{"id":98743,"date":"2022-05-08T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/snl-watch-arcade-fire-perform-we-single-the-lightning-i-ii\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T08:01:08","slug":"snl-watch-arcade-fire-perform-we-single-the-lightning-i-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/snl-watch-arcade-fire-perform-we-single-the-lightning-i-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217;: Watch Arcade Fire Perform &#8216;We&#8217; Single &#8216;The Lightning I, II&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p>Arcade Fire returned to <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> for their fifth stint as musical guests where they performed two tracks from their sixth studio album\u00a0<em>We<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian indie rockers delivered an equally heartfelt and anxiety-inducing performance of the lead single from\u00a0<em>it<\/em>, \u201cThe Lightning I, II\u201c<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the set, bandleader Win Butler grabbed the mic to give his opinion regarding the threat of Roe v. Wade being overturned: \u201cA woman\u2019s right to choose forever and ever and ever. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arcade Fire also performed the uplifting track \u201cUnconditional I (Lookout Kid)\u201d from <em>We<\/em>, which Butler dedicated to his son Eddie. He also delivered a Mother\u2019s Day tribute after the final note saying, \u201cI love you, mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ownPVvCY5Us\"><div class=\"cwvpsb_iframe\"><div class=\"iframe_wrap\"><div class=\"iframe_player\" data-embed=\"ownPVvCY5Us\" id=\"player_ownPVvCY5Us\"><div class=\"play-button\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>But even after taking the stage twice, the band wasn\u2019t quite done. Right before the credits ran, the seven-piece group returned to perform a snippet of \u201cEnd of the Empire I-IV\u201d from their latest LP.<\/p>\n<p>Arcade Fire previously appeared on <em>SNL<\/em> in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2018. Their Nigel Godrich-produced album <em>We\u00a0<\/em>was released on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcade Fire returned to Saturday Night Live for their fifth stint as musical guests where they performed two tracks from their sixth studio album\u00a0We. The Canadian indie rockers delivered an equally heartfelt and anxiety-inducing performance of the lead single from\u00a0it, \u201cThe Lightning I, II\u201c At the end of the set, bandleader Win Butler grabbed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":98744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SNL-Watch-Arcade-Fire-Perform-We-Single-The-Lightning-I.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}