MTV Unplugged

Description

Summit of emotion and mixed fragility, "Unplugged n° 2.0", a double album featuring no less than fifteen songs, all composed by Lauryn Hill, except for So much things to say by Bob Marley, brilliantly revives the flagship show of MTV.
Alone on stage, simply accompanied by her acoustic guitar, Lauryn Hill takes the exact opposite of everything she has offered us before, whether within the Fugees or during her first solo album, four years earlier. Breaking with the tradition of sparkling and untouchable divas, Lauryn Hill is primarily concerned with showing herself to the public in a natural way, just as she can be in everyday life.
As she explains several times throughout the album – the record includes no less than seven spoken interludes, one of which culminates to nearly a dozen minutes – Lauryn Hill is fed up with the glossy image that the media portray of her and she does not hesitate to mock venerable institutions of show business, such as the record industry.
Thus, it is with a hoarse, veiled voice that Lauryn Hill screams her spleen on tracks with hypnotic melancholy like I just want you around or I gotta find peace of mind, even breaking down in tears in the middle of a song.
In short, with this iconoclastic record, inhabited, trampling on the bland sugary soul that plays on loop on the radio, Lauryn Hill easily passes the always difficult second solo album milestone.