Lorde Brings ‘Virgin’ Home With Ultrasound Tour Stop at Madison Square Garden: 7 Best Moments

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The prima crafted overmuch of her latest medium successful NYC. At MSG, the euphony yet came home.

10/2/2025

Lorde performs astatine the Moody Center successful Austin, TX connected September 17, 2025.

As she says connected Virgin closer “David,” which she performed to a sold-out Madison Square Garden connected Wednesday (Oct. 1) night, Lorde doesn’t beryllium to anyone — but if her 4th workplace medium did person a home, it would beryllium New York City.

Not lone did the Kiwi popular prima — caller disconnected of a devastating heartbreak and successful the trenches of sex find and body-image issues — trade overmuch of Virgin with shaper Jim-E Stack aft relocating to NYC 4 years ago, she besides channeled the city’s vigor into each facet of the album. Lead azygous “What Was That” features a notation to Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right, portion “If She Could See Me Now” calls backmost to past horses “running up Prince Street” downtown. And erstwhile it came clip to beforehand Virgin, Lorde made her TikTok debut with a video of herself walking done Washington Square Park successful the West Village, which would aboriginal go the tract of a frenetic music video shoot costarring a swarm of fans.

With each of that successful mind, the singer’s Ultrasound World Tour halt astatine MSG felt similar thing abbreviated of a homecoming amusement (even if Lorde is really from New Zealand). With a setlist spanning the songs connected Virgin as good arsenic each 3 of her erstwhile albums — Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017) and Solar Power (2021) — the Grammy victor brilliantly synthesized each of her past lives into 1 cohesive communicative connected stage. Laser lights, unrecorded camera footage connected the large screens and a minimalistic acceptable escaped of immoderate dressings beyond a symbolic treadmill and a ample instrumentality disconnected to the broadside made for a ocular aesthetic that was conscionable arsenic bare-bones and earthy arsenic Virgin is — thing Lorde said has everything to bash with the metropolis successful which it was crafted.

“I’ve been looking guardant to this amusement obviously, but I’ve been benignant of nervous, too,” she confessed implicit the descending soft chords of enduring Melodrama fan-favorite “Liability.” “I figured retired wherefore contiguous — it’s due to the fact that you support maine honest. I moved present successful 2021. I didn’t truly archer anyone what I was going to do. I conscionable started spending a batch of clip walking astir this island. You astir apt saw maine — shot cap, large headphones, benignant of muttering to myself each the time. What I recovered surviving here, and truly the crushed Virgin exists, is determination is existent quality successful stripping distant the layers,” she said.

Lorde is present gearing up to walk the remainder of 2025 taking her Ultrasound trek done North America and Europe, aft which she’ll adjacent retired with a tally of shows successful New Zealand and Australia successful February. Check retired the champion moments from her triumphant amusement astatine Madison Square Garden.