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Rachel Chinouriri Fires Up Crowd — Including Adele — With Dynamic Los Angeles Show: Concert Review
Rachel Chinouriri gave a star-turning performance for a crowd that included Adele at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre.
For her, she explained, it was the city of Hereford, the serene U.K. location where she recorded last year’s breakthrough debut “What a Devastating Turn of Events,” a sharply written collection of pop songs that explored an emotional spectrum of heartbreak and self-realization. Throughout the 75-minute set, the 26-year-old instructed audience members — which counted Adele, a fan of the singer who sent her flowers earlier this year — to tell the person next to them that they love them, to whoop instead of applaud, to scream the lyrics to “The Hills” and “Never Need Me.” As she threaded a sonic arc from thrash-adjacent pop-punk to downtrodden, quiet balladry, Chinouriri led a communal experience that was as much bravado as it was contemplative, marking the arrival of a star who’s only still getting her footing. But Chinouriri truly excels in her ability to use songwriting as a method to confront her most difficult moments, and the mood shift turned diaristic as she sang of losing her niece on “Robbed” and getting friend-zoned on “So My Darling,” her first-ever song that she wrote at 17 years old.
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