--- Alanis walks out on stage. Here comes the applause! Oh, wait, it’s a dog...
--- “One Hand in My Pocket”: *slightly* bigger reaction than for Joan Jett… Love the harmonica section!!
--- “A Man” includes on the screen harrowing stats about continued violence towards women. Good for her.
--- “Reasons I Drink” leaves me without a buzz.
--- She starts to play guitar on “Hands Clean” — nice!
--- Solid dark vibes but very little to connect with.
--- Crowd returns for “Hand Over Feet.” Woo, harmonica’s back too!
--- “You Learn”: Aww at all the audience singalongs!!
--- Angie has a CrossFit competition in the morning, so she has to leave a bit early. It’d be ironic, in the Alanis sense, if she started playing “Ironic” right as she left. “That’d be Perfect,” Angie quips. Clever!!
--- Angie: “I forgot about these songs!” As soon as we sit down, Alanis launches into favorites, so time to sit…
--- Alanis just spun an ice-skater circle for a solid minute!!!
--- “Rest”: the best pure vocal of the night!!! I dig it as a ballad and because it probably means a high-energy rocker next. In a moment of actual irony, I realize it’s the song I was most awake for! Angie: “That was beautiful.”
--- “Mary Jane”: even better — she held out that note forever!!! I wonder if she starred in Jagged Little Pill, the Broadway musical.
--- She plays the flute. Who knew?
--- “Ironic”: the first verse was sung by an eight-year-old on stage!!!! The whole thing was an unexpected rush.
--- “All I Really Want,” a Jagged track, pumps them up. Love the harmonica-guitar battle at the end of the next one.
--- Do not love that she did not personalize a single thing the entire night. She oughta know better. That said…
--- “You Oughta Know” RIPPED!!!!! Merriweather’s wall shook — and Merriweather doesn’t even have walls. Awww at the awesome woman in front of me motioning to me to fist bump — for a mighty fist bump at that. So satisfying.
--- Lol at her skipping off for the encore.
--- Wow, “Uninvited” is a completely different triumph. Piercing, spare, and ends with another literal spin?!?!? Evanescence, but better.
--- Awww, I take back part of what I said about the personalizing since has thankful tweets from fans to loved ones in the background during “Thank U.”
Grade: B+
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