Lorde built her career on making teenage unease sound monumental. At BottleRock Napa Valley, she made the end of a tour feel just as enormous.
The New Zealand singer-songwriter closed the first night of the festival at the Prudential Stage on Friday, May 22, with a performance that worked on two levels: as a festival headlining set filled with songs that have become generational touchstones, and as a farewell to the current chapter of her career.
Near the end of the show, she told the Napa crowd it was the final time she and her band would perform this version of the production…