Katy Perry flies and loves in Catalan in a delirious show

BarcelonaIt's hard to imagine a more spectacular concert ending than with the song FireworkEndorphin-fueled populism capable of lifting the spirits on even the gloomiest election night. Because, as Katy Perry sang fifteen years ago, "after a hurricane comes the rainbow." It's worth mentioning that what happened before Firework The American singer's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi wasn't a hurricane, but rather a scenically extravagant and kitschy show; a dramatic absurdity structured like a galactic adventure video game; a disco opera in which the aesthetics often had nothing to do with either the themes or the emotions of the songs; a delirious spectacle with some hilarious moments and others difficult to describe without chemical stimulants. Musically, it was very uneven, hampered by the album's lack of substance. 143 (2024). Except for the disco-house anthem LifetimesThis latest work doesn't have much fuel to take off. Perhaps because he's aware of this, he tries to balance the repertoire dedicated to this album by giving a lot of prominence to the songs from Teenage dream (2010), undoubtedly Perry's best work, and barely touching on the rest of his discography.

In accordance with her pop star status and celebrity spaceHe is still capable of proposing a grandiose staging: a stage with multiple screens and a central track, like a Scalextric in the shape of the number 8, on which he runs, dances and jumps, and where he deploys all kinds of stage resources, such as a metal capsule, a flying insect, a root video, some rare plants, his own scenery and costumes.

The appearance was spectacular, dressed as a star warrior and suspended from cables while music played Artificial, one of the topics of 143There were also eight acrobatic dancers and four musicians. Once back on the ground, he sang Chained to the rhythm, setting the disco-pop tone that continued with Teary eyes and with a Dark Horse which thrilled the 18,000 people who filled the Palau Sant Jordi on Sunday, according to the promoter Doctor Music.

After an instrumental interlude and a costume change, on the second level he combined pieces from 2024 such as Woman's world and Hot n cold with a hodgepodge of fragments of his own classics such as California gurls, Teenage dream, Peacock and And he kissed a girl. The subsequent pause to incorporate more stage elements confirmed the show's disjointed, almost maddening, rhythm. The level called Nirvana It was less musically successful. In return, it had visual stimuli, like seeing a flying Katy Perry gliding over the runway suspended by a cable.

"I love you, I love you"

For the next level trick, titled Choose your adventure and that consisted of deciding that he would play the ballad Double rainbow and UnconditionallyA very communicative Katy Perry needed a jungle queen costume and the help of five audience members (including a girl dressed as a shark) who came up on stage and with whom she chatted for a while. One of them, from Reus, taught her how to say "I love you very much" in Catalan, and Perry improvised a chorus, "I love you very much, I love you very much," to the delight of the Sant Jordi crowd. She closed the blog with All the loveColdplay's epic sound filtered through a house beat and a great opportunity to showcase her voice (she's always been a good singer).

For the fifth level, Perry dressed as a warrior from a post-apocalyptic fantasy to fight monsters before propelling Part of me, one of the hits of Teenage dreamto get Sant Jordi dancing, to run around the stage as if he were missing the bus and to unleash the ballad Rise with flames on the screens and a heavy guitar solo.

Remembering Orlando Bloom

The musical surprise at the Palau Sant Jordi was the performance, in jeans and a white t-shirt, of Bandaids, the song that he released on November 7 and that until now he had only played at one concert on the tour. Perry takes stock of her past and past love with Orlando BloomBand-aids for a wounded heart, although it seems that He has already been cured with the help of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin TrudeauPerry doesn't hold back her criticism, but instead of writing with spite in her hand, she approaches the breakup with Bloom by trying to convey that their love was worth it. It's better than most of her songs. 143, an album that, paradoxically, celebrates love (143 is the number of letters in each word ofAnd love you).

Bandaids It played towards the end of the concert, before the costume change that preceded the superhit RoarShe sang to him perched on a kind of flying insect that would delight fans of the movie Starship Troopers, by Paul Verhoeven; or by Connan the Barbarianby Bertrand Mandico. Naturally, it provoked a wave of enthusiasm only surpassed when he asked: "Are you ready to sing?" Firework"?". Final apotheosis after more than two hours of an indescribable show.