{"id":2450640,"date":"2026-06-08T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2450640"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:58:11","slug":"best-of-gov-ball-2026-lorde-asap-rocky-jennie-geese-katseye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/best-of-gov-ball-2026-lorde-asap-rocky-jennie-geese-katseye\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Gov Ball 2026: Lorde, ASAP Rocky, Jennie, Geese, Katseye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe last time Lorde played Gov Ball, it was 2017 and she had just released her second album, Melodrama<\/a><\/em>. The entire day had been pouring rain, something she remembered onstage this year as she performed in what she called \u201cperfect\u201d summer weather. Everything \u2014 the balmy temperature, the lighting, her incredible stage production, and her vocal power \u2014 seemed to be working in order, lining up and allowing her to deliver one of the most powerful festival performances in recent memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe started the show with an upbeat, tech-inspired version of \u201cRoyals,\u201d the breakthrough from 2013 that kicked off her career. In a lot of ways, the Gov Ball set felt like a highlight reel of her entire trajectory and just how far she\u2019s come since signing her first deal as a kid (something she seemed to allude to when she had fans hold up a banner that read \u201cI don\u2019t belong to anyone\u201d<\/a> with the years 2013-2026). She worked through hits from her full discography, closing with a gorgeous rendition of the classic \u201cRibs,\u201d and was deeply vulnerable, sharing how today\u2019s turbulent times have affected her. \u201cOur world feels increasingly unjust, and it feels harder and harder to arrive at your own definitions of beauty and the truth and what is real,\u201d she told the audience. \u201cTo combat all of this, all these fucked-up forces in our world, I would say show yourself\u2026 If we show ourselves in all the broken bits, all the jagged edges, all the filth, I really believe we will start fucking going somewhere.\u201d It felt like the throughline in a set that was transcendent, inspiring, and radically beautiful. \u2014Julyssa Lopez<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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