This album makes me angry. I thought about just leaving it at that, but I guess I'll elaborate a little. The Lauryn Hill that appears on this album is wimpy. She makes excuses for her lack of preparation, talks too much about 'reality,' and sounds pretty much the same on every song. She complains that she hadn't been allowed to be real before. Really? How about when she sang that song about her son Zion on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill? Does she count that as selling out? Or how about when she came across as powerful and independent - was that problematic?
To not warm up, to not memorize the words to your songs, and then to inform the audience that you didn't do those things because you wanted to be real - that's terrible. Real people prepare. Real people dress up for their performances. Great artists are real people.
The affirmation she receives for her bogusness from the audience is almost too much to take.
And on it goes, for two discs. Man up, Lauryn Hill! Make awesome records again!
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