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FireAid Review: How a Female-Fronted Nirvana Reunion, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Dr. Dre and Others Gave L.A. the Rebound Night It Deserved
Highlights from the nearly six-hour Fire Aid included Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, a female-fronted Nirvana reunion and an Anderson .Paak/Dr. Dre collab.
The Intuit Dome and Kia Forum lineups were also filled with artists who would have been children when Mitchell and CSN were first plying their trade, and now are in the teaching position, pushing the upper end of middle age — namely, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and No Doubt, both of whom seemed as frenetic and dynamic as they ever did in their respective ‘80s and ‘90s salad days. And when it comes to modern successors to these L.A. traditions, no homegrown talent fits the bill more than Billie Eilish, who at this point, in tandem with Finneas, has earned a spot in a lineage that stretches back to the Doors, Buffalo Springfield and Joni, even if she is perhaps the first to make the masses dream about Highland Park instead of Malibu or Laurel Canyon. And after a long show in which the specter of unfamiliar material had been raised only as a joke (“Here’s a new song… not,” quipped Rod Stewart, just before launching into “Maggie May”), Gaga had the temerity and good sense to end the whole affair on a hopeful song she said she and her fiance Michael Polansky had written with the intent of only being performed here — a sweet-spirited one-off that offered a final bedtime lift.
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