The stage was set. Black drapes hung from the ceiling. Strobe lights flickered wildly.
When Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson - better known as Lykke Li - finally took to the stage, she threw the audience into a frenzy.
Clad head-to-toe in black, the Swedish singer mesmerised the crowd at her Singapore show last Wednesday. She opened the set with a hauntingly beautiful rendition of "Jerome". Throughout the course of 1½ hours, she brought her critically-lauded sophomore album Wounded Rhymes to life.
Lykke Li preferred to let her music do the talking, keeping conversation to a minimal. She let her hair down, swathed herself in the black drapes, and banged the cymbals with her drumstick while she sang. Apart from newer material like "I Follow Rivers" and "Rich Kids Blues", she also covered songs from her debut, including "I'm Good, I'm Gone", "Little Bit" and crowd-favourite "Dance Dance Dance". She slipped in a cover of Burt Bacharach's "Please Stay" too.
When some fans shouted "I love you!" at the end of a song, she coolly took a swig of water before replying in a calm and collected manner, "I love you too". It was adorable.
Much to everyone's amusement, an overzealous fan bounded on stage during "Get Some" and took over the microphone, so Lykke Li very graciously stepped aside and let the fan sing the lines 'I'm your prostitute/you gon' get some'. That fan certainly got her 5 seconds of fame.
In the encore, she covered "Possibility", her sole contribution to the Twilight franchise's soundtrack. It isn't my favourite Lykke Li song, but the live version just blew me away. That was a superb way to close the night.
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