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From The Austin360 blog
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Why wasn’t Lorde a headliner?
As soon as the opening note to “Glory and Gore” sounded Sunday, arms holding smartphones shot up en masse. Lorde, already iconic, emerged in an all-black ensemble — crop top, harem pants and a diaphanous sleeveless kimono. She jerked her limbs without inhibition, with every industrial beat and droning synth blast. She thrashed her body up and down, using her wavy, brown plumage to maximum effect. She looked like a goth comet
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I like that - Goth Comet
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No one got in, few could get out. All’s fair in Lorde and war.
As soon as that famous mane made itself known, the mood shifted in an instant from tense endurance to euphoria. Lorde explained to the audience that she started her U.S. tour at Austin Music Hall in March, and that this ACL Fest weekend two set would bring it to a close.
“I actually had my first barbecue here,” she said. “So there’s that. It’s a sick addiction. This is what you’ve done to me.”
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Lorde closed out the set with a knockout barrage of breakout smash “Royals,” recently released “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” track “Yellow Flicker Beat” (which she called a special treat for Austin) and closer “Team.” On the last song, the music, purple lights and strobes all swelled in tandem to an epic fever pitch, magnified by the sound of an entire field of people stretching as far as the eye could see singing every word in unison.
As the song came to a triumphant close, Lorde implored the audience to give her crew the biggest cheer of their lives, waved goodbye, and patted her bandmates on the back as she strutted off.
Pearl Jam and Calvin Harris were already playing as the audience filed out. No one must have told them the show was already over.
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