"From a raised platform about 20 feet in the air, the pop star reflected on her love for the city and its premier venue, expressing gratitude to be back headlining The Garden once again. She had been in the exact position - literally - in 2022, on a raised platform high in the air that weaved back and forth throughout the arena as she performed "Levitating" during her "Future Nostalgia Tour.""
"But above all, Dua Lipa continues to be tastefully extra. A lot like the tour before it, this concert had all the bells and whistles of a great pop show - and then some. I counted six costume changes and just as many confetti explosions. There were moments of casual pyro, not always at the climax of songs but sometimes straight in the middle of one."
Dua Lipa opened the first of four nights at Madison Square Garden on September 17, performing from a raised platform about 20 feet above the arena that echoed her 2022 staging. The Radical Optimism Tour advances the prior US outing while preserving signature elements: a catalog-focused, ecstatic dance-party vibe with club-style treatments of songs like "One Kiss," "Electricity," and "Hallucinate," and an '80s-flavored "Physical." The production included six costume changes, confetti explosions, occasional casual pyro, elaborate choreography, and playful audience moments, blending theatrical spectacle with groovy pop performance energy.
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