glad it was powerful! i wanted to hear about this! brings me back to late college days... riding w/friends to an a.t.l. music store... to stand in line... late in the night... waiting for her cd to hit the racks :o)...
leslie | Homepage | 08.07.07 - 7:06 am | #

nice. im glad she didnt dissapoint ..i knew some weeks ago, i would not be able to make the concert
ron art | 08.07.07 - 9:28 am | #

i can't lie, i stayed away out of fear of major disappointment. good to know L's still got a glimmer underneath the afro wig, salvation army couture, and inchoate third person self-references. i guess i will be keeping hope alive after all.
wardell franklin | 08.07.07 - 11:09 am | #

you are giving her more credit that she was due. I didn't understand a word she was singing (or yelling). She hibernated towards the back of the stage as though she was hiding from the audience. Half the audience left before the end of the show.
sadly | 08.07.07 - 12:51 pm | #

I should have stayed longer!
Richard | Homepage | 08.07.07 - 4:26 pm | #

i thought about staying in new york an extra day just to see this concert, but decided not to risk it.

i was hoping you'd write a review. thanx.

sm.
summer | 08.07.07 - 4:35 pm | #

Very good and fair review, although from my view in the back she seemed to alienate quite a lot of the crowd in those 1st 15 minutes. Awkward scene, people sort of shuffling out and avoiding each other's eyes like they were ashamed to have seen what they saw..

Unfortunately I was one of those who couldn't bear the first half and broke out right when she was starting "Hammer." I've never been fully on the koolaid for Lauryn, but def. root for her to be well, so I'm glad to hear of the hopeful ending!
Jay Smooth | Homepage | 08.08.07 - 6:55 am | #

rich and jay smooth,

if you'd have just stayed a little longer. i was telling my sister, if i had peaced out early i would have been disappointed and a little embittered for having waited that long in the heat and waded through that mass of people to just hear her screech someone else songs of freedom (which is probably unfair in that it was a free!!! concert) but staying and seeing her return almost back to form was such a payoff.

leslie,

miseducation dropped during my freshman orientation week. talk about memories!!

summer,
you should have stayed in town! how goes it?

wf,

keep hope alive. lose myself actually kinda rocked live. she might have a bit more fire in her.

sadly,

i know people peaced out and were disenchanted. shit i was disenchanted as i explain but no doubt she made up for the indulgence with a late run of brilliance.
me | Homepage | 08.08.07 - 11:30 am | #

see, i have this complex (i.e. fan narcissism). i contend that if i would've stayed in town, i'da jinxed the concert. i'm only mildly comforted by the fact that i did get to see the bilal concert (where you there?), and taytay on broadway.

how you doin?
summer | 08.08.07 - 1:48 pm | #

i was at bilal!! gonna post a review on my vibe blog today. got a few pics i'll put up later too!

how was 'tasia?
me | Homepage | 08.08.07 - 2:33 pm | #

then, jalylah, you were a freshman when i was a senior?! i thought we missed each other in undergrad (but i guess not?)! according to the friend i just checked with (we caravaned; he sped across town to the tower in lenox while i tried to keep up behind him), we went together to the music store then. unless i have my cd release date wrong. hmmm. yep, great memories! it seems like just yesterday.
leslie | Homepage | 08.08.07 - 3:14 pm | #

i thought we missed each other too. i started in august 98. so you graduated in may 99?
me | Homepage | 08.08.07 - 3:33 pm | #

taytay was actually really good. my seats were player (i got that hook=up). and, you know, tcp was e'rything you should expect from a black play.

anyway, i'll check out vibe and read your review. tryna get back into this internet blog game, but i'm so uninspired.
summer | 08.08.07 - 8:29 pm | #

yup! may '99! we did indeed share a year :o).
leslie | Homepage | 08.09.07 - 5:49 am | #

Wow. Watching that second clip made me miss the 90s. Funny how something seems normal and objective in the moment and feels dated and precious not too much later.
Ms. Danielle | Homepage | 08.10.07 - 8:46 pm | #

Now I wish I had been there (but my flight left Monday morn). I'm one of those folks that wouldn't have minded being disappointed, if only to experience the distant memory of Lauryn's past self. You know, an artist should exist for herself, selfishly. If you worry about how you're received, you can't stay true to your process. I loved Lauryn in the day, still jam to her old tunes, but I'm even more fascinated by her in this moment. Call me artsy fartsy.
Truthspeaks | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 5:13 am | #