So for there to only be 13 songs, I don’t know, it just seemed like there could have been more.Įspecially considering that it isn’t like she sung every song fully to the album length. This isn’t even counting her covers and the songs she was featured in. She is someone with a discography going back 17 years and covering 5 albums. Here is the thing, Jill Scott isn’t a new artist. Criticism It Was Only An Hour and Forty Minutes Combined Though “Cross My Mind” was on the set list, alongside “Slowly, Surely,” it never touched the point of “My Love” and songs like it getting pulled out. But, with this, she found a way to keep it light. Be it when she was using the microphone in a phallic way or she, after going on about sex and singing about some good ass love making, had to fan herself. The Theatricsīe it in her messages or performance, Jill was up there getting into it. The kind which, again, makes you believe the discography of Jill Scott would make an excellent musical. Especially through giving short monologues, whether they were scripted or truly personal, that had a message. They each require you being in a different head space and I loved Jill helped us to get there. And while Jill’s songs pretty much focus on self-love, longing, and joy, these emotions may be similar but aren’t the same. For, like said, it preps you for the groove of the next song. I haven’t been to a huge amount of concerts, but let me tell you it is so much better when there is a real transition between songs than a shout out to the crowd, silence, and then next song. Thus giving us about an hour, maybe an hour and ten minutes, of Jill running through her hits. From “It’s Love” to E.U.’s “Doing The Bump,” Prince’s “Sexy M.F.” to the last song “Gimme” she brings the people to their feet and jams with her band. After a certain point, she decides it is time to jam. Though, it isn’t just slow songs and things like that you should expect. You got to have faith, with effort, to find the one worthy, and then she walks us into “The Way.” She tells the audience that you got to check if he crazy first. However, she lets it be known, with “Making You Wait” that she isn’t necessarily for just giving it up. Be it the way she plays with the microphone or when she makes herself seemingly hot and bothered singing about it. Something she gets very theatrical about. Perhaps opens your soul to be taken in by the mood Jill is setting for you.īut of course, what is a Jill Scott concert with not just addressing love but sex. So when you get the thump of the live music, which she points out excessively, it changes the rhythm of your heart. Making it so when you hear “Crown Royal” you are in the groove. She is talking to the audience, prepping the vibe for what is to come. So unlike if you go see, say The Pretty Reckless, in between songs we aren’t just hearing a shout out to the city she is in. Her new rendition was different enough that it made it fresh, but not so different you were like “Why is she ruining her own classics?” And as she went into “Whatever, Whatever,” “A Long Walk,” “Prepared” and more, so came this idea that sooner or later Jill Scott needs to turn her music into an ABBA styled musical.įor, lest we forget, Jill is a story teller. Jill Scott came in with “Be Ready” and went right into “Golden” and set the vibe off right. Home girl was on Def Poetry Jam back in the day. This isn’t Jill putting you onto someone new in the game. To the point, it is easy to forget she isn’t some new poet. She presents the types of joking commentary which tickled the Newark audience and her modernized version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” was definitely worth the clapping, snaps, and standing applause it got. ![]() ![]() For with her 2 pieces, that I can remember, she mixes the idea of activism with being proud of her culture and people. Staceyanne however, she is a Jamaican, queer, and militant. Jill is more so sensual, definitely about empowerment, but not much with the expletives. Granted, Jill is a bit of an around the way girl, and can, as Erykah Badu said: “ this tea and incense into Colt 45 and Newports if need be” but that isn’t her default. If only because, at least when I think of Jill Scott, I don’t think politics and a huge amount of cursing. Staceyann Chin, at first, doesn’t seem like the best opening act for Jill Scott. The Opening Act(s) Staceyanne Chin – 20 Minute Set Songs Not Sung In A Similar Fashion To How They Were Recorded New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJ PAC) However, whether she was preaching to the choir at NJPAC or starting a dance party, Jill Scott made sure your price of admission was worth it. ![]() The Read warned me that not all of Jill’s remixes to old favorites I was going to rock with. Click the image to be taken to her official site.
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