« BLACKPINK in Your Area ». French fans could no longer wait for the moment when Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie would make their comeback. After three years of discographic absence, marked by solo projects, the four superstars of the K-Pop announced their “Deadline World Tour” with two exceptional dates in France on August 2 and 3 at the Stade de France. A surprise since the Girls Band South Korean has not yet published its new and third album, ultra -awaited since the huge cardboard of “Born Pink” in 2022. Last night, a human tide – with an audience predominantly young and feminine – invaded the Aren of Saint -Denis for a first concert alternating moments and small disappointments.
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A wobbly launch despite the tubes
8:28 p.m. Two years after their last show in Paris, the four members of Blackpink arrive on stage under the howls, after a long intro video – documenting a road trip in the American desert – to signify the 1st act of the five to follow. Back to the public, faced with a giant screen with rose effusions, and while the 16 dancers took possession of the scene and the front-scène, Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie take out the heavy artillery. Mounted on a platform several meters high, they set the tone by aligning a handful of their biggest tubes: “Kill this Love”, “Pink Venom”, “How You Like That” or “Shut You Down”, between choreographies and fireworks. “” Paris I want to hear you scream Lance Jennie after each member presented himself with a little word in French.
But if the show is bright, something is wrong. The movements of the four singers are more nonchalant than expected, some have a closed face (the fault of a sound problem which sees rosé being absent from the stage?), No interaction between them comes to bring group cohesion, and certain parts are even in playback. A kick -off below expectations while the hits resonate under lasers and fireworks. However, the blinks, a luminous hammer at 75 euros in hand, chant each word, reproduce choreographies and give themselves to heart. And it is indeed when each one shares its solo segment throughout the concert that Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie find their brilliance.
Jennie and Lisa set fire solo
Despite too long interludes that come to descend the tension, the BlackPink concert at the Stade de France finally takes all its relief on act 3 while night falls. “” Hi France! “Lance with rosé energy, the best vocalist in the group, after the gleaming” Pretty Savage “and” Don’t Know What to Do “, where the crowd jumps in unison. On the foreground, the four artists mark a break to testify their love and recognition to the public, but impossible for them to offer their speech as the fans cry or chant their names for several minutes. Had have we already seen the Stade de France in this state, and so long? “” Oh my God, Paris is really different! You are one of the best audiences They slip. Shocked by this welcome, Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie are moving as much as they have fun making spectators scream.
A beautiful moment of communion, breaking the oiled mechanics of the show, and which will continue on the “Stay” ballad while the whole stadium lights up. On stage, the group shares the same smile and the same emotion, the two pairs taking place in the arms with sincerity. A beautiful unit to see and which has sorely failed from the start. Especially since the party then is in full swing on the anthem “LOVESICK GIRLS”, full of good waves. After the solo titles of Jennie and Lisa, who put our eyes in particular with in particular the huge tube “Apt”, it is the latest single “Jump” which comes to return the Stade de France with its techno sounds, its crazy lasers, its millimeter choreograph and its fireworks. A grandiose painting – Climax of the evening – which would have deserved to be the final to leave us speechless! Because if “Boombayah” and “ddu-du-du-du” maintain the fervor, “as if it’s your last” and “forever young” then proposed do not have the same intensity.
And what about this ultimate recall where the girls interpret “Jump” again, which has just taken place a few minutes earlier, then “Really” and “Kick it” but without any choreography or staging. In crop top, jeans or sunglasses on the nose, the four members leave us with a segment without artifice, to the cool, which looks like rehearsals, to light years of the show presented so far. Before a big fireworks to top it off. Undoubtedly, BlackPink therefore proved its status as a phenomenon and its incredible popularity last night at the Stade de France with a festive concert and full of good waves, but which would have deserved a little more investment and coherence.
Blackpink concert setlist at the Stade de France
Act 1:
Kill This Love
Pink Venom
How You Like That
Playing With Fire
Shut Down (With dance break incorporating “Crazy Over You” and “Typa Girl”)
ACTE 2:
(Jisoo)
earthquake
Your Love
(LISA)
Thunder
FXCK UP THE WORLD
ACTE 3:
Pretty Savage
Don’t Know What to Do
Whistle
Stay
Lovesick Girls
ACTE 4:
(Jennie)
Mantra
With the IE (way up)
like JENNIE
(ROSÉ)
two years
toxic till the end
APT.
ACTE 5:
JUMP
Boombayah
Ddu-two-two-two
As If It’s Your Last
Forever Young
Rappel :
JUMP
Really
Kick It