Some of our favorite performances from week one at ACL that you can revisit this weekend.
When P!nk is wire-flying over you – flipping upside down, and singing all along – it feels like seeing a superhero in real life, and those are just the final three exhilarating minutes. Opening her Saturday headline, it barely even mattered that she totally blanked out halfway through the third verse of 2001 hit “Get the Party Started.
“It’s a beautiful night for depressing songs,” Musgraves remarked, half joking, half apologizing, midway through an opening run of five tunes from 2021– a somewhat heavy-handed framing that inadvertently encapsulated their missing lightness of touch. This is a songwriter who achieves the most when she’s straining the least, her best work arriving at universal truths when she simply follows her arrow and lets her gloriously earnest idioms speak for everyone.
Thankfully Musgraves’ personality is too massive for her lesser material to stifle it from the stage. Starting her signature off-brand/on-brand vulgar banter, she spelled out an audience member’s “C-U-N-T” sign. Even an afternoon trip to BookPeople was not safe from her admission that “apparently, I’m a slut for reading now.
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