Lorde gives the 'Royals' treatment to Jacobs Pavilion: Concert review
Lorde walked out onto the Jacobs Pavilion stage Wednesday night looking a bit like the 17-year-old she is, clad in black, rueful and with her hands in her pockets.
She walked off the stage an hour and 15 minutes later, looking every bit like the Grammy-winning star she is, resplendent in red, joyous and with the entire crowd firmly in her pockets.
The New Zealand-born singer-songwriter, touring in support of her debut album "Pure Heroine'' and its Grammy-winning hit, "Royals,'' is a larger-than-life presence onstage.
The lush sounds of the 13 songs she delivered – with no encore, which frankly wasn't a problem because I don't think anyone felt cheated by skipping the song-and-dance usually involved in them – captivated the crowd of mostly young ladies who felt compelled to sing and dance along with her.
The fact of the matter is that the indie-pop songstress with the multi-octave range A) can flat-out sing; and B) can hold a crowd."Royals'' was not a fluke. When I talked to her, she wondered if it was even the best song on the album. Now, after having seen her live, while I like the song – and her performance of it Wednesday night – I'm wondering the same thing.
"Team,'' "A World Alone'' and "Ribs'' echoed through the night air as she danced frenetically about the stage, whipping her head so hard that sometimes, I thought we might hear a whipcrack from her hair. And her cover of Bon Iver's "Heavenly Father'' was, to my mind, one of the highlights of the set.
