About halfway through her set at American Airlines Arena Sunday night, Florence Welch, frontwoman of the beloved band Florence + the Machine, made a simple request of the audience.
She was in the middle of singing “Dog Days Are Over,” one of her oldest and most popular songs, and the crowd was going crazy for it. Welch paused the song and asked everyone to turn to the people next to them and embrace one another — even strangers — and tell them that they love them.
Then she asked for something else: “You’re not gonna like it — it’s going to make you feel weird and vulnerable,” she said. “Do you trust me?”
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