The problem for me was that, especially given that the song isn't going to be that well known to the general public, she never sang enough of it to make it sound like a real song, and it never built to anything. Had she picked something more obviously iconic like "A New York State of Mind" or the K&E "New York, New York," etc, I think it would have been a lot clearer how she was working bits of a song in and out of the monologue. But instead, we got what must have sounded to a lot of people like some random off-the-cuff intoning about NY.
But even the "oh, look, here's my piano" bit didn't land well either. |
