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Lorde's Ultrasound Tour Blends Digital Glitches and Intimate Moments
16 Nov, 2025
Summary
- Lorde's show features frenetic digital glitches and crowd-pleasing intimacy
- Singer strips down to her underwear during "Current Affairs" performance
- Lorde's body is a focus, with dancers filming her midriff on screens
On November 16, 2025, Lorde, the New Zealand alt-pop diva, took the stage at the AO Arena in Manchester, delivering a captivating performance that blended frenetic digital glitches with crowd-pleasing intimacy.
The show featured shades of Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense," with Lorde clamoring across tabletops in euphoric abandon. Screens flickered behind her in a fast-paced blur of electric blue, her projection shattered into pixelated 8-bit dots. During the song "Current Affairs," Lorde confided to the audience, "You tasted my underwear, I knew we were fucked," as she stripped down to her grey Calvin Klein boxers.
The emphasis on the body was a central theme, with dancers wielding handheld cameras to film Lorde's midriff, the images projected onto the screens. The lens twisted, holding the contours of Lorde's body in a small reclamation of self. "I'm a little starstruck by you, Manchester," she shouted to the adoring crowd.
As the night drew to a close, Lorde emerged in a luminous bike-reflector jacket, holding on to a member of the audience as he sang "David." The live feed glitched between her soft face and a pre-recorded image, a digital echo of the night's performance and her past. Lorde truly captured intimacy and nostalgia in a way that left the audience captivated.
