Lola Indigo's big party, queen of pop for one night

Barcelona"I don't want it to end," Lola Indigo said through tears just before singing. Mojaíta, the penultimate song of her generous and, in many ways, spectacular concert on Thursday at the Estadi Olímpic. The singer from Granada cannot be denied the desire to offer a concert that represents a considerable leap in scale from what one would expect from a Spanish pop artist: two and a half hours of performance, flame cannons, fireworks, inflatable balls, a giant screen, stage changes, and basketball players of the caliber of fifty. And at the front was a dedicated, exhilarated, and very emotional Lola Indigo, who ended up asking "forgiveness for crying so many times" during the concert. No apologies were necessary because it was her big party, an epic and excessive celebration that, for one night, made her the queen of Spanish pop.

The emotion is better understood given that Thursday's concert was the last of a tour "prepared for a year and a half and with many obstacles," probably unrepeatable and which has only made stops in Madrid, Seville, and, finally, Barcelona. A tour called The Witch, the Girl, and the Dragon which, according to the singer, is in financial deficit and, in fact, only attracted 30,000 people to the Olympic Stadium. In any case, the audience was thrilled with a show that reviews Lola Indigo's repertoire in the style of the tour The Eras Tour by Taylor Swift: by independent blogs focusing on the singer's various albums. With only seven years of recording career, it's a decision that reflects the ambition of Miriam Doblas, the artist's real name, and the desire to establish herself as a major star whose output surely overshadows her actual status in the music scene.

But this is the lesson of the career of Doblas, the first to be expelled from the edition ofOT with Aitana, Amaia and company who reinvented themselves after that experience as Lola Indigo with the infallible I don't want anything anymore, the song that opened the concert with about twenty dancers and a wind section on stage as a declaration of intent. We didn't see as many people on stage again until the end of the concert, but we did see great choreography, cute sets, backing vocalists, a traditional pop-rock band, and a flamenco quintet led by José del Tomate, who brought the segment dedicated to flamenco to a close. GRX, the singer's tribute in Granada. Two of the evening's surprises took place here: the appearance of the Muñoz brothers from Estopa ("my cousins from Cornellà," according to Doblas) to perform Your warmth, and that of a David Bisbal always full of joy shouting "bulería bulería"It's one of the happiest moments of my life," said a tearful Lola Indigo, hugging Bisbal, in a moment that inevitably brought to mind the displays of emotion at the galas of the program where they both come from. The program featured Lola Indigo accompanied by Quevedo, a more contemporary idol than Estopa and Bisbal for a very young and predominantly female audience, who also gave their voices when the Colombian duo Cali y El Dandee came on stage to sing. I will wait for you"We're giving it our all," the singer confessed, choked up, in the final stretch of the concert, and that's undeniable. But a few notes can be made: the verticality of the giant screen wasn't the best ally for capturing the choreography and staging of the show; when her voice overpowers the bass and instruments, the music loses all dynamics; and delving so deeply into the repertoire of each album reveals the compositional shortcomings of a still-short career and forces the songs to be heavily chopped up, sometimes diluted in the medleys what she does. In any case, the generosity and honesty of the proposal is undeniable and Lola Indigo is a singer and dancer with whom it is very easy to connect, especially in the climactic moments (The School Girl, Diskoteca, The Fool, Mojaíta, Without Autotune) that Lluís Companys transformed into a large open-air discotheque.