REVIEW: Chelsea Jordan Ends The Last Show of Her First Tour in Los Angeles
REVIEW
REVIEW
☆ BY TIFFANY LE ☆
Photos by Santiago Warren
CHELSEA JORDAN CONCLUDED HER FIRST EVER TOUR RUN BACK HOME IN LA -Earlier this March, Jordan joined Australia’s genre-divergent singer Ruel on his 2026 North and South American “Kicking My Feet” Tour, supporting as an opener alongside indie-pop peers Arthur Hill and Mercer Henderson. Last Wednesday, the tour made its last stop at the Hollywood Palladium, just in time to warm the city up for the first weekend of Coachella that immediately followed.
I first discovered Jordan as an internet personality with impeccable style, watching her share her daily outfit rotations, alongside stories of discovering love after being voluntarily single for six consecutive years. While the Baltimore-born-and-bred singer has been making music for the better part of those six years, so much has changed in the last year and a half since finally unleashing on us hit after hit, following debut single “THE GOOD PARTS”; Jordan released “Halfwaythru” first single off of her newest EP Better Late Than Not At All, and arguably her most popular song to date. “Level out” was the next to be revealed from the project as her first release under a deal with Artista Records, and the same week of the EP’s release, Jordan announced her first-ever tour run as Ruel’s opener for his own latest project.
While this, in its own ways, has been years in the making of finding the alternative R&B artist’s sound for her deeply distinct voice, the circumstance may have come unforeseen for Jordan herself. Better Late Than Not At All was openly inspired by the end of Jordan’s aforementioned relationship, the project serves as a place to rest all the bittersweet memories and heavy emotions that tend to linger between love and loss.
Jordan’s music walks the line of poetry and unadulterated honesty in the nonlinear healing that comes with a breakup, calling to mind peers like Olivia Dean in the next generation of women who continue to portray pain and vulnerability as something as beautiful as it is timeless.
Despite the heartache of Better Late Than Not At All, the Los Angeles stop of the tour itself was lively and surely an unforgettable close to the “Kicking My Feet” tour. Jordan performed majority of the six-track project throughout the tour, with a few cities getting her rendition of Justin Bieber’s “YUKON” as a special treat; while Los Angeles was initially bummed when her opening set ended without homage to the upcoming Bieberchella, it was immediately forgiven when both Jordan and Henderson joined the stage halfway through the main show for an acoustic performance of Ruel’s “The Suburbs”. Their three voices came together so harmoniously that the packed Palladium fell quiet for one of the night’s few intimate moments.
Chelsea Jordan herself has told us time and again through her music and community that she is going to be just fine! Before the tour began, multiple intimate shows of her own were held as part of the EP’s rollout; between closing night’s opening sets, she hopped off the stage to beeline straight to the lobby for a seemingly pre-planned celebration with a large group of awaiting fans. The way they hugged and giggled with the singer felt like they had all seen this moment before, and Jordan returned the energy tenfold. In the aftermath of breakups, Better Late Than Not At All goes to show that you really do reap what you sow, and Jordan seems more ready now than ever to turn in romantic loss and heartbreak for art, connection, and adventure. Fingers crossed that next time we catch her is on a headlining tour of her own!
