Under The Lights: Finally Posting bout E. Badu
Under The Lights, originally uploaded by tstrong_06.
From the moment she slowly sauntered on stage (straight to the middle of the stage and then she turned and backed up slowly till she got to the microphone). Her black mini-dress was hot, billowy and perfect, with a tall black hat. She’s another one of my central icons.
My Highlights: Magic (she asked everyone to raise their blue drink straws that they give out at Radio city and along with the red lights that flashed from the stage and the sirens I got sort of nervous that I might be in an actual police raid). Green Eyes (a hilarious interpretive dance performance that included two large red balls that acted both as her props for rolling and spinning around her stage, for hiding behind, and as the characters of her story and of course my own ties to the song just made it even beter), Master Teacher (which I don’t think the crowd appreciated that enough). Call on Tyrone. Me. Cleva. Annie ain’t got no Panties (hilarious song that included a mock church scene where she sat fanning herself…at this time wearing pants, mimicking a lady sitting in the front pew of church that keeps opening her legs to give the deacons a peak).
She left the stage as though the concert was ending and came back for an encore three times. People kept leaving.
Everyone was nervous at the end that they might leave and miss something.
It was a long, fun show.
(I missed a good deal of the roots, but from what I saw they were pretty money)
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