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last year) seems to be channeling her acting skills into creating a different kind of persona, one a bit more relatable and vulnerable than the megawatt-level superstars above. Although she’s been performing songs on major television shows for a third of her life, Saturday’s “SNL” spot was one of the first times that the world has seen her performing as herself rather than a character.
That second performance even had a narrative: During the brief between-commercial preview that precedes all “SNL” musical performances, she gave the camera a big smile followed by a nervous, butterflies-in-the-stomach grimace — and after she’d nailed it , instead of holding a smile or pose while the audience cheered like most performers do, she smiled quickly at the camera and then ran and hugged her smiling bass player until the show cut to an ad. It’s hard not to like her.
But perhaps most telling, on the day after her performance, this middle-aged writer’s social feeds were filled with comments like “My 8 yr old turned me on to her last year. The force is strong in that one”; “She crushed on SNL and this record will be huge. I can tell by the way my daughter is reacting to it”; and “Big family watch last night – i warned my daughters she might faceplant but she killed it.
TV performances are a major but untrustworthy predictor of an artist’s longevity or “real”-ness — the ability to crush two songs for the cameras does not mean they’ve got a career or even a strong concert set. Add to that, Rodrigo performed two-thirds of her current, three-song solo catalog on Saturday night.
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