Wesley Morris
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I can't imagine what it would be like to go to this concert, if you're someone who has flown halfway, like, completely across the country, to hear what you think is going to be a night of her doing blue. Yes. There are ten songs on that album, and people only heard three. Mm-hmm. California.
I can't imagine what it would be like to go to this concert, if you're someone who has flown halfway, like, completely across the country, to hear what you think is going to be a night of her doing blue. Yes. There are ten songs on that album, and people only heard three. Mm-hmm. California.
It was explicitly stated, this song is for you. You and the audience can sing it. I think that was it. I might be missing something, but I don't think I am. She did A Case of You, my night. Oh, she did do A Case of You.
It was explicitly stated, this song is for you. You and the audience can sing it. I think that was it. I might be missing something, but I don't think I am. She did A Case of You, my night. Oh, she did do A Case of You.
But most of the songs were from these later albums, from Hijira in 76 and... Up to Shine, which is 2007.
But most of the songs were from these later albums, from Hijira in 76 and... Up to Shine, which is 2007.
I got the sense that this is a person who does not think that they've gotten their due. as an artist past a certain point, right? I think in the popular imagination, Blue has kind of eaten her entire body of work, which is interesting to me because, you know, the song she sang at the Grammys that night was Both Sides Now, not on Blue, it was on Clouds. And the songs that...
I got the sense that this is a person who does not think that they've gotten their due. as an artist past a certain point, right? I think in the popular imagination, Blue has kind of eaten her entire body of work, which is interesting to me because, you know, the song she sang at the Grammys that night was Both Sides Now, not on Blue, it was on Clouds. And the songs that...
have all of the kind of world weariness come after that, right? It's the experience of being extremely popular and extremely famous for those two albums that kind of put her off of, I mean, what's the great line from Freeman in Paris? I'm out here stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular songs.
have all of the kind of world weariness come after that, right? It's the experience of being extremely popular and extremely famous for those two albums that kind of put her off of, I mean, what's the great line from Freeman in Paris? I'm out here stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular songs.
Right? I can't be free. I cannot be a free man in Paris if I'm out here trying to sell records. The two things are incompatible. There's making my art, and then there's toiling for money. So she gave us mostly her art songs. Yes, 100%. 27 songs, most of which are songs she wrote after 1976. Mm-hmm.
Right? I can't be free. I cannot be a free man in Paris if I'm out here trying to sell records. The two things are incompatible. There's making my art, and then there's toiling for money. So she gave us mostly her art songs. Yes, 100%. 27 songs, most of which are songs she wrote after 1976. Mm-hmm.
I just was so in tune with her voice. And I was really hearing these songs in a new way. I just closed my eyes and just got transported to wherever it was she was trying to take us.
I just was so in tune with her voice. And I was really hearing these songs in a new way. I just closed my eyes and just got transported to wherever it was she was trying to take us.