English star Olivia Dean performed a medley of hits at the 2025 ARIA Awards.
Dean took to the stage at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion tonight (November 19th), with the London-born singer-songwriter being in town for a special one-off show this week, ahead of a wider arena tour in 2026.
“I love Australia and I’m so excited to perform at the 2025 ARIA Awards,” Dean said previously. “This will be my first time at the awards ceremony, it’s going to be lots of fun!”
Dean’s ARIAs performance quickly followed her performance on the hallowed SNL stage in the US.
Dean played two songs from her second studio album, The Art of Loving, which came out in September.
Dean, who was just nominated for Best New Artist at next year’s Grammys, led off with “Man I Need”.
The song “is about knowing how you deserve to be loved and not being afraid to ask for it,” Dean said in a statement upon its release earlier this year. “It’s forward, sexy, fun! It’s made for dancing!”
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Dean’s second performance was of “Let Alone the One You Love”, the sixth track off her latest album.
“We made most of this album in a studio we built in a house in East London,” the 26-year-old wrote on Instagram teasing it. “For 8 weeks we lived in the house of loving! I brought my piano from home and all my favourite people and tried to create things that felt like warmth. Here you have a piece of my heart!”
The Art of Loving has been widely praised.
“Dean’s star power is radiant and fueled by more than just charisma. She grooves in perfect time with an expertly assembled band, navigating through blaring trumpets, trombones, and saxophones with a delicate attention to detail and synchronicity,” Rolling Stone‘s Larisha Paul wrote in a review of the follow-up to 2023’s Messy.
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With a record eight nominations, electronic artist Ninajirachi leads the pack. Her debut album I Love My Computer has positioned her at the forefront of a new wave of Australian talent redefining pop and club music. We named her in our Future of Music 2025 list earlier this year.
