The lineup order itself was already a punchline: Lewis Capaldi played the main stage at Budapest's Sziget Festival on August 13, slotted in right before Florence + The Machine's headline performance. He asked the crowd if they were excited for Florence + The Machine, and got roaring cheers in response — then did something unexpected, quoting one of the sharpest lines from the band's own song to roast himself.
That line came from "One Of The Greats," off the album Everybody Scream: "Must be nice to be a man, and make boring music just because you can." After reciting it, Capaldi burst out laughing, pointed at himself, and said, "When I heard that line I was like, 'Oh f***, yeah.'" The whole moment was caught on camera and spread online.
The line carries weight because it wasn't written casually. According to Welch in a previous interview, "One Of The Greats" was "15 years' worth of venting," a response to being mocked and dismissed early in her career for being "too much." The song later landed at No. 15 on NME's 2025 list of the year's 50 best songs, with critics praising how she "fuses myth-making with intensely personal emotion," reasserting her place as "One Of The Greats" with "wit and swagger" across six minutes.
Welch has also spoken about the backstory behind Everybody Scream, linking it to a life-saving surgery she underwent during the 2023 Dance Fever tour. She later explained the surgery was due to an ectopic pregnancy: "The closest I've ever come to creating life was also the closest I've ever come to death." NME gave the album a five-star review, with critic Laura Molloy describing the closing track "And Love" as having "no radio-friendly single, no triumphant finale" — just a quiet exhale to close things out.
NME critic Jordan Bassett also caught Florence + The Machine's set at Sziget that night, describing it as "like a concert directed by Ari Aster" — backing singers and dancers in gothic robes as if they'd stepped straight out of The Crucible, with Welch commanding the stage amid swirls of blood-red costume fabric.
As for Capaldi himself, the Sziget show also came with another piece of news: he confirmed to the crowd that he's working on his third studio album, following 2019's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent and 2023's Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. He told the audience he had six more shows left this summer, "then I'm gonna disappear for a bit and go make you guys a new album — if you're interested?" The crowd cheered, and he added, "I promise I'll be back as soon as I can."
