TRAINWRECKORDS: "MTV Unplugged No. 2.0" by Lauryn Hill
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2019
- Lauryn Hill was miseducated even worse than we realized, as she demonstrated with her legendary public breakdown disguised as an Unplugged special.
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This whole thing is like your aunt getting drunk on your birthday, getting way too personal and by the end of it she thinks she gave you some words of wisdom, when in reality she just vented to you about her divorce for an hour
Man this hit close to home. Just add in the “we’re going on vacation, grab your sister and let’s go” followed by a week at a dude ranch while she drinks whole boxes of wine and you get picked up by the Canadian Mounties because she didn’t tell your parents she was taking you and your sister.
@@harrisonsnellgrove8843 May I steal your story? Asking seriously because that would make an amazing flashback sequence for a family drama I'm working on.
MG Wray sure man go for it. it was a wild ride.
This comment hit me like a brick wall.
@@mamawray Let me know when it's done. This I want to read/hear/see.
The "Unplugged" concept didn't really die, it just took a nap and woke up as Tiny Desk Concerts.
And every Tiny Desk Concert I've seen has been absolutely killer. I can't recommend the Tech N9ne one enough
Weezers is fantastic too
@@EmeraldZion I'll definitely check that one out. Thanks
Does this explain the Death Cab one with St. Peters Cathedral
Florence and The Machine's or The Cranberries' NPR concerts are cool. ❤️
Korn without distortion is like a bong without weed
@@ashtabet3450 I'm proud of you for remembering
@@volcanicash31 thank you
holy shit
Great comment hope they don’t forget it
@@ashtabet3450 holy shit
This isn't an album. This is a cry for help.
And the worse part?
No one cared to listen. The label just doctored it up the best they could, and sold it anyways. And given the fact that her performances are still all over the place, No one ever did. The most she got was a missionary. And they usually aren't trained in thearpy to treat such deep seated issues like what we're seeing here. Just awful stuff, the clips make this the hardest trainwereckoids to watch.
@@nomobobby in terms of this being the hardest TrainWreckords to watch, I at least can watch it because I agree with a lot of the points Todd’s making here, even if it’s pretty depressing to watch Lauryn in the state she’s in. To me, The Beach Boys one, with Mike Love talking about being a “ladies man” in prison, writing songs about and flirting with girls not even half his age, and just being a straight-up jerk, THAT was harder for me to watch.
@@heymistercarter. That was such a depressing episode. The Beach Boys were such a great 60s group but Mike Love is such a dillweed...
I remember watching this around 11-12 and thinking Lauryn Hill was just the coolest person ever. And the rawness, the mistakes, and the raspy voice just added to that. It partially inspired me to play guitar, but now as a musician and an adult lol it's rough to listen to it. Like wow this lady was fully broken on stage playing songs for out entertainment.
@heymistercarter wait not The Beach Boys too 😭 I'm not even a fan of them but c'mon man
As someone in the mental health feild, it makes me so sad when people start associating depression with reality and happiness with artificiality.
Also dangerous especially from a person who people look up to.
Laura B This comment is just a bit TOO real.
But in reality, everyone has some reason to be depressed. Happiness often *is* a false front people put up to keep others from knowing how much things suck for them. Sometimes, 'real' really is just venting about everything going wrong in your life for 40 minutes or so.
@@OmicronX-1999 i believe what the OP here meant was the kind of person with a fixation on the negatives of reality, at the expense of there being no sense in "allowing" oneself the "undeserved" or "shallow artifice" of being happy, all because their life's joys are in their view temporary or in smaller ratio to bad things, so what even is the point of being good to themselves and moving on anyway. Being truly happy isn't about pretending you are never sad, being happy is about knowing it is OKAY to be sad, AND it is okay to be allowed to ALL YOUR EMOTIONS. Every human being is allowed to find joys big or simple, as much they are allowed to have sorrows, big or simple. We should not punish or judge ourselves or others for how we feel things, and I think that OP was referring to the way many kinds of mental illness destroy ones ability to realize that, that equating being Actually Happy with being Materialistically Shallow or Boastful or Selfish is often a symptom of toxic abusive delusions or self esteem issues in some form or another. Because then when a victim of say trauma or depression starts being rewarded or given a small chance to do something fulfilling or happy, a common response is: "why should I, when I don't deserve to be happy?' or, 'Being happy is for oblivious stupid people who don't see all the painful things going on in the world or in my life that I do, therefore, I won't be stupid and instead force myself only to constantly be depressed or angry at the world's rottenness, regardless of how unpleasant or unmotivated that may make me as a person.' When we equate Negativity with Realness, we're not being actually real, because Real Life isn't about JUST only us, or JUST our day to day sufferings either. There's way more going on beyond that alone.
-But that being said...I do actually also get what you were driving at too. Honesty is key. If your honest feeling is mainly currently Sorrow, or Frustration, putting up a dishonest grinning front is not healthy either.
Coming from someone who is depressed, I think it does give me a view into the reality of my relationships with other people and how they truly feel. Depression causes you to focus on that, whereas with happiness you tend to ignore some things for the sake of happiness. Like the saying goes, ignorance is bliss.
"we live in a society"
- lauryn hill
Society was a mistake.
I'd rather listen to George Costanza unplugged.
“Gamers rise up”
-also Lauryn Hill
@@EpicB " Society was a mistake."
If Twilight Sparkle channeled Raven from the Teen Titans....
“The world...is changing”
- lauryn hill
This whole performance reminds me of a presentation I did in university that I did while in the middle of a really bad depressive episode. I wasn't prepared and only had a loose idea of what I was going to say, looked like shit bc I hadn't showered or done laundry in a week, and was only there because if I got a flat 0 by not showing up I'd fail the class (which I ended up doing anyways). I was just rambling in front of a bunch of people, mortified to the point of tears and then fucked right off afterwards. That's what this feels like,, like she's forcing herself to at least put out *something* because something is better than nothing
I agree with that last sentence 100%. Hope you are doing better now!
Jesus, you ok dude?
@@thebowiththemost119 Much better now! I ended up dropping out of school, and that combined with some good old fashioned SSRIs made a big difference lol
@@agaycrow2520 that’s great to hear man
I remember I got a worse grade then a French man who spoke close to zero English for a presentation in college, I guess he has better body language.....or better cloths...he was wearing a turtle neck.... there is no way I could have pulled off a turtle neck....
"that's not what intentional means" with the Kurt Loder energy of telling Jewel she doesn't understand the word 'casualty'
How did it never occure to me that she used casualty wrong? 😂
FYI, she used the word casualty as if it meant casualness. That isn't the meaning of that word.
I'm all for making up new words
But do some research in your local dictionary and make sure they haven't been taken already, lel
I mean, Todd also waves this one off as, at most, a minor error and admits poetic license, which Todd couldn't do with Jewel?
God this is like the musical version of a wall of text on Facebook
This comment is underrated!
True
Oh man, you're so right!!
And like the wall of text, the person who posted it thinks they're educating people, but really all it shows is they're going through some shit and they don't know how to deal with it properly.
Augh the kind of stuff you can't finish the first quarter without going out breathing fresh air cause immaturity and pseudo dumb highschooler philosophy melted some of your neurons.
Fun fact: Despite having one solo studio album, Lauryn Hill somehow has a best of album.
Well yeah, that "best of" album is The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Even me in the bridge between my hip-hop loving pre-teen and angry nu-metal loving teenage selves could absolutely dig Lauryn Hill at the time.
Oddly enough, jaded adult me has almost completely rejected that angry nu-metal trash I listened to at the time and can still jive with hip-hop (albeit for different reasons these days). Might be because hip-hop still has that element of experimentation these days while nu-metal has become stagnant as fuck. I wish Lauryn's mental health didn't deteriorate the way it did; she was such a special act at the time.
that's insane
that reminds me of how I saw a "Fleetwood Mac greatest hits" album at the store yesterday.
like was it really necessary to release "rumors" under a different title?
And it has no songs from Unplugged 2.0
She did do a few songs for some compilations, so it's probably compiling those.
The first song plays: "hey this isnt so bad"
After song five: "please make it stop"
change songs for months and you get 2020
This is almost every single trainwreckords
Wow, you made it to song five?
I felt that way after the 2nd song.
2 minutes into the 1st song was enough for me.
her kept apologizing just showed how self-insecure she is at the moment, it's just painful. It looked like someone forced her to do the show.
"Self-insecure"...
@@2thRiteFREESPEEisAVirtueSignal An amazing word
@@adanactnomew7085 🤷🏿♂️Must be
@Failed At Life? Blame Wokism, yeah they probably just had a brain fart or smth. (btw I like your username)
Um, no.... this album was a masterpiece. It was one of the most spiritually profound albums I've ever heard. Most people didn't understand it because they can't get deeper than the kiddie pool.
This is like a bizarre mash-up of a stoner with a guitar and a Christian youth music group councilor.
Religion allows decent and compassionate people to be exactly as decent and compassionate as they would otherwise have been, psychopaths and narcissists to abuse people free of repercussions, and the mentally unstable to deteriorate with no healthy safety net to catch them
And radical Vegan
@@MegatronYES I saw the same thing happen with Michelle Shocked at a post meds concert.
It's super tough to watch, especially after growing up listening to her music
Well, that's realty
Hopefully the first of many copyright disputes resolved. Welcome everyone who came in here from the other video!
thank you
I honestly thought this was going to be a Rick Roll, but this is legit and I'm so happy.
we appreciate the effort!
Great video, too bad youtube sucks.
Hey, maybe you could do this ever time. Like, send us on a a wild egg-hunt trying to find the actual video hidden deep within UA-cam. Patreon supporters get an extra clue, and...you get the picture.
Ugh those clips where she berated the audience for clapping were so painful
@RockoAnd Axl Rose is the Kanye West of hard rock.
very self hate, as if she can't be loved, as if she's not good enough for adoration.
she needs therapy, not religion ffs
@@dw89music73 fuck no, Axl isn't in the same realm as Kanye when it comes to musical talent.
Aaaand that serious racist crap...
@@thelastjerkbender2505 Kanye west doesn’t even write his shit.
She actively asks the audience for positive reinforcement then berates them for giving her what she asked for, then draws attention to her outfit by essentially telling the audience they aren't worthy of the effort it would take for her to look nice for them. That's some serious passive-aggressive bullying she has going on.
It really reminds me of Syd Barrett "making" a song but changing it every single time he showed it to the rest of Pink Floyd for them to learn it, it was the point when they realized it was the point of no return for him.
@@MrGared22omg what?
Yeah she’s one sandwich short of a picnic 😬
She didn’t say the audience wasn’t worthy of the effort😂 it was more on the fact that she wants to dress her way, idk how you missed that…
@@2-Way_Intersection yup he called it "have you got it yet?"
that kanye sample isn't even from the unplugged album, he had to have another singer do it because lauryn's lawyers jumped on him and wouldn't clear it. Weird he got the song, but not the singer, but yeah
that explains that lack of croakiness in the sample.
kanye actually asked lauryn to re do her part she agreed but held his album up. so he got local singer Syleena Johnson. Which why he says at the end "Syleena, you like the safety belt because you saved my life"
yeah thays called an “interpolation” and is done quite a bit throughout musical history.
generally the rights to a musical composition are easier to get than the rights to a recording, which is why there are so many one off recordings of hallelujah made specifically to be used in a show or movie
"... Ma'am, this is an Arby's."
That was too good.
terrenceswiff I was holding in my laughter for that one because I felt like this was the worse time to laugh
Even coming back to this over 7 months later, fully expecting that line to show up, it still made me laugh out loud!
And then someone burned down the Arby’s.
Is there a time stamp for that? Can't bear to hunt for it
@@davidayer2168 21:17
“don’t worry Lauren, this is NOT going to inspire anyone to start throwing bricks - it’s going to inspire people to get their latte somewhere else” dead 💀
Todd honestly has some really great lines in his videos.
This might be the saddest episode of Trainwreckords.
@@jacksonteller3973 I can care less about Katy Perry or a bunch of ❄'s feelings. I'm sifting with Lauryn. Besides, she's telling the inconvenient truth.
@@dtxspeaks268 what truth is that
@@dtxspeaks268what are you yapping about
@@StudioScarecrow that being depressed, and everything negative must be true because being happy, positive, or hardworking at all is apparently the opposite of being “real” 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Some people still try a bit too hard to convince themselves (and others) their depression/nihilism makes them deep or meaningful, but all that’s happened is they’ve combined that with Main Character Syndrome and willfull intellectual laziness… it makes me cringe.
Lauryn Hill is one of those artist who I almost wish hadnt become famous. Not because she doesnt have talent, but because she clearly did not know how to handle fame and it apparently broke her so hard I'm almost surprised she is still alive
Many artistis, whatever their artform is, are sensitive, introverted and contemplative. Fame and public attention tears them apart. Throw in some serious money, drugs and booze to stimulate & numb and an often unstable personality and you get the universal falling star disaster.
Anxiety and fear of public performance was one of the factors in the destruction of Amy Winehouse.
That's a really good way of putting it. And appealing to an ever-broadening audience tends to stretch an artist's creativity really thin and spoils what made them so unique in the first place. Fame is never someone someone should crave, IMO.
Maybe it's best that she should just retire because her heart isn't even in it anymore.
Maybe if she'd stuck with Wyclef and Pras she would've been alright. At least then she would've had two shoulders to cry on when things got too much for her.
'Do you know what I think when someone keeps telling me they're real? I THINK THEY'RE FAKE!'
- The Rap Critic
@@kenterminateddq5311 I thought it was a very insightful comment personally :)
"Keepin' it real - REAL DUMB!"
- Chris Rock
@@kenterminateddq5311 Hell, it's probably something every black person in America has thought at some point, just like "let's go back to leading this sort of life and promoting it in my music!"
I don't think that applies here. Lauryn Hill clearly had a problem with her first album and her work with the Fugees not representing who she was. If someone got popular because of something they didn't feel like they did, it'll cause them emotional problems. That's why we're seeing Hill cry here - this is her reality and it's not good enough for prime time. Now her choice is either to keep being a puppet on a string or to become a has-been who couldn't hack it, and the weight of that impending choice is bearing down on her. This is absolutely real, and it didn't work out so well.
Her talking about the clothes really reminded of Jeff Winger (Community)
Todd: I should tread lightly due to the Lauren stans.
Also Todd: this is unlistenable.
Please never ever change.
Lord help him if any Korean music other then Psy gets popular enough to warrant him needing to talk about it.
@@NEEDbacon He has expressed being TERRIFIED of K-Pop stans. Lucky for him the only time K-Pop has come up is on the Best List from last year.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep I mean, K-Pop stans are pretty crazy so it's completely justified.
“One of the worst albums of all time.”
I think it's a testament to how bad the album is. Even threading the friggin' needle he says that it's downright unlistenable. That's a baaaaaaad album.
I’m one of the lucky people who bought the lottery ticket and won the jackpot... I saw her perform live in South Africa in 2019.
How was she?
Well, in your case it'd be pretty ridiculous for her to go all the way to SA and then not show up lol.
@@jacksonteller3973 she was running a bit late, I was a bit worried, haha...
What was it like?
@@baatile she’s infamous for showing up late
that poor audience...everyone looking straight ahead into nothing, afraid to look at each other. rethinking their entire lives.
Seriously. Just from the clips used in this video alone, I am absolutely certain I would have plain got up and left before the 30 minute mark.
We should start a charity for those poor people...
@@blackcat19 Worst part, I bet they were paid. So they sit and listen, or they get fired. That's a special type of torture.
Those extra long, drawn out songs would've killed me. I mean 9 minutes of her rambling about Adam and Eve...or whatever the hell she was going on about? No thank you.
It WAS 2001 after all....
her voice sounds like she was crying her eyes out yesterday, like *alllll* day. And she's got it together today, but her throat and sinuses are still a little wrecked. Source: mainly me, but also other gals in my life.
relatable
Reading this after a day spent crying feels weirdly appropriate!
The fact that she stayed this way for the past 18 years makes me think it wasn't the fame that got to her. Something fucked her up on a biological level. The way you describe her voice makes me think she might have had a near fatal miscarriage, something that really effected her hormones. Especially with the rare enthusiastic performance. If it had been the fame, she'd have reached a stable, low key energy level by now. But I'm guessing whatever bullshit medications she's on are giving her terrible mood swings.
@@brainflash1 😥😥😥
Your most likely right
It seems really appropriate that you called this "rubbernecking" at the end, because honestly this whole performance did feel like looking at a wreck... but like, *specifically* a motorcycle wreck, where you might not just see piles of crushed metal, but also an actual body, or a person being wheeled away on a stretcher. Suddenly the crash is humanized, and you're no longer allowed to just think "damn, hope whoever was in that is okay" because you just saw for yourself how fucked-up the person got in the crash.
Oh my God, just look at the faces of the people in the crowd. They sounded so pumped at the start, then wary, and now they all look like they're wondering if it's too late to back out now.
Yeah, they were so done by the end.
I noticed. 💀
"Ohhhh, uh... I... I'm... _deeply_ confused and uncomfortable right now; d- do you think it makes me, like... a _bad person_ if I just... walk out? _Right_ now?"
Check out the guy in the white shirt behind Lauryn during "Adam Lives in Theory" when she gets to the "now she thinks that she's bisexual" line. That was a legit double take.
@@jbwarner8626 omg! He did! He was like. “...what?!
When artists say, "Music is my therapy" this isn't what they meant, Lauryn!
This _isn't_ what they meant!
Yeah, its supposed to make you feel BETTER
It’s Lauryn
MTV unplugged honestly worked best when it was the grunge era. Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana did it best.
Hard to beat the Kiss one with double drummers. No one had double drummers. Not Nirvana, not Alice in Chains, not Pearl Jam. No one did. Kiss win. Double drummers.
Eric Clapton was phenomenal as well, and I generally don’t care for Clapton.
A shame that the best (after Nirvana imo) and only truly Unplugged performance is virtually unknown outside of spanish speaking countries, the one played by Los Tres in 1995.
@@leolongtime5671The Fall and the Doobie Bros did it far better
@@leolongtime5671Lol! KISS has nothing on Nirvana other than some goofy makeup and sideshow antics. Can’t be serious my dude. Those guys don’t have tunes. “Double drummers” lol
To this day I'm fascinated by the fact that she KNEW her voice was giving out and spent an extra 30 minutes of the show talking. That's when the ~reality set in that she didn't consider this a showcase of her work as a musician but as an opportunity to try and explain her headspace on national TV. Truly fascinating
If Jewel sold out with casualty, I guess Lauryn Hill burned out intentionally.
that is a HOT diss
Oh my god 😂
OUCH!
Mr. Intentionally ftfy
😂😆
The performance feels really voyeuristic. She shouldn't have performed that night. She wasn't ready or stable.
Being real is like being a gentleman/lady/distinguished person: the more you feel compelled to say it, the less true it is.
@@markwoollon the more you talk about how good of a person you are, the less likely that it's true.
Good people don't brag about how good they are
"I'm not sucking, I'm being real" never worked on my teachers at school either
You know how in 'A Catcher in the Rye', the main characters obsession with everyone being fake is pretty explicitly portrayed as a sign of his immaturity and broken view of the world born of his actually kinda terrible life? This reminds me of that. This reminds me of it very much.
Everyone is fake
@@lighgblue2676 everyone is real
Is that what that book was about?
@@ninjabluefyre3815 Basically, yeah. Holden's kinda a whiney shit, because his life has been a perpetual conga line of abuse and manipulation so now he sees everyone and everything as fake. His world view isn't a thing to aspire to, its a symptom of his trauma.
@@BloodyAltima Doesn't sound like it was an "actually kinda" terrible life to me there.
Sounds like it was absolute shit. Must've really went through the ringer due to other folks's actions towards him that led to him coming to that depressing conclusion.
I wonder if in 5 years time we'll have a man in the woods trainwreckord
I'm just a college kid and it's gonna be surreal if Todd ever starts covering one-hit wonders and trainwreckords I was actually _here_ for.
Will he still be doing this 10 or 20 years from now?
Fuck he probably will eventually
He might draw the line at 20/20 despite liking Suit and Tie, Mirrors he doesn't like, and TKO I haven't heard Todd's thoughts on, 20/20 was the real turning point, since it was his second comeback and it didn't do as well as his first two, but yeah man of the woods was a dissapointment in the aftermath.
@@dimentiorules God knows! UA-cam's had a short enough lifespan that we don't have a huge frame of reference for what happens when a UA-camr starts young, becomes successful, and then just keeps going. Presumably the views dry up at some point (as they have for some of the channels we _have_ seen run their course), but this is a pretty winning formula that doesn't seem to be slowing down yet. Who knows how long he'll be doing it.
I tried to listen to this album.
Now I think that I'm bisexual. :(
That's just reality
So naive like Eve
Why the sad face? Bisexuals are awesome
@@goingunder2548 they’re just referencing the video
Honestly, same
Kanye actually didn't find the only decent ten seconds in the concert... he had the sample recreated
I _thought_ that was a different vocal. Thanks for confirming!
I think there was a sample clearance issue. Syleena Johnson ended up singing the album version.
Hey props to the man, even though I don't like him
he wanted to to use the original but didn't get the sample cleared.
Serena, you're just like a seatbelt. You saved my life.....
Is she literally playing the same one rhythm on the guitar over and over
Woah dude it's you I'm Gene Siskel
Dude, she is. It's no wonder why that entire performance is so tedious.
Yes.
@@genskiel4187 I like your show Gene
@@jeevithrai7994 I like you, nieghbor
Years ago Smokey Robinson was on the radio talking about artists with a stellar first album with no follow up or a mediocre second album. He explained how and why this happens. He said that young songwriters will have an several good songs. They tweak them and rehearse them. Change the tempo, the rhythm and the flow of the song until its close to perfect. This will be their grade A material. And depending on how much the songwriters writes and how long to that big break. They can have a nice portfolio of Grade A material. A lot of new artist get that record deal and make the mistake of putting all of their best work on that first album. They get tons of praise from fans and critics alike. But those songs took months to years to get right. And follow up album suffers because it takes time to create new Grade A material. The pressure to repeat the success of that debut album can be enormous and lead to writer's block and even depression. Smokey says its best to put 2-3 Grade A songs per album. This will give you time to create more before you run out.
I believe this is what happened to Lauryn Hill. Her best work was on the Fugees and her solo album. She didn't have anything for the follow up and the studio and fans were pressuring her to produce and it was too much.
Darien Chase Cool insight! This is actually something worth thinking about when working on my own musical project, so thanks for sharing this with us.
That is definitely what I think happened to Lauryn. It was TOO MUCH. 😔
That makes so much sense and is actually great advice. Give the people a bit of what they want but not everything they need.
There's a saying for that: "You have all your life to write your first book and six months to write your second."
You also get the feeling that Hill's reputation from those early records simply overwhelmed her. She clearly has a tendency towards egotism, so having that aspect of her personality fed by critics and fans alike would've skyrocketed her expectations of herself, yet as people have noted, a lot of other musicians contributed to that work immensely, so she needed others more than what the hype was telling her.
This is just painful to watch. Syd Barrett went out with more dignity and stability than this. Seeing someone getting eaten alive by her personal demons on stage is a truly sad thing to see.
@Sydney Barrett you must get that a lot
Syd Barrett's solo albums are legit and I will fight anyone who says otherwise
At least he had some good songs at the end. I will always stand up for Baby Lemonade.
Syd did all of his own music so it’s true that Lauryn just didn’t have it in her for a second album. 😕
@@Owesomasaurus Syd's second album had some good assistance from Gilmour and Wright. A lot of those songs could have totally fit in on side two of Atom Heart Mother.
I really feel like she was just self destructing here, whether she knew it or not; comin' out unprepared and raspy, focusing on what's real and whatnot... really sounds to me like she just- doesn't know why she's famous or how to handle it or if she deserves it and she's goin' alright fine, let's see if you can handle me at my worst- let's see if you really think I deserve this at my realest. She's half crying her way through her later songs, probably because on some level she realizes that she's so much better than this and my heart just goes out to her. I really hope she's got a good therapist or at least some antidepressants nowadays, because like... babe.
...oh my god. I think that really makes sense. Even down to her snapping at the audience for clapping, while a dick move (whatever your motivations, people do in fact have the right to judge you by what they see or experience at your hands, especially if they weren't close to you and had no idea what was going on with you...BUT). But it does make sense from a woman who is torn between wanting to continue her success and feeling like she can't live up to expectations or handle the pressure, realizes she made a mistake and this might not be what she wants after all. Its like if a pilot wasn't allowed parachutes, then they panic, and crash a jet straight into the ground in an attempt to get out...now I just feel awful for her. I really, really hope she's getting some real help and support at some point.
I do think she really thought this performance was gonna help her and instead it just turned into a disaster. I know fans try to salvage it by saying folks sampled from it (which is true) plus Mystery of Iniquity was the best song from this lot but that’s not enough. 🤷🏾♂️
Your answer to this is a therapist and drugs… no wonder ur life in the shitter
I genuinely hope things have gotten better in her private life.
How fitting that this was reuploaded in Mental Health awareness month
Seriously.
Beth Hart has the worst bi-polar disorder and also trying to stay sober yet she has been publicly around since 1993. Maybe Lauryn doesn't have the support group group Beth has.
"...please god invent the smartphone soon".
_- Todd In The Shadows_
maybe God did it just because of this concert
don't you mean TiTs
I think the biggest reason MTV Unplugged was huge was because it gave us one last Nirvana album.
The Nirvana Unplugged album was huge. It was played everywhere.
It was a different sound for Nirvana, but it worked.
All their covers felt like new material. I still like it.
It turns out that there were live bootlegs of some Nirvana concerts, which Krist was able to turn into one more Nirvana record, but that wasn't huge.
Kudos to Nirvana for making it all work for them.
The grunge bands that did those Unplugged shows really did the format justice. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains all put on incredible Unplugged concerts.
Clapton and Alice in Chains Unplugged albums were great as well. But when pop stars jumped on that trend it was yikes
Ummm 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged anyone?
Unplugged was huge long before Nirvana came on it. Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, and 10,000 Maniacs all had not just hit albums from their performances, but hit songs from those albums. "I'll Be There" went #1 in the U.S. and was Carey's highest-charting song in the UK at the time. "Because the Night" was by far 10,000 Maniacs' biggest hit. "Have I Told You Lately?" was Rod Stewart's last big solo hit in both the U.S. and UK. And let's not forget Eric Clapton - 26 million records sold worldwide, 7x platinum in the U.S. before Nirvana was even on the show, and the acoustic version of "Layla" eclipsing the original for at least a few years. If anything, Nirvana came late to the party; perhaps they made it more acceptable for groups like Alice in Chains and Korn to appear, but they certainly didn't put it on the map.
The glimpses of the audience kill me everytime-- you can see in their eyes when they go from eager to anxious to longing for death
In my experience, being "real" is often an excuse to be lazy or cruel. In reality, we're all flawed people who can only excel by _correcting_ our flaws, not glorifying them, and we can only do that by learning from our mistakes. It's a survival mechanism: adapt and grow.
It's up there with people who complain about political correctness ruining everything. They'll tell you "We don't live in a perfect world" and being PC just means you don't hurt anyone's feelings, then they'll turn around and say some of the most bigoted, insulting things imaginable. It's not "real," it's just an excuse to be an asshole.
@Mina Monet How is laziness a sign of intelligence, aside from figuring out ways to make other people do things for you?
@@gabe_s_videos you decide how you'll spend your time. Instead of expecting orders from others. But that's just what I think they mean.
I also hate people who use real as an excuse. Yeah I get if it's the only way to get your point across. But being honest doenst mean you have to be rude.
And how "real" is it, if you cant take someone elses honesty.
Warren Rose it’s the Rick Sanchez mentality: “I have the right to be a dick to you because I’m objectively smarter than you.”
I'm a moron and I saw Lauryn Hill about a year ago. I have no clue why I thought that seeing her would be a good idea considering her reputation, but the tickets were cheap. She came out an hour late and performed for 45 minutes. The songs sounded awful because she rushed through them, and she spent a lot of the set just yelling at her sound tech and band. What really stood out, though, is that she was wearing a poofy winter jacket and an oversized tuke - and this concert was OUTDOORS AND IN JULY. God bless Lauryn Hill.
ababyharpseal WOW that’s messy
Drugs are bad mkay...
screw blessings, god SAVE lauryn hill
Logan Palmer ahaha haha haa..
sigh...
@@Logan912 Yep, like....real medicine
Unfortunately, this did not stop with Unplugged 2.0. I saw her shortly after this on the Smoking Grooves Tour (with Cee-Lo Green, Jurassic 5, The Roots and OutKast) in Camden, NJ. The crowd was receptive for about two songs, grew bored and inevitably restless until finally booing her by the end. I will always remember her belting out, "How did we get here?" and someone yelling, "EXACTLY! HOW'D YOU GET ON THIS F*CKING TOUR?!"
Fortunately for us in the audience, the rest of the show was amazing. Unfortunately for Lauryn Hill, it made her performance seem even worse by comparison.
Outkast and Roots on a concert.... Damn I envy your luck.
I think Lauren was asking herself, not the audience.
This is haunting.
I remembered that! That was so embarrassing.
@@DashingSteel lol Shut up, dork.
@Dashing Steel fr, it's honestly pretty unsettling when you think about it
My mother absolutely ADORES this album. I have deeply ingrained memories of her playing it in the car when I was growing up, and having to suffer through eight minutes of badly sung rambling nonsense. If anyone was being held emotionally hostage, it was me
"Why did this special hurt so much?"
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"Because it was real!"
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That was amazing!
Of course!
The fact that the unfinished shambles of an album this is has gotten so heavily copyright flagged is hilarious. Like, what are they trying to achieve here
Probably the same thing they were trying to achieve by releasing the album: wringing every last cent out of her that they possibly can.
Maybe it was Lauryn Hill herself trying to erase any evidence that this album existed.
@@rommix0 I really doubt that was the reason this video got flagged but regardless I'd understand if she wanted this album to be buried.
Somebody paid tens of dollars for the rights to this.
And in the "suggested videos" column, we have... a rip of the entire "Miseducation" album. Well done, UA-cam.
Looking into Lauryn Hill, I can't help but be reminded of Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, who was considered genius but couldn't make another album with the band due to what LSD had done to him. Although, Syd Barrett has far less controversies
(and unlike Hill, he did release two more solo albums as well as having some credits in Pink Floyd's 2nd album), I can't help but be sympathetic towards both of them.
Same here. 😪
Syd actually has schizophrenia. He was self medicating with LSD and other psychedelics which didn't help.
I think we should be grateful that we got at least some brilliant music from both of them. They might have become casualties of the business, but their limited output is still there for us to admire. You could say the same about quite a few other musicians whose careers were cut short for whatever reason. (Nick Drake is a great example. A very sad and brief life, but he left behind such exquisitely beautiful music.) We should feel blessed that we know about them at all.
@@waynechapman9823 don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
@@spiff2268 It's not clear what exactly Syd's ailment was. Some of his behaviors and symptoms line up with schizophrenia, others don't. The other members of the Floyd tossed around schizophrenia as a possibility because they weren't sure what to call it, and they're not psychologists or psychiatrists.
Also, it's kinda misleading to say Syd "self-medicated" with psychedelics. Sure, he took a lot of them and it appears that they exacerbated his condition, but I don't think there was ever any indication that he used them to cope with his mental health issues, which became impossible to ignore _after_ he overdosed on acid.
(Sorry if I came across as overly critical of your comment, but I have a thing about people reducing mental health issues to one, easy-to-explain answer because I've had to deal with such issues before. Shine on!)
My wife dragged me to this concert back in the day. She was a HUGE fan of Lauryn and I kinda liked her. So we get there and we take our seats and…oh my god, I had never been so bored in my life. We were in the back off to the rightish somewhere, we could kinda see her face. And I swear to god, the enthusiasm around us faded within twenty minutes. The guy next to me eventually got up and walked out after about forty minutes. The woman to the right of us actually pulled out a word search book and started working on that in the middle of it. The man directly behind me dozed off and started snoring. My wife’s expression went from excited and happy to depressed, miserable and bored to tears. By the end of it she was apologizing for dragging me to that mess, but I could tell she was crushed. She’d been to a Lauryn Hill concert where Lauryn just straight up ghosted them, but she described this disaster as being WAY worse than that failed concert. Effing. Yikes.
Nirvana's unplugged performance is fucking legendary
and Alice in Chains
i don't even like Nirvana, yet you are correct.
@@thecinematicmind Friends don't let friends, get friends haircuts.
Nirvana = overrated.
@@cognitivedissident2881 Everyone's overrated.
Oof, that was rough. It did feel voyeuristic and invasive, not honest and personal.
Very appropriate description.
Jesus. Imagine being stuck in that audience, forced to politely listen to all of this and pretend to be enjoying it.
ya it reminds me of this one time there was a movie night with a book club or something I was part of. The movie was The Brothers Grimm with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, which I had never seen or heard of. It was like being frozen in my chair out of so much cringe. We watched it all the way to the end and I don't think anyone said a word during it. Apparently, the person who picked the movie hadn't watched it since grade school, and had fond memories of it...until rewatching it with us
My niece was there and she told me how uncomfortable it was
Bruh I would have loved to be there
Oh my god, every single song sounds the same. Like almost exactly. Yikes.
@tv tv I mean
Even then there's quite a few examples of raw one-instrument recordings that sound more varied than this.
@tv tv ok you got me there
People give weezer shit for being repetitive
Pop in a nutshell
@tv tv Most beginners would know better than whatever this was lmao
This is one of those performances that just breaks your heart. Watching her cry, apologize for things that she doesn't need to feel sorry for, and struggling to put songs together on the spot....she deserved better than this.
This isn’t an album. This is a tragedy. I would never choose to listen to this.
I have never listened to it and certainly never will after seeing this.
Yes, it's a 2 disc tragedy.
Also, it's a 2 disc CONCEPT album. The concept ofcourse is "Reality".
It’s unbearable. You feel sorry for her but also kind of angry she’s not getting help for all the shit she was going through. This was not the way to handle her issues.
Jenifer Joseph if you haven’t, don’t.
It’s garbage.
ahhh....the Britney head shave of r&b albums. :(
Correct!
Atleast with Britney, she made her best album with her head shaved ("Blackout"). Lauryn isn't sane enough to get IN the studio. Hope she's better now.
Britney gave us Blackout.
Britney’s Blackout had more impact on popular culture than this album did.
SO TRUE
“Ma’am this is an Arby’s” is the nail in the coffin
One of the big problems is that she only plays root position chords. She doesn’t have to go full Allan Holdsworth but A few inversions wouldn’t hurt.
She would still sound shit
Even easier, give the poor woman a capo so the songs can at least be in different keys! This album would be so much easier to listen to if the songs didn't all feature the same chords and rhythms. It sounds like an album worth of demos that still need to be arranged for the final product - but this _is_ the final product.
i think she was still learning because she messed up a few times. poor woman.
@@kaylabey The staggering arrogance though - Could you imagine how massive one's ego has to be to get up in front of hundreds of people and perform on an instrument when you're still basically a beginner at it? It's insane.
@@humanbeing2420 i mean let’s not be too cynical , maybe she just really loved playing and wanted to share ?
I´ll be honest: This is has been the most difficult Trainwreckords to watch. Lauren Hill decayed so hard. Is difficult to watch and hear. ps: I´m being R E A L here.
"Why does it hurt so much?"
"Because it was R e A l."
Agreed. I had to take breaks while watching because it was just so awkward
Yes it's boring, but that's what makes it real.
Elber Mora Montero i agree. not gonna lie this was hard to watch. Also on a unrelated love your Kuuga logo.
Checking in from the future; Paula is possibly even harder to watch
As 50 Cent says : "I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, and tap my feet, then the b*tch put out a cd that didn't have no beats ! " omg that was painful
Karmage ProsePaire well.. 50 Cents is overrated asshole .. but then can be right once of while..
Fairly Cotard true.. 🤙
Yes, 50 Cent. It was the lack of beats that was the problem...
You know you've fucked up when 50 Cent is the voice of reason.
"I Gotta Find Peace of Mind" is the only track that ever resonated with me but in retrospect it really IS sad to consider that Lauryn was most likely suffering in silence, convinced her pain was the price of living in 'reality'. I hope she finds that peace someday.
Lunatics don't deserve good things.
@@EricDMMillerEmpathy is dead.
And we killed it.
Idk, MTV Unplugged gave us Clapton and his entire band playing a group kazoo solo, so I'll never call it anything other than a complete victory for both television and music.
_as kazoos blare in the background_
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Blues Rock is dead... and we have killed it."
It also gave us Clapton snoring his way through Layla. Hope someone woke him when the song was over.
@@genesmiley9866
No shit! That version of “Layla” won over Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit, at the 1992 Grammy Awards. Ironically, the only Grammy that Nirvana won was “Best Alternative Album” for *their* Unplugged album.
@@cremetangerine82 correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Clapton do the original "Layla" from the 70s? Or am I getting things mixed up?
@@dtxspeaks268 he did, but the unplugged version is a different arrangment.
todd said bi rights
Todd stands against bi erasure
how do i beat lauryn bother
bights
Todd be like: What's wrong with that, LAURYN? ಠ_ಠ
Me: A big stronk man standing up for me? Well color me -in love- *wet*
It kinda gave some Bo Burnham vibes, y'know?
todd gang todd gang
I bought a whopping 3 Lauryn Hill tickets and I hit 3 jackpots.
Wow!
Was she late at all?
lol
Nice!
Nicely done. Luck is all.
This performance is kinda like being at a relative’s house and feeling kind of uncomfortable but knowing *they* need someone to hear them
so - she clearly didn’t feel up to it, she actively resented the people there, she did not have confidence in the music she was playing, and the whole experience probably set her already poor mental health back about a thousand years. Why didn’t someone stop this? Like - surely her record producer or someone would have had to have known how unwell and disillusioned she was. I’m not sure that allowing this public humiliation to go forward was the best way to reinstall her faith in the industry.
Probably the label thought she was worthless trash and just wanted to make some bucks off a meltdown. She still gets kicked to the curb but this way they get one last dollar.
It feels gross on at least two levels.
Her record producer and manager and agent - people in a position to try to stop this - stood to make money from it. So they wouldn't dream of stopping it.
It’s funny. We saw shit like this over and over with Axl Rose and no one cared. Then some black girl acts like a dickhead and the bleeding hearts start crying about mental health.
@@humanbeing2420 Honestly given how much she talks about "Being Real" and "Reality" and also the poor choices that went into it (like not rescheduling after blowing out her voice) I could easily imagine her telling a Manager or someone else no we do it anyways. This is the same person who tells (Told? Not sure how she is now) people off at her concerts while also being late or just no showed all together. I highly doubt Corporate Greed had a big hand in this, as shocking as that is to imagine.
That Korn clip. SO. MUCH. FRET BUZZ.
It makes up for the lack of distortion
I guess they didn't really care about that show. Most bands who had a great MTV Unplugged album (Nirvana, Clapton, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam) reimagined their songs for the acoustic. Except for the drummer because, well, come on, give them a bit of credit, the rest of the band just play their parts like they do on every show. And I'm not defending Korn at all, I never liked their music. But to sound that bad when you're this famous you must reach epic levels of not caring
Bro! Thank you! It was brutal. I couldn't do it
@@Zenbateau Their downtuning really doesn't work on acoustic guitars and they just said "fuck it" and went with it. That's kind of awesome...but I still don't want to listen to it.
lol
On Kanye's "All Falls Down," it's actually an interpolation of Hill's song being sung by Syleena Johnson. I suppose he couldn't get the license to use the MTV recording.
There actually is a version of All Falls Down with a sample of Lauryn on it, however it wasn't put on the album because they couldn't clear the sample on time.
Spanky Pants as the original comment already said. Lol
@@2120musiclover they said suppose
Poopity scoop
“Now she thinks that she’s bisexual”
OK, I might need to read the Adam and Eve story again because I don’t remember Eve being sexually confused.
Ikr? Lol
How can she be if there are only two humans?
Poor Lauryn Hill. I had a mental breakdown halfway through a fine art degree and ended up seriously mentally ill. Tried to complete the course & it was a horrible failure. She shouldn't have done this, but people have no wisdom when they've lost their minds. I like to think she was advised to by studio execs & was so clueless she did as she was told. That was certainly what I was like in a similar situation.
_"Reality is often disappointing."_ - Thanos, 2018
too perfect.
“The Truth is often stupid.” - Bender, 3010
In high school, I loved The Fugees and listened to "The Miseducation of Lauren Hill" repeatedly. This special aired during my senior year, and the first time I watched it . . . I changed the channel after 10 minutes.
Depression isn't any more real than elation. Self destruction is not integrity. Negativity is not productivity.
This album (and everything that came after) is proof of that more than anything.
Edit: Okay a year later I have another opinion. This "Album" is not real in the *slightest*. Why? Because she actively tried to sound bad. She tried to look slovenly. She tried to be *horrible*. That is not real if Madonna dressing up and wearing makeup isn't.
That’s utter nonsense. To compare depression and elation just shows you have zero idea of what you talk about. Not one credible doctor would call what you said anything other than nonsense.
@@daviebananas1735 You're taking the terms too literally. I dont mean depression in the medical sense of the mental illness. I mean sorrow and sadness and feeling bad. Happiness is as valid and real an emotion as sorrow
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Yeah, of course. Depression just has different connotations to sorrow.
@@daviebananas1735 yes but i was being poetic because that is how i speak and i assumed while writing the comment that it would get my point across better
Kanye could become this if we let him go too far with the Christian thing.
ADDENDUM: I should have clarified that I meant specifically the conservative megachurch thing and not Christianity in general and I’m sorry for not being more clear
ADDENDUM 2: Oh god it’s worse than I ever could have imagined
This aged well
This aged too damn well
“The King’s gone mad with power! He’s going to eat The Choart!”
Didn't this happen with his whole campaign speech where he cured about potentially aborting his daughter?
Grow up
Lauryn Hill Unplugged: "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong"
Bawhaha that’s exactly what the tagline should have been 😂
💯 😑
F2ck that! I don't like people playing on my phone!
"Joan Rivers with the flu" damn Todd throwing some shade
Korn Unplugged is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.
Let's have Metallica record some K-Pop next, or perhaps the Chainsmokers a bit of death metal.
Metallica might as well record with a K-Pop group. After "Lulu," they're at the point where they can't piss off their fans any more than they have so far.
@@NJGuy1973 I have known very respectable artist collaborate with J-Pop artists, I'm not sure if K-Pop is any worse, but such collaborations can be done without losing credibility or pissing of fans.
or the chainsmokers play actual music
I actually wanna hear the Chainsmokers go death metal... Who knows? They might actually be good
I know you probably meant this as a joke but now i unironically want to hear Metallica cover KPop
14:45 I went on a 10 minute rant after I heard her say (basically), "My voice sucks because I overdid, but that's just reality..." Fuck that. That's the most bullshit "dog ate my homework" excuse I've ever heard.
Of all the Trainwreckords and One Hit Wonderlanders, this one really hurts. In most of those cases, the artist(s) got supremely lucky, rode in on some cultural slipstream of the day, but probably didn't deserve it. Later efforts would bear that out.
It's the opposite with Hill. You know what she's capable of. Yet she hasn't got the capacity to get back there, or perhaps the discipline (which would explain some of her anger toward those who seemed to impose it upon her).
You feel bad for her because in every minute, it's like you're watching someone leaning into their own blindsiding.
Dw. Dunphy
Brilliant analysis!
I feel like Lauren shouldn't have been famous - Not because she didn't deserve it, but because she clearly had no idea how to deal with it.
What a perfect comment
Great comment. The shitty relationships with Wyclef Jean then Rohan Marley, the apparent lack of support from her parents (I'm assuming, but I never saw her with any kind of support system), the pressure she must have been under as a role model and from the press, being beautiful, and most of all the fallout from her self absorbed decision to try and screw her performers and collaborators out of credit on Miseducation and the resulting lawsuit and settlement - all of it added up. She is a brilliant artist, but her once in a generation voice is gone (seriously, not enough people talk about how she had one of the greatest voices ever, up there with Whitney H, Karen Carpenter, KD Lang etc for distinctiveness, quality and pure ability - there's a reason EVERY child of the 80s and 90s remembers that damn Eye is on the Sparrow clip from Sister Act 2). But she just disintegrated, lost her voice, and seemed consumed by resentment and the need to blame.
Geez. The part where she talks about her clothes is like that joke from "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"-"It could take me hours to find an outfit that says 'I just threw this on.'" Except for real.
And speaking of '90s sitcoms, I'm pretty sure those titles are using the _Friends_ title font.
Possibly that's all that's the MTV Unplugged shtick was
@@IABITVpresents Going by what Todd said about it, that's basically what it is. Posturing that you're "real" cause you can do a cover of the cover some guy at a coffee shop could do.
"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know." -- oscar wilde
I forgot to say that's what I said to explain the font because it pops up on other Unplugged concerts
Alice In Chains Unplugged is one of the greatest things ever put to record but not many artists can do what they did.
Every drug on the planet in the same night as the show?
We got a new Tool album before we got a new Lauryn Hill album.
We've gotten new Tool, Sleep, At The Drive-In, Ozzy-Fronted Sabbath, Quicksand, Cannibal Ox and POSSESSED albums before Hill released a new studio album. Most of those bands were destined to never return, let alone make new material.
@@YouCanCallMeXoe True.
@@YouCanCallMeXoe also we got new Refused, At The Gates, & A Perfect Circle
And we got two new songs from System Of A Down.
Since the release of 'The Miseducation of...' we've had THREE Tool albums!!
Todd, this was tough to sit through. Not because of you, but because this performance by Lauryn was incredibly tedious and uncomfortable to hear, let alone watch. Your solid commentary was the only thing keeping me watching, because I constantly wanted to tab out and forget I even discovered this.
Congrats on getting the copyright claim disputed, btw. o/
I can handle the music, I can't handle her talking.
ua-cam.com/video/ksEZbImdisU/v-deo.html
Completely agree
Jamston Julian same
This whole thing feels like you're standing in a checkout line when some older woman with her kid in front of you are talking to the cashier for, like, 15 minutes about a really messy divorce she had from her husband. Then, out of nowhere, the lady just bursts into hysterical tears over his death and everyone in the store (you, her kid, the cashier, everyone else in line, even some of the people in the adjacent checkout lanes, everyone) are just left feeling very confused and uncomfortable.
That's this whole performance: exasperated, annoyed, and then suddenly very confused and very very sad, just left to wonder "What the hell *was* all that?"
I just wanted to say… THANK YOU, for going beyond the usual arguments with this video; acknowledging how sloppy it is on a technical level, but more importantly; acknowledging that its defenders are playing horror show with her mental health in a way that feels inappropriate at best. Once again, your deep compassion undercuts your sardonic tone perfectly, and proves why you’re one of my favorite music reviewers.
Yeah Lauryn definitely self sabotaged in this and many other concerts. She always struck me as someone kind of ushered through the performing arts circuit as a teenager, then hit it big in Sister Act 2, paired up with the Fugees (and Wyclef, whom she had nothing in common with) and before she knew it, she was in a career she had no real say in. But this kind of thing is actually why I liked MTV's Unplugged. When you strip off all the bullshit and give that person or group basic instruments and a stage, you find out real quick who wants to make music and who doesn't.
(And I dont care what you say, Todd, Alice in Chains Unplugged is still lightning in a bottle)
she was probably and most likely burned out. her husband was apparently controlling & it seemed like she really went off the deep end mentally after recording her debut. i wanted to see if she was as erratic in the fugees as she seemed to be around unplugged and she seemed very bubbly and easygoing so maybe leaving wyclef and having a child took a toll on her, it happens
@@kaylabey good points
Kyrie Irving right now reminds me of this
Totally not at all related to 95% of your comment, but I was so glad to see someone point of AiC’s unplugged. I think part of what made theirs so good was just the fact that they had the songwriting chops to make it work. Cantrell himself has said that with an acoustic performance like that, you better be damn sure your songs are good because without all the effects and production, the only things you have to support are pure musical talent and good songwriting. By all accounts, that performance should have failed. They hadn’t played together in two years, rehearsals leading up to it were a mess, Cantrell was sick, and of course Layne Staley was already well into his downward spiral that would eventually take his life. Nothing in the lead up to that performance would tell you how successful it would end up being, but when it came down to it, their songs were just so damn good and they were just so damn talented that it worked
Kanye seems influenced by this with more than just the music. He also is clearly dealing with some serious mental health issues but since he's famous, respected musically, and a money maker it's laughed off or considered "part of his process"
I feel like he's also following in her footsteps by not releasing new music with how many times he's delayed Ye and Jesus Is King.
Doesn't he refuse to get treatment because he's afraid medication would stunt his creativity or something?
@@kimifw58 Yup
"I ain’t bipolar, Kanye make me wish I was
‘Cause that level of genius the meanest"
-Logic
He also doesn’t get mad at his audience for applauding.
Adam Lives in Theory is about Adam Neely making his living by making videos about music theory.
Keep in mind that that's only a theory.
@@pronkb000 Theoretically speaking
@@pronkb000 Music theory!
@@pronkb000 that's not a theory that's reality
So what I got from this is that Lauryn Hill is the Axl Rose of hip hop.
Yup....but even Axl Rose isn't Axl Rose anymore. Dude has been showing up on time for concerts since 2016 with their reunion tour. He even pulled off an AC/DC tour and did an amazing job. He finally got his shit together. Hill has yet to do that.
I remember reading so many Lost Media articles about unreleased albums, and speculating on why they weren't released (either unforseen circumstances, artists losing interest in the material and moving on to something else; etc).
This album is one of the few times I would have been glad with an artist NOT releasing anything from it. It feels voyeuristic watching a woman with mental/emotional issues bursting through the seams for hours.
To be honest, want or not, a lot of deliberately "lost media" is done for a reason. My heart goes out to all the historically important movies and tv shows that were lost due to carelessness and apathy, but there's just a lot of media out there that people are looking for even though it's guaranteed to be of poor/unfinished quality. I was a contestant in a tv show, and we did a full practice episode before the season proper to get us and the filming crew warmed up. Yes, you will never see it, making it "lost media," but it was really unpolished, low-effort and generally uninteresting because I knew all the answers and was basically cheating the entire time. This is how I feel about this special. Yes, you did get to see it, but it's so obviously not meant for public consumption, that it should've been left unseen.
I kinda wish you'd mentioned the Unplugged parody Weird Al does in concert, where he comes out and sings "Eat It" to the tune of "Layla."
Is this magical thing on UA-cam?
@@cremetangerine82
Indeed it is
ua-cam.com/video/260i9fJE_Z0/v-deo.html
Al was a treasure
@@ronniejdio9411 I mean, he still is, but he used to be too.
If you spent hours agonizing over your outfit to try to look like you threw it together in ten seconds, and somehow felt like you needed to justify your decision when the motivation behind that decision was that it shouldn't need justification, that's not reality. That's as pretentious and artificial as it gets.
notoriouswhitemoth and it’s a cool look.. so why apologies.. she got style.. at least that time she did.. at least she doesn’t look like a stand up comedy like Patton Oswalt.. don’t get me wrong I like the guy he is funny and hard working and bless his soul for that terrible thing there happens to him and his daughter .. but my goodness his style is awful.. just my opinion..
@@bacht4799Mans is shaped like Quasimodo, it is impossible to find stylish clothing for his particular dimensions
Lauryn should start selling land and property; because that's realty
Ahhh Lauryn...saw her in her prime in 2000 and it was one of the best concerts ever.
You have to remember, she was also under the influence of her very conservative, possibly abusive husband at the time, Rohan Marley.
She was definitely unprepared and all over the place, the fact that allegedly she didn't write most of the songs on her first album, that combined with mental health issues, there's no way this performance would be good.
Still would get those lotto tickets...ok, only if they were free.