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Getty imagesThe Grand National Tour of Kendrick Lamar and SZA rolled in London on Tuesday night, how to create the last stadium experience.
It is an art form that some of the world’s largest stars are not yet correct, but the pair incited through their 52-track settlements at the Tottenham Hotper Stadium, leaving gimmicks and distractions to focus on their epic back catalogs.
California rapper and Missouri singer-songwriter already broke the record with the biggest co-head tour in history, including 39 shows in North America and Europe.
This acts as a major celebration of his recent achievements – Lamar’s delux version of SAS’s hit album GNX and SAS, which both appeared in 2024.
On paper, bringing two of the world’s largest artists together in a joint show – instead of caressing one for a support slot – should be a guaranteed success. Look at the bus numbers – they have a combined monthly list at a spotify of 150 million after all.
But keep in mind that these are the two artists who are with different performance styles and the subject matter – SZA is sweet and ether, while Lamar is punch and removed.
The SZA sings about his struggles with his previous relationships and self-values, while the centenary social comment, his upbringing and sometimes rapidly, discovers his enemies.
Nevertheless when they switch between sets, they offer five to six songs each in the early stages of a two and a half hour show, you realized that the shared headline slot was working.
It is clear that the pair made tireless efforts to create a show that feels comfortable – Lamar brought an intensity for the first function with tracks such as King Kunta and Elements, which was punctured from frequent bursting of fire and fireworks.
When it was swapped on the pair, the energy was high, tore through a hit of 30 and broken watches with SZA, which was re -worked to feel the puncture.
The simplicity of the set design, in which the large moving screen and a circular stage were painted on the main stage, allowed to focus on two artists.
Parts of the set are punctured with dancers, but both artists spent most of their sets on their own, drawing full attention from the audience.
Their relationship with 10 years of work in the doubles of the show was certainly clear, in which the pair came together to do all the stars, one of the main attractions of the evening and one of the recent collaboration Luther and Gloria.
It is difficult to divide the audience with any tour that contains more than one headliner, but fans in London greeted the two artists with the same worship.
For some early songs in Lamor, crowded energy was electric, with Moshe Pits standing in the standing areas for backstruat freestyle and family relations.
Lamor was certainly performing exclusively without vocals to show their impressive rap flow and breath control.
The stadium was borrowed from many elements of the show His super bowled half-time show From February this year, which was seen by more than 120 million people.
The crowd was happy to see that many viral dances of that performance made it for tour, providing maximum entertainment to papabu with choreography during the track.
Their set was also mixed with marching band snipetes, which are not only prevalent on Lamar’s GNX album, but also help to re -create the atmosphere of the large American stadium that lends their music themselves.
Looking at Lamor, he stung on a huge spherical stage, he commanded every audience member with his appearance – no dress change, no dance routine, just a rapper at the top of his game.
When he performed his disgruntled tracks, he was the most intense, which also received the biggest response from the crowd.
Is 38 years old Rap Beef throughout the year with Drake The incredibly well documented and may have shown a little restraint during his super bowl show, not displayed tonight.
His performance of enthusiasm – a track in which he expresses his hatred for a Canadian rapper, specifically biting, cutting, especially,
But not us like us, Lamar’s most commercially successful dish track and Drake’s most vicious Techdown was the biggest attraction ever.
It came to the settist as a song 50 of 52 and it was clear that the audience was not just waiting for it all night, but perhaps since he booked his tickets several months ago.
Who knew that Drake focused a track to call a pedophile (something that he rejected firmly) could create the best atmosphere at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that has been seen over the years.
While the stage set-up of Lamar was understood, SZA found a little more creative when it entered its production elements.
His personal sets were based around nature, the dancers saw anything from trees wearing full clothes to huge insects.
SZA also performed several songs behind a huge green ant sculpture before climbing as a huge green ant sculpture and climbing on stage with huge butterfly wings.
Despite creating an out-of-the-world environment, tonight’s performance saw him the most naturally.
After his disappointing Glestonbury Headline Slot In last year’s festival, a lot of discourse surrounded whether she understood the British audience and was able to join them.
The doubt was placed on the bed from the beginning of his performance, which showed his true talents as a confident and multi-talented artist.
The 35 -year -old is immediately associated with the crowd, censoring them with fan favorite like Scorsce Baby Daddy and F2F.
Compared to his Glestonebury Headline Slot, there was a similarity – he again faced technical issues on Tuesday evening, which appeared to struggle with his year -age monitor.
However, it did not affect her tone at all, which was beautifully crisp even during quite complex dance choreography.
The presence of his platform was impressive, as he had the ability to customize his slow songs so that he could work perfectly with a set -set set of Lamor.
Perhaps the biggest attraction of her set came towards the end of the evening, as she took the crowd almost in a dream with snooze.
He then told the mob how it was “crazy how you can engage to fulfill the strangers” before she sings Gathagit, I do not get anyone.
After three of their own separate sets, which included the album Ctrl, sos and the songs of its recently updated deluxe version, SZA once again appeared to finish the show with Lamor.
They finished with two love songs – Luther and Gloria, before disappearing under the stage in a propar, produced equal to riding in sunset.
