Founded in 1991 in Chicago, Illinois, by former Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell, the Lollapalooza festival initially served as a platform for the anguished distortions of rock of that era. It later became a touring festival and then an international event, with a Paris edition launched in 2017, now run by production giant Live Nation. Lollapalooza has since catered to audiences raised on urban pop infused with rap, electro and R’n’B. After skipping its 2024 edition due to the Olympic Games, Lollapalooza Paris returned to the Hippodrome de Longchamp on July 18, immediately signaling the resurgence of electric guitars in today’s hits. This was especially true for Lola Young, 24, Olivia Rodrigo, 22, and the phenomenon Benson Boone, 23.
Still synonymous with the attitude and lifestyle of the early 1990s, this rock aesthetic is now a dominant tone in the pop palette of these young talents, adding extra intensity to their choruses and live performances. Hailing from Croydon, a small suburb south of London, Young can flirt with punk (“Wish You Were Dead”) or post-punk (“Good Books”), while not forgetting that she also grew up to the rhythms of synthetic grooves (“Conceited”), rap and dub (“Big Brown Eyes”).
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