Thursday’s show was the second of 10 scheduled for Pioneer Courthouse Square this month
Beabadoobee is a breakthrough artist in the "bedroom pop" genre, a calming and lo-fi spin on pop music.
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Beabadoobee and her band play for a full Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland on Aug. 10, 2023. This is the last week of beabadoobee's U.S. summer tour.
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Guitarist Jacob Bugden leans into a riff while performing for beabadoobee in the PDX Live concert series. Beabadoobee recruited her bandmates in 2019 after releasing two EPs the year before.
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Noah Jimenez (left) and Taryn Dillon wear their beabadoobee merch while watching her performance. Jimenez and Dillon made a trip down from Seattle to see beabadoobee's show in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
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Eliana Sewell (right) and Louis Semlekan-Faith provide bass and percussion for beabadoobee's performance at PDX Live in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Beabadoobee was the second performer in a series of 11 shows that started on Aug. 9, 2023.
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The crowd for beabadoobee rocks into the barricade during her Portland performance. Beabadoobee has found sustained success through her bedroom pop style, and peaked at No. 13 on Billboard's alt-rock chart.
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Beabadoobee sings while playing guitar in Portland. In 2022, she released her second studio album, "Beatopia."
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A full Pioneer Courthouse Square awaits beabadoobee's performance in Portland on Aug. 10, 2023. Pioneer Courthouse Square is sometimes referred to as "Portland's Living Room" for its central location and versatility of events it can host.
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Beabadoobee and her band sit down while switching to more acoustic sounding songs. "Do you like my couch? Do you like my boots?" she asked the crowd. Applause rang out after each question.
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On Thursday night, 23-year-old singer-songwriter Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus — aka beabadoobee — performed a sold-out show in downtown Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square.
“I always get nervous when I play in Portland,” she told the roaring crowd. “Because all my favorite bands live here.”
But for the hundreds of fans who lined up since 11 a.m. that day to catch the best seats in the house, it seemed like she was the favorite musical act in town.
The show is a part of the PDX Live concert series as well as beabadoobee’s U.S.-wide tour, “Beatopia.”The Filipino-English singer also recently opened for Taylor Swift during the latter’s The Eras stadium tour.
Her set included hits such as “See You Soon” and “Glue Song,” which now has over 75 million Spotify streams. With two studio albums and five EPs to her name, beabadoobee has become a breakthrough artist in the “bedroom pop” genre that garnered a dedicated Gen-Z fanbase. For 15-year-old Isabella Giang — who joined the line outside the venue around 2 p.m. — this was a special moment.
“I am really excited … this is going to be my very first concert I’ll be seeing,” Giang said. “So it’ll be exciting.”
Giang heard of beabadoobee only a week before the show, thanks to her cousin, but she already had her favorite songs (”10:36″ and “the way things go”) picked out — both of which beabadoobee performed live on Thursday.
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