If Welcome to the Dollhouse is the ultimate treatise on how many humiliating things you can do to one adolescent, Towelhead might just be close behind. The main difference is this: Dawn Weiner was supposed to be unattractive, awkward and pretty much the opposite of sexy. Towelhead's Jasira, on the other hand, is gorgeous, and although only 13, realizing to both her delight and horror that she is a man magnet.
Brooklyn loves Ms. Hill—at least, the old Ms. Hill.
Last night, in her first solo performance in Brooklyn, NY, Lauryn Hill played a free concert to over 10,000 eager fans. Lately, Lauryn has been plagued with reports of erratic, if not downright unprofessional, performances. At a recent concert in Oakland, CA, a reporter from the San Jose Mercury News declared that “calling it a fiasco would be an insult to fiascos everywhere.” Similarly, her European tour was derided by journalists and fans alike—unrecognizable arrangements of her hits, odd new material, incessant vocal problems, a bizarre and arrogant on-stage manner.
At last night’s show in Crown Heights, Lauryn fulfilled most of these complaints. But she also played an incredible, amazing, high-energy show that I am truly thankful I got to witness. For free.
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