#louis performances

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31Aug21

Lou debuted a new song last night; The Larents sure know how to write Songs that soothe and assuage Amid challenge and Change, And tell us we’re* gonna be alright.

*they’re

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Louis performing “Mr. Brightside” in Madrid - 9.14.19

[larrylimericks]

13Feb21

Turns out H filmed his dance video On the eve of Lou’s first solo show. Both events went down In old London Town. Was Haz at Scala? When y’know, y’know.

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Madrid, 9.14.19

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random question but now that Louis has mostly toured 2 albums (obviously he still has latam to go but for now), he’s grown so much vocally in these few years and is also just singing things that suit him far better than 1D stuff, I was just wondering if you have like a top 5 or so specific performances you keep going back to watch

Confession: I don’t really rewatch performances except ones like the London Livestream (unavailable to purchase … why) and the very first AFHF.

Here are five performances that ripped me from my seat:

1. Louis singing We Made It as he ran out to the Crystal Palace stage at AFHF 2021. I can’t even watch it without feeling emotional. It was a long. fucking. time. coming. Louis was so beautiful, so alive and human, so in command of his audience and his music… everything at the height of Louis’ achievement up to that point. A validating, triumphant, heart-bursting moment.

2. Louis singing Too Young at Sirius XM. Louis had been working diligently with Helene Horlyck up to this point and it shows. His vocals here were better than vocals on FITF tour. The studio is the most revealing, challenging type of room— acoustic instruments, live audience, small space, soundscape designed to amplify every sniffle and cough. To say Louis smashed it is an understatement. He sang a simple ballad like it was no big deal, like a walk in the park, in the most challenging situation. And he looked sexy as hell.

3. Beautiful War, Live From London Livestream. If I could list every song from LFL, I would. This was the show that sold LTWT tickets, and Louis deserved every single kudos (Guinness Records and otherwise). The production was also immaculately done (thank you, Charlie and Dave Lightening), the arrangements, everything about this show. This song, in particular, shows Louis’ control of pacing, storytelling, drama, and theatrical instincts. Singing it is a little bit like musical theater— it tells an intense love story. And he does it brilliantly, again and again, 80+ times on tour.

4. Copy Of A Copy Of A Copy, LFL.

The staging here is perfection. Perfect storytelling, perfectly elegant and understated performance, and his vocals are the best he’s ever sounded. I would include the Copy Of A Copy performances from LTWT because the graphics are so on point.

5. Always You, LTWT Barcelona

The exuberance and joy in starting tour at last, with this song that should have been a single in 2017 and deserved to be toured in 2017-18. The feeling of liberation in the chorus and in the crowd singing it vibrates through the screen. Thank you, Mary Jane, for capturing it!

6. Honorable mention: Change, AFHF 2021

No words can describe how I love this song. This is an underrehearsed and flawed performance, but it is beautiful and raw, and I treasure it.