Jon Stojan
Photo Credit: Drew Halle @drewwhalle
Smoke billowed in soft waves across the stage and a couple kissed on the dance floor. The Echo buzzed with anticipation while fans slowly filed to the front of the room. As soon as her name lit up on the projector, phones flew into the air. Jade LeMac walked out onto the stage with a sly, confident smile and the crowd went wild.
Jade grabbed the mic off the stand with conviction and opened with “There’s People Watching.” Her voice – rich and brimming with intent – cut through the space. This was the final show of her first solo tour and her first ever performance in LA. As the beat kicked in, we felt invited into her emotional orbit and she leaned into that familiar, LeMac vocal swag.
Sturdy drumlines anchored the second song, “Pick A Fight,” while a female synth player supported her melodies with haunting low textures. “Love Bites” began with a moan-like breath melting into the first lyric and you could feel the audience leaning in. Jade joined them, crouching near the front row, completely locked in. Her high notes were vulnerable and powerful, like a cry laced with control.
After that, she finally spoke. “If you know the words, I want you to sing along—can you do that?” The crowd screamed.
“I think my favorite thing is having those fan reactions—like when someone’s really getting into it, or they’re crying, or they scream something unexpected while I’m talking. That’s always so fun,” she told me the next day. Jade moves with such ease as a storyteller with an undeniable star quality, and the fans seem to really latch onto her presence.
One of the night’s most memorable moments came during “Same Place,” a raw ballad that showcased the full weight of her expression. Her signature rasp returned in waves while her vibrato trembled. Even the backing vocals were mixed low to keep the spotlight on her storytelling. She moved with purpose, pacing the stage like someone tracing emotional memories in real time.
“You’re Not a God” and “Meet You in Hell” followed, evoking a touch of Billie Eilish and Dove Cameron, and the room erupted yet again. Still mysterious, still holding back from small talk, Jade let her music do the connecting. And it was – by now, the crowd was pulsing along her every move.
“Have you ever been obsessed with somebody?” she asked bashfully, introducing “Got Me Obsessed” with a quick nod to her girlfriend in the crowd, who sang along to the song she inspired.
The show’s pacing was brilliant. Songs like “Let Me” brought out the texture and color in her vocals, while “Pink Balloon” leaned into a minor, nearly atonal chord progression that felt like a funhouse staircase. The whole set was peppered with pop hooks grounded in experimental flair.
Photo Credit: Drew Halle @drewwhalle
Then came “Constellations,” her multi-million stream hit, in its stripped-down, piano form. “Performing ‘Constellations’ is always so cool because everyone freaks the fuck out,” she laughed, when I asked her what her favorite moment on stage usually is. You could feel the air shift, like a wall came down revealing analogue in a digital world.
Jade closed out the show with a trio of personal tracks: “Last Day on Earth,” “Steal My Skin,” and a brand-new unreleased song, “Sleep With the Lights On.” She introduced the latter with a grin: “Another emotional song… wow, it’s like I’m a Pisces or something.” The crowd screamed. This new track was acoustic, raw, and full of gliding falsetto and intricate vocal runs. “That song comes from real fear—being afraid of the dark and what your mind does when the lights go off,” she told me later. Jade will be opening for Maren Morris in the fall, a classic songwriter pairing, and has several new singles in the pipeline ready to drop before take off.
“Steal My Skin” delivered another stripped-back moment that bloomed into something cinematic. “I wrote that one because I’ve been in a lot of relationships where I gave more than I got back,” she shared with me. “The metaphor came from that feeling—like someone took something from me. It just felt really real.”
For the final send-off, she circled back to “Constellations,” this time with the full band, closing the loop on a night that felt more like a narrative arc than a setlist. Even at just 21, Jade LeMac already knows how to take a crowd through emotional weather systems and leave them craving more.