The British artist performed on Thursday June 1 in front of a delighted audience and sported the artist’s favorite accessories.
The boas and pink cowboy hats of Harry Styles fans, who know all the songs by heart, flooded the Stade de France for the first of the British star’s two fevered concerts, Thursday June 1. Already in the summer of 2022 Harry Styles had filled Bercy, but too many faithful had been disappointed not to find tickets. This time it is sold out at the Stade de Saint-Denis, also with a date Friday June 2, 70,000 spectators per evening.
Audience in pink, Harry in black
Play it like Harry. In addition to pink, many spectators, the majority of the public, came dressed in the singer’s favorite accessories and outfits, fabrics with printed hearts, leather outfits, cherry patterns, heart glasses, sequined dresses and, more rarely, a few wings of butterfly in the back. The wink of the boa dates from the Grammys 2021 ceremony, where the ex-leader of One Direction had sung Watermelon Sugar with a green feather thing. Since the boa is his signature. public in pink
This 2019 hit was also one of the highlights of the Saint-Denis show, attacked by its new brass and woodwind quartet, two trumpets, a trombone and a tenor sax, instead of the album’s funky guitar. The crowd accompanied their Harry throughout the song, like during almost 1h40 of concert. This coppery touch is the 2023 novelty of the gargantuan love on tour, started in September 2021 in Las Vegas when the world was emerging from the Covid epidemic. After a round the world, the pink wave will scour Europe for a second time until the end of July in Reggio d’Emilia, Italy.
To the sound of brass
The brass and woodwinds also energized Late night talkingtenor sax in the lead, with a superb trumpet solo, and served as an intro à la YMCAs Village People on Music for a sushi restaurant. If the copper section, three women and a man, wore Hawaiian shirts, the orchestra, mixed, was all in pink, fitting with the crowd. Harry was dressed in black, leather pants and a tank top with sequins.
He once again entertained his Parisian fans with this concert opened by Daydreaming, before digging into his three albums. A cry of pleasure ran through the stadium in the first bars of She, with a very pop acoustic guitar, a piece he rarely sings on stage. The vast majority of the audience sang along. Harry even tried to speak French, sparingly. “We’re going to play some music for you tonight, I was hoping (sic) you’ll enjoy”he launched after the first three songs, repeating several times: “Let’s go!“.
A nod to One Direction
He also played with “meh”, her “favorite word in French”And “grapefruit”his other favorite word in the language of Jean-Louis Murat, not surprising for a singer with a fruity repertoire, Kiwi, Cherry Or grape juice in addition to Watermelon (watermelon). The fans got “ambient” on the expected moments that punctuate his concerts, when he wore a stetson – white, that one – stretched out by a spectator, on Satellite, when he addressed the public by reading their signs or when he waved the rainbow flag of LGBT Pride, on Treat people with kindness.
As expected he took over a piece of One Direction, trapping his audience, to which he made sing the chorus of Best song ever abefore finally singing What makes you beautiful. The concert also had more intimate moments, with Matilda and its harmonics on the acoustic guitar, where thin line, or it is accompanied by folk. He looped to the encores on his two huge hits Sign of the times And As it was before concluding with a tonic Kiwi. Then the stadium emptied, revealing the swirls of multicolored boa feathers strewn on the ground, carried away by the evening wind. Harry Styles has been there.