Arcade Fire returns to Lollapalooza Brasil after ten years
O Arcade Fire returns to Lollapalooza Brazil after 10 years. In 2014, the band promised Brazilians that they would perform their next show wearing national team clothing, as long as Brazil won the World Cup. This was the year of 7×1.
This time, the group will come with a different formation — without Will Butler. “I left at the end of last year, after the new album was ready. There was no specific reason other than that I’ve changed — and the band has changed — in the last 20 years. Time for new things,” said the keyboardist in the first half of 2022 (via Rolling Stone USA).
Hi friends—
I’ve left Arcade Fire— Will Butler (@butlerwills) March 19, 2022
A few months after Will left the band, Arcade Fire launched WEan album that should be privileged over others — Everything Now (2017), Reflector (2013) and Neon Bible (2007) — in the presentation at Lollapalooza Brazil 2024. The Suburbs (2010) will probably dominate the setlist, alongside Funeral (2004). “Wake Up”, from the Canadian group’s debut album, usually ends the performances.
O Arcade Fire is returning more mature, but far from its peak, marked by The Suburbsa project that won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2011. Released in a transition of decades, the album even won an average rating and included hits such as the title track and “Ready to Start”. Now, WE is the album of the moment, and can kick off the show in São Paulo with “Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)”.
It will be up to the Quebec group to break the tension created with the fans after Win Butler received a series of accusations of sexual abuse. In August 2022, the vocalist was the main subject of an article published by Pitchfork which gave rise to several reports from women who claim to have suffered some type of sexual assault from the musician.
Win He defended himself by stating that he faced “mental health problems and the ghosts of childhood abuse”, as well as alcoholism as a result of depression related to the “spontaneous miscarriage” experienced by his wife. He also said that all relationships were “consensual outside of marriage”. Régine Chassagnewhich also integrates the Arcade Firecame to her husband’s defense and declared: “Win He’s my soulmate, my songwriting partner, my husband, the father of my beautiful boy.”
Taking into account that the first complainants in the case were fans of the band, the relationship between Arcade Fire and the audience is certainly shaken. The allegations of abuse reveal that the group’s message does not match one of its speakers and have confused the public, who must choose between separating the artist from the work or burying the fan card.
Source: Rollingstone
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