The pop star manifests a visual spectacle that takes her to new heights “I’ve kept thinking about this moment – what I’d think when I stood on this stage and saw all these people,” Dua Lipa says during her Pyramid Stage headline slot, explaining that she’s been manifesting this moment since childhood. “I’ve wished for it. I’ve dreamt of it.
I’ve worked so hard for it...
and it feels good!” From the get-go, it becomes obvious that the 28-year-old isn’t exaggerating when she explains what this set means for her. In the brief moments where she breaks away from a wall of back-to-back hits, she looks at the audience in disbelief and compares the performance to her early gigs where she played to a crowd of 10. “Little me would just be beside herself right now,” she says.
For the most part, that’s where the sentiments come to an end, as the rest of the night (June 27) becomes an immersive visual spectacle: packed to the brim with perfectly choreographed routines and impossibly-fast outfit changes. Starting the set, she walks out to a clip of Peter Fonda from the 1966 film The Wild Angels , expressing how he’s looking for ‘a good time’, before she breaks into recent single ‘Training Season’. The atmosphere created just moments into the set is undoubtedly one of Lipa’s biggest strengths, with the feel-good energy becoming the core of this career-defining moment.
The crowd passionately sing back each word while pink flares colour the sky. Dua L.
