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Hernandez herself is just as coy, slipping in enough truth to snare the viewer and keep them mesmerized against a chilly, bare synth score.

The distillation of that song’s trancelike synth bridge into dissonant, chunky piano chords still maintained the song’s deep despair while also transforming it into something a 72-year-old gentleman wearing a suit and a Panama hat could comfortably embody.

After bringing the Mother’s Day audience to its feet with “I’m Every Woman” — somewhere out there was Khan’s own 91-year-old mom, she said — she started to make for the exit when her band revved up the throbbing synth lick from “Ain’t Nobody.”

To his ears, the synth lick in the title track echoes Dire Straits, while the chiming “Nostalgia’s Lie” recalls the Byrds or the La’s.

“Drop” opens up with bare-bones looped beatboxing before threading in dramatic melody upon layers of synth and howled refrains.