{"id":24924,"date":"2020-11-16T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=24924"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:13:11","slug":"review-marika-hackman-live-stream-11-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2020\/11\/16\/review-marika-hackman-live-stream-11-13\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Marika Hackman Live Stream 11\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span>By Emma Simonoff<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Marika Hackman hasn\u2019t performed for an audience since March. At least not in person. Last Friday night, to promote her <a href=\"https:\/\/marikahackman.backl.ink\/covers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new covers album<\/a>, Hackman performed an hour-long set of new covers and her own songs, new and old, in an empty indoor swimming pool.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">tonight! last minute tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrI6Kegv7q\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZrI6Kegv7q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NOJjASV3si\">pic.twitter.com\/NOJjASV3si<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marika Hackman (@MarikaHackman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarikaHackman\/status\/1327317809488039937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span>If you have to have a live steam instead of a concert, you should make the most out of the lack of constraints. You don\u2019t need room for an audience, so have it in a pool. You have to film it, so have close-ups, use an interesting camera. Hackman took full advantage of the disadvantage of not being able to play in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The show looked like a cross between an in-studio session and an early 2000s music video, Hackman and her band dressed in suits and sneakers and shot with a digital camera and a vintage-looking camcorder. My laptop hooked up to the TV, lights off, volume blasted, my roommates and I felt like we were at a real concert, only we could actually see and our feet didn\u2019t hurt. With Hackman\u2019s peeks into the camera lens and almost whispered commentary between songs, it was a private show right in our living room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the light coming through the pool room windows darkened, so did Hackman\u2019s songs. Bidding adieu to her band with a \u201cHope you had a nice dip,\u201d Hackman got ready for some solo songs and remarked that it was \u201cquite strange to play music to an empty room \u2013 or an empty swimming pool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hackman closed the show with her cover of Elliot Smith\u2019s \u201cBetween the Bars,\u201d followed by \u201cI\u2019d Rather Be With Them,\u201d a song from her 2017 album \u201cI\u2019m Not Your Man.\u201d The song worked perfectly in the empty pool, Hackman\u2019s voice echoing off the tiles. The lyrics felt fitting there. She\u2019d rather be with them, but instead she\u2019s all alone in a pool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the song ended, so did the show. And sadly, live streams don\u2019t have encores.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emma Simonoff Marika Hackman hasn\u2019t performed for an audience since March. At least not in person. Last Friday night, to promote her new covers album, Hackman performed an hour-long set of new covers and her own songs, new and old, in an empty indoor swimming pool. tonight! last minute tickets at https:\/\/t.co\/ZrI6Kegv7q pic.twitter.com\/NOJjASV3si \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17168,"featured_media":24925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1525,15],"tags":[327,1636,1700,1668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924"}],"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=24924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25330,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions\/25330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}