St. Vincent’s brilliance is certainly not for everyone, and we had a feeling her performance tonight on Saturday Night Live would be pretty polarizing. The lady born Annie Clark played two songs on the Andy Samberg-hosted SNL season finale, including current single “Digital Witness” and “Birth In Reverse,” which featured some pretty trippy synchronized guitar- and foot-work.

Both are from her February self-titled record off Loma Vista/Republic, which should garner a lot of Record of the Year props come December.

UPDATE: Watch “Digital Witness” and “Birth In Reverse” below:



[HD] St. Vincent – Digital Witness – SNL 5-17-14 by IdolxMuzic



[HD] St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse – SNL 5-17-14 by IdolxMuzic





Unsurprisingly, St. Vincent’s spectacle show led to a lot of confused tweets across our good land.

Here is a quick sample of the reaction to the former Berklee College of Music student…

St. Vincent taught us tonight that America is not at all forward-thinking with its music. — Matt Esposito (@mehhsposito) May 18, 2014

@st_vincent I don't know how I feel about your music! — Kenny (@kennneetthh) May 18, 2014

@nbcsnl @st_vincent thought I was drunk…no just watchin st vincent on snl. what a trip — Jay Eff (@Schpliffy) May 18, 2014

St. Vincent is too weird for me. There. I said it. — Amanda Rose (@AWishin) May 18, 2014

What the hell am I watching with this St. Vincent performance on #SNL? — Matt Keaton (@BangkokPeanut) May 18, 2014

I don't know what to think about St. Vincent — Fawn J. Davis (@Markus_Ellis) May 18, 2014

Utterly confused with St Vincent's SNL performance — Paige (@paige_elis) May 18, 2014

St. Vincent is possibly the weirdest.. band.. thing.. I've seen perform on SNL. — Avis Cyrus (@SupSurruh) May 18, 2014

I'm scared of St. Vincent and I don't care who knows it. — Ryan B. (@IAmByks) May 18, 2014

St. Vincent scares me. — Jake Marcy (@JacobAMarcy) May 18, 2014

st Vincent is out there — Claude (@caraffi_3) May 18, 2014

@st_vincent I wish you luck . I just did not get it ? — Bob (@Bobbyjurkowski) May 18, 2014

I'm all for new music but #StVincent is awful. #SNLFinale — Matt Sigmon (@mattysigmon) May 18, 2014

People are not getting St. Vincent on SNL… On the other hand, several bands are trying hard to imitate her guitar style. #SNL — Rosaura Ochoa (@laquesefue) May 18, 2014

Loving people's reactions to St. Vincent SNL performances lmao — Chelsea G. (@chelseag_07) May 18, 2014

Watching St Vincent tonight on SNL is bizarre. I am so exhausted by artists thinking that being eccentric and strange replaces quality. — Samantha (@PolitelyOffend) May 18, 2014

What the hell is this St. Vincent crap. Is that seriously what music has come too? *refer to my cover pic* … *bang!* — DevXen (@DevXen) May 18, 2014

Yeah – seeing St Vincent on SNL has kind of put a damper on her music for me — Brian (@trot71) May 18, 2014

wait wait isn't St. Vincent on tonight? RT @VicLombardi: What the hell is this band on SNL right now? Please tell me this is a skit. — Brian Schmid (@SchmanthonyP) May 18, 2014

80% of Twitter is confused by St. Vincent on SNL and I'm beyond amused. — Scott (@scott325) May 18, 2014

But, you know, this pretty much sums it up…

St. Vincent is actually really good — Joe Villarosa (@jcav_) May 18, 2014

St. Vincent slayed on #snl tonight — NeonVision8 (@TheWeirdC) May 18, 2014