Osheaga-Festival | Stunning Dua Lipa

It was the grand finale, the one we were waiting for impatiently even if she had just brought her tour Future Nostalgia at the Bell Center. Dua Lipa did not disappoint.

Marissa Groguhe
The Press

She dazzled us. The production of his show was breathtaking. The Briton was surrounded by a whole arsenal of dancers (we counted ten), musicians and choristers. And they weren’t there to blend into the background, but to create a superb moment of entertainment with the singer.

Giant screens, impressive light effects, accessories galore, precise choreography for each song: Osheaga was treated to a whole staging of the one we don’t hesitate to call the princess of pop.

Dua Lipa is made to be on stage. She is in complete control as long as she is creating before our eyes. She is also friendly and endearing (for example when she addresses the crowd to thank them).

No matter how much she danced all evening (so much so that she changed her heeled boots for more comfortable ones halfway through the concert), moving all over the stage and on the adjacent catwalk, Lipa was always exact. vocal side. In her sparkling, transparent and sexy stage costume, she performed all the songs from her most recent album, the marvelous Future Nostalgia. If the album is a nugget of pop music, you absolutely have to see it rendered on stage, where it takes on even more scope, becomes even more convincing.

From exaltation to pure emotion

This nostalgia that permeates the disc is a theme respected on stage, in the choice of images, costumes, even dance steps. Without being kitsch, Dua Lipa pays homage to disco-pop. During Cool, two of her dancers put on roller skates and accompany her while a disco ball is projected on the screen behind her. We lift her in the air (while she sings, please) during the groovy and sultry Pretty Please. And later, for Boys Will Be Boysshe creates a moment of pure emotion… which ends in an amazing dance remix where her dancers take center stage.

We particularly appreciate the attention to detail in the blockbuster that is this Dua Lipa show. For example, you can read Osheaga in the animation at the start of the show. The choreographies tell stories. We feel the desire to offer a complete concert in the choice of transitions: something rather rare among pop artists, Dua Lipa sometimes connects three or four songs by merging them. We never stop dancing, she wants us to enjoy it without the moment of ecstasy falling.

Dua Lipa knows how to give her audience a good time. It all seems effortless, but there’s no denying that the work put into this show is tremendous — if only in the perfect execution of such a complex staging. That says it all, if she came back to Montreal for a third time next week, we would be there!