Concert Review: LÉON Is Genuine Glam At Irving Plaza

To say people are OBSESSED with LÉON is an understatement. At Irving Plaza, her fans looked at her with wide eyes as if she represented how glamorous it is to be genuine. I mentioned it before with LÉON and Olivia O’Brien; beautiful, fashionable women that rip through heartbreaks and insecurities like fabric. Somehow, they make you feel like you are best friends with an icon, of which LÉON might as well have served brunch with her pop bangers. 

LÉON is 100% a hostess; asking her fans how they are doing and chatting through memories and inspirations as if we were all buzzed on unlimited mimosas. She, immediately, sets up an ease and freedom to her ambiance that makes her show feel like a much needed “Girls Night.” Every woman should have female friends to vent to, and they should 100% have a night dedicated to venting, of which LÉON uses that dynamic to make tracks like “Nobody Cares,” “Treasure,” and “Liar” to feel like the valves of her pouring, sonic heart.

Despite two lit, lamp shades on each side, LÉON was the brightest thing on that stage, especially because it was a vastly bigger crowd than her LPR show. Yet, she kept her usual, warm style, and matched it with a bigger presence and more physical expressions of her songs. She plugged in a theatricality into songs such as, “Come Home To Me,” “I Believe In Us,” “Hope Is A Heartache,” and a Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” to become every young woman that questioned her beauty when her life, especially love life, felt so ugly. 

From “Cruel To Care” to “You And I,” I realized how relevant LÉON is to pop music by also being subtly wise. Often, as ladies, we think having a “man” makes us beautiful and losing him makes us “ugly.” Yet, it is not our partner that defined our inner or outer beauty, but love itself and the capacity to be loving. In essence, we feel beautiful when we are in love because we feel we can trust someone with how great we are, and we feel ugly, after a break-up, because we must find a new person to trust and take that chance again. As she swung her hair and notes, this truth tossed unto the crowd, and made us feel safe enough to heal, laugh, and sing along. For More Information On LÉON Click Here.