I dubbed Lorde the most overrated of 2014, so why would I check her out?
All the usual reason, the album has been hovering in the “B-” to “B” range and to be honest, not unlike Mogwai who I just wrote about, I find Lorde’s problem that she is a little on the boring side as opposed to being a major annoyance like, say, Adele, who I would have gone to see anyway.
But also while I believe everybody else over rates her, I think I underestimate her. I like “Team” and “Tennis Court” before Lorde took over and only grew sick of her as the rest of the world raved. And then, I loved her cover of the Replacements “Swinging Party” and I came back a little more even heeled.
But also, I run a music website and I feel like taking a closer look, she might have more than one hit in her, I should catch her early.
Then I went to the negative again: Roseland and sold out? Ugh. But then I read this great quote in the Guardian “I’ve been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it’s just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It’s very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby. But it’s all relative: when you’re my age in particular, every year feels like a massive change. The difference between 15 and 17 is colossal for everyone.”
So I went off to Stubhub and tickets were switching hands for $200 and that was out of the question but I kept thinking of it and prices went down to $84. That was cheap enough for me to risk it.
So I took a look at the setlist. Pure Heroine plus a new song plus a Kanye West cover. Maybe an hour. Okay, I can live with it. Plus, it will give me one last chance to curse out Roseland. So I bought a ticket for Wednesday March 12th.
Here is the setlist
Bravado
Biting Down
Glory and Gore
Tennis Court
Buzzcut Season
Swingin Party
(The Replacements cover)
Ribs
Hold My Liquor
(Kanye West cover)
White Teeth Teens
Good Fights
Royals
400 Lux
Team
A World Alone