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The Forum can barely hold the horny hyperpop of this performer

The Age Kosa Monteith, Sonia Nair, Nell Geraets

22 Sept 2026 12:01 AEST Review A judgment of a work or a place. Summary

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23 Sept 2026 11:16 AEST the headline was changed: ~~Jason Derulo’s show is like a time machine to an early-2000s house party~~The Forum can barely hold the angry, horny hyperpop of this performer

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When Jason Derulo named his tour “The Last Dance”, he meant it. The Floridian singer’s body does not stop moving from the moment he appears on stage.

Headline as published: The Forum can barely hold the angry, horny hyperpop of this performer

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of concert hall auditorium, used to illustrate it. Photograph accompanying this report fusion-of-horizons / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of concert hall auditorium, used to illustrate it. Photograph accompanying this report fusion-of-horizons / flickr, CC BY

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Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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