I'm talkin' about fightin' over principle, and sometimes you gotta kick a little ass."
But I'm not talkin' about fightin' over no man. After delivering "Gettin' in the Way," a defiant song warning her lover's ex-girlfriend to hit the road, she declared, "People say I shouldn't be talkin' about fightin' over no man. She transformed herself into a human turntable to supply vocal scratch sounds she told anecdotes about her vibrator. Scott's talent for capturing life's lovely minutiae and her skillful blend of literate funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul poetry was on grand display during Monday night's 90-minute set, the first of a two-night stand at the Paramount.įrom the percussive spoken-word punctuation of "Love Rain" to the pure soul of "The Way," she held the audience in hypnotic sway with a rare combination of earthy charm and unadulterated star power. It also scored her three Grammy nominations in the new artist, R&B song and female R&B vocal categories. 1," came out of nowhere last year to climb the Billboard charts and countless critics' lists.
It was a fitting entrance for the Philadelphia songwriter-vocalist, whose debut album, "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. The group erupted into the funky jazz intro of "A Long Walk," and the show was on.
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