By Jon Pareles [NYTimes]

“Ms. Badu’s Vortex Tour was a visit to her eccentric pop cosmos, which encompasses silliness and hard-nosed realism, idealism and bawdiness, choreography and whim, R&B and hip-hop, funk and jazz. Ms. Badu listed some of her aliases soon after she arrived onstage — Medulla Oblongata, Sarah Bellum, Analog Girl in a Digital World, Lowdown Loretta Brown — and those weren’t nearly enough to sum her up.” [Read More]