By: Lauren Grill<\/p>\n
Photo Courtesy of Charlotte Biancardi<\/p>\n
Lights and anticipation filled House of Blues on February 10 for Samia\u2019s fourth stop on her tour following the release of her sophomore album, \u201cHoney.\u201d Above the stage hangs a large hamsa carving sporting the words \u201cwho do you love?\u2019 This exact phrase embodies Samia\u2019s discography and zest for life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A silhouette of the singer graced the stage, met with shrieks and screams from the audience. Samia\u2019s graciousness as she stopped in disbelief multiple times as the crowd chanted back the lyrics to her album opener \u201cKill Her, Freak Out.\u201d House of Blues was now a place for catharsis and healing, as it would remain the rest of the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She then launched into one of her most popular songs, \u201cFit N Full\u201d, dancing around the stage and bopping around to the crowd’s delight. As the song concluded, she addressed us for the first time: \u201cWhat are you guys doing here?\u201d she jokingly asked in disbelief, taking in the crowd of adoring fans with signs and all the energy in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Samia\u2019s strong relationship with her band was evident as she introduced them just after the second song, telling her drummer, Noah Rauchwerk, to sing us a song he had written as a joke the night before called \u201cCookie of my Dreams.\u201d It was a lovely rendition which Samia giggled through. Rauchwerk is even referenced in Samia\u2019s most vulnerable song \u201cBreathing Song,\u201d which follows her journey as a sexual assault surviver. As she finished singing it, she ran to give him a tight hug, before remarking that she \u201cnever thought she would sing this song for so many people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to her killer vocals and ethereal stage presence, Samia\u2019s dry wit and humor kept the crowd laughing during her set. After her performance of \u201cBig Wheel\u201d \u2013 which she danced through with jazz hands and concluded in the splits\u2013 she said into the microphone, \u201cthat song is about how I got bad news but I didn\u2019t fight,\u201d in reference to the song’s refrain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Samia closed out the show with a performance of \u201cDream Song\u201d, bringing her opening act, Tommy Lefory, onstage with her. The rendition was, in fact, dreamy. After raucous cheers from the audience, Samia come back out for an encore, performing AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long\u201d and closing out with \u201cShow Up\u201d, in which she declares that \u201cNothing could stop my ass from showing\u2019 up to sing another song for the people I love.\u201d And she did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Lauren Grill Photo Courtesy of Charlotte Biancardi Lights and anticipation filled House of Blues on February 10 for Samia\u2019s fourth stop on her tour following the release of her sophomore album, \u201cHoney.\u201d Above the stage hangs a large hamsa carving sporting the words \u201cwho do you love?\u2019 This exact phrase embodies Samia\u2019s discography and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1525,1523],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896"}],"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\/20911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36897,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896\/revisions\/36897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}