Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole Tour – May 23, 2025

Event Details

All Ages – Reserved Seating

Date: Friday, May 23, 2025

Doors: 6:30 PM

Show Time: 8:00 PM

Event Cost: Tickets from $59.00 (Plus applicable fees)

About This Performance

Sensitive, strong-minded, and undeniably soulful, Alessia Cara writes songs that speak to the most hidden parts of the heart. Since signing with Def Jam Recordings at just 18-years-old, the Toronto-based singer/songwriter’s down-to-earth honesty and larger-than-life talent have earned her massive acclaim and countless accolades, including five Juno Awards and a 2018 GRAMMY for Best New Artist. In the making of her fourth album Love & Hyperbole, Alessia brought her newly emboldened vision to a body of work exploring emotional territory previously uncharted in her music: the beautifully strange thrill of finding true happiness.

“Before this album, I’d never written from a place of feeling content with everything happening in my life,” says Alessia. “At first it was challenging to write about love in a positive way, but over time I started digging into the more complicated emotions that come with being in love. As I looked back on all the songs, I realized there’s a lot of hyperbole in my lyrics—and whether I’m using that hyperbole in a dramatic or humorous way, the entire project is about feeling very big feelings.”

Over the course of Love & Hyperbole’s 14 spellbinding tracks, Alessia muses on everything from the blissed-out infatuation of new romance (on “Slow Motion”) to the excruciating anxiety that often accompanies falling in love (on “Run Run,” one of the first songs penned for the album). “‘Run Run” is about worrying that the person I love is going to leave me, because I’m not used to things being so good in a relationship,” says Alessia. “As soon as I tapped into that concept, I had a much better understanding of what I wanted this album to be.” Rooted in her most powerful vocal work to date, Love & Hyperbole closes out with the passionately delivered “Clearly”: a gorgeously sprawling celebration of letting go and looking ahead. “‘Clearly” is about forgiveness in every sense, whether it’s forgiving myself for bad decisions or forgiving people who’ve hurt me in the past,” says Alessia. “I truly believe that you can’t get the good without the bad or find love without loss, so it felt right to end the album on a moment of accepting everything that’s led me to this point.”

As Alessia reveals, Love & Hyperbole surfaced from a profound shift in her songwriting approach. “For the longest time I was a very shy writer—I’d write all alone at home, then bring those ideas to my collaborators and build them up from there,” she recalls. “This time I felt unashamed to just grab the mic and work things out in the room, instead of holding back out of some fear of saying a bad idea out loud.” Growing up in a Toronto suburb called Brampton, Alessia first started writing songs at the age of seven after forming an all-girl band with her cousins, then took up guitar at ten. By age 15 songwriting had become an obsession, thanks in part to her discovery of formative influences like Amy Winehouse, Lauryn Hill, and Carole King. When her YouTube channel caught label attention, Alessia made her debut with “Here”—a widely lauded wallflower anthem that emerged as Spotify’s Most Viral Song of 2015 and landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. After taking home the Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year with her platinum-certified 2015 full-length debut Know-It-All (featuring the five-times-platinum ballad “Scars to Your Beautiful”), Alessia went on to win the Album of the Year prize for her 2018 sophomore LP Pains of Growing, in addition to achieving such triumphs as teaming up with Logic and Khalid on the eight-times-platinum, history-making 2017 smash “1-800-273-8255.”