Lewis Capaldi makes self-deprecating nod to Florence + The Machine lyric onstage at Sziget Festival

Lewis Capaldi made a self-deprecating nod to a Florence Welch lyric while onstage at Sziget Festival – check out footage below.

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“Is everyone looking forward to Florence + The Machine,” he asked the crowd to cheers, before launching into one of the most searing lines from the ‘Everybody Scream’ track ‘One of the Greats’: “ Must be nice to be a man, and make boring music just because you can ”.

After chuckling and pointing to himself, he said: “I was listening to that, and I was thinking, ‘Oh fuck, yeah.'” Welch has previously said the track, which Aaron Dessner of The National and Big Red Machine also worked on, was a “15-year outpouring of frustration” after being “ridiculed and derided for the bigness of [her] expression” earlier in her career.

The track was named as one of NME ‘s 50 Best Songs of 2025 .

In at Number 15, the entry read: “Florence Welch has made an art out of fusing the mythic with the searingly personal.

Over six sprawling minutes, she manages to interrogate her place as ‘One Of The Greats’ with the same wit and swagger that solidifies it.” View this post on Instagram NME’s Jordan Bassett went along to see Welch’s set at Sziget , which was described as “what it might look like if Ari Aster directed a concert”.

“As her backing singers and dancers – clad in gothic gowns like they’d wandered in from a production of The Crucible – huddled together, Florence twirled around the stage, her blood-dress flailing dramatically,” the review read.

“It’s a good job she didn’t play during the previous night’s solar eclipse, because we almost certainly would have all been turned into frogs.

“Dancing out to her own stage at the end of a runway, Florence was the grand master and high priestess of proceedings, in absolute control and with tens of thousands of bewitched punters under her spell.” Welch previously revealed that the inspiration for the ‘Everybody Scream’ album came from undergoing lifesaving surgery during the ‘Dance Fever’ tour in 2023 .

She has since opened up further about the procedure, revealing that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy .

“The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” Welch explained in a recent interview.

“And I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.” You can find more advice and support around ectopic pregnancy here .