Lauryn Hill Angers Concertgoers With Tardiness, Unintelligible Remixes

Lauryn Hill Fans Were Very Displeased This Weekend
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 13: Lauryn Hill performs at Le Zenith on September 13, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns via Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 13: Lauryn Hill performs at Le Zenith on September 13, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns via Getty Images)

Lauryn Hill has a bit of a reputation for showing up late to concerts and performing incomprehensible renditions of her songs. That's apparently what happened this weekend, and fans were quick to vocalize their displeasure.

Hill reportedly arrived 90 minutes late on Saturday for a concert at London's O2 Academy. Critics and concertgoers alike deemed her setlist "awful" and "unrecognizable" -- sentiments that resulted in a trending topic on Twitter, according to The Guardian. Fans reportedly booed Hill, whose set was also riddled with sound issues.

HuffPost Entertainment contacted Hill's rep for comment, but the request was not immediately returned.

Here's what Londoners had to say about Hill's performance:

I paid to watch Lauryn Hill perform, in my opinion a truly great album but instead I've just left half way through her High School Musical..

— Karlos Andrade (@KarlosAndrade9) September 20, 2014

Why on earth she chose to remix her beautiful classic songs to the point of being unrecognisable (in a BAD way), I'll never know #laurynhill

— Tahirah Sharif (@TahirahSharif) September 20, 2014

Saw quite a few people leave with disgruntled looks on their faces but I think that's because they wanted to hear Miseducation #laurynhill

— Sian O'Neill (@wsolxxx) September 22, 2014

OK the #laurynhill concert is weird. That's my verdict. Sounds like circus music.

— TS (@decolonising) September 21, 2014

#laurynhill I don't understand what is going on here. Worst concert I've ever been to. #NoLie

— . 808INK . (@808Charmer) September 21, 2014

I've seen 20 people leave already. She is doing Ex-Factor "remix" #LaurynHill, what a buzzkill!!!

— Ronda Zelezny-Green (@GLaM_Leo) September 20, 2014

#LaurynHill you might win some but you just lost all of brixton

— ryan o (@ryanjxo) September 20, 2014

.@O2academybrix how do we get a refund for the #LaurynHillConcert on Saturday? The sound was appalling.

— **Lady V**BANG Radio (@_LdyV_) September 22, 2014

Starting a concert 90 mins late #LaurynHillConcert is not being a #diva its being rude and disrespectful.

— John Daramy (@Munku1) September 22, 2014

To be fair, not everyone hated it:

#laurynhill musical genius. Don't let nostalgia get in the way of objective critique. She has been amazing #mslaurynhill

— Jide Adéga (@JideAdega) September 21, 2014

The #LaurynHillConcert was good!! I don't care what anyone says pic.twitter.com/TfqKqQJX4m

— S.L.P (@shekinah40) September 22, 2014

#LaurynHillConcert looked pretty good to me!! Music should sound different performed live? That's the point of LIVE music...

— Kelly Rose Johnson (@Karmarose007) September 22, 2014

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