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Charli XCX Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan keeps Brat Summer hot

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Charli XCX Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan keeps Brat Summer hot

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Never has a co-headlining tour taken more into account the concept of sharing the spotlight than British pop sensation Charli XCX and Australian Troye Sivan on the tour they brought to the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix on Sunday 13 October?

The Sweat Tour features occasional collaborators who alternate very short appearances on stage. At one point, Charli XCX did four songs in a row. These were the most uninterrupted songs we heard from both acts.

Most of the “sets” were in the two- to three-song range, although Sivan did two sets consisting of a single song, and as the show neared its conclusion, there were two occasions when they did a single song together: “1999”, which closed the set proper, and the third and final encore, “Talk Talk”.

Alternating sets was a novel approach that kept things moving at a fast pace. Sometimes they even overlapped. Sivan and his dancers stayed back after closing a set with “STUD” to dance with Charli XCX as she began her next set with “365.” In moments like those, the transition was seamless.

Sweat Tour 2024 setlist: Every song Charli XCX and Troye Sivan played at the Phoenix concert

Brat Summer is still going strong

By the time the show was over, we had heard a few more songs from Charli XCX than Sivan. But that is to be expected.

It’s been a while since Charli seized the cultural zeitgeist with “Brat,” a modern-day masterpiece of edgy electronic pop whose breakthrough was so viral we renamed an actual season on her honor

Even Kamala Harris got in on the summer action, adopting the lime green cover aesthetic on her social media, in which Joe Biden dropped out of the race while Charli XCX herself weighed in with “kamala IS brat” on social media.

That was a moment too.

This is Charli XCX’s biggest US tour to date. He last played metro Phoenix in 2019, headlining the Marquee Theater in Tempe a year after joining Taylor Swift at State Farm Stadium on the opening night of the Reputation Tour.

Shygirl started the party with strong house beats

British dance sensation Shygirl was a brilliant choice for an opener, taking the stage to the hard house beats of ‘Thicc’ and ‘4eva’.

More than once, he paused long enough to tell the crowd “Let’s keep this energy going” when there was no real danger of losing that energy as he pounded the speakers with block beats through highlights like “Tasty”, “BDE, ” “Mr. Useless” and “Freak”.

He even performed the latter’s lyrics, dropping to the floor to squirm for a while, which unsurprisingly caused quite a reaction.

Troye Sivan and Charli XCX played very short sets again

Shygirl was followed by Sivan, who led her dancers through increasingly suggestive choreography as she made her way from “Got Me Started” to “What’s the Time Where You Are?” and “My My My!”, a song that topped the Billboard Dance Club chart in 2018, before giving the stage to Charli XCX.

The crowd went wild when a four-sided Brat curtain fell to reveal the star, who blasted straight through three songs from that new release with Shygirl rejoining her on “365,” a song so undeniably made Barack Obama’s summer playlist. followed by “360” and “Von Dutch”.

And with that, it was back to Sivan for three songs, including a wonderful rendition of “Rager Teenager!” this might have been his best performance of the night.

Charli XCX then returned for three more songs from “Brat” and a return to 2017’s “Unlock It.”

Charli XCX took the spotlight, for obvious reasons, on ‘Brat’

At the time, it was clear that Charli planned to keep the focus squarely on her latest album, a strong contender for the most acclaimed release of 2024. Before the set was over, she’d made her way through ‘Club Classics “. “Sympathy is a Knife”, “Apple”, “Everything is Romantic” and “Girl, So Confused”.

Billie Eilish’s vocals steamed along on a steamy beat through “Guess,” a bonus track on the deluxe edition, which featured Charli spitting on the glass track, dropping to her knees and appearing to lick her his own saliva off stage, while captured by the camera under the glass.

And when he returned to the highlights of the pre-“Brat” era, the crowd went just as wild, from “Unlock It” to “Speed ​​Drive” (the single from the “Barbie” soundtrack ” which borrows its chorus hook from Toni Basil’s song “Mickey”), “Vroom Vroom” and Icona Pop collaboration “I Love It”, a massive hit that may have sparked audience participation most enthusiastic on Sunday.

She’s an energetic presence, commanding a stage she single-handedly occupies with the effortless draw of a natural entertainer relishing the moment she’s been working towards all this time as she performs to signature eye-popping tracks of the sun that he threw offstage for dramatic effect at one point. .

Troye Sivan is a commanding presence

Sivan is a commanding presence in his own right, and the crowd was clearly in his corner from the moment he made his first appearance on the Footprint Center stage through highlights like “You” and “Rush.” He is a lively singer who is also a very good dancer.

The choreography was not only tight, but often erotically charged, as he and his dancers simulated sexual acts in various stages of undress.

He brought a satin-sheeted bed onstage for “In My Room” and “Dance to This” and lap danced one of his dancers while wearing a bustier during “One of Your Girls,” a song that ended in another round. simulated sex

He may not be as well known in the mainstream as his tour mate, but Sivan received a hero’s welcome from the sold-out crowd.

The Sweat Tour would have felt like a night at the club (or a rave) had it not been for the minimal but brilliant staging, with its scaffolding at the back and the caged area under the catwalk with filming camera comings and goings of the co-headlining superstars.

Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Tour Setlist: All the Songs They Performed in Phoenix

Here are all the songs from the Sweat Tour 2024 tracklist when Charli XCX and Troye Sivan hit the Footprint Center in Phoenix.

Act I – Troye Sivan

  • “it started me”
  • “What time is it where you are?”
  • “My, my!”

Act I – Charli XCX

  • “365” (with Shygirl)
  • “360”
  • “Von Dutch”

Act II – Troye Sivan

  • “in my room”
  • “dance with it”
  • “Teenage Rager!”

Act II – Charli XCX

  • “Club Classics”
  • “unlock it”
  • “Sympathy is a knife”
  • “Guess”

Act III – Troye Sivan

Act III – Charli XCX

  • “Spring Trench”
  • “girl so confused”

Act IV – Troye Sivan

  • “The Call” (interlude video)
  • “one of your girls”

Act IV — Charli XCX

  • “Everything is romantic”
  • “Speed ​​Driving”
  • “Apple”

Act V – Troye Sivan

  • “silly”
  • “you”
  • “STALL”

Act V – Charli XCX

  • “365”
  • “Vroom Vroom”

Act V: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan

Encore — Charli XCX

  • “Track 10”
  • “I love it”

Encore – Troye Sivan

Encore – Charli XCX and Troye Sivan

Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more. He did the same in Pittsburgh for more than a decade. Follow him on X and Instagram @edmasley and on Facebook as Ed Masley. Email him at [email protected].

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