Manson and Morissette remain two of the biggest female rock stars of all time, and both were enormously influential. Morissette fandom, on the other hand, was democratizing her popularity across the board made her a commercially successful phenom. She worked up the crowd by dropping to her knees at times, lying on the stage, even blowing kisses back and forth with audience members, but she remained quite literally cool, like she’s never broken a sweat a day in her life. Manson commanded the stage naturally and seemed never to run out of moves. She was still the ultimate cool girl, the quietly rebellious, feminist icon who was entirely responsible for many a (bi)sexual awakening in the ‘90s. If Manson or her vocal chords have aged a day, no one but her doctor would know it. Her hair was back from a longtime pink to its signature red. In a sparkling black and yellow dress over yellow and black leopard tights, Manson was again the focal point on stage, starting off with lesser known singles before pacifying an audience hungry for old favorites such as “Stupid Girl” and “#1 Crush.” All the on-again band’s original members were present - drummer Butch Vig and guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Erikson - and, tight as ever, set up the ambient backdrop (their signature trip-hoppy, grunge-rock melancholy) for frontwoman Shirley Manson’s subliminally erotic vocals and popping presence. A good part of the crowd had shown up by the time Garbage took the stage.
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