PERFORMANCE: QUEEN BARB
As she was introduced, two spotlights shined down on Queen Barb from different angles. While she was the Queen of Rock in her world... here? She just looked like a skinny kid in ripped jeans, fishnets, and a Bad Reputation tee with weird hair.
Weird hair... and a BC Rich Warlock. Which she began to absolutely shred on, as she began to sing, her voice so powerful it didn't actually seem like it should be coming out of that little body.
"You need cooling Baby I'm not fooling
I'm gonna send ya Back to schooling..."
Dear lord, she was singing LED ZEPPELIN. And knocking it out of the park. The look on her face said it all: she was in the exact environment she was born to be in. She could forget for a moment that she wasn't a troll anymore. That she wasn't in The Rock Kingdom anymore. Because right now? Troll, human, it didn't matter. She felt like the damn queen that she was.
"Way down inside Honey you need it I'm gonna give you my love I'm gonna give you my love
Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love"
Her eyes shined with life, a mixture of adrenaline, happiness, and love of the music lighting up her face. She felt more than excited or happy here. For the first time since arriving on Galador, Barb felt alive again.
"You've been learning Baby I been learning
All them good times baby, baby I've been yearning
Way, way down inside Honey you need I'm gonna give you my love, I'm gonna give you my love,"
Strutting to the side of the stage with a cocky gleam in her eyes, she threw a foot up on the amplifier, posing there as she played the next few chords. She was only 5'4", but right now? She felt ten feet tall.
"Whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love
You've been cooling And baby I've been drooling All the good times, baby I've been misusing
Way, way down inside I'm gonna give ya my love I'm gonna give ya every inch of my love I'm gonna give ya my love
Hey! Alright! Let's go!"
She swung the guitar around her body by the strap, with expert speed and balance. She could feel it in her veins... if her dad was here? He'd be proud as hell. King Thrash would most definitely approve.
"Whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love Want a whole lotta love
Way down inside Woman, you need, yeah Loooooooooooooooooooooove!!!"
Her voice cracked ever so slightly while holding the long note, but luckily the raspy tone in which she sang covered it quite well. She was 100% in 'fuck-you' mode right now. This performance, and how absolutely on-fire she was, was for every person, in this world and her own, who'd ever doubted her, or not taken her seriously.
"My, my, my, my My, my, my, my Lord Shake for me girlI wanna be your backdoor man
Hey, oh, hey, oh Hey, oh, hey, oh
Ooh Oh, oh, oh, oh Cool, my, my baby A-keep it cooling baby A-keep it cooling baby Ah-keep it cooling baby Ah-keep it cooling baby Ah-keep it cooling baby"
Even as she finished the last few lines, she kept playing, finishing the song off with a dazzling solo derived from the original song, but completely something of her own creation. As she hit the final note, she gave a slightly off-kilter smile, eyes holding a bit of mania in them as she soaked in the reaction of the audience.