A priori, the names of his albums – Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017) at Solar power (2021) – give a good idea of ​​the artistic trajectory, as if the New Zealander was gradually moving from shadow to light.

It makes sense that Lorde was no longer the 15 -year -old he was in 2012, when he created the song Royals that would make him famous around the world. But after seeing him twice at festivals in Montreal (Osheaga 2014 and 2017), it was as enjoyable as possible to see him express his art and his creativity in a concert hall with a production worthy -should be in the name.

Lord-de! Lord-de!

And hopefully she will, Auckland-born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, in 1996. In the minutes before she arrives on stage, you can hear people shouting her name or bursting into shrill cries with each volume. . drop. background music. To my right in row R, the three maidens could no longer wait. In front of me, the spectator came to the concert on crutches. Need what it takes to see his favorite.

Turning off the lights at 8:42 pm blew the decibel scale and the eardrum in my right ear (the three women watching …), while the majority of Lorde’s generation – so many women – rose to never sit down again for over an hour. and a half.

The New Zealander heard himself before he was seen on Head of the New Regimeits silhouette depicted as a Chinese shadow by a large drum at the top of a slender staircase whose shape, viewed at an angle, is reminiscent of the end of the lighting structures of the Place des Festivals.

Great presentation

This duo of atypical shapes – one geometric, one not – sits on a rotating platform that allows Lorde many variants, presentation department: interpretations in the middle of the staircase (Buzzcut Season), lying at the foot of the steps (California), lying on the stairs (mood ring) or others, with his musicians and singers behind him, as happened The path. And that doesn’t count the two large fixed staircases on the sides of the stage where the musicians, musicians and singers took place. Great caliber of presentation.

It’s raining outside, but here you can see the sun. It’s magic. You don’t know how happy I am to be heresaid the singer after three songs.

The danger in any large production is sometimes threatening to eat the actor. Not here. The introvert and introspective Lorde of beginnings has allowed an absolute actor to really enjoy talking to his joie de vivre on stage in an environment worthy of the great.

More measurable are those who saw the teenager nearly ten years ago dancing wild with no facial expression. Lorde knows how to show restraint when the opportunity requires it, but he almost runs the stage from one end to the other with an invigorating recitation of Ribs.

From anxiety to pleasure

It was obviously fun to go on a world tour again this week – the Montreal concert was just his third stopover – he greeted our city, which he seemed to appreciate, and he mentioned his connection to the scene, sitting on the steps of his revolving staircase, during an acoustic segment included Domino at Liability. That moment is reminiscent of Osheaga, this time in 2017, when he sat on stage to face people in pouring rain. Minus the rain, of course …

In the old days, it was okay on stage, but hours before the concerts … I was terrified. This is no longer the case. The anxiety is over.

A keen observer of what was going on around her, the author-composer has long translated bitter emotion into her songs, especially at the relationship level, which attracted a young female audience who met themselves to him.

On Thursday, almost all of the songs-from today’s classic to the latest-were performed by a chorus of approximately 3,000 voices from the floor to the depths of Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier’s last balcony. Solar power Although it has been released since 2021, we rarely attend a concert where the new titles are so familiar.

Divided into three stages where Lorde changes clothes on each occasion, from a casual opening dress to a figure-hugging dress, then in a 1970s stamped pants-bustier set, the concert reaches its climax its by triple punch. consisting of Matino, Supercut at Perfect Places. Funk lines and pulsations swept the room and made the audience dance the tall Wilfrid. The only thing missing is the disco ball, well …

In the absence of the ball, confetti rained down on the spectators in the final of Solar power which perfectly set the table for a Green light delirious where Lorde literally released happiness. He keeps for reminder what is important Royals which he interpreted as a ray of light focused on him, before ending with another song from the first hour, The teamthat the lyrics – “ We are on each other’s team – perfectly reflects his connection to the public.

If this concert proved to be a terrific tone in ambient grayness, it also showed that Lorde was able to defend on boards a very different record from a stylistic standpoint than his predecessors. And then, casually, the supposed 25-year-old woman she became has retained the enthusiasm of the 17-year-old teenager who so overwhelmed us in 2014.