[ATTENDED: April 17, 2024] Girl in Red / Momma
My daughter and I saw Girl in Red twice in 2022. Her live show is a ton of fun and I was really impressed with how much she changed it over the few months between our shows. Her new album is all about how she’s “back.” This puzzled me a bit as she hadn’t been “gone” for very long. But if you’re online all the time, two years is an eternity.
As soon as this show was announced I bought us tickets. This venue was much bigger then the one we saw her in and her stage show expanded to fit it.
There was a giant video screen with cool visuals, there were steps and interestingly designed elements. There was a gigantic swivel light which actually became a projection screen for a song. And during one of the songs a part of the stage rose up and she was thirty feet above the stage.
She opened the set with the rocking title track. She was a ton of fun as she ran back and forth across the stage. Amazingly she was wearing a button shirt, sweater and suit jacket, and I was hot in shorts. But her energy was infectious and the crowd was super psyched.
She told us that she had a new album out but she new that had to appease old fans so song two was “bad idea!” and the crowd erupted. The only thing that was more exciting was when she crowd surfed (while singing).
The two following songs were new and were great. “Two Much” has some great orchestra hit effects and “New Love” has a delightful uplifting melody despite the lyrics. Even though the new album was only recently released, people new all the words.
But in fairness, the bigger reactions came for “girls” and “You Stupid Bitch.” After this song someone shouted from the audience. Marie is easily distracted and wondered what was going on. Someone said that these two women got engaged during “girls.” Marie called them on stage and then performed a “wedding” on for them. I can’t imagine anything cooler for them.
“Serotonin” was a wild crazy song to follow.
Then one of the blocks of furniture rotated to reveal a piano. Marie said she’d been playing a lot of piano. She didn’t really play the piano during the song, more like she either triggered it or looped the melody for “I’m Back.” “Pick Me” was a piano ballad, and these were the quiet portion of the show.
Because “Ugly Side” brought the whole place back up with its dancey.
Marie busted out the acoustic guitar for the delicate “October passed me by.”
She dedicated “We fell in love in October” to the newly engaged couple. And after “Phantom Pain” she thrilled the crowd with four songs in a row from her earlier album. “Body and Mind” sounded bigger than ever, “\ Did You Come?” were full of energy. And “midnight love” was moody and beautiful (my daughter’s favorite song).
After two more songs she prepped everyone for the rocking conclusion “I wanna Be Your Girlfriend,” which included Marie jumping into the crowd and running to the back of the pit to sing just a few feet in front of us.
The only song she didn’t play from the new album was “*****” which is a kind of dancey throwaway, but would have worked well as a closing song, I think.
But this show proved to be so impressive.. As I said on the way out, her previous two shows were great and this one exceeded both of them. Her crowd interaction, both verbal and physical is simply amazing.
2024 Met Philadelphia | 2022 Rooftop NYC | 2022 Union Transfer |
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DOING IT AGAIN BABY & | You Stupid Bitch ⊗ | You Stupid Bitch ⊗ |
bad idea! ‰ | Body And Mind ⊗ | Body And Mind ⊗ |
Too Much & | girls © | girls © |
New Love & | . ⊗ | . ⊗ |
girls © | we fell in love in October § | i’ll die anyway. ‰ |
You Stupid Bitch ⊗ | I’ll Call You Mine ⊗ | we fell in love in October § |
Serotonin ⊗ | hornylovesickmess ⊗ (solo) | I’ll Call You Mine (acoustic) ⊗ |
I’m Back & | new song | hornylovesickmess ⊗ |
Pick Me & | Serotonin ⊗ | Serotonin ⊗ |
Ugly Side & | bad idea! ‰ | bad idea! ‰ |
October Passed Me By ∑ | dead girl in the pool. ‰ | 4am © |
we fell in love in October § | midnight love ⊗ | dead girl in the pool. ‰ |
Phantom Pain & | Did you come? ⊗ | midnight love ⊗ |
Body And Mind ⊗ | Rue ⊗ (solo) | Rue ⊗ |
Rue ⊗ | New song | Did you come? ⊗ |
Did you come? ⊗ | I wanna Be Your Girlfriend. © | I wanna Be Your Girlfriend. © |
midnight love ⊗ | ||
A Night to Remember & | ||
You Need Me Now? & | ||
I wanna Be Your Girlfriend. © |
& I’m Doing it Again, Baby! (2024)
∑ single (2022)
⊗ if I could make it go quiet (2021)
‰ chapter 2 (2019)
© chapter 1 (2018)
§ A Collection of Every Song I’ve Ever Posted on Soundcloud (2018)
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