{"id":2377803,"date":"2026-04-17T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2377803"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:35:17","slug":"rayes-this-tour-may-contain-new-music-at-radio-city-concert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rayes-this-tour-may-contain-new-music-at-radio-city-concert-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye&#8217;s &#8216;This Tour May Contain New Music&#8217; at Radio City: Concert Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIf there were ever truth in advertising, it can be found in the poster for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/raye\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raye\" data-tag=\"raye\">Raye<\/a>\u2019s sensory-overload \u201cThis Tour May Contain New Music\u201d: \u201cThis tour may also contain: dramatic endings, a brass section, live &amp; passion, at least on jazz cover, potential waffling (excessive unnecessary chatting), a big belted note, a nightclub segment, live strings and a musical hug should you need one.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe brought exactly that Thursday night at the second of two sold-out shows at the art-deco orgasm of New York\u2019s legendarily opulent Radio City Music Hall, which provided a perfect old-school showbiz setting for the concert: She opened with a blazing version of \u201cWhere Is My Husband?,\u201d the lead single from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/reviews\/raye-this-music-may-contain-hope-album-review-1236700952\/\">her latest album, \u201cThis Music May Contain Hope,\u201d <\/a>and from there it was two and a half hours of full-on Raye, accompanied by a 20-piece mini-orchestra in tuxes, with all of her charisma, humor, sky-splitting belting and kaleidoscopic combination of musical genres, which somehow segued smoothly between big-band, pop, R&amp;B, ballads, a cover of the classic \u201cFly Me to the Moon,\u201d a giant orchestral moment with the Hans Zimmer arrangement of \u201cClick Clack Symphony,\u201d and, at the end, a full-on electronic dance segment. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-dailymotion wp-block-embed-dailymotion\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raye Accepts the Triple Threat of the Year Award | Variety Hitmakers\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x9af8qe&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe evening was a family affair, as well: Her younger sisters, who perform under the names Amma and Absolutely and are powerful singers themselves, each performed a short set \u2014 Amma\u2019s pop-leaning, Absolutely\u2019s more complex and experimental, with a break for a slow cover of ABBA\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d \u2014\u00a0and toward the end of the evening they joined sister Raye for \u201cJoy,\u201d as they do on the new album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut for her own set, Raye is the sun around which everything else revolves. She soared through songs from both of her albums, leaning heavily on the new one but only loosely following its involved storyline. There was a lively video screen behind the stage and occasional props, including tables with lamps brought out for a jazzy sit-down segment, but nothing to distract from the star. We first saw her at the 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in 2023, and while she\u2019s always been a powerful live performer, she finally has a stage and a setting big enough to match her ambition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYet even amid such a busy show, the focus is always on Raye\u2019s singing voice: She is a marvel of nature, moving between soft and sultry to multisyllabic near-rapping to full-on belting so effortlessly that it\u2019s like watching an Olympic gymnast perform: It\u2019s actually rather astonishing to see someone talk so much yet still hold a soaring, extremely difficult high note for around 30 seconds \u2014\u00a0at the end of a 150-minute-long show, no less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIndeed, as advertised, Raye talks to the audience so much \u2014 and is so warm and hilarious \u2014\u00a0that her banter is a show in itself. She complimented audience members on their outfits (including one way up in the top balcony), asked a young girl in the balcony to choose which bandmember should solo (communicating via hand signals), and introduced her band twice and asked the audience to applaud for them at least five times. At another point, after holding up jokey signs that read \u201cApplause please\u201d and \u201cMore!,\u201d she reminded everyone of her status as an<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/raye-calls-for-better-songwriter-deals-brit-awards-speech-1235933139\/\"> outspoken independent artist<\/a> by holding up a final sign with a QR code for purchasing the album. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYet her monologue also got very serious during segments of the show where she spoke about heartbreak, and especially during \u201cIce Cream Man,\u201d which is about being sexually assaulted at what she thought was an audition \u2014\u00a0in an especially sobering moment, Raye said statistics show that one in four women have suffered some form of sexual abuse, and asked the audience to imagine \u201cone in four of those beautiful, radiant faces\u201d in the audience as living with that experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut also as promised, the show was all about joy, optimism and self-belief, and if her monologues occasionally veered into self-care exhortations, that was perfectly on brand as well. And as the show wound down, it charged full force into a segment that was a near polar opposite of the cocktail jazzy elements from earlier in the evening: a pulsating ten-minute EDM set called the \u201cNightclub Medley,\u201d complete with bright green lasers sweeping over the audience. A rousing version of \u201cJoy\u201d followed, and then the closer \u201cEscapism,\u201d which Raye halted a couple of times just to bask in the cheers of the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNew York, this is one of the most amazing moments of my life,\u201d she said through tears before laughing, \u201cDon\u2019t tell Night One!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there were ever truth in advertising, it can be found in the poster for Raye\u2019s sensory-overload \u201cThis Tour May Contain New Music\u201d: \u201cThis tour may also contain: dramatic endings, a brass section, live &amp; passion, at least on jazz cover, potential waffling (excessive unnecessary chatting), a big belted note, a nightclub segment, live strings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[346976],"class_list":["post-2377803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-raye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rayes-This-Tour-May-Contain-New-Music-at-Radio-City.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377805,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377803\/revisions\/2377805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}