{"id":21515,"date":"2013-07-15T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2013-08-05T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:48:38","slug":"what-wendy-wore-special-jewelry-for-skylar-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/what-wendy-wore-special-jewelry-for-skylar-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Special Jewelry for Skylar Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a couple of weeks, I was so fixated on seeing Skylar Grey perform at Le Poisson Rouge <\/a>that I hardly know what to do with myself now that the show is over!<\/p>\n

I’ve been a big fan of Skylar’s since “Love the Way You Lie<\/a>” came out in 2010. The song was performed by Eminem and Rihanna, but I quickly found out it was Skylar who wrote the haunting hook. (I love tracking down moody-sounding female vocalists<\/a>.) Skylar’s excellent debut album, Like Blood Like Honey<\/em><\/a>, came out in 2006 under her real first and middle name: Holly Brook.\u00a0 I downloaded that album as well as song collaborations with other artists, including “Coming Home<\/a>” by Diddy (2010) and “I Need a Doctor”<\/a> by Dr. Dre and Eminem (2011), while I waited for a full album by the artist now known as Skylar Grey. (Skylar explained her new stage name in a Wall Street Journal story that I blogged about last December<\/a>. This article from last week’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a> — Skylar is originally from Wisconsin — is another good telling of the tale.)<\/p>\n

I was also waiting for a full concert. After missing Skylar at Lollapalooza in 2011 while I was otherwise engaged<\/a>, I caught her doing a couple of songs at Cyndi Lauper’s Home for the Holidays concert a few months later<\/a>. I was excited to finally get a full album and full show in the same week. Don’t Look Down<\/em><\/a> came out last Tuesday. It’s been as high as #2 on iTunes, topped only by Jay-Z’s new album<\/a>. The concert followed on Thursday. Le Poisson Rouge has table seating, so I gathered up five lovely wimmins — Jen, Amanda<\/a>, Stacy<\/a>, Alyssa and Alice<\/a> — and we got a table to ourselves, right next to the stage. During the enjoyable opening act,\u00a0a duo called TeamMate<\/a> that covered Madonna’s “Causing a Commotion,” we all had Prosecco and … Tater Tots. The dinner of champions. What?! I love Tots! Napoleon Dynamite was not wrong about the desirability of Tots.<\/p>\n