{"id":316578,"date":"2025-10-19T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316578\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:13:10","slug":"lorde-and-charli-xcx-sing-girl-so-confusing-at-l-a-ultrasound-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316578\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde and Charli XCX Sing “Girl, So Confusing” at L.A. Ultrasound Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLorde<\/a> brought the raw intensity of her Ultrasound World Tour to Los Angeles\u2019 Kia Forum on Saturday (Oct.18), capping off a night of catharsis with special guest Charli XCX<\/a> and their confessional Brat remix.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe iconic duo previously performed their remix of \u201cGirl, So Confusing\u201d during Charli and Troye Sivan\u2019s Sweat Tour stop<\/a> at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden last September, as well as during Charli\u2019s Coachella set<\/a> in April. But this was the first time that Lorde was in the driver\u2019s seat, inviting out Charli during her encore set at the Forum.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCan I trust you?\u201d Lorde asked the crowd from a b-stage in the middle of the 18,000-person capacity arena before pulling out a Sharpie and writing \u201cGIRL\u201d on her palm. The audience immediately understood the significance of that single word, going wild as Lorde\u2019s hand was projected on screen and the familiar hook of \u201cGirl, So Confusing\u201d began to play alongside teaser shots of Charli.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Brat star then arrived, making her way across the floor of the Forum while powerfully delivering her opening verse about the strains of female friendship. Lorde writhed and danced on the b-stage and then launched into her own verse, recorded for the song\u2019s viral remix<\/a> during the brat-green summer of 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell honestly I was speechless\/ When I woke up to your voice note\/ You told me how you\u2019ve been feeling,\u201d Lorde sang before giving the microphone to the audience to scream the song\u2019s iconic tag line, \u201cLet\u2019s work it out on the remix.\u201d And work it out they did, with Charli finally joining Lorde on stage as her friend concluded the confessional verse about body image and the industry\u2019s obsession with comparing two women who\u2019ve \u201cgot the same hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLorde and Charli ended the duet together, joyously dancing and swinging their admittedly very similar long, dark curls in a moment of intense catharsis for both the artists and their raucous fans. They embraced, and Charli said goodbye so Lorde could end her show one-on-one with the audience during the fan favorite \u201cRibs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe encore was a perfect conclusion to Lorde\u2019s Ultrasound set, a raw and moody tour de force in which the 28-year-old New Zealand native shows off her 2025 pop return Virgin while also diving into her discography of over a decade with songs off Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017) and Solar Power (2021).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThings have gotten very raw and very real for me in the last couple years. I\u2019m really in pursuit of a very essential version of myself,\u201d Lorde told the crowd in L.A. on Saturday night before performing \u201cLiability,\u201d a devastating ballad off Melodrama. \u201cI try as hard as I can to peel away the layers and excavate a truth, a truth a truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLorde\u2019s peeled-away truth came through in her full-throated vocal performance set against a minimalist stage set. Early on, she pulled the belt off her jeans while singing about an eating disorder on the Virgin track \u201cBroken Glass.\u201d Later, she sprinted barefoot on a treadmill and belted out \u201cSupercut,\u201d the Melodrama song about trying to rewrite a memory in one\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut for Lorde, telling the truth also meant addressing today\u2019s political moment; she flashed lights in the colors of the Palestinian flag during the Pure Heroine hit \u201cTeam,\u201d and she fittingly mentioned while singing her 2013 breakout single \u201cRoyals\u201d that Saturday was \u201cNo Kings Day,\u201d a national day of protest against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are not okay,\u201d Lorde told the audience during her \u201cLiability\u201d speech. \u201cWe are sick, and we need to get well. It\u2019s urgent. And I don\u2019t have answers, obviously, but I believe that this many people getting together on a Saturday night and experiencing this shared agony and ecstasy, falling apart with friends and loved ones and strangers in a room, that\u2019s the strongest medicine we have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorde brought the raw intensity of her Ultrasound World Tour to Los Angeles\u2019 Kia Forum on Saturday (Oct.18),…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,21200,159076,33421,2961,224,5337,5499],"class_list":{"0":"post-316578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-concert","11":"tag-genre-dance","12":"tag-genre-pop","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-music-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}