News Summary

• American singer-songwriter Teddy Swims performed at the NRL grand final.
• Swims cancelled two performances in Hawaii when he fell ill. His 2023 hit Lose Control has had more than two billion streams on Spotify.
• He was up for best new artist at the Grammys this year.
• The Kid Laroi, who came to the grand final with the league credibility of growing up in Waterloo and supporting Souths, shone last year.
• It was difficult to tell how the show played to the 80,000 fans in Accor Stadium, but it worked on TV.