I know everyone's wondering how this first successful live performance of "Private Radio" (as deemed by Vanessa herself) went off, so I'm offering this transcript from Thursday night's performance:
(Vanessa finishes "Swindler", on which she flubbed some lyrics, openly announcing it to the audience.)
Vanessa: "I know I'm not supposed to tell you when I do something wrong, but I feel so close to you and we're in Nashville, so I should always tell you. But actually, um, I'm gonna play a song tonight that, well, I'm gonna play this next, a song that I just played for the first time live yesterday. And it was slightly a disaster, but in a humorous way because there's this background vocal, um, that comes in - don't be alarmed, though you're gonna hear two of me when I sing this song, but it's not - I'm not lip synching, this is not an, an Ashlee moment. I, I, it's all real. This is all genuine."
(The audience laughs and cheers.)
"So, um, I'm gonna, it's, it's part of the song that goes, 'Ba-da dop, ba-da dop, ba-da da-da da-da, Ba-da dop, ba-da dop, ba-da da-da da-da', and when it, when it, if it comes in at the wrong time, well let's hope it's not gonna come at the wrong time because, uh, Mark's gonna do a great job tonight. I know he will. Thank you, Mark. But, um, which, yeah, he usually does anyway, but we had a little problem.
"So when you hear that, when you hear that part, you feel free to do the 'Ba-dop' thing."
Audience: "Yeah!"
Vanessa: "Oh, you're so obedient! Can I tell you to do other things, too?"
Audience: "YEAH!!!"
Vanessa: "Just kidding. There's children here. Um, okay, so this song is called 'Private Radio', and, um, it's kind of about the, the, it's about insomnia and all the kind of secretive things that you, you do at night, which, you know... Innocent things, not like making bombs or anything like that, it's like... I don't know why that came to mind. Okay here it is:"
(She begins to play the intro to "Private Radio", but stops.)
Vanessa: Now everyone is gonna be thinking that this song is about making bombs in the middle of the night. That not what what this song is about. It's about insomnia."
(Vanessa performs "Private Radio".)
(Listen for these new lyrics:
Keeping secrets at midnight
If there ever was a right time
I'd tell you everything on my mind
I'd tell you everything)
(The audience starts clapping and cheering constantly.)
Vanessa: "That was a moment because that's the first time we ever did that successfully and let's have a big round of applause for Mark who made it happen."
(Vanessa claps a few times herself.)
Vanessa: "Thank you! You have witnessed this successful 'Private Radio' moment! I've been avoiding that for like a year. Thank you."
(Vanessa then performs "Morning Sting".)
