“Three months ago, I literally did not know what I was doing,” Betty Who confided in one of many girlfriendly asides during her headlining set at the Bowery Ballroom Saturday night. What a difference three months can make. A viral video can kill a career as easily as it can make one, and while “Somebody Loves You” showed that the indefatigable, classically trained Aussie transplant is far more talented than your garden-variety, 15-“Fridays”-of-fame phenom, things could go either way.
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