The encore’s tone heightened rather than deflated the evening’s mood, however, lending a bit more meaning to the kind of vocal exposition that’s seldom matched outside the classical realm. These were songs of nothing less than mass elation. Here is Annie Lennox’s set list: “No More ...
The song, “Why,” is hardly the sort of melodramatic setting we’d imagine from an album whose very name evokes histrionic pretense. But Lennox isn’t and has never been a representative pop diva. Her body is lanky and angular instead of curvaceously plush. Her exaggerated facial features ...