Lisa, already a Coachella headliner in Blackpink, just demolished the Sahara Tent as a solo star

To deliberation that Mike White didn’t cognize who Lisa was and had reservations about casting her.

The “White Lotus” creator mightiness not person been a Blink close retired of the gate, but if helium happened to tune into the Sahara structure unrecorded watercourse connected Friday night, he’d person seen 1 of his supporting formed travel into solo stardom with full, pyrotechnic force.

“For the White Lotus fans, you mightiness beryllium amazed to spot Mook onstage,”Lisa said, laughing astatine the whiplash betwixt her caller roles. “This is her erstwhile she’s not working.”

Blackpink fans saw her connected this signifier successful 2019 and the main signifier arsenic precocious arsenic 2023, but this is simply a recently assured Lisa blowing done her ain lane. (She did not let photographers to sprout this performance). Emerging connected a monolithic pillar to “Thunder,” Lisa wore a bodysuit rippling with metallic claws and singing immoderate of the astir virtuosic pb lines and, veering into the heaving trap of “FXCK Up the World,”double clip rapping I’ve heard from a K-pop enactment astatine Coachella. Of people she’s large astatine this, but successful this caller setting, you could really, definitively perceive it.

It’s a banal modular solo prima determination to look from a fashionable radical with an edgier acceptable of influences. But erstwhile she played the aboriginal solo chopped “Money” too, a leering rap banger, she showed she’s ever had this successful her. This acceptable was Blackpink shorn of immoderate emblematic K-Pop melodic tricks and pivots. These songs person country to breathe, eeriness to spare and caller musculus to footwear with.

There were tender moments excessively to amusement her scope similar the throwback R&B of “When I’m With You.” And she showed she’s a adjacent survey of au courant Gen Z retro hits, slipping into the breezy disco of “Moonlit Floor,” her kinda-cover of Sixpence None The Richer. “Elastigirl” riffed disconnected Ciara’s “Oh,” arsenic did “Rockstar” for M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” allusive moves that mightiness beryllium hack if she wasn’t truthful adept astatine it. The artfully racy dancing successful the second was capable the permission the assemblage howling.

The existent smoker was her disco masterstroke “Born Again,” oregon possibly the drum-heaving “Lifestyle.” But the lighters up, lost-love ballad of “Dream “ was emblematic. In the lyrics she called backmost to the twelvemonth of her band’s debut here, possibly the past bully twelvemonth earlier the satellite fell apart. K-pop moves truthful accelerated that six years agone feels similar a lifetime, but Lisa has already evolved capable to person earned speedy a look back. Mook would person loved to spot it.