Joe Kere is not the only Netflix star who deals with Lollapalooza fans for music this year.
The actor and musician Dua Saleh delivered a solid set in the early afternoon and brought a lot of moody, progressive R&B and indie electronics songs with indie, which sounded as if they could lead each audience on the hand into a weakly lit club for a strobe-illuminated rave.
The Sudanese-American artist is perhaps better known for her role as Cal Bowman in Netflix '”Sex Education”, but on Saturday, which they referred to as “Clown Core”, they took on a different person and were on the music on laser focus.
The time somewhere slightly illuminated and may have been welcomed from the beating sun for the modest amount that gathered in the grove, some who have decided to withdraw in the shadows, while real Saleh fans defy the barricades to the rays.
Saleh started with her 2022 song “Buzzin”. The fuzling industrial beat raised the speakers when Saleh struts and sang on stage: “I have buzzing them like a bee, now they meet and greet them.”
“From the whole way in St. Paul, Minnesota, I am ready to have fun today!” They told the crowd. Then they asked with a mischievous smile: “Whoever has a sweet butt here? This song is only for her, baby”, and asked when they went in “Bo Peep” from their debut album 2024 “I should call them”.
Saleh was supported by a drummer on stage who occasionally used a sample pad and another musician who juggled guitar and bass while programmed the backing samples.
This balance of living instruments and electronic elements did not always turn out to be successful, since Saleh's occasionally shaky vocals were sometimes overwhelmed by the drums, especially if Saleh would reach into their breathic falsetta, which seems to be on their shots.
A Lolla set in the early afternoon, the Lolla set on the third day, is a unique challenge, since the fans who want in the sun may need help to wake up or push all the cats past.
Saleh seemed to take the challenge in stride and the amount of more than 100 near the barricades to a two-stage Cavernous Club track, the “Fitt” 2021, and they did it.
Although the song contains Amaarae, who organized her own dance party on the Lakeshore stage on Friday, the pop-outrobeat star did not appear.
Instead, a set cameo came on Saturday, when Saleh Chicago's own dreamer Isioma released, who performed his song “Smoking Death”, on which Saleh was introduced. Dreamer came onto the stage in an energy boost, wore a spiked backpack and threw fans who were involved when he knocked his verses on the old hip-hop song.
The song was under several on Saturday under several, where Saleh's Live band gave her songs a harder Rock Edge, which worked well, including her last song “Sugar Mama” and its predecessor, a surprising cover by Britney Spear's groundbreaking Megahit, “Toxic”. Saleh jumped and turned onto the stage while the fans sang with them.
“I lost a nipple ring – I love this song that much!” They told the crowd.