2023-07-24 08:50:47
American rapper Montero Lamar Hill aka Lil Nas X, during the Lollapalooza festival, at the Longchamp racecourse, in Paris, July 22, 2023. JULIE SEBADELHA / AFP
For its fifth edition and for the first organized over three days, the Lollapalooza traveling festival was a hit in Paris. According to the French subsidiary of the American producer, Live Nation, 170,000 spectators walked the ground around the Longchamp racecourse from July 21 to 23. A success for the French stage of this festival, created in the United States in 1991 by the singer of the rock group Jane’s Addiction, Perry Farrell. Since 2003, it takes place every year in seven different countries including Chile and Brazil and will take place in August in Chicago and in September in Berlin.
The French edition had the distinction this year of having focused on rap artists, thus celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of hip-hop culture in the global musical landscape. A program of urban artists that complemented the traditionally more pop and rock orientation of Lollapalooza, and thus brought together the South Korean K-pop group Stray Kids, with the American rockers OneRepublic, the hip-hop flamenco icon Rosalia with the aesthetes of rhyme Damso or Kendrick Lamar.
Many of these artists had previously filled the Parisian room of the Accor Arena, but offer different shows in festivals: with less scenography like the American Kendrick Lamar at the end, but with renewed energy, as for example for the French Niska at the opening, the very good surprise of Lollapalooza. The rapper from Evry, in Essonne, set the tone for the festival, supported by his dynamic and friendly DJ, Myst la Légende, who sets the mood like a stadium entertainer – “Paris, we play at home”.
He is at ease with his audience who knows everything about the lyrics of his hits, Networks, Charo, The world is wickedbut who knows how to listen to him when he confides in the introduction of his title Building : “It’s a piece that particularly touches me, which retraces my journey and tells of this chance to be here today in front of you, Paname. » Like others in the festival, he mixes the energy of the “trap” verses with sung choruses, supported on stage by the choreographies of his dancers.
The proximity of Rosalia
The next day, his American colleague, Lil Nas X, icon of the LGBTQ+ community, was accompanied only by dancers, displaying a blue bull’s head as a hide-sex, and insisting that festival-goers also move: “I don’t care who’s next to you, shake your ass!” » Vachard, he also doesn’t hesitate to make fun of the public who painfully mumbles the words of his songs: “You are pathetic! »
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