{"id":284478,"date":"2025-07-23T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284478\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:11:13","slug":"kendrick-lamar-and-sza-deliver-a-stadium-worthy-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284478\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar and SZA deliver a stadium-worthy performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst Lamar’s stage set-up was understated, SZA got a little more creative when it came to her production elements.<\/p>\n

Her individual sets were based around nature, with dancers appearing throughout dressed as anything from trees to giant insects.<\/p>\n

SZA also performed several songs on the back of what appeared to be a giant green ant sculpture, before climbing into a harness and ascending the stage with huge butterfly wings.<\/p>\n

Despite creating an out-of-this-world environment on-stage, tonight’s performance saw her at her most natural.<\/p>\n

After her disappointing Glastonbury headline slot<\/a> at last year’s festival, much of the discourse surrounded whether she understood British audiences and was able to connect to them.<\/p>\n

That doubt was put to bed from the very start of her performance, which displayed her true talents as a confident and multi-talented artist.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old connected with the crowd instantly, serenading them with fan favourites such as Scorsese Baby Daddy and F2F.<\/p>\n

In comparison to her Glastonbury headline slot, there was one similarity – she again suffered technical issues on Tuesday evening, appearing to struggle with her in-ear monitors throughout.<\/p>\n

However, this didn’t affect her vocals at all, which were beautifully crisp, even during fairly complicated dance choreography.<\/p>\n

Her stage presence was impressive, as was her ability to adapt her slower songs so that they dovetailed perfectly with Lamar’s frenetically paced sets.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest highlight of her set came towards the end of the evening, as she lulled the crowd into an almost dreamlike state with Snooze.<\/p>\n

She then told the crowd how it was “crazy how you can go from being engaged to complete strangers” before she sang ballad Nobody Gets Me.<\/p>\n

After performing three of her own separate sets, which included songs from albums Ctrl, SOS and its recently updated deluxe version, SZA appeared once more to end the show with Lamar.<\/p>\n

They finished with two love songs – Luther and Gloria, before disappearing beneath the stage in a prop car, basically the production equivalent of riding off into the sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whilst Lamar’s stage set-up was understated, SZA got a little more creative when it came to her production…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-284478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114901069517932677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}