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Billboard: Iggy entertains the crowd at Lollapalooza
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Iggy Azalea may have only one album to her name and a number of hits that you can count on one hand, but that didn't matter to the throngs of teens and college kids that stampeded to her Lollapalooza performance on Friday afternoon (Aug. 1). Twenty minutes before the "Fancy" rapper's 4:30 set at Chicago's Grant Park, the crowd was already suffocatingly dense; when she arrived onstage, the screams were shrill and plentiful. As Azalea started with "Beat Down," the muscle-bound guy behind this reporter in the crowd quipped, "I just realized that I only know one song that she does." It didn't matter -- he, and everyone else, treated Azalea like a rock star.
Songs like "Change Your Life" and "My World" throbbed with electricity, and the incredibly young audience lapped up the uptempo set like it was a Skrillex showcase. Herds of shirtless bro's, tiny white girls who spat all the words to "Pu$$y," a sleepy-looking kid with a self-created "Who Dat? Who Dat?" shirt -- they were all dismissing concurrent sets by Interpol, Blood Orange and Portugal. The Man in order to bow at the shrine of Iggy.
Azalea's stagecraft still needs polishing. She didn't need to work hard to get the crowd in a tizzy, but her stage banter was lacking [...] although judging from the crowd's reaction to the performance, her missteps were easily forgiven.
The best song in the set, however, was "Black Widow". Finding the pristine balance between her snarl and sultriness, Azalea aced the banger, which has continued to rise in the Top 40. [...] the attendees who profess to "only know one song" will have another with which they're keenly familiar.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/fe...ormance-review
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