take funk-metal versions of songs i knew otherwise
― zvookster, Monday, 24 January 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i still kind of want to present erykah badu with a bill for the cumulative hours she's kept me waiting for sundry shows and interviews - definitely comes to over a working day's worth by now
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
next time you see her lex, ask her what 333 means plz...
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
333?
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, seemed when Badu was doing a lot of her NuAmerykah (1 or 2?) promotional stuff, the numbers '33' & '333' came up a lot...seemed kind of intentional at the time..?
sorry bout that--thx anywayz <333
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah i remember now, she kept tweeting about 3.33am or something. ok it's not like i see her regularly but if i ever get to speak to her again i'll ask!
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 24 January 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
right on =)
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 January 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"No musical artist has ever shown as much contempt for their audience as Lauryn Hill."
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/scold-yeller/Content?oid=8194382
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
wait waht?
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
public fugees ltd
― the first rule of debate club (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
that article OTM
― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I really think the great show/terrible show has absolutely nothing to do with the music Lauryn decides to play and everything to do with whether or not she is on her meds
― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
fair nuff
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dan otm
― You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― jho'sh? "ice cr?m" jackson (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
it's really difficult for me to have any hard feelings against her because i listened to "ms hill" by talib so many times before i heard anything negative and i'd rather believe his take
tho watching her on fallon right now and, having no other performances to compare her too, she pretty out of it and spastic
― more fish for kunta (zachlyon), Friday, 20 May 2011 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
*she seems
― more fish for kunta (zachlyon), Friday, 20 May 2011 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
What an entitled jerk she is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/lauryn-hill-responds-nj-tax-evasion-charges_n_1582464.html
Lauryn Hill Responds To Tax Evasion Charges
06/08/12 08:05 PM ET AP
NEWARK, N.J. — Reclusive singer Lauryn Hill said in an Internet posting Friday that she hasn't paid taxes since she withdrew from society to guarantee the safety and well-being of herself and her family.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner and South Orange, N.J., resident was charged this week with willfully failing to file income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. Federal prosecutors said she didn't pay taxes on more than $1.5 million earned in 2005, 2006 and 2007 from recording and film royalties.
Hill responded to the federal charges in a lengthy post on her Tumblr page Friday. She described how she has rejected pop culture's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism."
"Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual," Hill wrote. "I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities, but I did however put my safety, health and freedom and the freedom, safety and health of my family first over all other material concerns! I also embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival."
She said in her online post that she explained herself to authorities when she was questioned by authorities about her failure to pay taxes.
"My intention has always been to get this situation rectified. When I was working consistently without being affected by the interferences mentioned above, I filed and paid my taxes," she wrote. "This only stopped when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family."
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, which filed the tax charges, said in response to Hill's posting Friday that they could not speak to the specifics of the investigation.
The 37-year-old Hill got her start with the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees. She began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."
― thirdalternative, Monday, 11 June 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
here's to another seven years of calling black women crazy!
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Wonder if she's a Rangers fan
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
compare & contrast the erykah badu thread
well, no contrasting necessary i guess
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
azealia banks gonna be a crrrazy bitch in 2019
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Matt P described how he has rejected ILM's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism."
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
this is a stupid thing to fuck around with. would be sad if she ends up in jail.
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
she'll be straight, the IRS is usually pretty understanding if you say "I had my reasons"
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hill responded to the federal charges in a lengthy post on her Tumblr page
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 June 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
I understand the desire to object to the existence of this thread but Lauryn Hill is actually crazy.
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
saddest/truest line comes from that NYT article upthread:
"a performer who, for more than a decade, has been chasing a muse that has led her in almost every direction but forward"
― ninguna informacion para la DEA (Eric H.), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
nypost commenters are strangely unforgiving of a black woman going galt
― goole, Monday, 11 June 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
equal opportunity galtism ftw
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, which filed the tax charges, said in response to Hill's posting Friday that they could not speak to the specifics of the investigation "that's all well and good, but girlfriend still needs to pay her taxes."
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
she is obviously crazy but it's hard to generate much sympathy for her since the particular form in which that craziness expresses itself is megalomania.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:20 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like she's facing jail.
― Austin, Saturday, 30 June 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
Career jail.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
I should distinguish, Badu is "crazy," but not crazy. She's eccentric, erratic, quirky, unpredictable, and a little conspiracy prone, but not crazy. Lauryn Hill, on the other hand, by all indications there could be something really wrong with her.
Also
LOL. yeah, Badu and Hill ... that pretty much covers it! Let me know when you find another one.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
no uh... actual jail
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
she'll be straight, the IRS is usually pretty understanding if you say "I had my reasons"― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, June 11, 2012 5:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tell that to Wesley Snipes!
― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
endless permutations of lol she is crazy get a dude down
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
all I'm saying is you can have a perfectly nice thread without looking askance at all the people who AREN'T posting
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
still think this is her most slept on post-miseducation track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LN8wDMtJrM
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Because I'm doing remote supply/substitute for a grade 6 class today, and I was looking for some birthdays to commemorate, I can tell you that Lauryn Hill is 46 and Stevie Nicks is 73.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
i’m halfway through “jerusalem” and good fucking god the unplugged album is terrible so far. but apparently it was therapeutic for her so that makes it ok.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
mr. snide
― estela, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
tbf it isn't very good.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
I remember loving it at the time, but my dad had just died and I was in the market for something so anguished and ready to bleed. I don't have any inclination to hear it now, and tbh a number of her subsequent concerts, which have veered from moments of inspiration among waves of dross and, well, unbroken waves of dross, have eaten up my tolerance for her, though a friend was recently raving about a Nina Simone tribute record she was involved with.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
i'm halfway through a mr snrub revive and good fucking god it's terrible so far. but apparently it was therapeutic for him so that makes it ok.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 21 July 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link