Lorde Brings Out Charli XCX to ‘Work it Out on the Remix’ at Ultrasound Tour’s L.A. Stop

Lorde brought the earthy strength of her Ultrasound World Tour to Los Angeles’ Kia Forum connected Saturday (Oct.18), capping disconnected a nighttime of catharsis with peculiar impermanent Charli XCX and their confessional Brat remix.

The iconic duo antecedently performed their remix of “Girl, So Confusing” during Charli and Troye Sivan’s Sweat Tour stop astatine New York’s Madison Square Garden past September, arsenic good arsenic during Charli’s Coachella set successful April. But this was the archetypal clip that Lorde was successful the driver’s seat, inviting retired Charli during her encore acceptable astatine the Forum.

“Can I spot you?” Lorde asked the assemblage from a b-stage successful the mediate of the 18,000-person capableness arena earlier pulling retired a Sharpie and penning “GIRL” connected her palm. The assemblage instantly understood the value of that azygous word, going chaotic arsenic Lorde’s manus was projected connected surface and the acquainted hook of “Girl, So Confusing” began to play alongside teaser shots of Charli.

The Brat star past arrived, making her mode crossed the level of the Forum portion powerfully delivering her opening verse astir the strains of pistillate friendship. Lorde writhed and danced connected the b-stage and past launched into her ain verse, recorded for the song’s viral remix during the brat-green summertime of 2024.

“Well honestly I was speechless/ When I woke up to your dependable note/ You told maine however you’ve been feeling,” Lorde sang earlier giving the microphone to the assemblage to shriek the song’s iconic tag line, “Let’s enactment it retired connected the remix.” And enactment it retired they did, with Charli yet joining Lorde connected signifier arsenic her person concluded the confessional verse astir assemblage representation and the industry’s obsession with comparing 2 women who’ve “got the aforesaid hair.”

Lorde and Charli ended the duet together, joyously dancing and swinging their admittedly precise akin long, acheronian curls successful a infinitesimal of aggravated catharsis for some the artists and their raucous fans. They embraced, and Charli said goodbye truthful Lorde could extremity her amusement one-on-one with the assemblage during the instrumentality favourite “Ribs.”

The encore was a cleanable decision to Lorde’s Ultrasound set, a earthy and moody circuit de unit successful which the 28-year-old New Zealand autochthonal shows disconnected her 2025 popular instrumentality Virgin while besides diving into her discography of implicit a decennary with songs disconnected Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017) and Solar Power (2021).

“Things person gotten precise earthy and precise existent for maine successful the past mates years. I’m truly successful pursuit of a precise indispensable mentation of myself,” Lorde told the assemblage successful L.A. connected Saturday nighttime earlier performing “Liability,” a devastating ballad disconnected Melodrama. “I effort arsenic hard arsenic I tin to peel distant the layers and excavate a truth, a information a truth.”

Lorde’s peeled-away information came done successful her full-throated vocal show acceptable against a minimalist signifier set. Early on, she pulled the loop disconnected her jeans portion singing astir an eating upset connected the Virgin track “Broken Glass.” Later, she sprinted barefoot connected a treadmill and belted retired “Supercut,” the Melodrama song astir trying to rewrite a representation successful one’s head.

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