{"id":22981,"date":"2020-02-24T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=22981"},"modified":"2020-02-24T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:57:36","slug":"review-anna-of-the-north-brighton-music-hall-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2020\/02\/24\/review-anna-of-the-north-brighton-music-hall-2-20\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Anna of the North @ Brighton Music Hall 2\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Claudia Rosado<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I strongly believe the couple that stood next to me during Anna of the North\u2019s concert on February 22 screamed louder than anyone else in Brighton Music Hall when the singer came on stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna of the North, whose real name is Anna Lotterud, is an Oslo-based Norwegian singer-songwriter. Her music, which seems to be simultaneously soft and electric, brought out a very enthusiastic and engaged crowd on her latest North America tour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Opener Dizzy Fae said she was very excited to be back in Boston. She last played Brighton Music Hall when she opened for Lizzo in 2018, saying as so before playing \u201cGut Talk.\u201d She also got a fan request to play \u201cBooty 3000\u201d throughout her set, and closed with said song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna warm y\u2019all up, I\u2019m not playing around, Boston,\u201d Dizzy Fae said all throughout her set. With her amazing dance moves (she literally did a death drop during one of Breon, her DJ’s, solos) and contagious energy, she did just that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna of the North came out after having her guitar and synth player and her drummer play a bit of a prolonged beginning for \u201cLonely Life.\u201d Cheers disrupted the sing-along to the start of the track as she finally appeared on stage dressed in white from head to toe, save for her black New Balance, dad-shoe-esque sneakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She immediately went into \u201cUsed To Be,\u201d another fan favorite, but then again to a crowd that receptive, every song was a fan favorite. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while, almost a year, but the energy is Boston is insane!\u201d said Anna after introducing herself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While she sounds great on the album, there\u2019s something about Anna\u2019s live sound that makes me wish what I streamed sounded like that. The mix of live instruments with the synth and her voice might\u2019ve been the combination that made her electro-pop sound mix with the 80s soft rock genre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna proved to be a talent that is growing into the spotlight given to her. She has a very charming girl-next-door persona while also showing the strength and resilience she needed to have when writing her music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before playing \u201cLeaning On Myself,\u201d she addressed the crowd saying \u201cIt\u2019s my favorite song because I wrote it when I really needed it. It\u2019s also great that my favorite song is a song I wrote.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The song, which opens with the lyrics \u201cI\u2019m drifting in the deep, tryna find a way home\/Driving through the streets, nowhere I want to go,\u201d is a self-love anthem that focuses on learning to grow through the pain of loneliness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDream Girl,\u201d the titular song off of her latest album, followed. This was one of the few moments in the concert where phones rose up to record for Instagram Stories and Snapchats. The rest of the time, everyone seemed to be more focused on Anna of the North than on recordings of her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Near the end of the set, Anna said she wanted to do a tribute to Valentine\u2019s Day since she claimed that \u201cValentines can be celebrated every day.\u201d She covered \u201cNothing Compares 2 U\u201d by Prince. And, don\u2019t worry, the couple next to me took a break from cheering and singing along to make out for the duration of the song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before her encore, Anna had a bit with the crowd, saying she didn\u2019t want to go all the way backstage to then come back out. Instead, she jumped off the stage and joined the crowd in yelling for \u201cone more song\u201d before jumping back up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her encore included \u201cLovers,\u201d which was popularized by <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> hot tub scene in \u201cTo All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before.\u201d The concert ended with Cher\u2019s \u201cBelieve\u201d blasting from the speakers while Anna, Dizzy Fae, Breon, and their photographer Shamshawan Scott<\/span> danced on stage before joining fans and dancing in the crowd. Like many up-and-coming artists, they then went to meet fans at the merch table and take pictures with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Claudia Rosado I strongly believe the couple that stood next to me during Anna of the North\u2019s concert on February 22 screamed louder than anyone else in Brighton Music Hall when the singer came on stage.\u00a0 Anna of the North, whose real name is Anna Lotterud, is an Oslo-based Norwegian singer-songwriter. Her music, which seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17168,"featured_media":22982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1525],"tags":[1571,215,1562,327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22988,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions\/22988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}