Evidently, Audrey Hobert is doing something right. Her song "Sue Me" became a viral hit, and the Paris show originally scheduled at La Machine du Moulin Rouge quickly outgrew the room. The concert was moved five minutes up the road to the splendid Le Trianon, which also ended up selling out. Not bad for an artist whose debut album, Who's the Clown, has been out for less than seven months.
As a performer, she exhibits plenty of confidence, charisma and just the slightest hint of insanity needed to properly deliver her self-reflective anthems of empowerment, psychological observations and the strange theater of modern emotions. Her voice, as conversational as it is musical, has an intimate quality, almost conspiratorial, pulling you into her confidence, as if she were letting the audience in on something private.
"Sue Me" was wisely kept for last (but even that came with a twist as she performed it twice) but apart from that, the setlist consisted of her debut performed in full. The sequencing works on album and it damn sure works on stage. "I Like To Touch People" is a banger of an opener and the Trianon crowd responded instantly, singing and dancing as soon as the first beat hit, the floor shaking, bodies swaying, stopping only when the lights went on and Hobert had left the building. I wouldn't be surprised if some are still singing and dancing now.
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