| Matt Nathanson: Live at Google | ||||
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| Released | December 8, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Alternative, Indie | |||
| Length | 42:24 | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
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Matt Nathanson: Live at Google is a live recording of Matt Nathanson's performance at the Google Campus in early July 2011 to promote Google's new service, Music Beta by Google (subsequently rebranded as Google Play).
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "To The Beat of our Noisy Hearts" | 3:45 |
| 2. | "Modern Love" | 4:30 |
| 3. | "Room at the End of the World" | 4:55 |
| 4. | "Still" | 4:50 |
| 5. | "Sing-Along" | 4:00 |
| 6. | "Laid" | 2:34 |
| 7. | "Kept" | 3:24 |
| 8. | "Misogyny" | 3:48 |
| 9. | "Faster" | 3:25 |
| 10. | "Enrique" | 2:16 |
| 11. | "Come On Get Higher" | 5:07 |
During the Summer of 2011, Music Beta by Google was hosting a series of concerts at the Googleplex. The second in the series of concerts was opened by jazz artist Meklit Hadero and headlined by Matt Nathanson. [1]
Throughout the show Nathanson made jabs at both audience members and even Facebook. One notable instance was while Nathanson was preparing the audience for a sing-a-long, he called attention to an audience member on his laptop when he said, "You're in the front, you're on your computer, but I know what you're doing is looking up the lyrics. You don't have to look up the lyrics, because this is totally easy. 'Hee,' 'hee,' 'who.' It's - and I feel it, I felt you wanting to sing." [2]
"Send In the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik, who was deeply in love with her, but whose marriage proposals she had rejected. Meeting him after so long, she realizes she is in love with him and finally ready to marry him, but now it is he who rejects her: He is in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik's young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée's offer.
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